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Best 2007 Search Conference Coverage in Photos : Close, Very Close
Not only do the bloggers who cover the search sessions keep us in tap on the happenings at SES, SMX and Pubcon, but so do...
Search Engine Roundtable : Best Search Conference Coverage of 2007
We see them at every search marketing conference, those busy bee bloggers, taking up the whole front row and fighting over power outlets, typing away...
Dosh Dosh : Breakout Blog of 2007
2007 brought some interesting new blogs into the searchosphere, some hitting the bigtime after being around for a while and others launched by some well...
Wikia Search : The Testbed for a Google Mock-up
The blogs are abuzz on the release of the new search project, Wikia. It has been a disappointing note everywhere (from what I have read...
There is No G.com, Y.com, M.com, Why Not?
Google’s acquisition of the one character g.cn domain for China, reminded me of the old question about one and also two character domain names in...
ShoeMoney : Best Contextual Advertising Blog of 2007
Our next category in the 2007 Search Blogs Awards is that of Contextual Advertising. When Google released AdSense years ago, on top of the blogging...
Google Webmaster Central Blog : Best Search Engine Corporate Blog of 2007
Not only do search marketers and SEO’s blog about the actions of the search engines, but the search engine companies themselves have been using blogs...
Yahoo Expands Deal with NAVTEQ to Include More Country Data
At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show on Monday in Las Vegas, NAVTEQ announced that they had expanded their relationship with Yahoo to include access to...
Wikia Search Launches: Does it Live Up to the Hype?
Monday, January 7, 2008 marked the launch of Wikia Search, the long-awaited, much-hyped search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wikia Search takes many of...
Facebook Whores for SEO, SMO and SEM Awareness : Best Search Marketing Facebook Group of 2007
If you use Facebook and join Search Marketing Groups, several Facebook Search Marketing Groups were nominated for this award : Facebook Whores for SEO, SMO...
Dosh Dosh : Best Social Media Optimization Blog of 2007
Taking the reign of Best Social Media Optimization Blog of 2007, this year’s winner is a relatively new blog (well, isn’t SMO, SMM kinda new?)...
Best Link Building Blogs of 2007 : Jim Boykin’s Blog & The Link Spiel
Wow, the Best Link Building Blog of 2007 category was almost an all out tie, with last year’s winner, Jim Boykin, bringing in the bulk...
Search Engine Roundtable : Best SEO Blog of 2007
Another year, another blog voted Best SEO Blog by Search Engine Journal’s readers. In 2005, Matt Cutts took away the award. In 2006, SEOmoz. Search...
Spam for the Search Engines and a Smile for Matt Cutts
I wanted to call the post “Website Scraper, Trackback Spammer and Cloaking Bundle” at first, but then thought that the current one is a bit...
Search Blogs Award Voting : Quality vs. Quantity
In this year’s Search Engine Journal Search Blogs Awards, I took a different approach at the blog rating system, giving voters the option to rate...
Google Ron Paul : Connecting with Searchers
I admit, I have not been following the Ron Paul campaign much besides the mobilization of Digg users and some of the ads I’ve seen...
Hardcore SEO Fundamentals: Markov Chaining Points and Term Vector Modeling
Heather Paulson from Paulson Management Group wrote a post for ReveNews.com titled “SEO Matrix’s- Markov Chaining and Term Vector Models“. It is basically a rundown of the...
Yahoo To Dominate Growing Graphic Ad Market in 2008
Analysts are predicting large growth in 2008 in the U.S. graphical ad market, and expect the biggest winner of the bunch to be Yahoo. JP...
Revamped Google-Linux gOS 2.0 Launching Soon
Just about two months ago, a start-up Linux distributor by the name of Good OS jumped onto the scene with gOS 1.0, an Ubuntu based...
Google Jet Hosts NASA Quadrantid Meteor Shower Research Over Arctic
Google’s relationship with NASA got even more intimate as the search & technology company hosted NASA scientists yesterday on the Google Jet to witness and...
China To Implement (New) Online Video Regulations
According to AP China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run...
ChaCha’s Human Powered Search Goes Mobile with TextChaCha
You got to give credit to ChaCha search for trying to compete with the major search engines through its own little ways. Although its human-powered...
Google Tells Us How They Can be Gamed: They Artificially Inflate Recent Web Pages
To kick off the new year, the Google Operating System blog spoke about the downside of their ability to index pages faster: artifically boosting the...
Yahoo Says Goodbye to “Yahoo Picks”
After twelve years of existence, Yahoo finally shut down Yahoo Picks, a service which highlighted new and interesting sites on the web. Yahoo bid the...
Ask.com Offers Voice Activated Mobile Directions
Ask.com today introduced new voice-activated capabilities to its Ask.com Mobile Directions service, dubbed “Click to Speak.” Click to Speak lets Ask.com Mobile users speak their...
Netscape : Strong Brand with No Identity
AOL has done everything it can to mangle the Netscape brand, which it purchased 10 years ago for $4.2 billion, into a disoriented web zombie,...
Paid Link Spending Per Industry by Nielsen
Yesterday Search Engine Watch covered the Nielsen break down of the amount of spending by industry for ‘sponsored links’ and ‘text links’ in online advertising....
The Importance of Research: A 2008 Resolution
Research, Research, Research! Personally, 2007 was the year I spent a few hours a day doing research on branding strategies, traffic strategies, news, etc. A...
EarthFrisk: Another Meta-HyBrid Search Engine Rises
While we all await the opening of Wikia, join me in taking a closer look at another one of ’em “meta-hybrid-social search engine” which just...
New Year’s Resolutions from Search Engine Journal
As I woke up this morning to greet the last day of 2007, I started thinking to myself the things I want to change for...