In this week's recap, I wish our readers and viewers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009. Google updated the toolbar PageRank scores, but it seems like the search results both here and internationally were updated also. Live Search is using MSNBOT-Media to crawl JavaScript files. Google got hit with wildcard domain issues. Google Alerts is trigger happy. Google shows a did you mean answer for a child day care service, leading to a porn site. Google's strict image search option shows more porn than the moderate search. Danny Sullivan slaps Microsoft on their search initiatives. Microsoft's Content Ads program is doing poorly. Google AdSense is offending overweight people. Happy 2009 everyone!
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Some Of The Topics Discussed:
- Happy '09 New Years From Search Industry: Logos from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Live, Ask & Others
- Google Confirms PageRank Update (New Years 2009)
- Major Google Search Results Changes, January 2009
- Google International Results Excessively 'Yo-Yoing'?
- Live Search Begins Crawling JavaScript with MSNBot-Media
- Google's Wildcard Subdomain Handling Issues?
- Google Alerts Sending Out False Alerts?
- Search For Child Day Care Site & Google Suggests Porn Site
- Google's Strict Image Search Less Strict Than Moderate Option
- Danny Sullivan Gives Microsoft The Hard Truth
- MSN adCenter's Content Ads Showing Horrible Click Through Rates?
- Google AdSense Now Pushing Fat Ads: Is this Offensive?
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