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Ask.com Names New CEO Jim Safka, Replacing Jim Lanzone
IAC made an interesting move today, replacing one of the head figures responsible for taking Ask.com out of the search spammy shadow of Jeeves, and...
Do Not Hire an SEO Company!
As the owner of an SEO company it is somewhat contradicting to write such an article. However, there are many times when a company or...
FuzzFind : Calibrating Social and Algorithmic Search
If the title of the post appeared too technical, then my apologies. I wanted to convey in a nutshell that FuzzFind, the meta-social-search mashup combines...
Yahoo Poised to Begin Implementation of OpenID
Although no official announcements have yet been made, it appears as though Yahoo is gearing up to implement OpenID, a web authentication standard that eliminates...
Belo Corp. to Provide Local News Video to Yahoo News
Yahoo! Inc. and Belo Corp. announced today a new agreement that will make 13 of Belo’s television stations exclusive providers of local news video in...
New Downloadable Book Tests Yahoo-Adobe Ad System
Back in November, it was announced that Yahoo and Adobe would be testing out some new technology that lets publishers place advertising in PDF documents....
Google & Facebook Join Support For Social Content: DataPortability
Google and Facebook, two of the sites that contain the most social content on the web announce they have joined the DataPortability Workgroup. DataPortability is...
Google To Phase Out Adsense Referral Program
If you are still implementing Adsense referral units on your blogs/sites and you’re outside of North America, Latin America and Japan and still manage to...
Dailymotion : Video Marketing on this Global Version of YouTube
I am happy to announce my first in a series of posts on video marketing on video sharing sites. I will be going off of...
Truveo Forecasts 1 Billion Searchable Online Videos by 2009
Video search engine Truveo announced today that their index has exceeded an astonishing 100 million videos, and predicts that based on current growth rates, the...
Rand Fishkin : Most Giving Search Blogger
This year, instead of giving out the award for ‘Best Search Blogger’ I thought it may be more appropriate to define part of what being...
Microsoft to Purchase FAST Search Software Firm for $1.2B
Microsoft has revealed a deal today in which they will buy Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), an 11-year-old Norwegian data classification and search engine provider....
Yahoo Announces Mobile Software for Third Party Developers
One of my predictions for 2008 was the continuation and increase in mobile web marketing. A lot of talk went on last year in the...
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...