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Here is a new article from Doubleclick Blog:

Yesterday, we celebrated the best creative work in digital movie marketing with top creative agencies and movie studios at the 4th Annual DMACS event. If you recall from our call for entries , this awards program invited submissions across four awards categories: Home Entertainment Rich Media Display Ad, Multi-Channel Cross Media Campaign, YouTube Creative Award and Theatrical Release Rich Media Display Ad. Take a look at the videos below to see the amazing creative work from the top nominees in each category then read on to find out who won. Best Home Entertainment Rich Media Display Ad Nominees Congratulations to: Fast & Furious by Ignited, LLC and NBC Universal WALL-E by Deadline Advertising and Walt Disney Studios Watchmen by AvatarLabs and Warner Bros. YouTube Creative Award Nominees Congratulations to: G-Force by BLT & Associates and Walt Disney Studios The Haunting in Connecticut by Division 13 Design Group and Lionsgate My Bloody Valentine by The Visionaire Group and Lionsgate Best Multi-Channel Cross Media Campaign Nominees Congratulations to: Fast & Furious by The Visionaire Group and Universal Pictures I Love You, Beth Cooper by Earthbound Media Group and 20th Century Fox Coraline by Wieden+Kennedy and Laika Studios/Focus Features Best Theatrical Release Rich Media Display Ad Nominees Congratulations to: Bruno by The Visionaire Group and Universal Pictures Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by AvatarLabs and Warner Bros. Star Trek by AvatarLabs and Paramount Pictures The Haunting in Connecticut by Division 13 Design Group and Lionsgate Valkyrie by Palisades Interactive and MGM And the Winners Are… WALL-E by Deadline Advertising and Walt Disney Studios for Best Home Entertainment Rich Media Ad My Bloody Valentine by The Visionaire Group and Lionsgate for the YouTube Creative Award Coraline by Wieden+Kennedy and Laika Studios/Focus Features for Best Multi-Channel Cross Media Campaign Star Trek by AvatarLabs and Paramount Pictures for Best Theatrical Release Rich Media Display Ad We heartily congratulate the winners for their spectacular creative executions and dedication to the craft of movie marketing. Posted by Sally Cole on October 16, 2009 4:27 AM

More here: Recap from the 4th Annual Digital Movie Advertising Creative Showcase (DMACS)

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This is from Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO:

We went ahead and did this post on the official Google webmaster blog to make it super official, but I wanted to echo the point here as well: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in our web search. To this day, you still see courts mistakenly believe that meta tags occupy a pivotal role in search rankings. We wanted to debunk that misconception, at least as it regards to Google. Google uses over two hundred signals in our web search rankings, but the keywords meta tag is not currently one of them, and I don’t believe it will be. In addition to the official blog post , we made a video as well: I hope this clarifies that the keywords meta tag is not something that you need to worry about, or at least not in Google.

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Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search

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Google released the AJAX API Playground , a kind of interactive learning-by-doing for things like the Google Maps API, their Search API, or their Visualization API (also see Google’s blog post on this). You can select a sample of one of the various APIs from the left, view and edit the code, and then hit the Run button to see how it appears in the browser. If you log-in with your Google Account you can also save your code changes. It’s all very easy to use, and perhaps especially useful if you’re the type of developer who jumps straight to the examples section in a given tutorial to get your head around how something works. [Via Reddit .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Tool to Experiment With Google's Ajax APIs | Comments ] [Advertisement] Find the right keywords for your campaigns at KeywordDiscovery.com

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Tool to Experiment With Google’s Ajax APIs

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Shared by Chris Dean Now that’s cool I wonder what i get if i put my face in? Microsoft’s image search engine added another feature that uses image analysis: for each result, you can find similar images. The related images have nothing to do with the original query, so Live Search shows images that include similar patterns. “With Live Search, you can now use images, rather than additional keyword queries, to refine a search and discover more content,” explains Live Search’s blog . The next obvious step would be to upload an image and find other similar images on the web. TinEye finds different versions of an image, but the scope of the results should be more encompassing.

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Find Similar Images Using Live Search

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Here’s an interesting News post from Google Operating System:

Shared by Chris Dean With this approach will Chrome ever exceed the abilities of Firefox? It’d be nice if it did, but it seems like Chrome will always be in a lagging position, unless Google can really add something noticably groundbreaking When Google Chrome was launched , many people wondered why there’s no support for Google Toolbar or for extensions that are available for Firefox. After fixing the glaring bugs reported by users, improving bookmark management , adding autocomplete and starting to work on Mac and Linux versions, the next step is to open the browser to developers. Google published a document that details how extensions will work in Google Chrome. “Chromium can’t be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a variety of environments and for a wide variety of jobs. Personal tastes and needs vary widely from one user to the next. The feature needs of one person often conflict directly with those of another. Further, one of the design goals of Chromium is to have a minimal light-weight user interface, which itself conflicts with adding lots of features.” The extension development should be similar to developing web pages, the browser should include support for silent autoupdate, extensions should not be able to crash the browser process and they should be run in sandboxed processes. An interesting side-effect would be that you won’t have to restart the browser after installing an extension, like in Firefox. Google lists some extensions that should work in Chrome: bookmarking tools like a toolbar for Delicious, content filtering extensions like Adblock (sic!), download managers like DownThemAll and other popular extensions that are available for Firefox. “We should start by building the infrastructure for an extension system that can support different types of extensibility. The system should be able to support an open-ended list of APIs over time, such as toolbars, sidebars, content scripts (for Greasemonkey-like functionality), and content filtering (for parental filters, malware filters, or adblock-like functionality). Some APIs will require privileges that must be granted, such as access to the history database or access to mail.google.com .” In the end, we should see an extension gallery hosted by Google that will initially include a list of popular Firefox extensions . Chrome won’t support XUL, so the extensions aren’t going to be ported automatically. The latest Chromium buils already include an initial Greasemonkey implementation , so there’s one less extension to build. { via Webware }

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On Google Chrome's Future Support for Extensions

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This is from Planet PHP:

Daniel B. Ravicher from PUBPAT did a great talk about the patent system and more importantly, how it doesn’t work. Worth watching if you are in the tech industry and if you’re interested in the subject. The PUBPAT’s mission statement: “PUBPAT Represents the Public’s Interests Against Undeserved Patents and Unsound Patent Policy”. Their website could be a bit more glamorous and less dry, but it is an important cause that affects all of us.

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Google Tech Talk about patents

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From SEO Greenhouse:

Found this referrer my server logs today: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=wordle Whoa, could my little website be ranking for “wordle” just a couple days after I mentioned it in a post? Of course not. But the MSN/Live Search bot sends phony HTTP_REFERER strings when it crawls sites. You know, I’ve seen faked referrers in my logs a lot. Here are a few actual examples to demonstrate the fine enterprises Microsoft is apparently emulating: http://www.feelgoodpharma.com/product/c/57 http://www.viagraoverstock.com/ http://www.igsvmortgage.com http://www.blacks-xxx.com/latina_sucks_monster_meat_rod.htm (I know this is old news . The fact that Microsoft is still spamming websites with faked referrers a year later is confounding. One thing is sure — the day I run into bandwidth overcharges for this server, msnbot is going to be given a starring role in my robots.txt file.)

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Live Search is a tease

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Here is a good post from Google Operating System:

As anticipated last month , Google’s experiment that lets you reorder and annotate search results is now live. Google SearchWiki should be available automatically if you are logged in to a Google account and it can be recognized by the visual clutter added to the search results. Next to each result, you should see three new options: a way to promote a web page at the top of the results, an option to remove results from the page (they’re still visible at the bottom of the page) and a feature that lets you share public comments about a result. After promoting a result, Google shows some unnecessary information about the other people who promoted the result. It’s important to remember that all the changes are saved to your Google account and they won’t affect the search results for everyone, at least not directly. If you want to see an aggregation of all promotions, demotions and comments, go to the bottom of the page and click on “See all notes for this SearchWiki”. This is the real wiki built by Google and it’s easy to access by adding &swm=2 to the URL of a search results page: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google&swm=2 . Comments are not very useful, although you could find insights for some obscure queries. The absolute number of people who promoted a search result is not very useful either, especially when you’ll see big numbers like 314,159,265. SearchWiki’s main idea is to give users the opportunity to manually customize the search results and make them more predictable. Since many people repeat common searches like [mail], [weather], [news] and Google’s results are constantly changing, it’s nice to pick your favorite results and display them at the top. If you can’t find a site you like, click on “Add a result” and manually add a page in the list of top results. Good things about SearchWiki : – you can now adjust Google’s results for your typical queries and save time when repeating the searches – use Google instead of bookmarking web pages – for unfamiliar queries, check the wiki to find a different ranking and potentially useful comments. Try to avoid the wiki for queries that are likely to be spammed. Bad things about SearchWiki : – visual clutter. The only way to remove the additional icons displayed next to each search result is to log out. – your changes are available only when you repeat the query and, in some cases, for similar queries (e.g.: [google.com] in addition to [google]). That means you can’t remove a web page or a domain from all search results – comments are public and there’s no option to write private notes (Google removed the option to annotate results in Google Notebook) – an obvious feature would be to get a permalink for your edited results, but Google doesn’t offer this yet – there’s no option to toggle between your edited results and the standard results (you’ll have to log out) – it’s difficult to reorder results, since the only action allowed is to place a web page at the top, after all the other promoted pages. If you promote the page again, it will become the first result. Google has always used people’s clicks to improve the quality of search results, so the new options could influence the ranking algorithms in different ways. “At this time we aren’t using SearchWiki to influence ranking but it is easy to see how that could happen in the future,” said Marissa Mayer . “Search is adapting to the Internet as it becomes a more participatory medium. Now you have people telling us specific things about how they’d like to see their search results. You could imagine if we do see a particular site (about which) people have a unanimous opinion, that might trigger external things. Like maybe we should check out our spam control,” suggested Cedric Dupont , product manager for SearchWiki and Google Knol.

Continue here: Google SearchWiki Launched

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Shared by Chris Dean An interesting discussion, especially after seeing this previously: http://www.coderchris.com/seo/holy-keyword-loaded-sub-domains-batman/2008/08/20 (Example: http://winterjam.hearitfirst.com and http://www.hearitfirst.com/winterjam)? Do you search engines and traffic sites still see them both as traffic to the inherent site hearitfirst.com or is there something I can do to maximize this? Thank you.

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Does anyone know if there are traffic difference between URLs in the header of a url?

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