Search Engine Journal

Ask Jeeves Paid Search To Rival Google & Yahoo
Ask Jeeves plans to launch their own version of a paid search advertising platform as early as today according to Dow Jones and various search engine marketing analysts. The new paid search advertising platform will be a larger revenue generator for Ask Jeeves than their current agreement […]

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IceRocket is Now IceRocket Blog Search, Not BlogScour
Last week there were reports in major online news media that IceRocket Search Engine, which is funded in part by Mark Cuban, has rebraded itself as BlogScour. These reports, according to IceRocket, were false and brought about by a bit of confusion. Seems that ever since Ice Rocket […]

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Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox Released
In a bid to get the attention of the growing number of online users moving to the popular alternative browser Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo! has finally released the final of their Yahoo! Toolbar. The add-on to the popular open source web browser first appeared way back in February and had a minor […]

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Skype’s VOIP Challenge to Google, Yahoo, MSN
Skype was the first VOIP download offering that I ever heard of and over the past year, I’ve become quite loyal to the service. Back in the States, I used Skype for long distance calls as much as for international ones, as having a broadband connection was enough to […]

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Yahoo Japan Search, Auctions and Broadband
Living in Japan again has its perks, especially compared with my first stay in this beautiful country 4 years ago. First off, I understand the language and customs more so than before, although my Japanese still needs years of laboring. Second, I now have the freedom to spend more time […]

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Technorati Launches Mobile Search
Technorati has launched Technorati Mobile, a special version of the famed blog search facility set up to be easily viewed on mobile phones and handheld computers.
The site, which provides similar options to the main Technorati site, could actually end up being more popular amongst bloggers, as it seems to be quicker, […]

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Copernic Desktop Search with IE and Firefox Toolbar
Copernic has done it again with 1.6 - Now you can search your outlook emails, web history, music and everything else from Firefox browser. Another reason not to use MSN Desktop search toolbar.
Firefox is gaining prominence and with CDS 1.6, Copernic developers are making sure that no […]

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Changing Venues of Search - Search Going Mobile
For the past few years I have been writing about the immense changes happening in search marketing. These changes are driven by a number of factors but the two that make the biggest difference are technological advances and user adoption. It has been a full decade since Netscape […]

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Self Tagging by Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves just deployed MyJeeves 1.2: Tagging Solution for Virtual Folders but it does not offer the community aspect focus that Yahoo! has done so nicely with MyWeb 2.0.
I call asks version, self-tagging, because it doesn’t allow you to view your “communities” tags. For example, about a week ago, I was […]

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Search Engines and Issues With Session IDs
A HighRanking Forums thread named Cookieless Sessions discusses one of the biggest issues with dynamically driven Web sites - the session id.
Including a Session ID in a URL, will cause the search spiders to run around like chickens without their heads. Think of it this way. I have a […]

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