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Google & Microsoft Are Battling It Out At The Mapping Front
Google may have its advantages over Microsoft when it comes to online advertising. But over to mapping services and we can see that both Google...
A Search Engine Fairy Tale
I revisited today an older post of mine that talks about paid links and the problems that I have with the way how Google is...
Microsoft Cancels the Yahoo Acquisition Deal, Finally!
So, what do we have here? Finally, Balmer and his guys walk off the long-standing acquisition deal after finally not agreeing on the terms. TechCrunch...
Tom Cruise promotes his site using AdWords?
It’s time for a little bit of Sunday fun reading. Remember that hotly contested tomcruise.com domain which was later on given to actor Tom Cruise,...
Microsoft Reveals its Strategies for Yahoo
On Thursday during a meeting with staff, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that the company has three options available to them with regards to Yahoo,...
Yahoo & Google Close to Striking AdWords Deal
Yahoo may be running Google AdWords quite soon as the two companies are growing closer in an effort to work together which will boost Yahoo’s...
Connect on Twitter : And Drop Your Twitter ID in the Comments!
Do you Twitter? If you do, there’s a whole lot of SEO and search marketing people using Twitter to share ideas, share news and even...
SenseBot Releases FireFox Plugin for Google Result Summaries
SenseBot is a search engine that produces summaries of the results that appear when you perform a search. Its a tool that is very useful...
Microsoft Raising Bid on Yahoo Takeover
After the deadline passed last weekend for Yahoo to accept Microsoft’s takeover bid, many were left wondering what Microsoft would do next. This week, Microsoft...
Jason Gambert – New Low in the SEO Trademark Saga
If you’ve never heard of Jason Gambert before, don’t be alarmed, the rest of the search community hadn’t either until Sarah Bird, General Counsel for...
Google TV Ads now available for US-based advertisers
Google Adwords’s take on TV advertising is going full blast as Google TV Ads which has been in by invitation-only beta mode becomes available for...
Google Responds to Adwords Quality Score Variable Leak
Yesterday on Search Engine Journal, Eric Lander posted some screen shots of Google openly serving confidential advertiser information in their AdWords results, such as the...
SEORipOff.com : Stain of the Search Marketing Industry
If you are in the field of search marketing, search engine optimization, or online marketing in general; you have probably seen the ads in Google...
Looking for ‘Bad Guys’ – Discovering Networks of Sites
Creating networks of (interlinked) sites is a widespread tactic of PageRank and ranking manipulation. To own a lot of websites is perfectly OK but to...
Google Leaks Quality Score Variables (Pscore, mCPC and thresh) in Search Results
Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the...
How to Analyze Page Keyword Prominence
While keyword density is really something SEOs should really stop paying attention to, keyword prominence is a concept that still should be analyzed and evaluated....
Windows Live Search Mobile intros Shop and Search on the Go
Windows Live Search is on th roll the past couple of days. It’s latest offering, a convenient mobile application for product search. Product search on...
Private Detective Sues Google for “Unwanted” Ads
Another day, another lawsuit. David Almeida, a private detective, has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that hundreds of thousands of companies that have signed...
Deadline Passes with No Deal Struck: Will Microsoft Continue to Fight for Yahoo?
Three months ago Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo Inc., and today they are no closer to acquiring the company than they...
Get Your Search Marketing Resume Indexed By A Recruiter
As a recruiter in the internet marketing industry I am tasked with reviewing hundreds of resumes every week. The reality is I have to quickly...
How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us
Social bookmarking is not only a nice way to get more traffic and links. That’s a most effective method to explore what people think about...
Google’s Vision of the Future of Image Search
Can Google’s technology automatically analyze what’s inside an image? I mean is it really possible to automatically analyze an image subject then rank it according...
comScore Validates Accuracy of its Google Paid Click Data
It looks like the issue on the declining click data of Google’s paid ads won’t just die down. Well, at least for comScore, they will...
Search Marketing Jobs : IBM, Six Apart & PeopleFinders
The Search Marketing Jobs Board at Search Engine Journal has heated up this week with some rather high profile jobs at companies like IBM and...
4 Ways to Hide Content From Google : And Google’s Reaction
Barry stumbled across a thread over at the Google Webmster Help Group and simplified all of the information from the thread in an easy to...
Microsoft Live Search News gets an RSS
Either the Microsoft Live Search team were sleeping when they were developing the Live Search News portal or they wanted so much to make it...
Yahoo Integrating Facebook Style Social Map & Unified Profile Pages Across Network
It’s about time! Yahoo is finally taking the social route in fully connecting its Yahoo Network users across multiple Yahoo platforms in a Facebook meets...
Yahoo’s Take on the Open Web, A Search Monkey
Actually, I would have made the title of this post into something like, “Yahoo calls the people for help to save itself from getting eaten...
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles to Brazillian Authorities
On Wednesday, Google turned over approximately 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission charged with looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted...
SEJ Guest Blogging : Review the Guest Marketing Posts
I’m sure that readers have noticed a good amount of new names and faces popping up in their Google Reader and RSS aggregators. Search Engine...