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Search Engine Advertising Good for Branding Too!
Not only is search engine sponsored links and contextually targeted advertising benefical for high returns on investments, conversions, and sales figures – but today a...
Pay Per Click Keeps Growing
There may be a time coming soon where the only way to have your website found under highly competitive keyword phrases in the major search...
Crystal Semantics Launches Textonomy Reveal
Internet content and search company, Crystal Semantics, has come to the rescue of those frustrated by the failure of current search technology. The launch of...
Why Does Google Still Use Yahoo Groups for Its Press Contact List?
Earlier in the hour I received a news release email from Daniel Lemin of Google. Ironically, after Google has tested GMail, Orkut, and Google Groups...
Google Chooses Nasdaq For IPO
Google has announced plans to list its $2.7 billion IPO on Nasdaq, bipassing the New York Stock Exchange. According to Rueters report, Nasdaq and the...
Paid Inclusion Going the Way of the Dodo
Late last week, Ask Jeeves announced it was going to cease its paid submission program and allow webmasters to submit sites to its database for...
Search Engine Hacking Suspect Now a Microsoft Employee
A MSN Search employee has been arrested on allegations that he hacked and stole private search engine technology from the AltaVista search engine. The alleged...
15 Ways to Read an RSS Feed
No doubt you have seen those small orange ‘XML’ or ‘RSS’ buttons beginning to spread across some of your favourite web sites. Perhaps you have...
Republican National Committee Starts 30% Commission Affiliate Marketing Program
It’s not very often that I take political sides in a posting or journal entry, but when logging into Commission Junction this morning I noticed...
Googles.com Taking Action Against Google
Googles.com is taking action against Google and challenging the Google trademark status on various products. This is not the first time a company or estate...
Dulance Offers Search Engine Advertising Blocker
A company called Dulance has just unleashed a vicious hound of a piece of software on the search engine marketing world, ironically, in an attempt...
Google Update – IPO, SERPS, Open & Outsourcing, GMAIL
Over the past seven years, it is fairly safe to say that the use of search engines has revolutionized our methods of finding and valuing...
Find.com – New Business Search Engine
A new search engine focusing on business and industry was released earlier last week. Find.Com is a very interesting tool that seems to combine the...
Microsoft Search Scares Yahoo Investors
Shares of Yahoo have dropped in value on Wall Street today on fears that the new Microsoft MSN Search will draw in some of the...
Get Your RSS Feed Listed Within Hours at Yahoo in 5 Simple Steps
Let’s be honest. There’s three types of people in the world. * Yahoos * Googlers * People who are neither, or both. I’ve been lurking...
MSN Search Relaunches, Has a Google Look
MSN today launched a range of new and updated services for its MSN Search service, aimed at helping people get faster, cleaner and easier access...
.com Not Listed in Regional Yahoo? Don’t Despair!
If you’re a non-American business with a .com web address, and your regional Yahoo ranking is important to you, then my story might interest you....
How To Stay One Step Ahead of the Google Dance
It’s taken you 6-months of hard work, constant changes, reading every shred of information on search engine optimization strategy not to mention thousands of dollars...
Hiring a Search Engine Marketer
Many website owners put the cart before the horse- anxious for search engine traffic and rankings, the first thing they do once their site is...
AOL Acquires Advertising.com
Advertising.com (formerly TeknoSurf), a darling of the online targeted advertising industry, is being bought by AOL. Cheers to Advertising.com, they filed IPO not too long...
Business Executives Not Happy with Search Engine Productivity
According to a survey released by FIND/SVP, 84% of business executives feel that Web searches — using the generally consumer-centric search engines now available –take...
Ask Jeeves / Excite Boost Email Offerings
First Google GMail announced their 1GB of email storage space. Then Lycos joined in, launching a paid service with the same storage AND then along...
Google to Reveal Some of its Code
The Age reports that Google is preparing to publicly release some of its underlying software code only months before it undertakes a multibillion-dollar stock-exchange float....
Google & Overture Provided Conversion Tracking
When you set up a direct response online ad campaign, you want to be able to measure its success. Success would be defined by the...
Blinkx – Web, News, and Desktop Search Engine Tool
Search ToolsSearch the Web, the News, and Your Computer with BlinkxThe other day Searchblog ran an item about blinkx, a new web, news, and desktop...
Google WebSearch & Google Adsense, Yahoo!
The makers of the world renowned search engine, Google, have taken things a step further to increase their user loyalty, grow their user base and...
Google AdSense Adds Web Search Features
Today Google added search results to their AdSense advertising package. Sites which run Google AdSense can now include a Google search box or Google Site...
Does Location Of Your Keyword Affect Search Engine Ranking?
One of our members asked for a study of keyword location on a page. Is it more effective to have your keyword mentioned in the...
Yahoo Expands Free Mail to 100 MB
Yahoo has beefed up its free e-mail service with 25 times more storage following its rival Google’s plans to offer 1,000 megabytes (1 GB) of...
“Personalized” Weblog Reader Debuts: Blogory
ResourceShelf has mentioned and linked to Findory, a “personalized” and “adaptive” (it learns from you) news resource (a couple thousand mainstream news sources) several times...