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Yahoo Acquisition Opens Door for Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo Acquisition Opens Door for Yahoo Widgets Over the past year the major search engines, Google and Yahoo, have made acquisitions to expand their offerings...
Microsoft Brands Longhorn As Windows Vista
Microsoft Brands Longhorn As Windows Vista Microsoft has announced that it will be launching its long awaited Longhorn operating system as Windows Vista – not...
Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal Integration
Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal Integration Let’s put aside Yahoo!’s FUSE (Find, Use, Share, and Expand) strategy for the moment and look at what the company is doing...
Tracking Advertising Performance
Tracking Advertising Performance An article that has received a good deal of attention, from yesterday’s NY Times, is “How Effective Is This Ad, in Real...
Brazilians Used Google’s Orkut to Manage Drug Ring
Brazilians Used Google’s Orkut to Manage Drug Ring Social networking has been on the verge of taking off for about a year now, and Google’s...
Search Engine Journal Update – An Exciting Month
Search Engine Journal Update – An Exciting Month Due to numerous happenings at Search Engine Journal over the past month I felt the need to...
Google Improves AdWords System
Google Improves AdWords System Google recently introduced two new changes to their AdWords system. (via Inside Adwords) Both these changes will help advertisers improve their...
Will Blinkx Get Bought?
Will Blinkx Get Bought? I got a press call today about Blinkx’s newly announced RSS video/multimedia feed. That quickly led to a broader discussion about...
Yahoo Updates Search Engine Index
Yahoo Updates Search Engine Index Yesterday Tim Mayer announced the newest Yahoo “Weather Report” on their newest search engine index update. The changes to the...
PubSub Aggregates Customized Baseball News from Blogs
PubSub Aggregates Customized Baseball News from Blogs PubSub.com yesterday announced the launch of PubSub Baseball, a collection of free, pre-built subscriptions that provide customized delivery...
Microsoft Sues Google On Kai-Fu Lee Hiring
Microsoft Sues Google On Kai-Fu Lee Hiring Google announced this week that they are planning to open up a research lab in China and have...
News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace
News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace In the emerging tradition of “old media†buying “new media,†Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced today that it was acquiring Intermix...
Interview with Yahoo Shopping V.P. Rob Solomon
Interview with Yahoo Shopping V.P. Rob Solomon Brain Smith has hit a great niche target with his blog ComparisonEngines.com where he reports on news and...
Firefox Site Hacked With Intention to Spam
Firefox Site Hacked With Intention to Spam Recently the Mozilla Firefox promotional site, SpreadFirefox.com, was hacked by someone exploiting a vulnerability in the CMS package...
Small Pay Per Click Search Engines Are Worthless
Small Pay Per Click Search Engines Are Worthless Smaller search networks can not compete with the big boys in building advertisers, users, and monetizing traffic....
Meta Social Networking Coming Soon
Meta Social Networking Coming Soon One of the points former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus made in his keynote address at Interactive Local Media ‘04 was...
Google PageRank Update Analysis
Google PageRank Update Analysis For those of you not yet aware, Google is currently updating the PageRank they are displaying in their toolbar. Each update...
Google Raising AdWords Prices for Less Relevant Ads
Google Raising AdWords Prices for Less Relevant Ads In another way to reap the online advertisers of more dollars and keep escalating click prices beyond...
Yahoo!’s New UC Berkeley Research Lab
Yahoo!’s New UC Berkeley Research Lab Yahoo! is to go into a partnership with the UC Berkeley for plans to open up a research lab...
MSN Shopping BETA Search Engine Launches
MSN Shopping BETA Search Engine Launches MSN Shopping BETA launched today as an interesting addition to the MSN Search family and direct competitor to Yahoo...
Yahoo Video Search Indexing Flash Movies and Games
Yahoo Video Search Indexing Flash Movies and Games If you’re a video search addict like I am, you’ll be happy to find out that Yahoo...
Ask Jeeves Search Advertising Network To Compete with Google?
Ask Jeeves Search Advertising Network To Compete with Google? Yesterday there was a very interesting AP (Michael Liedtke) interview with IAC’s Barry Diller. From the...
Andy Beal Resigns from WebSourced
Andy Beal Resigns from WebSourced Andy Beal has parted ways with WebSourced over differences posts Danny Sullivan on the Search Engine Watch blog. According to...
Baidu.com Ready for IPO
Baidu.com Ready for IPO Shak says Chinese search engine Baidu is getting ready to go public. Google owns 4% and may want the rest of...
Microsoft Clears Air on Claria in Anti-Spyware Application
Microsoft Clears Air on Claria in Anti-Spyware Application Microsoft has a weird problem at its hand. Rumors on one hand claims that the company is...
Mobile Getting .mobi Domain As Popularity Grows
Mobile Getting .mobi Domain As Popularity Grows As marketers are steadily moving into the mobile market and more and more sites are being built specifically...
Google Adsense Layout Tips for Maximum Clicks
Google Adsense Layout Tips for Maximum Clicks WWWCoder shows you how to better optimize Google Adsense to make more money from your web site in...
Jobster Acquires WorkZoo Job Search Engine
Jobster Acquires WorkZoo Job Search Engine Jobster Inc. today announced it acquired WorkZoo, Inc., a leading vertical search engine that enables job-seekers to search major...
Remove the butterfly image from MSN Desktop Search Taskbar
Remove the butterfly image from MSN Desktop Search Taskbar When MSN Desktop Search sits on the Taskbar, there’s one niggling annoyance that won’t go away....
Inside Google Firefox Extensions
Inside Google Firefox Extensions With the release of several Firefox extensions by Google – we can take a look at how Google officially implements PageRank...