Yahoo has eliminated storage limits on its photo site, but cut the ability to store very high-resolution pictures for free. Changes to Yahoo’s photo and storage sites have elicited cries of bait-and-switch from users, even as the portal giant opens its photo site to unlimited storage capacity. In its ongoing effort to balance its free [...]

“Google’s mission is to provide access to all the world’s information and make it universally useful and accessible. It turns out that not all the world’s information is already on the Internet, so….” Such conservative goal setting has now led the world’s busiest search engine to a new set of content—books in print. Publishers cooperating [...]

From the AP Wire: Serial killer Maury Travis used an online mapping service to show a newspaper reporter where he dumped a body. A former Las Vegas exotic dancer convicted of stalking and harassing her ex-lover posted a map on the Web with directions to the married man’s home. Internet mapping services are powerful and [...]

Local paid search advertising is on pace to generate $2.5 billion in 2008, according to a new research report. In a study expected to be released today, The Kelsey Group estimates that locally targeted listings are the next frontier for paid search, tapping into the 10 million small- and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. The [...]

Google has beefed up its Froogle shopping search engine, introduced two new “quick links” for searchers, and has added new features to its AdWords program. Though still in beta, Froogle now sports an updated look and feel on results pages. The “sort by price” feature has also been fixed, using both data from merchant-submitted product [...]

A recent survey of business users and their search behavior conducted by WebAdvantage.net, a search engine marketing and interactive agency, reveals that members of the business community rely more heavily on organic search results than paid search listings. According to the survey, 85 percent of the respondents claim to click on sponsored links less than [...]

This just in – Google has apologized! That’s right, folks. There’s been a lot of anger and frustration since the Florida Updates but apparently Google understands the fact that people’s businesses rely on their results. For what it’s worth, Craig Nevill-Manning, Google’s Senior Research Scientist, said, “I apologize for the roller coaster. We’re aware that [...]

First we had spam filters, then pop-up blockers, and recently spyware removal tools have become popular. Time to add one more to the list which has the potential to hurt the search engine marketing industry even more than a Google update, search engine sponsored listing blocking. The InterMute, Inc. company announced today the latest version [...]