Let’s hand it to Knight Ridder, sleeping with both Google and Overture. Overture and Knight Ridder Digital Announce Full-Service Search Agreement target=”_”: Overture Services, Inc., a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, and Knight Ridder Digital, a leader in local online information and services, today announced an agreement under which Overture will [...]

Google Adwords:New Interface Google adds a new, more customer friendly interface to AdWords. From Google: What’s New in Google AdWords? Based on direct feedback from our advertisers, we’ve improved the Google AdWords account interface. We took your suggestions to heart and devised a number of ways to enhance your user experience. So while a few [...]

Paid URL Inclusion- Is It For You?: “One of the many options available to promote a website on search engines is called ‘paid inclusion’. Although there are several different kinds of paid inclusion (including pay-per-click and ‘trusted’ or ‘direct’ feed programs) this article deals specifically with the simplest form, in which an annual fee is [...]

Can Google save America Online? | CNET News.com: “AOL Time Warner on Wednesday reported another profitable quarter, but soured its outlook on its AOL division. AOL’s online advertising business dropped 48 percent from last year while its U.S. subscriber base dropped by 846,000 members to 25.4 million, prompting its parent company to lower its financial [...]

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FindWhat.com sees revenue rise: “FindWhat.com, a search marketing company, on Monday said its second-quarter revenue soared 80 percent from a year earlier. The Fort Myers, Fla.-based company reported a net income of $2.7 million, or 12 cents per share, on revenue of $17.5 million for the second quarter. That compares with a net income of [...]

seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Amazon: Search this book: “Amazon.com wants to let customers search the full text of thousands of non-fiction books, The New York Times reports. (Longer-lived link here.)The strategic reasoning is noteworthy:… the plan appears to be part of a strategy to compete with online search services like Google and Yahoo for consumers’ time and [...]

InfoWorld: Yahoo pitches SiteBuilder for small businesses: July 21, 2003: By : Application Development: “In an effort to expand its services for small and medium-size businesses, Yahoo is set to introduce a Web site building tool Monday that will be offered free to the company’s Web hosting customers. Yahoo SiteBuilder is just the latest effort [...]

AP Wire | 07/21/2003 | Google introduces advanced news search feature: “Online search engine Google has added another drawing card to its popular Web site by introducing a tool designed to make it easier to find specific news stories. The new feature, available by clicking on an ‘advanced search’ link in Google’s news section, enables [...]

Yahoo, ACNielsen measure retail sales | CNET News.com: “Yahoo on Monday introduced a specialty research service that allows retailers to track offline sales spurred by online ad campaigns, the Web portal’s latest invention to woo advertisers. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Net giant partnered with ACNielsen, one of the United States’ biggest media measurement companies, to introduce [...]