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Superpages.com Offers Local Video Advertising
Superpages.com has launched a beta trial of local video advertising which allows local small to medium-sized businesses to showcase their products and services via 30...
Microsoft’s Answer to Google Analytics, Codename – Gatineau
A Computer World article reports that Microsoft is building its own web metrics tool that will compete against the highly successful Google Analytics. The Microsoft...
Google Discontinues Google Maps Click to Call
Google has discontinued its Click-to-Call feature for Google Maps which the company says was a long running experiment. This feature was a long-running experiment, and...
Search Engines Take Privacy Issue Seriously
After Google’s announcement that it will anonymize search data logs on its servers after 18 months of inactivity and Ask.com will allow users to scrub...
Social Search Engine iRazoo Launches
It’s good to know that there are still some entrepreneurs who are trying out their luck on the monopolized search engine industry. Take the case...
Old Scams Come In New Disguises. Link-Ponzi Web 2.0
A fellow affiliate marketer and blogger with the name Andrew Wee from WhoIsAndrewWee.com was writing an interesting post while I was heading to Affiliate Summit...
Lexxe : Search Engine that Answers Exact Queries
Lexxe, the natural language processing search engine also adds the power of clustering to provide results with subset cluster. Drill down into clusters lets the...
Facebook Buys Parakey, Brings on Firefox Developers
Under the spotlight of acquisition rumor talks, Facebook has started its own agenda of purchasing Internet start-ups with the buying of Parakey, a web to...
Search Marketing In-house Spotlight: Shane Vaughan with Balihoo
Today’s in-house spotlight is on Shane Vaughan with Balihoo, a startup search engine for the media planning and buying industry. Shane began his search marketing...
SEO Question : Using Articles for Link Building?
This Friday’s SEO Q&A question comes from a website owner who is looking to build backlinks to his site via article distribution. SEO Q&A is...
Yahoo Search Updating Algorithm & Rankings
Yahoo Search is performing another update which will freshen up the result data and has resulted in extra crawling by Yahoo Slurp. The update will...
Ask.com Will Give Users Control of Privacy Information
So while Google is reducing the retention of cookie information it gets from users who use its search engine, Ask.com is giving their users more...
Users Don’t Want Search Engine to Keep Their Information
A survey of 295 readers of technology related blogs by Hakia.com, a new meaning-based search engine, shows that 62% (166 votes) percent of those surveyed...
Understanding Google from Spidering to Results
When it comes to search engine marketing and optimization, let’s face it — it’s all about Google. That’s great though, especially providing the number of...
China Has 162 Million Internet Users
There were about 162 million internet users at the end of June 2007 according to the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) Yesterday the CNNIC...
Google & Yahoo : The Saviors of Newspapers
Google has officially expanded its newspaper print advertising program to 225 newspapers, offering advertisers a potential $1,000 financial incentive to try the newspaper program (click...
View Geotargeted Google Ads in Different Countries & Regions with Google Ad Preview Tool
Google’s Inside AdWords blog announced today that AdWords has improved their location targeting on the Ad Preview Tool which now lets users view ads as...
Why Small Businesses Need SEO to be Successful
More than 70% of online consumers start their quest for a product, service or support call using a search engine. If you’re a small business,...
Microsoft adManager Selling Ask.com Sponsored Listings
Microsoft is now selling Ask.com Sponsored Listings via its Microsoft adManager search marketing service. In addition to the MSN adCenter sponsored search ads sold via...
SEO Impact of Google’s unavailable_after META Tag
One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available,...
Facebook Growing Faster Than MySpace in the UK?
According to Heather Hopkins at Hitwise, more people in the UK are interested in Facebook than MySpace which may lead to the toppling of MySpace...
Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition
Google launches a new feature of its custom search engine which is geared for corporate clients which has the need to have a search engine...
Google Leads the Search Engine Pack Again
comScore just released its search engine analysis results for June and data shows that Google once again is ahead of the pack with 49.5% of...
Answers.com Buys Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com for $100 Million
Answers.com has agreed to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for $100 million in cash. The transaction is subject to...
Cognition Search: Formula for “Meaning” in Search
Backed by the experience of leading linguistic experts and technology that takes into consideration, ontology, morphology and synonymy, CognitionSearch, the semantic engine from Cognition technologies...
Myspace China and MSN China Become Partners
Yesterday I mentioned in the my post that there was a rumor that MSN Live Pages and Myspace.cn would merge. The rumor was denied but...
5 Quick Ways To Optimize For Local Search
So you recently went to search for your local small business site and wondered why three other similar businesses came up before yours? The answer...
MSN adCenter Upgrades with Negative Keyword on Campaign Level
MSN adCenter made some upgrades on Saturday which include the ability to add negative keywords on the campaign level, which apply to all of the...
Top 5 Pay-Per-Click Engines To Try
If you’re a small company trying to compete against the big dogs in the PPC space in a competitive market, you’re probably either spending a...
Glimpse into Google Copy & A/B Testing
Search Marketing has redefined the art of copywriting with the limited and precious space allowed by Yahoo Search Marketing & Google. Now, with the Google...