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Google Maps Adds Click-to-Call Ads
Google Maps has added Click-to-Call (my apologies for the short post, today will not be a heavy blogging day for me). From the Google Blog:...
Microsoft Live Search & Firefox Snooping on Search Queries
Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA looks at Microsoft Live Search and the Firefox Browser and how these companies are harnessing their web browsing...
Yahoo Maps Adds New Features
Deciding to avoid the arms race that Google and MSFT are engaged in around dynamic and 3-D mapping, Yahoo! has taken a more pragmatic approach:...
Expedited Upgrade For Yahoo!’s Panama Available Per Request
I blogged about a month ago about the long awaited launch of Yahoo!’s Panama Update of their Pay-Per-Click System. Yahoo! announced that accounts will be...
Snap Preview Everywhere: Distributing Search Boxes by Enabling Site Previews
WOW! I love creative ideas for distributing search! We have Eurekster (and now Google) that provide customizable search experiences for website owners. We have search...
Google’s Early Efforts to Monetize Video
Video. I can’t stop thinking about it. Neither can Google. A recent tour of the Google plex by Beet.tv yielded some news (to me) on...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Team for Sitemaps.org Search Engine Indexing Initiative
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined forces to support Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their...
Loki : Local Meta Search
Loki is a toolbar/technology from Skyhook Wireless that, once downloaded, uses WiFi triangulation to determine user location and saves the step of having to enter...
How To Obtain Techmeme Blog Coverage
Techmeme usually sends thousands of unique users per month to Search Engine Journal, dependent upon our percentage of breaking news stories and coverage. Like other...
Yahoo Publisher Network & Vice President Shakeup
I’m a little late to the punch here due to a couple days of International travel, but wanted to cover the recent executive shakeup at...
Google Local Events Search Added to Google Calendar
Google has added a “search public events” button to Google Calendar. Here’s more from Philipp Lenssen and the Official Google Blog. Here’s an example of...
A True 2nd Tier PPC Click Fraud Story
It happened actually last month and I wanted to blog about it earlier, but I did unfortunately not get around to it until now. I...
Google’s Vision for Free Cell Phones + How Newspapers and Marketers Can Prepare
How much do newspapers spend on paper, printing and printing infrastructure per subscriber? Would it make more sense for them to make their content fit...
Google Local Search & Libraries
Bill Slawski looks at patents behind Local Search ranking systems and their dependency on local business directories. All fine & dandy for the local restaurants...
Google AdWords Landing Page Quality Ranking Initiated
The new Google AdWords Quality Algorithm kicked into gear today which will change the way advertisers bid and are ranked in sponsored Google AdWords results....
ReviewMe Launches : New Blog Advertising Network
Looking for a new way to monetize your blog or build links, awareness and buzz about your service or product? ReviewMe, the new service which...
Baidu and eBay China Partner Up
Baidu and eBay China Partner Up EachNet, the Chinese auction website of eBay, has expanded their partnership with Baidu, the leading search engine in China....
MySpace.com Rules Social Networking
Social networking is hot and apparently, Hitwise confirms that MySpace is burning up the competition. For every 20 times a person in the US visited...
Google Checkout Offers Free Transactions for Merchants
In an effort to accelerate merchant adoption of the Google Checkout payment system, especially at the peak of the holiday shopping season, Google is offering...
Like.com : Celebrity Look a Like Search and Commerce
Like.com formerly known as Riya.com launched today. A new concept that makes a lot of affiliates (including myself) just watch in awe and envy :)....
Microsoft’s Live Search Virtual Earth 3D Goes Live
Today Microsoft went live with Virtual Earth 3D, an online mapping system which is part of the Live Search experience which serves local search mapped...
Click Forensics & Focus on Affiliate Click Fraud
Click Forensics updated its enterprise-class click fraud detection service, Click Forensics 4.5 for Enterprise, which includes new features that allow advertisers for the first time...
Yahoo! Shopping : New Features Abound
Yahoo! Shopping has added a whole lot of goodies to its service, just in time for the holiday shopping season. New additional services include integration...
Google Testing Ads in 50 Print Newspapers
Google is launching what it is calling an “alpha” program in which 100 advertisers, both large and small, will have an opportunity to buy ads...
Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues
Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues China is in the news for many reasons but when it comes to the Internet one...
Amazon.com’s Clickriver Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising
Amazon.com’s A9 Search division has finally launched a service which is sure to catch the eyes of the search engine marketing world, Clickriver. Clickriver is...
Yahoo Food : Munchies 2.0
Yesterday, Yahoo! launched its “Green Center” for Autos. Today: Yahoo! Food. Among others, this is an Epicurious competitor. Food looks like a pretty rich (no...
GMail Mobile : Java Powered
Steve Bryant at eWeek’s Google Watch notes that today Google is unveiling a new java powered Gmail for mobile devices. The new Gmail mobile should...
Cracking the Digg.com Algorithm
Yesterday we looked at the new changes to the Digg.com algorithm which makes it more difficult for stories to make it to the Digg front...
Utube.com Suing YouTube.com
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, which has its web site hosted at Utube.com, is suing Google’s YouTube over domain name similarity and the harm which...