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What Will Google Do With Performics?
Now that Google has acquired the Internet advertising giant DoubleClick, what are they planning to do with its search marketing company Performics? You mean, Google...
Microsoft Not Happy Over Google-DoubleClick Deal
The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft is pressuring Federal regulators to review the Google acquisition of DoubleClick. According to Steve Lohr of the...
Yahoo & Newspapers Extend Relationship : Google DoubleClick Reaction?
On a day of news, news from newspapers. The newspaper industry Yahoo!-”Amigos” consortium is now formalizing and expanding its relationship in logical ways, using Yahoo!...
Quality Link Building : Editorial Links vs. Acquired Links
Link building was a major discussion which encompassed the majority of the panels at Search Engine Strategies New York last week, whether on the agenda...
Google & Clear Channel Do Radio Advertising
Google and Clear Channel Communications, a radio channel with almost 675 radio stations, have entered into a deal which will allow the internet search giant...
Google To Go After Paid Links?
[editorial] Google appears to be going after paid links, and they want you to do the work for them by reporting such links, regardless of...
Link Building: Hyperlink Cliques and Clusters
Cliqueishness is part of normal human behavior – an extension of clannishness. Though when it comes to websites, you don’t expect that sort of thing,...
Why Search Sucks/ Why Search Rocks
My introduction to search engines came about in 1994. I’d been using the “world wide web” in email, ftp, and newsgroup form for several years...
MySpace Blocks Photobucket Videos
In a bold and questionable move, Fox Interactive has banned the use of Photobucket videos within MySpace profiles. Photobucket images and slideshows are still available,...
Yahoo! Maps Adds New Print Formatting
From the Yahoo! Maps and Local Blog: Based on a lot of user input, the latest update we’ve made to the Broadband version of Yahoo!...
AOL Search Marketplace : AOL-Only Google AdWords
Today AOL Search is beginning to sell their ‘AOL only’ Google AdWords via their white labled AOL Search Marketplace. These ad buys will be targeted...
Google OneBox Real Estate Search
Here’s an interesting post on searching for properties on Google from the Google Blog. Here’s their “OneBox” real estate search for Seattle Real Estate: Here’s...
GOOG-411 : Google Voice Search Local
Last week Google Labs launched which may become their most relevant and usable product launch in some time, Google Voice Local Search. The goal of...
Embarrassing Yahoo! Search Marketing Flaw
Yahoo! recently finalized their consolidation of all their individual affiliate programs at Commission Junction to a single one. The Yahoo! Search Marketing affiliate program was...
YouTube Launches Political Vlog
There’s no doubt that political videos have become a popular campaign media for political figures. MySpace has its own MySpace Impact which has become an...
Yahoo Publisher Network Not Going Global Anytime Soon
For those of you who have heard the false news that Yahoo Publisher Network will be spreading Internationally, be warned, they have no intention of...
Del.icio.us Bookmarks Firefox Add-on Updated
Del.icio.us yesterday launched an updated version of their Mozilla Firefox extension, Del.icio.us Bookmarks Firefox Add-on. Del.icio.us users have skyrocketed over the past 6 months, jumping...
Is Google Too Powerful?
Business Week Online has a fascinating cover story which examines the growing dominance of Google on both the information economy and the business world. The...
5 Major Google Gadgets Usability Flaws
The new Google Gadgets for the Google personalized homepage have gotten a lot of attention in recent months. True, they’re a factor in Google’s personalized...
Win a Free Pass to FOOA Conference in New York
The Future of Online Advertising conference is scheduled for June 7th and 8th in New York and is going to feature the biggest names in...
LookSmart & blinkx.com Partner for Video Distribution
LookSmart has signed a strategic agreement with blinkx.com to power video search results on LookSmart’s FindArticles.com (which averages roughly 17 million unique visitors a month...
All about Search in China: A Current Market Analysis
Read/Write Web has a fascinating article on the outlook of Search in China. There is an intense competition for internet users among search engines, particularly...
DoubleClick Exchange Plan to Boost Value for Google, MSN, AOL or Yahoo Buyout
I’ve written about online ad “exchanges” in the past, which is one of the more interesting developments in online advertising in my opinion. There’s RightMedia,...
Google Inks Advertising Deal with DISH Network
Google announced that it will be selling commercials to the 125 national programming networks of Echostar DISH Network, U.S. second largest satellite service. Under the...
ZoomInfo Relaunched : Semantic Business Information Search Engine
Claiming to have created the first market-ready semantic search engine, ZoomInfo has announced a new version of ZoomInfo.com, a search engine that’s designed for business...
Last weeks in China – Chinese SEO, Baidu in Japan, Yahoo Search and Blocked Blogs
This week an intro to optimization for Baidu, the difference between Baidu Japan and the Chinese version as well as the latest on Yahoo search....
Nokia Developing Semantic Visual Search Engine for Mobile Devices
According to a patent filing, Nokia is working to develop a Semantic Visual Search Engine to organize the multimedia content on mobile phones. The technology...
Google & Yahoo Ranking Look at Domains Rather Than Individual Pages
Google AdWords Quality Score may be giving more critical evaluation to campaigns which are consolidated to one domain. If that domain has had issues in...
In-house Spotlight: Yahoo’s Director of Search Engine Marketing
Welcome to Search Engine Journal’s new column, In-house SEM, which features an in-house search marketer each week. For the kickoff, I spoke with Yahoo!’s Director...
Microsoft Live Search Working on Fixing Advanced Queries : link:, linkdomain: and inurl:
On the Live Search Weblog, Eytan Seidman addresed the problems Live Search is facing with advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:,...