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Yahoo Acquires Actionality : Mobile Advertising Company
Yahoo has taken another step in adding to the strength of its OneSearch & mobile advertising offerings in the acquisition of Actionality. Barry at Search...
AdGooroo Expands to European & Latin Markets
Search engine marketing intelligence company AdGooroo has started monitoring sites in five western European and two Latin American countries for clients of its SEM Insight...
Rank Better on Yahoo with Dynamic URL Rewriting
Big news from the Yahoo Site Explorer team as they have announced a new dynamic URL rewriting service for sites which use multiple variables in...
comScore Enhances Search Measurement with qSearch 2.0
comScore launches its second generation search measurement tool, qSearch 2.0. Whereas in previous measurement tool, web metrics company includes only searches occurring in the major...
Microsoft Content Ads Beta Expands to All US Advertisers
Microsoft adCenter has expanded the Content Ads Beta contextual advertising program to all US based advertisers who wish to place contextually targeted text ads throughout...
Google Universal Search : Invasion of News, Video & Blogs
Universal Search is the biggest thing to happen to search since the Florida update and when Google rolled out Universal Search is rewrote the rules...
SurfWax : The Customizable Meta Search Engine
Meta search engines do the one logical thing that relates well to the “not-reinventing-the-wheel” concept, i.e. presenting results culled from the best repositories in the...
Post Search Advertising : Search Meets Behavioral Targeting
Post Search Ads session at Search Engine Strategy San Jose. Post Search Advertising ads are designed to tap the intent of the searcher and take...
Search Engine Marketing Firm’s Study Says Offline Channels Drive More Searches
The recent study on offline channel influence on online behavior study by search engine marketing firm iProspect yields some interesting findings about how offline channels...
5 Must Attend Sessions at SES San Jose 2007
SES San Jose is next week and we’re all looking forward to it. It is a good chance to network, learn some new tips and...
SEO In-house Spotlight: Tim Dineen with Indeed.com
This week’s in-house spotlight is on Tim Dineen, Online Marketing Manager for Indeed.com. Tim started in SEO owning a web development agency that he sold...
Dave Sifry Leaves Technorati
Dave Sifry made the announcement on the Technorati blog yesterday that he is leaving his post of CEO at the blog search & trends tracking...
Google Rolls Out Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center
Following Yahoo’s launch of its Traffic Quality Center, Google Adwords launches its own click fraud protection system, the Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center. Inside Adwords...
3 Reasons Yahoo! Local Search Can Dominate Google
This week has been filled with news and commentary regarding Yahoo’s release of the new Yahoo! Local. The enhanced system integrates a number of new...
Never Underestimate Netscape : Traffic, Activity & Rankings
Ever since the rumor TechCrunch spread about AOL dumping Netscape’s social news service last week I’ve grown more and more intrigued about the portal, its...
AnswerBus, the Q&A engine & the Search 2.0 Paradigm
While it is obvious that Search 1.0 was about the user mining into results returned by search engines, the need for moving to a higher...
Export Google AdWords Reports to Google Spreadsheets
Another reason for Google users to hardly ever open Microsoft Office again has sprung up as Google AdWords is now offering advertisers the option of...
Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2007 – Parties Update
There are only a few days left until the SES Conference and Expo will be held again at the San Jose Convention Center in San...
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...