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Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer Graduate from Beta
Google Website Optimizer and Google Analytics (or Urchin) have both dropped the Beta label as both offerings from Google have graduated their initial ‘testing’ phases...
Yahoo successfully tested Google ads on search results
It looks like Yahoo is all set to outsource its web search advertising to Google as announced last week. Citing Wall Street Journal, Reuters is...
$10,000 SEJ Guest Blog Competition : Extended Deadline
We have received loads of excellent search marketing related articles for our Search Engine Journal Guest Blog Post Competition with over $10,000 in prizes. The...
Yahoo Makes IndexTools Analytics Free .. For Some
Last week Yahoo announced that it was buying IndexTools, the web analytics company, to add a stronger analytics platform to the Yahoo Marketing and Yahoo...
Mark Cramer, CEO of SurfCanyon on Search & Importance of User Feedback
Search Canyon deploys technology that helps disambiguate search queries, essentially assisting the user to dig deeper into results, suggesting links that makes a better match...
Last Time in China – User Statistics, New Interface, New Instant Messenger
China has now more internet users than the US. That was one of the items that made its way into almost all news media in...
Search Marketing Professionals Shortage & What Your Company Needs to Know
Despite the uncertainty in our near-term economic environment, the market drivers for continued growth in the search marketing industry remain strong. However, a major challenge...
Google About to Make TV Ads Public
While its certainly not any new news that Google has been testing out television ads, what is new is that they are about ready to...
Google Experimenting with Technology to Index HTML Forms
Googlers Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy, members of the Crawling and Indexing team, recently indicated that Google has been testing out some HTML forms to...
GGoal : Searchers Define their Search
Algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence – the list is endless in the quest for the perfect technique to make computers do what humans are...
Soon You’ll Be Able to Play “Where’s Waldo” in Google Earth
Melanie Cole, a Canadian artirst, has launched a new project called “Where on Earth is Waldo?”, putting a new twist on an age-old game. Instead...
Salesforce ties up with Google
As expected, Salesforce and Google have officially announced that they have linked to deliver an integrated solution for their Salesforce customers who are also users...
Relona CTO, Kumar Ramanathan on Relona, Relevancy and Search
Few days back there was an article at SEJ on Relona, a search technology start-up which used unique technology to add more relevance to results...
Update : Blogging Prize Now Over $10,000 in Search Marketing Services
This is a friendly reminder that the Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging Competition is still running and SingleFeed, the shopping search feed optimization company, has...
Yahoo Games: Google & AOL Partnerships to Increase Microsoft’s Offer?
A short while ago, Chris Winfield of 10e20 called my attention to a story published by Henry Blodget on Silicon Alley Insider. In the article,...
Yahoo and Google Partner Again : Serving AdWords in Yahoo Results
Is the end of Yahoo Search Marketing near? Yahoo has announced that they are running limited tests of AdWords sponsored search ads (or Google AdSense...
Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)
In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...
Legg Mason to Help Yahoo Fight Microsoft Takeover
If Microsoft lowers the value of its offer to buy Yahoo, Legg Mason has indicated that they will back Yahoo’s efforts to ward off a take over and...
Want Links? Create a Holiday : RSS Awareness Day
Commercially altering holidays is a very old school marketing tactic which has been implemented by the greeting card, flowers, beer and department store industries for...
Google Sued for Rejecting Anti-Abortion Ad
A UK Christian organization is fighting back after Google rejected their advertisement submission for being “unacceptable content”, and is taking the search company to court. ...
Google Earth Puts UN Refugee Camps in the Spotlight
Google Earth has kicked off a new program known as “Google Earth Outreach”, which now shows close-up views of United Nations refugee camps and aid projects in order...
WebTrends Analytics Names Ex-Googler New CEO
Today is turning out to be a day chock full of good analytics news. First Yahoo announced that they are purchasing IndexTools and integrating their...
Flickr Video Launches : Community Driven & Flickr Friendly
Flickr has launched its video on Flickr video sharing service, which lets Flickr Pro members upload videos with a maximum length of 90 seconds to...
Yahoo Acquiring IndexTools Analytics : Beefing Up Yahoo Services
Following in the footsteps of Google Analytics and Microsoft’s adCenter Analytics, Yahoo is looking to better its analytics offerings which now exist in a mediocre...
Why Most SEOs Can’t Do Reputation Management
If you are an SEO and your saying to yourself, he cant be talking about me. Think again, I probably am. Dont get me wrong,...
Best of the Web Adds DMOZ Editors to Directory Team
Best of the Web (BOTW.org) has pulled off an Internet web site classification coup de etat, hiring over 30 of the top DMOZ editors which...
Open Letter to Google : SEO’s Are Friends, Don’t Treat Us Like Enemies
Jack Spirko has published an open letter to Google explaining why SEO’s should not be treated as enemies of the Google state : Sometimes it...
Baidu Adds Obama to Logo
Baidu, the leading search engine in China, is getting involved in the coming US Presidential elections it seems. They have added a caricature of Barack...
Yahoo Tops Google on Search Relevance with Relona
It is not everyday that you come across search technology that challenges the established leaders in the search space – that too on the grounds...
Google Street View Sued for Trespassing and Privacy Invasion
The Google Street View project has the goal to photograph the streets of America and beyond, and the views from those streets, which sometimes results...