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SES San Jose Womens Luncheon
For those members of the search marketing community who happen to be of the female variety (and you know who you are!), Liana Evans is...
Social People-Search Site PeekYou Gets a Boost
Social peeking site PeekYou gets even better with the release of its beta 2.0 version. The newly refurbished people-search engine introduces new features such as...
Google to Offer Embedded Maps for Webmasters
A simplified way to “embed” Google Maps is apparently coming from Google next week, according to this story, in the Sydney Morning Herald: Google will...
Ask.com Adds Health Smart Answers
Ask.com has introduced new Health Smart Answers which help searchers find trusted health and medical information faster. Smart Answers are special search results placed at...
AOL Launches AOL Mobile Search with MovieFone, CityGuide & Mapquest Content
AOL has launched a beta version of their new AOL Mobile Search product which takes advantage of AOL properties such as Moviefone, MapQuest and AOL...
Yahoo Tops Google in Customer Satisfaction Ranking
The University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index has rated Yahoo! as the top search engine based upon customer satisfaction. This is the first time...
Microsoft Closes aQuantive Acquisition, Forms Ad Group
Microsoft’s largest acquisition deal so far is finally sealed. The acquisition deal which started as early as May of this year was put into a...
Search Engines Rate Themselves on Privacy Issues
Based on the survey of five leading search engines conducted by CNet News, Ask.com turns out to be the most protective of the privacy of...
Swoogle : An Engine for the Semantic Web
Swoogle, the Semantic web search engine, is a research project carried out by the ebiquity research group in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department...
Google Video to Halt Sales on Wednesday
The New York Times is reporting that Google is no longer interested in selling video content to users through the Google Video Service. From the...
AOL Trashing Netscape?
AOL’s Netscape is a great adaptation of the Digg model which uses paid editorial staff to submit & filter news items and influence what is...
Goodbye Google PageRank?
There is currently a debate going on right now about Google removing the PageRank score from the Google Toolbar. Why? Toolbar PageRank numbers can be...
10 SEO Tips to Remember While Launching a Site
It takes months to properly plan a new site launch or even a redesign. With months of time invested, and hundreds (or thousands) of man...
Yahoo’s Traffic Quality Center to Help Battle Click Fraud
When Yahoo Search Marketing announced the appointment of Reggie Davis as its VP of Marketplace Quality, the company said Davis will serve as the company’s...
Yahoo Search Adds Yahoo Sports Baseball Shortcuts
Yahoo Search and Yahoo Sports are working together to bring Yahoo Sports Shortcuts to the searching experience. The first batch of shortcuts is for current...
Google Expanded Match: Background and Pointers
Many Google AdWords advertisers use broad match for their keywords, but few realize that using broad match also automatically activates expanded match. Expanded match, according...
FCC Slams White Space Coalition’s Internet Service Device
The FCC has criticized a White Space Coalition prototype device which is supported by Google, Microsoft, HP & Intel which would take advantage of the...
Google Adwords to Give Advertisers Better Top Ad Placement Chances
Inside Adwords announces that it will be introducing a new way for advertisers to control top placement for their ad soon. Currently, top ad placement...
Google Partners with OIN for Growth of Linux
Open Invention Network (OIN), a company with the mission to spur innovation and protect the Linux System, has signed Google as its first end-user licensee....
Kaboodle Social Shopping Bought by Hearst
Hearst Media has purchased Kaboodle, the social shopping & recommendation engine, for somewhere around $40 million (according to Om). Following in the footsteps of Fox,...
Exploring the Potential of the Google Maps API
For all the criticizing I do of Google, they’ve really hit upon a gold mine with Google Maps and in particular, their development of the...
Google News to Add Reader Comments
Hoping to revitalize its news portal, Google News will, starting this week, include reader comments on news stories featured in the portal. But these reader...
Build Keyword Relevancy Through Off Page Optimization
As the search industry grows, off site optimization has begun to rely on more than simple backlinks. If you want to increase keyword relevancy for...
Garage Sale Gets Inside Facebook
Buy.com is hoping to get a share of Ebay’s customer base by launching Garage Sale inside the Facebook network. Unlike Ebay and other auction sites,...
Google Pay-Per-Action Beta a Success for Marketer
Dan London of Vibrant Orange SEM and the AdWords Editor Blog has posted a recap of his experience with the AdWords Pay-Per-Action, where advertisers only...
Review: LinksManager Links Exchange Toolbar
No doubt regular readers of this site understand the high-value of link building. There are of course many ways to build links. Here are just...
Link Building Services
Loren Baker and the Search Engine Journal staff have spent the last 5 years building relationships with site owners, bloggers and search companies from around...
Search Wikia Materializing with Open Sourcing of Intellisophic & Grub
Wikia, Inc. and Intellisophic, Inc. announced this week that Intellisophic, which publishes subject-specific taxonomy, thesaurus and vocabulary products for the search, categorization and text-mining industry,...
Yahoo Toolbar for IE Adds Search Suggestions
Yahoo Search has added Search Suggestions to the Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer in an effort to improve the quality of the user search experience....
Yahoo Adding Video to Flickr
Yahoo is taking a bold step in its battle against YouTube & Google with the addition of video content to Flickr, Yahoo’s popular photo sharing...