Local.com Stock Explodes After Awarded Text Message & Pay Per Call Advertising Patent
Local.com’s stock value has gone berzerk after the news hit over the holiday week of the local search company being granted a US Patent for...
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Yahoo Using Social Media to Enhance Market Share in Phillipines & Abroad
Yahoo is taking an interesting approach to retaining its Filipino users and securing growth of Yahoo Search & other Yahoo services in the Pacific Rim...
eBay & Firefox Launch eBay Browser
eBay is getting busier and busier partnering with web applications and now has worked together with Firefox to produce an eBay Firefox browser. Yesterday, Search...
Google Makes FeedBurner TotalStats & MyBrand Services Free
Wrapping up some of the news that went on over the Independence Day holidays, Google’s Feedburner announced on the 3rd that its two previously paid...
Google Image Search Spamming in Action : Hawaii Pictures
Received an email today via a private discussion group about some hotlinking and Google Image spamming for the term “hawaii pictures.” If you search for...
Google Targeted with Libel Claim in UK
One English company is trying to take Google to court over its inclusion of sites in the Google database which libel the company dotWORLDS. dotWORLDS...
Defining Google Search URL Parameters
Joost de Valk has been working on defining the URL parameters in Google Search result strings which have been increasing since Google began its personalized...
SEO & Blogging Success Story : Diabetes Blog Earns $40K per Year
There’s an old golden rule in terms of choosing a career or venture which still applies today, even to blogging; love your work. Being passionate...
Yahoo’s Patrick Crane Joins LinkedIn as Vice President of Marketing
The business networking social media company LinkedIn has announced that they have hired Patrick Crane as their new VP of Marketing. Prior to LinkedIn, Patrick...
Chris Tolles Named New Topix CEO
Topix, the community driven local news search experience, has a new CEO with a familiar face. Chris Tolles, the long time VP of Marketing for...
New Kosmix Topical Search & Social Networking Project Focuses on Health & Medical Information
Kosmix, the topical and categorical search engine, is powering the search application on RevolutionHealth.com, the health and medical website that marries expert health content and...
Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search
Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query...
WordPress Plugin Hurting Google Rankings?
The Red Cardinal blog tells the tale of a WordPress Plugin killing the rankings of a site in Google as the Mobile WordPress Plugin is...
Yahoo Merges Search Marketing & Display Advertising Sales Divisions
Yahoo has taken the step to combine both its search marketing & display advertising groups under one unified advertising sales division which will be headed...
Yahoo & Bebo Partner for Search & Sponsored Listings
Yahoo Search is now powering the search results within the Bebo social network. According to Pete Cashmore at Mashable, Bebo users can now use Yahoo...
Business.com For Sale : $300 – $400 Million
Business.com, the B2B search engine & directory, is up for sale and according to the Wall Street Journal, the web destination hopes to attract valuation...
Google Building $600 Million Data Center in Iowa
Google is set to build a $600 million data center in western Iowa according to an announcement from the state’s Governor, Chet Culver. The 55...
Search Marketing Campaign & Project Management in the Latin Market
Session on Search Marketing Campaign & Project Management in the Latin Market. This session is moderated by Nacho Hernandez of iHispanic, which is a major...
SES Miami : Search Marketing to US Hispanic & Latin American Markets
Nacho Hernandez moderates the panel on Tapping into US Hispanics and Latin Americans via Search. Emerson Calegaretti of Acronym Media Emerson Calegaretti, the VP of...
PubCon SEO Class : New York July 30th & 31st
The Search Marketing conference & workshop circuit just got more interesting as WebmasterWorld Inc and SEO Class Inc. have partnered to produce a PubCon SEO...
My Yahoo! Updates With GMail Integration & New Modules
My Yahoo! has gone through another series of updates to their beta offering today, allowing users to preview their GMail and POP Mail accounts on...
Yahoo Testing New Blue Bar Search Results Format
Yahoo is running limited testing of a new search results page format with a blue search bar above the sponsored and organic Yahoo results. Both...
eBay Halting its Google AdWords Advertising?
Google has definitely become more aggressive lately in the field of competitive warfare and public relations with its anti-trust complaints of Microsoft’s Vista search functionality...
Google Video Exposing Private Username & Password Information?
Google Video may be exposing the username and passwords of users who post videos to their MySpace accounts and serving this information over unsecure Internet...
Calcanis Discussing Mahalo Search on LinkedIn
There is a most interesting discussion going on within LinkedIn of all places about how Jason Calacanis can better Mahalo, his human edited search project....
YouTube Embedded Player Featuring Google Video Ads?
If the new embedded player from YouTube (example below), with all of its bells & whistles including the ability to surf through related videos while...
LookSmart’s CFO Resigns, But Revenue Increasing
Mixed signals from LookSmart today as their Chief Financial Officer John Simonelli has announced his resignation as CFO and Chief Operating Officer after a replacement...
Yahoo Still Going After Facebook : Now $2 Billion?
Will Yahoo pay the rumored $2 Billion that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg is looking for? According to Jemima Kiss of The Guardian, Yahoo is in...
Feedburner Data Begins Transition to Google Ownership
The first signs of the Feedburner transition to Google have occured on the Feedburner login page as an optional opt-out message has been placed on...
Yahoo Search’s Slurp Crawler Updates Moves to New Address
Yahoo has updated and moved its Yahoo Slurp crawler to a new domain at crawl.yahoo.net, but is keeping the same IP address for those publishers...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
Forbes
January 11, 2022
If you manage e-commerce digital marketing campaigns, these strategies can save you time and help grow your traffic, sales and your bottom line. See More
Eight Ways Businesses Are Adopting Innovative Streaming During Social Distancing
Forbes
May 20, 2020
Streaming video technology is more important than ever. See More