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Top Yahoo Searches of 2006 : Britney Spears Rules!
Earlier this week Yahoo released its top searches of 2006, including celeb search, news stories, celebrity babies, sports teams & politicians. Amazingly enough, the results...
Yahoo Reorganization Focuses on Audiences, Advertisers & Publishers
Yahoo! has reorganized its structure and management to align its operations with its key customer segments; audiences, advertisers and publishers, which the company believes will...
Jason Calacanis Speaks About Digg, Netscape, SEO & Pay Per Post Blogging
Initial founder of Weblogs, Inc., ex-AOL employee and the man who Dugg Netscape, Jason Calacanis was Danny Sullivan’s guest today at Search Engine Strategies Chicago...
MySpace.com Now Featuring Google Search
MySpace is now showing ‘Powered by Google’ next to its search box which is featured on the MySpace home page, admin pages, and profile pages....
Yahoo Answers Thrives as Google Answers Dies
Google has canned its Google Answers program, which was the first major search operated question & answer service. Simply enough, Googlers would rather use the...
Digg.com Explained for Search Marketers
Todd Malicoat has put together a simple yet effective guide to Digg for search marketers which is packed with stats on Digg usage, the traffic...
AbbreviationZ : Acronyms & Abbreviations Search Engine
AbbreviationZ is a directory / search engine of categorized acronyms and abbreviations which helps Internet users figure out what’s behind those niche abbreviations found in...
Google News Sitemaps for News Publishers
In an effort to assist news publishers with control over which articles are included in Google News and how, Google has now added Sitemaps for...
Yahoo Search Growing Faster than Google
According to a recent study from Nielsen//Netratings, Yahoo & Ask.com are growing faster than Google in terms of search engine usage. While Google still undoubtedly...
Europe’s Xing.com – The LinkedIn.com Killer?!
It was not too long ago when the European Business-Networking Service OpenBC.com announced their planned name change to Xing.com. OpenBC.com is no longer and all...
Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto : Cut Workforce by 20%, Build Focus
An internal Yahoo memo written last week by Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse has been leaked to the press and urges a major organizational shake...
Snap Preview Everywhere: Distributing Search Boxes by Enabling Site Previews
WOW! I love creative ideas for distributing search! We have Eurekster (and now Google) that provide customizable search experiences for website owners. We have search...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Team for Sitemaps.org Search Engine Indexing Initiative
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined forces to support Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their...
How To Obtain Techmeme Blog Coverage
Techmeme usually sends thousands of unique users per month to Search Engine Journal, dependent upon our percentage of breaking news stories and coverage. Like other...
Amazon.com’s Clickriver Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising
Amazon.com’s A9 Search division has finally launched a service which is sure to catch the eyes of the search engine marketing world, Clickriver. Clickriver is...
Google Acquires JotSpot Wiki Collaboration Software
Google has acquired Jotspot, which allows businesses and individuals to use wikis for collaboration. Google made the announcement today on the Google Blog, and gave...
Alibaba.com Invests in Koubei.com Chinese Classifieds
Alibaba.com, parent company of Yahoo China, made a ‘strategic investment’ in Koubei.com, which is one of China’s largest classified listing and community websites. According to...
5 Reasons Not To Use Flash
Despite the documented problems over the years, businesses and web development firms are continuing to use a flash base in site design, without regard of...
Leaked Google Documents Outline Internal Company Goals
Internal company papers from Google somehow found their way outside of the Googleplex and into the hands of Google Blogoscoped’s Philipp Lenssen. Philipp has not...
Google Custom Search Engine Launches
Google is launching its Google Custom Search Engine tomorrow now, which will let users & publishers construct their own specialized Google search indexes made up...
Popular Searches in China
Popular Searches in China Google Zeitgeist published the popular Chinese searches in the month August. Google added China again to its monthly zeitgeist in March...
Google vs. Yahoo : Earnings Reports Comparison
Yahoo braced the world and its investors at a Goldman Sachs investment conference last month when Yahoo CEO Terry Semel told investors that a slowdown...
Pronet Advertising : One of My Favorite Blogs!
One of my responsibilities as a professional blogger in the search engine news world is to keep taps on the many search engine marketing and...
Domain Name Search 2.0 : PCNames
One of my favorite online marketing ‘hobbies’ is brainstorming domain names for sites, products, companies and blogs. Admittingly enough, I probably find myself spending about...
Google Attracting 25% of Online Ad Revenue
eMarketer just put out a release with some amazing research behind their prediction that Google will pocket 25% of all US Online Advertising Revenue –...
SEO & 404 Error Pages
We’ve covered how to optimize your 404 Error page for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes in the past, making sure all of those dead links...
Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Platform Goes Live
This afternoon Yahoo announced that it is finally going live with the rollout and transition to its new Yahoo Search Marketing platform, dubbed ‘Panama’. Yahoo...
Chris Pirillo Interview
Lee Odden has been busy blogging over the weekend and posted his follow up interview with Internet, Pectoral & Coffee guru Chris Pirillo which Lee...
Google Acquires YouTube for $1.65 Billion Stock Transaction
Google Acquires YouTube for $1.65 Billion Stock Transaction No longer Internet specultion, Google has confirmed that it will be acquiring YouTube in the forth quarter...
5 Reasons Why Google Will Buy YouTube
Update: Google did, in fact, purchase Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars in October of 2006. Sure, the internet, newspapers, and blogosphere have been buzzing all...