Mamma.com under formal SEC investigation An informal probe of Canadian search engine company Mamma.com, by the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has become a formal investigation according to a press release sent out earlier this week.The release stated, “The company believes that as part of its investigation, the SEC may consider matters related to trading …
Yahoo Local Search Listings – Free Sites for the 50% Without More than 10-million US businesses do not have websites. According to the Kelsey Group, this represents over 50% of all small businesses. Yahoo, or more specifically, the Local search division at Yahoo wants to make these business owners an offer they have no particular …
Search Engine Industry Expanding Last week was yet another week of tremendous change in the search sector. Several announcements competed for space with each other over the past seven days, each of which adds to the growing tapestry of services that comprise the search-marketing metaverse. The search engine marketing industry has evolved as users began …
Yahoo Mail, Blogs, and Flickr Challenge Google Yahoo has been on an upgrading spree recently with a major acquisition, two major upgrades and a beta-release of a new blogging tool. It’s no secret the execs and techs at Yahoo have been working overtime to re-brand and upgrade Yahoo’s various services. Yahoo has made several major …
Google News Stirring Up Controversy The three months of 2005 is turning out to be a cursed quarter for the PR department at the Googleplex. This week, the public spotlight focused on Google News for two less-than -honourable mentions. First, Google News has been forced to remove materials from Agence France Presse (AFP) after AFP …
Corporate Preparation for Search Engine Optimization Understanding the value of global communications, nearly every organized organization in the world has a website. From grassroot community groups to major corporations, the World Wide Web has expanded by billions of websites over the past half decade. Because the medium is easy, cheap and absurdly flexible, it has …
Yahoo May Launch Version of Google AdSense Dozens of well placed rumours lead back to a potential challenge to Google’s almost unfettered rule of the contextual advertising market. According to many, including the unofficial Yahoo Blog (which displays Google AdSense Ads), Yahoo is about to create an advertising distribution network to compete with AdSense. AdSense …
Yahoo Sheds Overture Name and Opens Developer Network Yahoo will be killing the Overture brand name early in the second quarter as it moves to merge all its search services under the same banner. Yahoo also announced the beta version of the Yahoo Developer Network, an Application Program Interface (API) allowing search marketers and software …
Google AutoLink and The New Google Toolbar Last week, the world of search was somewhat shocked to learn that Google has included a feature on its newest toolbar, (Toolbar 3 Beta) that adds links to websites viewed when using the toolbar. Known as Auto-links, the tool will direct users to Google maps when a street …
JavaScript Kills Google Autolink On Your Site The fine folks over at Search Guild have posted a snippet of javascript code that breaks the Autolink feature in Google’s new toolbar, preventing it from making on-page alterations. The links that would have appeared on the page are still available if the user chooses the drop-down on …
