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The New Yahoo : Smartly Optimized for a Microsoft Takeover
Microsoft plans to buy Yahoo for $45 Billion, but not the old unfocused Semel version of Yahoo. Nope, Microsoft is buying the Yang version of...
Auction Bids Reach Google’s “Open Access” Threshold
It’s good news for Google and others who backed open access policies for the winner of the largest block of wireless spectrum in the Federal...
Microsoft Proposes to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion, Should Google Be Afraid?
So finally, the long standing rumor becomes a reality. And although this has been a long-awaited proposal, no one seemed to have predicted it to...
SEO Industry Survey Conducted by SEOMoz.org
In case that you are not a frequent SEOMoz.org Blog reader (something I suggest to remedy :)); they are currently conducting a very detailed SEO...
Megavideo : The YouTube Killer?
Megavideo is the self proclaimed Youtube Killer. They want you to stop using Youtube and to ONLY use Megavideo because they claim they love you...
Google’s Final Score not Impressive Enough?
Google’s much awaited fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 financial results are finally out. And to quote Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “We are pleased with...
Yahoo Opens to OpenID Beta Testing
Yahoo announced earlier in the month that they were joining the OpenID movement, where users can log into various membership driven Internet properties using one...
Click Fraud Up 15% in 2007 Says Click Forensics
Click fraud is substantially increasing along with search marketing spends according to a study released by Click Forensics today which looks at paid search click...
Which Engine Is Giving You The Best ROI for Your Search Marketing?
EfficientFrontier, a search marketing company, has released a very interesting report on search advertisers and their ROI in paid search. “Search advertisers spent 29% more...
Google Intensifies Presence in the UK
The past couple of days have been pretty busy in Google’s UK front. First, Google’s mobile search gets a much needed boost followed by the...
Google Overhauls Korean Search Engine, Adopting Universal Search
Wednesday morning, Google announced that they had done an overhaul on their Korean-language search engine, adopting universal search for the Korean site. Google is attempting...
Report: Google Surges on in Q4 2007 Search Performance But ROI Didn’t Quite Improved
We have seen various search engine performance statistics of the three major search engines for the last quarter of 2007 and Google topped these reports...
Yahoo 4th Quarter Revenues Went Up in 2007, But Overall Net Income Suffered
The reports and statistics are out, and as I was looking over Yahoo’s financial report for 2007, all I saw was increase in this, and...
Reversing Google’s Position Six Penalty
When Search Engine Land reported last week that some sites were being hit by a mysterious plague called position six penalty, it created a stir...
Google Experiments on New Search Views
Finally Google maybe realizing that there’s more to being a search engine than giving relevant search results. Over at Google’s experimental lab, several new views...
Google Entering Paid Reviews Business? Via AdSense?!?
Shoemoney has published a tip coming from a secret source that Google is going to be offering paid reviews via their Google AdSense system and...
Yahoo to Proceed with Mass Layoffs
According to Silicon Alley Insider, a source close to Yahoo is confirming that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang will indeed press on with plans for an...
DotHomes.com : UK Property Search Engine Invades US Market
UK property search engine Dothomes is expanding its range of coverage to now include the lucrative U.S. market. Slightly less than two years after the...
SearchGuild.com Sells for only $8,655 at SEDO : 30 Cents per Link!
Aaron Wall noticed that SearchGuild.com, which was one of the first major search marketing portals, news sites and forums which just kind of died off...
Worst Link Building Email I’ve Ever Received
Today I opened my email inbox to a subject line so bad, it added a nice slice of humor into my daily morning routine. I...
Gameseekr : Online Gaming Search Engine
Gameseekr is a search engine tailored for games which are accessible and playable on the internet. It also supports a social model that enables users...
Amazon to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Digital Store
Things are about to heat up (and get dirty) between Amazon and Apple’s digital music venture as Amazon announces that it will soon be launching...
Google Won’t Help Monetize Sites Less Than 5 Days Old
According to DomainTools, Google is about to stop monetizing domains that are less than five days old, effectively killing the practice of “Domain Tasting“. There...
Link Building For Search When Google Does Not Exist
Let’s all take the time to stop checking our rankings, searching for new blogs in TLA and sending link request emails to envision an alternate...
Microsoft Patent Filing Reveals Ideas to Monitor Offline Behavior for Advertising Purposes
Earlier this month, Microsoft filed a patent application that presents a method of collecting information about users’ “cellphones, geolocation systems, credit card information” and other...
Search Ranking for Tech Support & Error Message Search Queries
Search queries on Google and other search engines for informational terms dealing with “tech support”, “how to…” and “trouble shooting” have been constant and traffic...
Google May Let AT&T or Verizon Win in Wireless Spectrum Auction Today
The hotly anticipated U.S. federal auction of mobile phone airwaves begins today, and some are speculating that Google – who famously announced their intentions to...
eMail Beats Search & Display Marketing : Best Performing Online Marketing Medium?
Datran Media (an online marketing firm specializing in email marketing) recently published the results of a survey which consists of 2,000 online marketers in December...
Roost Launches Real Estate Search Engine
General search engines like Google are great, but sometimes a more specialized search engine will get the job done much better. That’s the idea behind...
Introducing Google Adwords’ Demographic Bidding
Google Adwords introduces demographic bidding, a new Adwords feature which will help advertisers in displaying their ads to specific gender and age group within the...