Blogs Not Such a Big Deal?
Blogs Not Such a Big Deal? The spin being given to a new report by Pew and marketing firm BuzzMetrics entitled, “Buzz, Blogs and Beyond:...
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NYTimes to Charge for Content
NYTimes to Charge for Content The Gray Lady will introduce “TimesSelect“ in September. TimesSelect will require users to pay $49.95 annually to get access to...
Dogpile’s New Meta Search Tricks
Dogpile’s New Meta Search Tricks InfoSpace launched a new version of its Dogpile metasearch engine. The new site, which is cleaner, more prominently highlights the...
Mother’s Day Online Spending Hits $4.4 Billion in 2005
Mother’s Day Online Spending Hits $4.4 Billion in 2005 VeriSign, the e-commerce infrastructure provider, announced that Mother’s Day-related spending hit US$4.4 billion this year, during...
Local TV Stations Form Online Advertising Network
Local TV Stations Form Online Advertising Network WorldNow, a technology vendor, and a network of almost 150 local TV news sites, have formed the Local...
Search Engine Users Convert into Offline Buyers
Search Engine Users Convert into Offline Buyers Late last year Yahoo! Search Marketing (then known as Overture) conducted a study with comScore to capture, among...
Backfence Goes Live With Hyper-Local Community
Backfence Goes Live With Hyper-Local Community Backfence went live tonight in McLean and Reston, VA. I previously wrote about Backfence’s “hyper-local” strategy. It’s a very...
Google UK’s Second Local Deal
Google UK’s Second Local Deal First Google and Yell announced that the latter, the owner of the Yellow Pages brand in the U.K., would provide...
Holy Resume Batman, Another Jobs Site Launches
Holy Resume Batman, Another Jobs Site Launches Following the latest wave of job “meta-search” sites (Indeed.com, SimplyHired, etc.), Business.com is launching Work.com after several months...
New Google Approach to Search Relevance
New Google Approach to Search Relevance As Google became progressively more powerful, more and more people began trying to manipulate Google’s “organic” search results. That...
SBC & YellowPages.com Offering Simple Search Marketing
SBC & YellowPages.com Offering Simple Search Marketing Modeled on BellSouth’s “Real Search Engine Solutions,” which offers simplified search-engine marketing (SEM) to local businesses based on...
Yahoo My Web Powerful and Provocative
Yahoo My Web Powerful and Provocative Right on the heels of Google’s My Search History, Yahoo! Launches a better, simplified version of its earlier Web...
Internet Yellow Pages Quality vs. Search Marketing Quantity
Internet Yellow Pages Quality vs. Search Marketing Quantity The Yellow Pages Association released the results of a study with comScore that supports the idea that...
Google AdWords Site Targeting : Google Now a Media Company
Google AdWords Site Targeting : Google Now a Media Company Last quarter, Google declared in its SEC 10-K filing that it was a “media company”:...
AccuWeather the Beginning of Google Local Search Syndication?
AccuWeather the Beginning of Google Local Search Syndication? Google built out a massive traffic and advertising network in part by syndicating its search box to...
‘My Search History’ a Potential Boon for Google
‘My Search History’ a Potential Boon for Google Google’s early attempt at search personalization was a real dog. With “My Search History†the company is...
Yahoo & Target Partner in Online-Offline Photo Deal
Yahoo & Target Partner in Online-Offline Photo Deal Yahoo! has partnered with U.S. retail giant Target to later this year allow consumers to manage/order prints...
Yell Powers Google Local UK
Yell Powers Google Local UK In a move that surely represents the beginning of a broader, European expansion of Google’s local strategy, Google Local UK...
Google Takes Local Mobile
Google Takes Local Mobile Earlier today Google publicly released Local for mobile devices. I’m on vacation, so I won’t do anything lengthy. Chris Sherman has...
Yahoo Offers Free Sites to Small Businesses
Yahoo Offers Free Sites to Small Businesses Yahoo offering free sites to SME’s is a potentially big deal, although there were many such free Web...
Google Q&A and Query Length
Google Q&A and Query Length Google launched a new feature called “Google Q&A” offering answers to factual questions such as: What is the world’s population?...
Newspapers and RSS Newsreaders
Newspapers and RSS Newsreaders It’s smart for newspapers such as the Tribune Co.’s LA Times, the Denver Post and the UK’s Guardian to set up...
MTV Latest to Deliver TV Content Online
MTV Latest to Deliver TV Content Online Everybody’s doing it. Call it iTV or TV2Web, not to be confused with IPTV. MTV will lauch a...
Search: The ‘Consideration’ Medium
Search: The ‘Consideration’ Medium Just had a fascinating conversation with Chris Henger, who’s in charge of Marketing and Product Development at Performics (part of DoubleClick)....
Click Fraud Class Action = PR Nightmare
Click Fraud Class Action = PR Nightmare As has been widely reported, Lane’s Gifts and Collectibles is the lead plantiff in a class action lawsuit...
Keyhole Now Live on Google Maps
Keyhole Now Live on Google Maps Today Google integrated Keyhole into Google Maps. Here’s The Kelsey Group’s corporate offices. This is a companion view; Google’s...
Search Engine Marketing Trademark Tango
Search Engine Marketing Trademark Tango The two U.S.-based trademark actions against Google (Geico, American Blinds) are being allowed to proceed to discovery. Discovery is a...
Yahoo! FareChase: Vertical Meta Travel
Yahoo! FareChase: Vertical Meta Travel Yahoo!’s FareChase travel site launched hotels today. Competing with AOL’s recently launched Pinpoint Travel, this represents another meta-search play to...
Ratings, Reviews and Relevance Criteria
Ratings, Reviews and Relevance Criteria I wanted to call attention to an interesting piece from Gord Hotchkiss in MediaPost. He writes: “[N]o one with enough...
Bloglines Could Be Ask Jeeves’ My Yahoo
Bloglines Could Be Ask Jeeves’ My Yahoo Bloglines, acquired by Ask Jeeves roughly a fortnight before it was itself acquired by IAC, is doing some...