Blog Search Engine Adds MoBlog Search
Blog Search Engine and IceRocket Search have partnered to bring cell phone pic blogs, or MoBlogs, into the search engine world with a new search feature which produces image results of the latest MoBlogs images available. Blog Search Engine has over 10,000 blogs indexed in its blog directory and this […]
Entries from October 2004
Blog Search Engine Adds MoBlog Search
October 29th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Local and Shopping Search Are Growing Among Internet Users
October 29th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Local and Shopping Search Are Growing Among Internet Users
According to a recent consumer search behavior study conducted by BizRate.com and The Kelsey Group of 3,887 online respondents, findings show that while general search engines rank the highest in terms of usage, with 72 percent indicating they use general search engines nine or more times per […]
Search Engine Marketing: Outsource or In House?
October 29th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 1 Comment
Search Engine Marketing: Outsource or In House?
Barry Schwartz is covering the current Search Engine Strategies Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
The next Search Engine Strategies session I thought would be interesting to report on was Search Engine Marketing: Outsource or In House?. Chris Sherman is moderating this panel, which includes Drew Graham from Kelkoo, Bill Hunt from […]
European Search Landscape - Search Engine Strategies Coverage
October 29th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 6 Comments
European Search Landscape - Search Engine Strategies Coverage
Barry Schwartz covering the Search Engine Strategies conference from Sweden.
I was a bit late getting to the Search Engine Strategies conference, but I made it here for the second track. I decided to attend a new session named European Search Landscape. Here are my notes, please excuse any […]
Google Adds AdWords To Froogle Shopping Feed
October 29th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google Adds AdWords To Froogle Shopping Feed
Google has announced in their Froogle Friends Newsletter that Froogle will be adding an Ad Automator to Froogle where merchants with over 1000 products who are also AdWords advertisers are invited to try out the beta release of their new ad-producing technology. This seems to be a hybrid of […]
LookSmart Performs Despite MSN Split and Acquisitions
October 29th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
LookSmart Performs Despite MSN Split and Acquisitions
LookSmart more or less broke even last quarter to the surprise of many analysts after LookSmart announced their financial results for the third quarter which ended on September 30, 2004. LookSmart currently provides paid search results through a distribution network that includes Lycos, CNET, InfoSpace (Excite, MetaCrawler, Webcrawler), Cox […]
Yahoo Goes Mobile with Search and Images
October 28th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Yahoo Goes Mobile with Search and Images
Yahoo yesterday unveiled their latest weapon in the search engine wars with Google and Microsoft - their mobile phone Yahoo. Nevermind desktop search or free email accounts, Yahoo is now bringing their search, local listings, and even images to mobile phones and portable devices. Yahoo is also bringing a […]
BellSouth’s RealPages to Sell Google AdWords
October 28th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
BellSouth’s RealPages to Sell Google AdWords
RealPages.com from BellSouth yellow pages and Google today announced an agreement whereby RealPages.com will become the first yellow pages publisher authorized to sell advertising through Google AdWords(R) to small and medium-sized local businesses. Under the multi-year agreement, BellSouth will include Google AdWords as an integral part of its RealSearch offering, […]
Switchboard.com: The King Of Local Search
October 28th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 8 Comments
Switchboard.com: The King Of Local Search
Forget about local search with Google, Yahoo! or MSN. They don’t have a clue. When it comes to great local search, Switchboard.com is king! And no matter how hard Google, Yahoo! and MSN try, when it comes to local search, they’ll never even be in the same league as Switchboard, […]
Yahoo Search Cleans Cluttered Look
October 28th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | No Comments
Yahoo Search Cleans Cluttered Look
Yahoo Search has introduced a Google clone search page but who will see it? If you visit the Yahoo home page, you’ll see a couple of hundred links to all their services such as Yahoo Jobs, Yahoo Dating, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Movies, Yahoo Stores, Yahoo News, Yahoo Web Hosting, […]
