Search Engine Journal

Yahoo! My Web in Beta
Quickly on the heals of Google’s personalized offering, Yahoo! offers a search storing system. My Web allows you to import your bookmarks, unless…My Web currently does not support bookmark import from this browser. “We currently Support Internet Explorer Favorites and Yahoo! Bookmarks.” “We are looking into extending support for additional browsers […]

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Ask Jeeves to Reduce PPC Ads by 31%
Gary Price does it again, he posted a blog entry named Ask Jeeves Reports Earnings; CEO Comments on Improving User Experience By Reducing Number of Ads on Results Pages, which encouraged me to post a thread at both Cre8asite Forums as well as Search Engine Watch Forums. Basically, […]

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Yahoo Updates Yahoo News and Personal Search
Search Engine Giant Yahoo! has been beta testing their updated News Syndication site since quite sometime and yesterday they launched it officially. The updated site comes with a totally new interface, which is less cluttered and is aimed towards usability. Efforts have been made to help users make full […]

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Yahoo! Local Reviews Biased
Yesterday was a slow day in the office, so I took the time to update My Yahoo! 360 Page. I added a blog entry, updated my blast, added information to my profile and then decided to add a “local review”. I clicked over to the local reviews and then decided to review […]

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Microsoft Suggests Google AdSense
An article on Microsoft’s small-business center has some suggestions for bloggers to make money from blogs. To my surprise, the author suggest putting Adsense or BlogAds on your blogs to generate revenue. This may be a huge embarrasment to MSN which is planning to roll out it’s own adverting program soon.
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Yahoo & Richard Branson (No Donald Trump) Giving Away 10 Million Ad Impressions
Yahoo! Search Marketing (was Overture), is holding a contest with “Think Big” which will award one small business with 10 million free ad impressions across the Yahoo! network. Sir Richard Branson, world renowned entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Group, will serve […]

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Yahoo My Web Energizes Personalized Search
Yahoo announced that they are taking My Yahoo Search (or personal search) to the 360th degree today with the launch of Yahoo ‘My Web’ - a beefed up personalized web offering which offers RSS syndication, saved search, and integration into the normal Yahoo Search and Toolbar offerings (this is BIG). […]

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Weblogs Inc Running Google AdSense in RSS Feeds
There was some testing going on and discussions on yesterday about Google AdSense adds located in RSS feeds. Now, Weblogs Inc has announced that it is the first platform to test Google’s much-anticipated RSS advertising service. RSS feeds for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (www.tuaw.com) are now […]

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Text Link Pricing Criteria
Ever wonder how much a text link is really worth based on the sole factor of the link popularity component in search rankings? Most SEOs have thought about this more then once. Web ads are sold in large number of ways; CPM, monthly, CPC, CPA and so on. To sell an ad, […]

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Yahoo My Web Powerful and Provocative
Right on the heels of Google’s My Search History, Yahoo! Launches a better, simplified version of its earlier Web search personalization tool “My Search”—now called My Web. A considerable advance over Yahoo!’s previous “My Search,” it’s more “robust” (I hate using that term) than Google’s simpler My Search History tool. […]

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