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Kazaa Says Raid Illegal, Appeals Order
Kazaa, owned by Sharman Networks Ltd., said Tuesday that it has applied to have a court order set aside after a raid last week by...
Yahoo Search Testing Switch to Inktomi?
Yahoo Search Engine may be testing Inktomi results for its anticipated switch over to Inktomi Search (a Yahoo propoerty) from Google in the Spring of...
Paid Search Advertising: $2 Billion in 2004
US paid search advertising spending soared 123% over the previous year, rising from $923 million in 2002 to over $2 billion last year, according to...
Google Adwords Support Chinese Language Ads
Google, the web’s top search engine and search advertising network, introduced new online advertising services and payment options aimed at winning more customers in the...
FindWhat & eSpotting Search Advertising Firms Merge
FindWhat.com, a pay-per-click search engine advertising firm (a solid paid search service – with solid partners and a sound global reputation), finally announced today the...
Online Search Engines Help Lift Cover of Privacy
Sitting at his laptop, Chris O’Ferrell types a few words into the Google search engine and up pops a link to what appears to be...
Code Validation & Compliancy – The New Beginning XHTML
Code validation is still widely debated as to whether it is required for performance within the search engines. It is only a guess that the...
George W. Bush Not ‘Miserable Failure” Says AOL
Up until yesterday, when someone typed in ‘miserable failure’ into the AOL search engine, the top result listed was a link to President Bush’s Biography....
Online advertising drew lower direct response rates in Q4
Online advertising drew lower direct response rates in the fourth quarter because of the higher volume of ads and more advertisers using them for branding,...
The 5 steps to successfully building a good e-commerce Web site
Register a .com, a .biz, a .cc or a .ca domain name (.ca are reserved for Canadian companies only). Whether you’re looking to reserve domain...
Website Usability & Search Engine Optimization
Today, I will slightly steer away from the subject of search engine optimization and instead present what should be the most important considerations when designing...
Microsoft has opened up a beta version of its long awaited MSN search engine
Microsoft has opened up a beta version of its long awaited MSN search engine
Kazaa Raided By Industry Investigators
Kazaa offices in Sydney Australia were raided by record industry private investigators in an attempt to uncover evidence of alleged copyright infringements. Kaaza is the...
MSN + Google = Netscape : The Search Engine Wars
The search engine war between Google and MSN is generating some nasty tactics reminiscent of the Microsoft vs. Netscape battle of the mid ’90’s. Those...
Survey: Paid inclusion search to reach $6 billion
Innovation among companies hots up as ad pie swells. With experts projecting that the global market for paid Internet searches will reach more than US$6...
Web services management more & more popular
There is much confusion on the issue of Web services management, because the term “management” has often been used in the past to mean many...
IBM progressing on the development of its search engine technology
IBM would like to see its WebFountain supercomputing project become the next big thing in Web search.
Janet Jackson Tops Internet Search Terms
In the post-Super Bowl MTV halftime show hoopla that (if you may be a mountain hermit and haven’t yet heard) involved Justin Timberlake ripping off...
Future of LookSmart and Paid Search
LookSmart sent out their LookListings Newsletter, A Closer Look,today which had an interesting self induced interview with Tony Mamone, their Senior VP of Sales and...
Yahoo Explores Paid Music Downloads
Yahoo, according to media reports, is privately exploring ways to develop a music download service that rivals the iTunes model of digital per song sales...
Modifying Search Engine Keyphrases
Modifiers in search engine phrases are used for two main reasons: to increase the percentage of ideal prospects in the traffic the phrase attracts, and...
Search Engine Optimization for Good Rankings
1) Relevant Domain Name- Purchase a domain name for your site that is relevant to the search terms. If you are optimizing for “blog search...
Microsoft Beta Testing New Search Engine
Microsoft’s MSN division has launched a sneak peek beta test of its new MSN Search Engine. The new MSN Search is a full speed ahead...
Content Management Systems and their relation to SEO
A lot has been said about Content Management Systems (CMS) in the past. Since search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimisation (SEO) are now...
The latest on update Austin (Google’s January update)
Some of the websites that haven’t been hit too hard in Google’s Florida update (November 2003) got hit real hard on or around January 23....
The Real Value Of Online Services
I make reference to a thread I started at the High Rankings Forum that pertains to prospective clients bartering for SEO services. When is enough,...
Yahoo Mail Blocks MyDoom Subject Lines
Yahoo on Friday announced that’s its email service, Yahoo Mail, will reject messages with certain subject lines that are similar to the subject lines used...
What If Google Didn’t Like Blogs?
Google likes Blogs. Blogs do well in Search Results Listings on Google. This is because Blogs contain fresh content and are richly interlinked, despite their...
Can you really place a website on the very first page of Google?
I often get emails and letters asking me if it’s really possible to get a site placed on top of the search engine results pages...
Booble Replies to Google – Bring It On!
Yesterday, we published the Google cease and desist email to Booble for breaching copyright infringement. Booble is a porn search engine which mimmicks Google in...