Search Engine Journal

TiVo to Permit Commercial Ad Searching (Not Just Skipping)
Here’s another movement in the transformation of TV (from reach to targeting) . . . per the WSJ, TiVo is working with Comcast and others to enable users to “search” for ads that are more relevant to them:
TiVo users will be able to set up a profile […]

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Google or Yahoo Manchester United’s New Sponsor?
Back when my uncle used to race Unlimited Hydroplanes he decided to stop racing for Miller & Ford and start his own racing team. He went down to New Zealand and purchased a mammoth boat from Sir Peter Knight in Christ Church, brought the vessel back to the states […]

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Vibrant Media / IntelliTXT Contextual Advertising Gets $25 M in Funding
Vibrant Media, the owners of the Intellitxt on site link advertising network, have secured $25 million in funding from backers such as ABS Capital Partners and Messpierson Investeringsmaatschappij of The Netherlands. Rafat at PaidContent was one of the first to run the story and is […]

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Mamma.com Adds Related Search Powered by SLI Systems
Mamma.com today is set to announce that it will now be using SLI Systems’ Related Search to offer relevant search suggestions to its users. Mamma chose SLI Systems’ Related Search for its customizable search functionality and specifically for its ability to increase the success rate of user searches. […]

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Dunkin Donuts Doesn’t Get Local Search Marketing
My initial plan of doing a post on Intuit’s new Local Search 2.0 offering Zipingo ran into a detour when I noticed the lack of user reviews, the obstacle that most nation wide local social projects are running into without a form of centralized review ‘filler’. So, after being […]

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SEO Myths and Duplicate Content
Experiencing a bit of search engine blogger’s block this evening and when I do so, I usually turn to the Cre8asite crowd to get my juices stirred up again. There is a new thread in the Search Engine Optimization forum dubbed SEO Myths.
Bill Slawski (Bragadocchio) starts the thread by listing the […]

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Top Yahoo Ranking, But Where is the Traffic?
A thread I can relate to at WebmasterWorld is named #1 in Yahoo but No Traffic. I hold the number one position for a few top keyword phrases that, according to Overture’s keyword suggestion tool, gets over 3,000 searches per day. And guess what, I may get five […]

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Google Calendar Coming : Calendar.Google.com
Google Calendar may be launching very soon as Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration reports that the calendar.google.com domain is live, although it is redirecting to the Google.com homepage instead of serving one of those annoying Google Server Error messages like previous pre-launch Google subdomains have.
Amit writes : It’d be nice […]

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Ask Jeeves Smart Answers Timeline
Last week I touched a bit upon the Ask Jeeves Smart Answers offerings and their latest partnership with GoFish. GoFish will be providing multimedia content to the Ask Jeeves Smart Answers program, which works with multiple content oriented web entities to provide useful and rich information to searchers who are using […]

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Usability Strategy and Search Engine Optimization
Usability is already a critical component of successful online ventures but with the advent of Google Analytics and the implementation of the Jagger algo update, user-activities and behaviours are going to play an influencing role in search engine rankings. How people act when they visit a website or document is […]

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