Search Engine Journal

I am very happy to announce that Search & Social Media LLC, the parent company of Search Engine Journal, has recently tapped Scott Polk as our Director of Operations.
In this capacity, Scott will be handling the management of Search & Social client and SEO campaigns, working with the company brass to plan company growth [...]

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Sometime in 2007, when Microsoft acquired aQuantive, it has also acquired the Digital Ad Agency Razorfish. Now 2 years after the Microsoft acquisition, Razorfish is on the market again, the Financial Times reports.
According to FT, Microsoft has elicited Morgan Stanley’s assistance in finding potential buyers for Razorfish. Industry analyst puts Razorfish’s current value at [...]

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According to Google, Michael Jackson did not pass away two days ago. Instead, the search engine is serving a customized result (powered by Wikipedia) stating that the King of Pop died on August 30th 2007 :

Such is the shameful problem of Google depending on “user generated content” from Wikipedia as a trusted resource, serving the [...]

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Has Michael Jackson died or is this another social media and Internet hoax? Social Media is reporting his death. CNN is reporting he’s in a coma. And the search engines don’t have a clue what’s going on.

Social Media : Twitter Coverage of TMZ
According to Twitter and Facebook users all over the world, Michael Jackson died [...]

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Google Labs is testing on an experimental service which could probably pave the way for Google’s entry into the tourism vertical. The feature, called City Tours, is a Google Maps application which provides suggestions on what to sites to see when you search for specific cities in the US, like Tampa, Florida.

City Tours also maps [...]

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Google PageRank (the visible toolbar PageRank that is) was updated around the web on the 23rd and 24th of June, changing the visible PageRank scores which appear on the toolbars of Google users all over the globe. Lots of publishers tend to use PageRank as a metric for judging the quality of their site, which [...]

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If you can’t acquire them, just hire them! Microsoft, which made a play to acquire Yahoo via hostile takeover last year, has forged ahead and launched their new search engine Bing, while establishing a strategy of hiring former Yahoo Search engineers.
On Monday Microsoft hired VP of Operations at Yahoo Kevin Timmons, to head up [...]

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Google updated their Google Chrome browser yesterday with a new release (version 2.0.172.33) which includes a major fix of a critical security flaw in the browser. According to the Chrome Releases blog, Google Chrome had a vulnerability to “buffer overflow in handling certain responses from HTTP servers. A specially crafted response from a server could [...]

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Four Google executives have been the target of criminal privacy charges in a Milan court over a video of a bullied disabled child which was uploaded and broadcast on Google Video. An Italian prosecutor has served charges against the execs, who, according to the Financial Times, include David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, and Peter [...]

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Google has developed and is expanding usage of an educational portal for advertising agencies to use to educate their staff on Google Advertising and also help bridge the gap between Google and the agencies which may have been “wary” of using Google ad planning as opposed to traditional media buying techniques.
The fact is however, [...]

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