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Pay Per Click Search Engines
Does it Pay to Pay? Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing Getting listed and FOUND in search engines is not as easy as it used...
Google’s Update Drop Your Site? Here’s the Info
Barry Lloyd explores the new Google Update (which he dubs “Florida”) and why some sites have been dropped from their multi-year rankings: With the huge...
CNET Search Show Best Conversions for Consumer Electronics Sites
In a independent study of millions of visits to Web sites selling consumer electronics and gift items, WebSideStory, Inc. ( www.WebSideStory.com ), today announced that...
Google IPO and Google’s Future
An upcoming cover story in FORTUNE magazine reveals internal disarray at Google, and raises troubling questions about the company’s future. The story comes out as...
LookSmart and BellSouth Team for Local Search
LookSmart, a global leader in search, and BellSouth, a leader in print and Internet Yellow Pages in the Southeast US, today announced an agreement designed...
Google Link Spam Filter
Google recently introduced a new keyword phrase filter during its most recent update. Some phrases were unchanged, but many highly optimized and highly competitive phrases...
Local Search, Multimedia Search Added to AOL
Looking to add to its search features and perhaps expand into the search engine world dominated by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, AOL announced today its...
Microsoft Newsbot to Rival Google News
Microsoft has launched a Beta Test version of their four language Newsbot which is seen by many to rival Google News. This is Microsoft’s first...
Where’s the MultiMedia in Search Engine Marketing?
Where’s the Multi Media in Search Engine Marketing? Apparently Search Engine Marketing and Mutli Media are not mixing. Why? Perhaps those using multimedia search are...
Bill Gates – Microsoft Never Talked to Google
In this USAToday article, Bill Gates claims that Microsoft never talked to Google about acquiring the search monster. Microsoft has not had merger discussions with...
Yahoo Adds Popup Blocker to Toolbar
The Yahoo! Companion toolbar has added an optional popup blocker that offers different features for dealing with popup window advertising. The new Yahoo Companion Toolbar...
Shopping Search Engines Perfected by Google and Ask
Ask Jeeves and Google have dived into the Shopping Search Engine front, joining Yahoo, MSN, and other Shopping Search sites like Shopping.com, BizRate, and MySimon....
Microsoft Search Worries Google and Yahoo
Microsoft Search Engine worries Google and Yahoo With 3.3 billion searches conducted every month in the U.S., and a lucrative advertising market swelling to $1.6...
Keyword Ownership: What is It and Where is it Headed?
A number of such services regularly email me offering keyword ownership of premium keywords for $300/year. They say that anyone can type the keyword I...
Localized Search – The Future of Internet Yellow Pages
In the U.S. there are an estimated 10 million small businesses yet only 250,000 are currently participating in paid search. The question at hand is...
LookSmart Listings Waives Fee with Holiday Program
LookSmart is waiving its $29 account set up fee for the holiday season. One of the top web directories, it has had a hard time...
Ask Jeeves Adds Smart Shopping Search
Ask Jeeves Adds Smart Shopping Search Ask Jeeves, Inc. today announced the addition of Smart Search(SM) for Products to Ask.com, the latest in a series...
Google IPO is Evil
Ensight’s Jeremy Wright takes the diabolical angle on Google’s IPO Rumors in his piece, Google IPO is Evil. Here’s a clip.
White House blocking Search Engines?
Is the White House blocking search engine indexing of government web pages which feature information on the Iraq War? 2600 reports “WHITE HOUSE’S SEARCH ENGINE...
Google to Get Sweeter, Nestle buys Google (satire)
With all of the IPO and Microsoft rumors flying around the Google rumor mill (the fact that Google News is frontpaging these rumors is what...
How Much is Google Worth?
You don’t need a search engine to find opinions about this topic: How much Google would command if it were to go through with a...
Later Gator! Gator Changes Name to Claria
Gator, the controversial AdWare company that earlier in the month sued to have the label of *spyware* detached from their ad serving technology, today announced...
Yahoo Acquires BT’s Dot Music
Yahoo gets DotMusic Not really search engine marketing news, but relevant to the Search Engine Wars, Internet portal Yahoo may be stepping into the online...
SEO: Paths & Security
I work for a decent-sized international charity as the Director of IS / IT. One of our bigger projects this year has been redoing our...
Amazon Launches Book Content Search
Amazon’s Search Inside the Book Amazon.com today announced the launch of its latest innovation, Search Inside the Book. This is a new search service which...
Mooter Search Engine- Pooter, Scooter, Rooter?
Ok, I checked out the info on Mooter, a new Australian search engine and can say this… the logo is interesting. If anything, I find...
To Get Discovered: Discover Others!
Navel gazing. A fabulous habit. With the amount that happens in North America it’s a wonder it isn’t a full-contact Olympic sport. Navel gazing is...
Getting ugly over at GoGuides
When the internet was swelling with paper millionaires Disney tried to cash in. With poorly guided inefficient systems Disney began to hemorrhage cash. Instead of...
Be Systematic
There are loads of rules for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Things like “Use metatags” (or: don’t use metatags), “don’t use frames”, “use text links wherever...
Local search: the next big thing in pay per click
Local search: the next big thing in pay per click This month Overture announced a trial of their technology for local pay per click search...