Search Engine Journal

No doubt you have seen those small orange ‘XML’ or ‘RSS’ buttons beginning to spread across some of your favourite web sites.
Perhaps you have clicked on one out of curiosity, only to be faced with a barrage of angle brackets and undecipherable code, seemingly designed to scare the heck out of anyone less than […]

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Search related and online advertising pushed Yahoo’s quarterly profit over the edge as it more than doubled. Overture search and context targeted advertising was the driving force behind this quarter’s Yahoo earnings.
Yahoo had a second-quarter net profit of $112.5 million, or 8 cents a share. Its year-ago profit was $50.8 million, or 4 […]

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It’s not very often that I take political sides in a posting or journal entry, but when logging into Commission Junction this morning I noticed that the Republican National Committee is now marketing an affiliate program where website owners and bloggers will get 30% of the take (up to a $300 cap) when people donate […]

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Googles.com is taking action against Google and challenging the Google trademark status on various products. This is not the first time a company or estate has threatened to or taken such legal action against Google. However, after Googol and now Googles.com, the only person left to challenge Google for name ownership may be old timer […]

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A company called Dulance has just unleashed a vicious hound of a piece of software on the search engine marketing world, ironically, in an attempt to further market their product search engine.
The question I have with such software is “is there a need for this?” I mean come on, for the most part, and especially […]

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Over the past seven years, it is fairly safe to say that the use of search engines has revolutionized our methods of finding and valuing information. Almost any activity involving research from personal travel planning to corporate business planning has been made far easier through the use of search engines. When one search tool or […]

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A new search engine focusing on business and industry was released earlier last week. Find.Com is a very interesting tool that seems to combine the “clustering” format of Vivisimo with the variety of a meta-crawler search tool. Owned by Empire Media of New York NY, Find.Com works with search-technology developer TripleHop Technology’s enterprise search software, […]

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Several Google Officers and Directors File Documents with the Securties and Exchange CommissionLate Monday, several Google execs and board members filed Form 3 (Initial Statement Of Beneficial Ownership Of Securities)with the SEC. It contains the number of shares (preferred stock, common stock, stock options) that these officers and directors will receive. Some of this was […]

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Shares of Yahoo have dropped in value on Wall Street today on fears that the new Microsoft MSN Search will draw in some of the Overture Sponsored Links revenue that Yahoo benefits from.
CBS MarketWatch Reports:
Smith Barney analyst Lanny Baker cut his rating on Yahoo to “hold” from “buy” on valuation concerns and said the company’s […]

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Let’s be honest. There’s three types of people in the world.
* Yahoos
* Googlers
* People who are neither, or both.
I’ve been lurking in forums, and I realized something - they seem to be a lot saner than me. But then, almost everyone is.
I’ve been a Google gal for a while. There. I said it. And […]

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