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After Adsense for Mobile, Here Comes Google Gadget Ads
After bringing Adsense units into the mobile web, Google Adwords is now launching a new interactive ad format for its Adwords advertisers, this time via...
Google Reminds Advertisers of Landing Page Quality
Google Adwords is reminding its advertisers about the landing page quality guidelines. The guidelines stressed the importance of directing users to good quality landing pages...
Jessica Bowman Joins Yahoo! as In-House SEO Evangelist
Jessica Bowman, a contributing columnist at Search Engine Journal and long time advocate for In-House SEO, just emailed to let me know that she has...
Google Adsense Goes to the Mobile Web
Google announces the availability of Adsense to mobile website content. Adsense for mobile will give advertisers more read for their ad campaigns and for publishers...
Powerset Natural Language Search Gears up for the Mainstream
Powerset is gearing for major launch sooner than Google, Yahoo and MSN live search can think of. Backing on a natural search language technology and...
Yahoo Acquires Zimbra Open Source Email & Collaborative Software for $350 Million
Yahoo has announced the acquisition of Zimbra, which is an open source Ajax based email, calendar and contact management software which can be used both...
Google AdWords & Analytics : Reporting Different Click and Traffic Numbers
Dan London from the AdWords Editor Explained blog has a rundown of some alarming stats he saw in his Google Adwords and Google Analytics accounts,...
Idearc Acquires Switchboard.com from Infospace for $225 Million
The local search land grab continues as today Idearc, the parent company of Verizon and Superpages.com, has announced the purchase of Switchboard.com and other local...
Should You Rush into BlogRush?
The buzz about BlogRush has rushed into the blogging world. Some bloggers joined the craze, immediately signed up and installed the Blogrush widget into their...
Bidding on the Term ‘Keyword’ : Common Search Marketing Mistake
This is one costly mistake in Pay Per Click Search Marketing which is costing businesses loads of money while raking it in for the search...
Yahoo Acquiring BuzzTracker News Aggregator for $5 Million
Michael Arrington is reporting that Yahoo has acquired BuzzTracker, a small news aggregation site which I have always considered more of a news scraping site,...
Yahoo Files for New Social Networking & Telecommunications Trademarks
Patent filings are a surefire way to predict and monitor the technology that search engine companies will be implementing into their offerings, but the trademarks...
Digg, Facebook and YouTube: Show Us the Money
I’ve been having fun lately punching holes in Henry Blodget’s absurd rants about the imaginary “online advertising crash.” But, there is one online sector that...
Wordze Keyword Research Tool
Wordze, dubbed the King of Keywords, is a keyword research and search volume tool suite which allows its users to dig deep into identifying keywords...
Yahoo to Launch HackDays’ MapMixer
Yahoo is launching a new feature of its Local Maps which lets users interpolate a non-Yahoo maps into an existing Yahoo Maps to come out...
Idearc Buys LocalSearch.com for $3.3 Million
Is it my imagination or is there a massive local search land grab in action between companies like Idearch, Marchex, Dex and Local.com? Idearc Media...
Google Mobile AdWords Goes Widespread : Free Clicks for One Month
Google AdWords has been testing sponsored search ads on mobile for a good while now, but the company is starting to make a major push...
Searchbots, Personalized Search Engine Trawls the Web
Continuous search is an area that is about automating search into particular areas to receive continuously updated information as and when content gets added to...
Netscape Social News Rebranding to Propeller.com
Last week Netscape & AOL announced that they would be reverting the Netscape.com site to its old news portal self and away from the Calacanis...
Omgili : Search Engine for Forums & Discussion Boards
Omgili stands for “Oh My God I Love It”. Its a search engine exclusively for discussion boards, opinions, forums and conversations and returns results on...
Superpages.com Adds Merchant Comparison Feature
Superpages.com today launched a compare merchant feature which allows users to compare up to eight business listings through a dynamic, customizable drag-and-drop tool. The new...
Microsoft Dominates Domain Ratings, Google Tops Brand Ratings
Nielsen/Netratings released its Topline U.S. Data for August 2007 covering Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. Before going into the findings of the...
Google Loves Transparent Links & Hit Counter Spam
Searching Google for to monitor the top ranked sites for high dollar key terms is a long time habit of mine, and a useful way...
Future of SEOmoz & Lunch with Rand’s Parents, Gillian Muessig and Scott Fishkin
The weather in downtown Victoria sometimes baffles the brain. It is a cool, overcast Pacific NW morning with a warm fog that makes it feel...
MyFloridaTeacher.com : Search Teacher Backgrounds
The State of Florida has launched a controversial new site which lets school students and parents check on the disciplinary histories of public school teachers....
Ixquick : Rating Based Meta Search Engine
Ixquick.com meta search engine submits your search query to 14 search engines and the results are ranked according to a “star” ranking system. While the...
Delicious Redesigns, Drops the Dots & Adds New Features : Screenshots
Delicious is currently testing a new redesign and Yahoo has invited Search Engine Journal to test and cover the new features at Delicious (available via...
EarthLink TrafficBuilder : Monthly PPC Management
EarthLink, which laid off 50% of its workforce and backed out of the Google partnered San Francisco wireless program, is now refocusing its business structure,...
Facebook Opening Profiles to Search Engine Indexing
Facebook, the super popular social network which has enjoyed somewhat walled garden status by not letting search engines index the bulk of its user profiles,...
Yahoo Acquires BlueLithium Ad Network
Yahoo acquires BlueLithium, U.S. fifth and U.K.’s second largest advertising network with 145 million unique visitors every month. The acquisition deal was closed with an...