Search Engine Journal

U.S. online retail sales are expected to reach $65 billion in 2004, and will continue to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 17 percent through 2008 to top $117 billion, according to a report issued from Jupiter Research. As consumers’ level of comfort with online functions such as e-mail and research continues to increase, so too will their level of participation in e-commerce.

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Google is reported to be having second thoughts about its $16bn flotation in the spring because of concerns that market conditions are not yet right.

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With 3.3 billion searches conducted every month in the U.S., and a lucrative advertising market swelling, search is one of the most attractive businesses on the Net. A study by U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray expects the overall search market to increase from $2.3 billion in 2003 to $5.7 billion in 2008.
Following on the coattails […]

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Google and AOL were slapped with a lawsuit filed this week by the American Blind and Wallpaper Factory. Suits against search term advertising have intensified lately- especially with the Playboy-AOL ruling last week. this latest suit may help settle an ongoing dispute over whether Google’s policy of selling ads related to search terms is legal […]

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At the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, Microsoft’s Bill Gates publically announced the drive behind MSN’s recent push to improve its search functionality and become an independent Internet search leader: “(Google) kicked our butts”
Geek.com reports:
The list of organizations that have put Microsoft in its place is short indeed, but it has grown by […]

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Google’s lawyers have sent a cease and desist email to Booble.com. They claim trademark violation and dispute Booble’s claims that the site is simply a parody… which under law is protected free speech.
Booble is a porn search engine set up to mimick Google. In an “I dare you to sue us” launch, Booble claimed […]

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Here’s something that is fast to read and does the job! Rank for $ales is pleased to present “The 10 do’s and don’ts of SEO”. Five techniques you should always do to push your site at the top of the search engine results pages (SERP’s) and keep it there, and five things which you should always avoid doing, to protect your site from a possible penalty or risk it from being banned altogether.

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Network Solutions has blocked Google’s service allowing visitors to look up data on domain name owners. Domain name registrar Network Solutions has a message for Google: don’t mess with our Whois.

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How to Optimize Your Website for Both Google & Inktomi
The search engine environment continues to evolve rapidly, easily outpacing the ability of consumers and SEO practitioners to quickly adapt to the new landscape. With the ascension of Inktomi to the level of importance that until recently was held solely by Google, SEO practitioners need to […]

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Overture, the Yahoo owned search engine advertising network, is launching a separately-bidded marketplace for its ‘contextual advertising’ product - a move which it claims will earn it more revenue and enable advertisers to bring in more relevant traffic.
Previously, advertisers had to pay the same price-per-click for contextual ads - that is, context-relevant ads served […]

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