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Loren Baker | Search Engine Journal | @lorenbaker

Loren Baker is the founding editor/creator of Search Engine Journal and remains an advisor and Editor In Chief to this publication.

Yahoo and Verizon Partner for Wireless Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo Search Portal and Verizon Wireless today announced that Yahoo Messenger is now available on Verizon Wireless' Mobile IM service. Starting today, Verizon Wireless customers can use their wireless phones to access their pre-existing IM accounts with Yahoo Messenger to send and receive instant messages. Verizon Wireless Mobile IM brings the familiar PC IM experience to mobile phones. Developed by Comverse, the full-color user interface lets customers: * View, refresh...

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Google Integrates News into Google Image Search

Google has now taken an extra step in cross integrating its search functions within itself. Now when a user searches for certain terms on Google Image Search, images from current news stories are shown in a gray box at the top of the screen. Google will serve a thumbnail image along with a news headline accompanied with a link to the related news story. Google also further plugs Google News it its image search with...

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New Google Reranking and Other Search Engine Patents

Search Engine Related Patents
A Selection of Recently Awarded Search-Related Patents & Recently Published Search-Related Patent Applications
Google is awarded another U.S. Patent. New patents for IBM, NEC, and CNET are also included.
Special thanks to Gary Price at ResourceShelf for bringing this information out into the light. Recently Awarded Patents
Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity
Assignee: Google. Here's how this reranked...

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Google Search Engine Drives eCommerce Industry

A recent study deemed Google the leader in search engine driven ecommerce. According to a report released by Random Secrecy today Google’s dominance in the Search & Buy eCommerce Market is driven by its exceptional estimated revenues for the past three consecutive years, 2001 – 2003, as it enjoys the strongest growth in user base. As the market leader, Google has redefined the landscape in its core competency and is breaking the paradigm by search...

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Dealing With Search Engine Stress

As a member of several search engine optimization forums, and I have recently noticed (especially since Yahoo recently decided to try their hand at competing with Google) that the stress level of many webmasters has gone way up. This applies not only to webmasters involved in Internet-based home businesses, but to webmasters in general. Additionally, it seems that many people that are in the business of search engine optimization (SEO) are, with good reason, going...

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Lycos Search Portal May Be Up For Sale

Lycos may be up for sale soon and available for acquisition by Google, MSN, Ask or Yahoo - if they want it. Terra Lycos is hoping to sell Lycos for cash or liquid shares according to a CNet report. No set price was listed however a source familiar with the dealings tld CNet that Terra Lycos is looking to sell Lycos for $200m, based on $98m in revenue that the site generated in 2003. Spanish...

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Yahoo CEO – Plenty of Room for Yahoo and Google to Compete

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel spoke his mind on Tuesday when discussing the possible Google IPO and chances that Yahoo would be hurt by such a large move by its biggest competitor. Speaking at a Milken Institute conference Semel commented that "Yahoo is a company that has always had good competitors and Google will be a good competitor. There is plenty of room for Yahoo to thrive and for Google to thrive." According to a Reuters report,...

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AXA takes Google AdWords to French Court over Trademarked Terms

Google's AdWords advertising sales for trademarked names and competitive business terms is being challenged again in the court room, this time in France. AXA, the world's No. 3 insurer, is taking Google to court next month in the latest trademark challenge to threaten the heart of Google's business model advertising. AXA, which posted $86 billion in revenue last year, is the largest company yet to take the keyword "hijacking" and trademark targeted advertising controversy into...

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Yahoo Messenger 6 Beta Outshines MSN Messenger

Yahoo's latest beta of its messenger program literally kicks MSN Messengers out of the window for me. It has everything that MSN Messenger has to offer and more. MSN has funky skins? Yahoo has them now. MSN has user pictures? Yahoo has them now. MSN does animated smilies? Yahoo has been doing them since ages as far as I know. And what Yahoo Messenger has that MSN Messenger does not? Offline messages, chatrooms (...

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FindWhat Reports Record 56% Revenue Increase

FindWhat.com, the paid search advertising of performance-based marketing and commerce enabling services, today reported record financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2004. Revenue in Q1 2004 increased 56% versus Q1 2003, and was approximately $2.7 million ahead of the Company's previously-announced guidance. FindWhat.com has increased revenue sequentially for 18 consecutive quarters. Full year financial guidance for 2004 has been raised, in part due to the acquisition of Comet Systems which closed on...

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