Search Engine Journal

Dude, Where’s My Yahoo Search Marketing?
During a week dominated by Google news the Yahoo camp has been a bit quiet, especially over at Yahoo Search Marketing. Seems during a weekend upgrade to the search advertising interface there were a few problems that led to a slow down of the ad management application and then an […]

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AOL News More Popular Than Google News and Topix Combined
Search Engine Watch published an interesting overview by Greg Jarboe of the popularity of AOL News and how it has quickly become a major news search engine, second to only Yahoo News. Nielsen//NetRatings reported that in July 2005, only one month after its relaunch, AOL News […]

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Former Ask Jeeves International Honcho Now InfoSearch Media CEO
InfoSearch Media (TrafficLogic - the company based around selling optimized content) has brought in former members of the Ask Jeeves senior management team to steer their controversial business model ship. George Lichter, former President of Ask Jeeves International, has agreed to join the Company as its Chief […]

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Google Developing Global Video Conferencing
Google is looking for a Sr. Video Conferencing Engineer to develop a digital video conferencing application for Google to roll out on a global scale according to a HotJobs posting. There has been much rumor centered around Google Video Conferencing being a major part of Google’s new communications direction after the […]

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Search For Singles Hotties Using Google Maps
Talk about using the Google Maps API for the good of mankind. San Francisco software firm Frozenbear has combined the Google Mapping technology with the HotOrNot.com site to help Americans find hotties by zip code at “HotOrNot + Google Maps”. The ability to pinpoint the location of a hottie […]

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Google Speaks Loudly with Google Talk
Over the past 12 hours Google has taken over the major search and tech news resources with the launch of its Google Talk IM client. Google Talk, a messaging tool with text instant messaging and VOIP, is quite a simple tool except for its integration with GMail (one must be […]

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Yahoo Search Marketing and Viacom Contract for Web Advertising
Yahoo and Viacom have sealed an agreement where Yahoo Search Marketing ads will be shown across Viacom’s network of entertainment and news oriented web channels. Paid search. contextual ads, and other Yahoo powered search features will be integrated into web sites such as BET.com, CBSNews.com, CMT.com, MTV.com, […]

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Skype Opens Up With Google Talk and Yahoo VOIP Competition
Google Talk has been hogging both the search and messaging spotlights over the past 24 hours with its messaging and VOIP launch. However, let us not forget that there are other messaging tools on the market that are just as useful and not integrated into GMail […]

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Google Talk Instant Messenger is Finally Here
After an almost unprecendented frenzy of speculation Google Talk is live. What is it? It’s an IM client that has VoIP (good transmission quality). You have to have a gmail account to participate. (This may help drive gmail adoption). It’s simple and easy to use (add contacts, invite and […]

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Is Google Talk Instant Messaging Video Related?
The boys at Google plan to launch a web communications tool on Wednesday which is going to be big news. Google executives and leaks have hinted that the company will be releasing a messaging and/or VOIP tool from Google - Google Talk. Google has secured the subdomain talk.google.com is […]

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