Search Engine Journal

Section Targeting by Google AdSense
This just makes so much sense! As a publisher and Webmaster, you can tell your contextual ads, which content is the real content on the page. As you and I know, many content management systems default text into titles and meta information into the pages, that have nothing to do with […]

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Google Talk Already Exists?
Little did I know upon writing an overview of the rumors and leaks leading to the launch of Google’s anticipated IM and VOIP client, Google Talk; that Google Talk already exists. Seems that alot of the buzz centered around the talk.google.com subdomain could be an internal Google joke to sway industry speculators […]

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Google Talk - Instant Messaging and VOIP App from Google?
When Google talks, the world listens. People get ready to open your ears, because Google is about to speak loud and clear as the Internet anticipates the release this week of Google Talk - the Google Instant Messaging service. Google executives have hinted that the company […]

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Ask Jeeves Interested in Grouper File Sharing
Om Malik spills the beans that Ask Jeeves is looking into acquiring Grouper the peer to peer file sharing social network. Om sees the acquisition as a channel for Ask Jeeves to bundle its download offerings as well as show its new sponsored search advertisements. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines […]

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Google Loses Market Share in July, Yahoo and MSN Gain
The monthly number of internet searches in July 2005 reached an astounding 4.8 billion, a 22% increase over the number of searches conducted in July 2004. To the delight of Google’s competition, Google lost a portion of its market share. ComScore Media Metrix reported that Google’s […]

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Search Engine Marketers Yahoo Fantasy Football League
In the spirit of networking and getting to know one another, a Yahoo Fantasy Football league has been developed for grid-iron grinders in the search engine marketing field. If you love football, have a Yahoo account, and want to get involved in what may be the most competitive of […]

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Amazon Partners with Shutterfly for Digital Photo Store
Amazon.com and Shutterfly have partnered to bring Shutterfly’s digital photo services to Amazon’s customer base. Amazon and Shutterfly have built a co-branded site at Amazon.Shutterfly.com where Amazon customers can upload their digital camera photos to Shutterfly and order custom prints. Shutterfly services, a Kodak owned monster-web business in […]

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MSN Search Slows Over Zealous RSS News Bot
At Search Engine Journal we’ve been noticing some weird increases in our bandwidth lately and perhaps this new announcement by MSN Search has something to do with it. It seems that MSN has been rather active with the spidering of RSS files from various news sites and blogs. […]

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Earthlink Acquires Anti-Spyware Company
Earthlink, one of the largest and most innovative ISPs in the US, has just acquired an anti-spyware firm to add to its anti-pop up, anti-spam and anti-virus offerings for Earthlink customers. Earthlink was one of the first ISP’s to offer anti-popup and anti-spam software for its users. Techwhack’s Sushubh Mittal reports on […]

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Monitoring AdSense Earnings on Google Sidebar
One of the coolest things about Google’s Sidebar application is that it is open to adding plug-ins; created by both Google and other software manufacturers (an influence of Firefox?). The Google Desktop Plugins directory is available from Google and includes plug-ins ranging from chat to iPod to video players. One […]

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