Search Engine Journal

Flickr Acquired by Yahoo?
Yahoo may be interested or may have already closed its acquisition of Ludicorp, the parent company behind the photo blogging / photo sharing / photo uploading service Flickr. Apparently this is not the first time that Flickr has received an offer from Yahoo, and reportedly Google had also offered to buy out […]

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Google Movies
Google announced today at the Google Blog new shortcut to find movies within the Google index. All you need to do is prefix the movie name with “movie:” and it will bring back results and reviews. Google gives one example of a popular phrase used in the Matrix; so you can do a search […]

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Ask Jeeves’ Jim Lanzone’s Love Of Bloglines Led to Purchase
Senior Vice President of Ask Jeeves, Jim Lanzone, is a 20-times-a-day visitor of Bloglines who checks Bloglines for updates on news, blogs, and his fantasy football team, according to a report in San Francisco Business Times.
The report quotes Lanzone has saying: “I began seeing how an […]

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Search Engine Strategies New York Interviews and Meeting Times
My cellular phone has been ringing off the hook over the past couple of days with public relations reps from multiple search engine optimization and marketing companies who will be either presenting or set up in a booth at the Search Engine Strategies Conference next week in […]

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Why Small Paid Search Engines Are Usually Not The Answer
I think I see a similar thread about once a month or so. What small engine provides underpriced traffic?
Many people tend to be stuck on a product or service or marketing angle. We tend to view these as good and then place our problems on others.
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Apple Puts New iPod Photos On the Market
Apple today updated its iPod photo collection by introducing a new slim 30GB model, which holds up to 7,500 songs, for $349 and a new 60GB model, which can store up to 15,000 songs, for $449. Both models hold up to 25,000 digital photos and will feature the […]

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Copernic Desktop Search Now Supports Mozilla Thunderbird
Copernic today announced the availability of a new and improved version (1.5) of its Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) product that fully supports Mozilla Thunderbird, including indexing of Thunderbird emails, attachments, and contacts. Also announced was support for indexing Eudora emails and attachments and many exciting new features based on […]

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Click Fraud and Its Effect on the Search Marketing Industry
The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) today weighed in on the subject of click fraud, a problem that potentially dilutes the value of search engine traffic. The non-profit professional association, which is working to increase awareness and promote the value of search engine marketing worldwide, […]

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Yahoo Beefs Up Image Search Index to 1.5 Billion Images, Adds Shortcuts
Yahoo has spiced up Yahoo Image Search with a larger index of up to 1.5 billion images and some new features such as transformed queries, and integration of a Yahoo Image shortcut into the normal Yahoo Search tool. The Yahoo Image Search engine […]

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Picsearch Working with MSN Search to Power Image Search
Picsearch announced today that it has entered into an agreement to supply the new MSN Search service with image search services. This means that MSN consumers may search for electronic images on the Internet using technology made available by Picsearch. Nils Andersson, CEO of Picsearch, said “I […]

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