Search Engine Journal

Groxis, Inc., a provider of visual information management software, has announced the beta release of its Google plug-in, a software module for Grokker, the desktop search and personal data-mining tool. Available as a free beta to Grokker customers, the Google plug-in enables users to query and retrieve information from Google and visualize the results in […]

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According to a Nielsen/NetRatings report released on Monday, Google topped off the January search engine usage charts with 39 percent of active Internet users using search engines- 59.3 million unique viewers used Google to do searches.
Yahoo Search (using Google results at the time) and MSN attracted 30 percent of the search engine market each, […]

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Search engine innovator YourAmigo today announced a new online marketing product considered the Holy Grail of search engine marketing for any website using e-commerce product databases.
YourAmigo sales and marketing manager Gary Smith said that FEEDAmigo(TM) is an automated XML feed editing program that slashes the cost and time taken to prepare and update feeds for […]

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Oceana has launched an online awareness and action campaign to get their anti-Royal Caribbean ads placed back into Google AdWords searches for the cruise line with the controversial sewage treatment system.
The other week Oceana placed two advertisements with Google, the first describing Oceana’s mission and linking to the organization’s website, http://www.oceana.org, the second focusing […]

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This week Feedster, the RSS and XML search engine and feed reading service, demonstrated its web-based tools for building Feedpapers. Feedpapers make to easily combine, filter and publish Internet content in one easy package for browser based news agregation.
Feedpapers are customized web pages formed by combining syndicated Internet content - culled from the 500,000 newsfeeds […]

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Traffic Dude has been retained to handle advertising sales for Booble.com, the adult search engine whose parody of Google’s look invited a recent cease-and-desist from the search kings.
Traffic Dude said Feb. 19 they would manage search-targeted text link placement on Booble results pages, making them available to adult Website operators and affiliates on a […]

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This week’s shift by Yahoo to its new index brought WebmasterWorld.com’s Internet marketing conference to center stage. The first announcement came out on WebmasterWorld.com this week and the conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., on 26, 27 and 28 February at the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, will be buzzing more than ever.
“The ‘Search Engine […]

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Google has added multiple new formats to their AdSense Contextual Advertising Network for web publishers.
The new ads offer the ability to show only one targeted text ad at a time, intros a new, wider skyscraper, and small and big versions of their rectangle ad formats.
New formats include:
Button (125×125) - Displays 1 ad on a page
Wide […]

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Search Engine enthusiasts and Internet Marketers sounded off today on their views about the changes at Yahoo Search- specifically the decision by Yahoo to stop serving Google search results and introduce their new Inktomi powered Yahoo Search Engine.
Like both Google and Yahoo, but Nice to See A Change
“I think its great to see Yahoo using […]

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Yahoo, now comfortably switched to its own version of the Inktomi Indexed search engine results after breaking ties with Google, will be introducing a new and separate version of Paid Inclusion into the new Yahoo Search Index. Currently Inktomi offers a paid inclusion program which feeds the search indexes of FAST partner sites and Ask […]

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