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Online Behavioral Targeting and Search
Is online advertising undergoing a “rebirth”? Some might argue it is, first spurred on by paid search advertising then by contextual and adware placements. Now...
Search Engine Results & PDF Files
Many major search engines now have the capability to index PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat and return them in search results. If you are...
Fundamental flaw with Link Popularity
Mike Lauher at Junk Drawer sent me an email about this earlier, seems like an interesting problem with Google’s Link Popularity. How can a Real...
Ask Jeeves Goes Desktop Search with Tukaroo
Ask Jeeves has followed up search engine acquisitions and the issuing of $400 million in stock offerings with the new aquisition of a desktop search...
Yahoo Testing Homepage Redesign
Yahoo is testing a new home page design which simplifies its personal, shopping, directory and news offerings while also putting more of an emphasis on...
Interview of Bruce Stone of Wow Directory
Hello Bruce, Thanks for taking the time to let me ask you a few questions. Lets get into the questions… When did you come up...
Overstock.com Sets Affiliate PPC Guidelines
Overstock.com is taking measures that will prevent its affiliates from bidding on Overstock.com trademarks. Search Engine Lowdown reports that an email was sent out today...
Landing Page Optimization Techniques Lower Acquisition Costs
Any marketer that has been involved in search engine marketing and search engine optimization understands the never-ending quest to attract customers at a reasonable cost....
Google May See Challenges As It Expands
Google dominates the minds and desktops of Internet users, with Yahoo a distant second, according to a nationwide consumer survey on search engines whose results...
Maximize Your Search Engine Promotion Productiveness
An important element to being productive in search engine promotion is to continually stay focused on the goals of your web site campaigns. When I...
Interview with Gary Flake of Yahoo Labs
20 Questions with Gary Flake, Head of Yahoo Research Labs An interview in the ROTW space this time around. Dr. Gary Flake, Principal Scientist &...
Google acquires Neotonic Software
After Pyra Labs (The maker of Blogger), and advertisement companies like Applied Semantics and Sprinks, it’s the turn of an email software company Neotonic Software....
Yahoo Search Delivers Cheap Gas Prices
Finding the prices at the gas stations too much to handle this summer travel season? Yahoo is offering a new search engine shortcut to help...
Google Search Going Intranet
Google is sharpening the search tools that it sells to companies, schools and government agencies, hoping to mine new revenue sources as it strives to...
Online Retailers Showing Increased Sales & Profits
Online sales sped past the $100-billion-mark in 2003, surpassing all industry expectations. According to The State of Retailing Online 7.0, an annual Shop.org study conducted...
Rocket News Updates Its RSS Reader with New Features
Rocket launched their Java based RSS reader a couple of months ago. Here’s our ResourceShelf post from 3/9/04. Yesterday, the Canadian company announced a couple...
Google Losing IT’s Cool?
Since November 2003, the good folk at Google have found themselves on a public relations roller coaster. As the biggest and most popular search tool...
Tokyo Duo Busted for Blackmailing Yahoo Over Subscriber Info
Tokyo police arrested two men on Sunday for allegedly obtaining client data from Internet service provider Softbank BB Corp, in a massive leakage of such...
Microsoft’s MSN Gets Serious About Search
Microsoft and MSN is pumping up the volume on search, and not just a web search engine. Yusuf Mehdi, MSN’s top executive, announced the company...
Yahoo Goes After Spyware with New Companion Toolbar
Yahoo has released a beta version of its downloadable toolbar in the US that will detect and remove unwanted software (AKA spyware) installed on user...
500 Google Domain Names Registered in Last Month
On May 3rd ResourceShelf’s GaryPrice posted a list of domain names that were registered in April and included the word Google. Many of our readers...
What’s next for Google? Here are some ideas!
Google has had a meteoric rise to stardom. I remember an article I saw in PC World Indian Edition in the year 1999 which mentioned...
Kanoodle Adapts Behavioral Targeting to Text Ads, With Help from 24/7
Kanoodle and 24/7 Real Media announced today that they have joined forces to release BehaviorTarget, a behaviorally- targeted sponsored links product. Kanoodle, provider of sponsored...
Will Google be the next Netscape?
To draw a parallel between Netscape & Google in their fight against Microsoft, it is necessary to examine the various similarities between the two situations...
Google vs Googol – Family Wants In On IPO
Google may be taken to court over a “googol” by the family of Professor Edward Kasner. Kasner, who invented the word “googol” in the 1930s...
Is Google Ready to Take on Yahoo and MSN?
Browse the headlines of any online or printed news source and you would be hard pressed not to hear about Google’s upcoming IPO. If you...
Google Confirms GMail Bug Issued 1,000 Gigabytes of Email Storage
Some Google GMail users were surprised to log in this week and see their abnormal 1 gigabyte of free email storage space transformed into a...
Reciprocal Linking: A Disturbing Trend in Search Engine Marketing
In the world of Internet Marketing, and Web site promotion, nothing changes faster than the parameters that rule good Search Engine rankings and placement. This...
Search Engines & Web Portals Going 1GB Email Crazy
Making news yesterday, Lycos Europe introduced a paid 1GB email service which beat the slow paced Google GMail launch. However, GMail’s functionality may make it...
Yahoo Results Getting More Similar to Google
According to results gathered from Thumbshots.com and their new ranking tool, Yahoo search results are getting better and more relevant. Thumbshots Ranking is a new...