Search Engine Journal

Keyword Discovery Offers Search Competitive Analysis
Recently HitWise jumped into the keyword research market by offering their Keyword Intelligence tool starting at $89 a month. Trellian’s Keyword Discovery just joined the competitive analysis market.
It is cool to see another competitive analysis tool available for those of us who can’t afford to splash out the $20,000 or […]

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Yahoo Contextual Ads Challenge Google AdSense
Google AdSense has some competition coming. News.com posts Yahoo to launch blog ad network: “Yahoo is planning to launch on Wednesday an ad network for small Web publishers intended to strengthen its hand against rival Google, a source familiar with the plan told CNET News.com….Yahoo’s new service will differ from […]

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JupiterMedia Sells Search Engine Watch
Well definately huge news for those of us in and around the search space…Jupitermedia, the owners of the #1 search related site sold SearchEngineWatch and the ClickZ network for $43 million to London-based trade publisher Incisive Media plc.
Reading Meckler’s blog you never would have guessed he would do such a thing […]

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Andrew Goodman on Google’s Recently Announced AdWords Change
Andrew writes a 4 page article about the new AdWords system. Smart of him to reinforce his market position by writing an article about it. I also found it interesting that he wrote about his speculations as to why some things at Google change and how Google is […]

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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. Hence they have to rely on gimicks and low quality publishing partners to get any exposure. Joe Holcomb, a former executive at BlowSearch, was recently canned: The “official” reason for my […]

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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 the company, although the WebmasterWorld thread points to Baidu in a rather negative light. Interesting to get a glimpse of how search users around the globe think of different competing services. […]

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Mathematics of Search Engine Marketing & Need for Creativity
Danny Sullivan writes Search Marketing Isn’t Just Math & Machines, which is in reaction to some chatter that the only way to work in search is to work it mathematically. When I was younger I was good at math, but have not practiced it much in years […]

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Search Engine Stock Market News - Google, Ask Jeeves, IAC
Barry Dillar’s IAC Sells Stake in Vivendi Universal for 3.4 Billion. TheStreet reports: “The transaction results in after tax proceeds to IAC that, by any measure, exceed the company’s publicly stated valuation of the VUE securities,” Diller said in a statement.
“After paying applicable taxes on […]

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Overture (Yahoo) VS FindWhat - Mistrial
Huge news for the beaten down FWHT stock, which was recently down to 4.07 from it’s 52 week high of 23.94, gained about 10% on the day.
“A judge declared a mistrial in a patent infringement lawsuit between Yahoo Inc. and FindWhat.com Inc. after a jury failed to reach a […]

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Selling Content Articles…Smart Business Model
A while ago someone shot me an email about Constant Content and I forgot to post about it. I just remembered it again and thought to post on it.
From their site: Constant Content is exactly what the name implies: A website where you will be able to find text to complete […]

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