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Happy Thanksgiving, from All of Us at Search Engine Watch

We will not be publishing on Thursday, November 27, or Friday, November 28, in observation of Thanksgiving Day. I hope those of you that are celebrating the holiday can stay off the Internet and spend some time with those you love.

For those of you that aren’t celebrating Thanksgiving, or have had enough quality time with your family, here are a few things you might find interesting:

* If you haven’t checked it out lately, I suggest looking over the articles in our Search 101 section. It’s been updated with articles covering the basics of search engine optimization, search advertising, and several other topics. Keep an eye on that section, as it will continue to be updated on a regular basis.

* We’ve been collecting quite the archive of Search Engine Marketing Webcasts. We’ve got one-hour presentations with Q&A available on demand on topics from Holiday PPC campaigns to search trends, to Profitable PPC fundamentals. You can also sign up for upcoming webcasts, including one next week on Advanced Keyword Research.

* Catch up with other Thanksgiving refugees on the Search Engine Watch Forums, or browse the archives to find the best advice on a range of search marketing topics.

* Head on over to Facebook to join the SearchEngineWatch Facebook Group or the Search Engine Strategies Facebook Group. Or check out our LinkedIn Groups for Search Engine Watch, SearchEngineWatch.com Forums, or Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo.

We’ll be back on Monday with plenty of new Experts columns, blog posts, and more. Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Live Search Maps Enables Photosynth Search

The Live Search Maps team has made it easier for you to search for Photosynths. If you’re not familiar, Photosynth was launched earlier this year and users can take multiple photos of a location and have it mashed up into a 3D image.

Now, if you want to find Photosynths of a certain location, go to Live Search Maps and enter in the location you’re interested in. Once the results come up, look on the left hand sidebar for “Explore Collections” and click on it. Then look for a drop down menu next to the word “Show.” Select Photosynths and any submissions related to the area you’re searching will pop up.

Let’s explore.

Say you’re searching Live Search Maps for Boone, North Carolina. Look for “Explore Collections” on the left sidebar and click on it.

Next, select “Photosynth” from the drop down tab next to the word “Show.” Not all searches will yield Photosynths - only the ones where photosynths exist, of course.

A list of results for Photosynths will appear. Select the one that suits your fancy by clicking on “Click to Launch Photosynth Viewer.”

Then enjoy the lovely panorama of the Appalachian mountains - or wherever your map search takes you.

SEW Experts: Obama’s Link Strategy Fuels Election Victory

Internet link love proves more powerful than old-school politics in the 2008 election, thanks in part to a visionary social networking election strategy. In today’s link building column, “Obama’s Link Strategy Fuels Election Victory,” Sage Lewis looks at what we can learn about online marketing from studying presidential politics.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-29

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The People In My Story

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I love writing. I especially love writing in the month of November. Eleven months out of the year, I’m a non-fiction writer. But, for 30 days in the 11th mo…
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How to Pick your Lucky Numbers and How to Use Them

Many people have jobs they hate or they love their jobs but they do not get paid very much. These people are the most likely people to play the lottery.
Lottery players will come up with what they fe…
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Writing Love Poems For a Wedding

A wedding is an event that marks the bonding between two human souls. It is one of the happiest moments in a couple’s life. This is the day when these very same intimate moments can be shared with fam…
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G1 Officially Available Today, Should You Buy One?

The G1, a new mobile device from HTC available and featuring Google’s brand spankin’ new mobile platform Android, is now officially available at T-mobile.

But should you ditch your Blackberry, Palm, iPhone, etc to get one?

The G1 has a touch screen, similar to the iPhone, but it doesn’t have multitouch. It has a mobile application version of the Amazon mp3 store, which I love and use all the time for DRM-free music.

Unfortunately, you’ll need an adapter for that headphone jack to listen to all that music. Plus, you’ll have to purchase a memory card to store your music, and you can only do so up to 8GB.

The G1 does have a slider keypad, which I would love. I’ve had my iPhone for months, but typing on it is still a pain. Prior to that, I had the Samsung Glyde for a couple of weeks and loved the slider keypad. (It was just everything else that was a pain.)

So, should you or shouldn’t you? Here’s what the reviewers who have are saying:

Gizmodo

The G1 phone and the Android operating system are not finished products. There are only three working Google Apps here—Gmail, Maps and Calendar—while Google Docs, Google News, Google Reader, Google Shopping, Google Images, Google Video, Blogger and Picasa are nowhere to be found. What’s the deal?

We have high hopes for third-party coders to fill in gaps Google intentionally or unintentionally left in this OS. There’s already a video player, and we’re sure VLC will try and port some kind of version over. But your question is not whether the phone will be great down the line, it’s whether or not it’s good enough for you to buy it now.

The answer depends most on who you are. Despite all the UI quirks and bad design decisions, it’s still better than other smartphone OSes out there. It’s not perfect, but for people who like tinkering, its cons are outweighed by its pros such as Gmail and the Marketplace. Hopefully Android updates and more ports of Google apps will augment not just future phones but this one too. This isn’t something you’re going to give your mom for Christmas, but if you’re an adventuresome gadget guy with some money to spend ($179) on a totally new, pretty exciting venture, then why not?

CrunchGear

If you’ve been waiting for Android then I suggest you keep waiting. The overall OS seems to be held together by duct tape and needs a lot of work. Apple focuses on the minute details to enrich the overall experience for iPhone users and Android could learn a lesson or ten from it. The hardware design is dated and while the touch-screen and keyboard are great you can’t just forget about the wretched battery life, horrible GPS and the overall ergonomics of it. I wish the G1 were better in every respect because I don’t think the iPhone is that great, but I find myself wishing it were more like it. It’s the best alternative to the iPhone, but it’s just not there yet.

CNET

While we’re not in love with the design and would have liked some additional features, the real beauty of the T-Mobile G1 is the Google Android platform, as it has the potential to make smartphones more personal and powerful. That said, it’s not quite there yet, so for now, the G1 is best suited for early adopters and gadget hounds, rather than consumers and business users.

Engadget

When you put the G1 up against, say, a Sidekick LX, it seems like a no-brainer for T-Mobile customers looking for a powerful QWERTY device — especially at $20 less. You don’t need to be a cutting-edge mobile geek or a pundit to do that math. When facing off with platforms like the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, it holds its own, but has a lot of ground to cover before it’s really making the competition sweat. Still, if you’re just excited to be a part of a platform that’s likely going to be around for a very, very long time, the G1’s a totally reasonable day-to-day device to make it happen, and we expect some pretty great things from this corner of the market down the road.

Walt Mossberg at All Things Digital

Overall, the G1 is a very good first effort, and a godsend for people who prefer physical keyboards or T-Mobile but want to be part of the new world of powerful pocket computers.

Is Yahoo Being Undervalued by Wall Street?

Despite Yahoo’s decline in the search market as of late, some are beginning to cry foul, saying Wall Street is punishing YHOO just a little too much. Prices dipped below $11 a share this week, almost half the value when Microsoft made its acquisition offer for $31 per share.

A couple of points in defense of Yahoo:

Its decline in search market share is slight. They’re still #2. They’re comparable to the Apple of the search world if you’re just looking at the numbers.
The stock is being brought down by the greater market. Even Google’s stock is down to the mid-300s, despite beginning the year in the high 500s. But Google posted an increase in revenue and beat the pessimistic Street yesterday. Their stock is on the rise at this hour, while the Dow Jones is on the decline again.
They have a bunch of strong properties, including Yahoo Sports, which had a stellar August thanks to the Olympics. They’re also number 1 in email.

A couple of points in defense of Wall Street:

Jerry Yang is no Steve Jobs (or at least not anymore).
The search advertising partnership with Google has been delayed while they attempt to work things out with a wary DOJ.
The economy has everyone holding their wallets tight.

Jerry Yang and the gang need to refocus on the customer instead of executive bonuses, while Wall Street needs to understand that while advertising in general may decline, search advertising is an attractive option for advertisers looking to maximize budgets.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, Microsoft remains a scorned lover.

Google Translate Adds Widget, Notranslate Code Snippets

Google Translate has released a few updates to help you translate, or not, your pages for your site visitors.

First up is a widget that you can place on your site to offer visitors translation via Google Translate. It’s very Google branded, so that may deter some, but here’s what it looks like:

Secondly, there are code snippets available if you do NOT want Google to be able to translate your page or certain parts of a page.

class=notranslate is available for any html element. Here’s an example: