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Growth and Development of Google’s Local Search
On day one of SMX West in Santa Clara, I will be speaking on Local Search and Blended Results. While that panel will be focused...
Google Remains Steady in Top Spot of comScore Search Report
comScore’s first monthly search report for the year is already out and as expected Google still tops all core search entity. Google registered 0.1% increase...
Yahoo Moves to Protect Staff in Takeover Battle with Microsoft
Microsoft has made their intentions about taking over Yahoo very clear, and are determined to succeed. Yahoo, perhaps sensing the inevitable at this point, has...
Cleveland Clinic Collaborates with Google for Health Records Management
The world renowned Cleveland Clinic Health System announced Wednesday that are teaming up with Google to test out a new online medical record service, which...
Google to Roll out Adsense for Video
Finally, Google is about to roll out its Adsense for Video program. Using the inlay video advertising format it previously implemented in YouTube, Adsense for...
Search Engine Journal Opens Search Marketing Job Board
I’m very happy to announce that Search Engine Journal has partnered with JobThread to launch our own Search Marketing Job Board where Search Engine Journal...
Yahoo Embraces Open Source Some More with Hadoop Inside Search Webmap
As part of its ongoing strategy towards moving to open source infrastructure and network, Yahoo announced that its webmap is now being processed using Apache...
Microsoft Continues Battle, Yahoo Prepares for the Worst
And so Yahoo’s battle to stay away from Microsoft’s take-over deal heats up as Microsoft prepares its proxy battle to win Yahoo. AP is reporting...
Google Issues Notice of Change in Ad Display URL Policy
The Inside AdWords announced that starting April 1, AdWords will no longer allow redirects and vanity URLs in place of ad landing pages. This is...
Google & Microsoft Sued in Paid Search Related Patent Case
Last week an Ohio company filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Google, alleging infringement on a patent related to paid search methods. The lawsuit was...
Feedburner Takes Off All-Time Stats Without Notice?
Did Google make a mistake in deciding to take out Feedburner’s all-time stats of individual accounts? Or was it the decision of the Feedburner, acting...
Fidel Castro Resigns : Search Engine Coverage of the Historical Event
Fidel Castro today announced that he will not be seeking ‘reelection’ by the Cuban Parliament to renew his position as the leader of Cuba on...
v7n Network For Sale : $500,000
The v7n Network, which consists of v7n Webmaster Forums, the v7n Directory and the Contextual Links link buying service is up for sale on Sitepoint...
Microsoft to Continue Battle Against Google Even Without Yahoo
It’s now time for Microsoft’s chairman Bill Gates to say something about the never ending issue about the unsuccessful Microsoft take-over bid of Yahoo. Mr....
Google Local Search Flaw : State Abbreviations & Misleading Results
When searching within Google for localized terms by state, such as “loren baker maryland” or “ben franklin pennsylvania”, Google will automatically return search results with...
Well-Off Use Google, the Poor Use Yahoo
Hitwise recently released some new data, which suggests that those in different income brackets have a tendency to use one search engine over another. What...
Yahoo Blocking Bots from Spidering Delicious Bookmarks
Over the weekend, Yahoo’s Delicious (del.icio.us) social bookmarking property has been blocking spiders and bots from non-Yahoo search engines from crawling the site and identifying...
Yahoo Video Gets a Makeover & New Site
Today the Yahoo Video Blog announced not just an update to Yahoo Video, but a complete overhaul and all-new site. Some of the new features...
Protect Your Brand from URL Typo Squatters
I went to jump onto Techmeme.com this morning to get my fill of the Microsoft reshuffling news and instead of clicking over from my reader...
Guide to Video Marketing on YouTube
Youtube is the largest video sharing site to date, with the most traffic and the highest amount of users on it making Youtube the definitive...
Google Search Results Page Will Display Video Ads Soon
Google introduced video ads in YouTube a couple of months ago. Its implementation in the YouTube community has been pretty quite since it was launched....
Death of SEO Transparency
Scratching deeper into my little foxhole of the search engine marketing pie, I’ve noticed a trend among true experts – if you want to be...
Public Library of Law Search Engine Launches
On Wednesday, the world’s largest legal vertical search engine – Public Library of Law – launched in partnership with legal research provider Fastcase Inc. According...
Yahoo Letter Explains Why They Told Microsoft “No No No”
Last night Yahoo published the contents of a letter penned by CEO Jerry Yang to stockholders explaining Yahoo’s reasons for denying Microsoft of its $45...
Newscorp Joins the Yahoo-Microsoft Takeover Drama
As the Yahoo-Microsoft-AOL-Google-who-gets-who corporate drama continues, we see yet again another company joining the cast. This time, it’s media conglomerate Newscorp which is being tapped...
Get Your Doodle on Google for a Day
You know how Google puts up a special, stylized logo on their homepage for various holidays and occasions? Well today Google announced a new competition,...
Microsoft Live Search Announces Improvements to Crawling
This week, Microsoft announced updates and improvements to the Live Search crawler, which they say will “improve the efficiency” with which they crawl and index...
Bradley Horowitz Leaves Yahoo for Google
On the verge of a takeover and after laying off 1,000 employees yesterday, Yahoo does not seem to be a stable place to work anymore...
SEO Red Flags & SEO Misinformation : Let’s Put An End to It
A couple of days ago Eric brought up his views that overuse of the NoFollow attribute (or even use of it) may set off red...
Yahoo Wants to Expand Video Advertising Program, Buys Maven Networks
Aside from strengthening its mobile services, Yahoo wants to beef up its video advertising platform as well. Yahoo has just acquired leading online video platform...