Search Engine Journal

Yahoo Search Open Shortcuts in Beta
On the Yahoo Search Blog, Don Chennavasin and Lalgudi Kannan have announced a new Yahoo Shortcuts tool which lets Yahoo users construct their own customized Yahoo Shortcuts; Open Shortcuts. The whole idea looks like a pretty good way to let Yahoo users not only develop their own ways to save […]

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Yahoo Free Submit Your Site Broken
If you have been trying to submit your site to the Yahoo! Submit Your Site form, you are probably getting a timeout error.
Submit Your Site Request Failed
Your submission request was not accepted because: The following resulted when trying to access your document: timeout Please correct and resubmit the form below.

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Google Bundling Google Toolbar with Hardware
Google is expanding its toolbar partnerships beyond web downloads & computer software and into the hardware market. Aaron at Threadwatch points to a story on Google’s partnership with Lexar Media and USB Flash Drives.
Lexar Media Inc. on Tuesday said it is adding Google applications, including a toolbar and search function, […]

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Search Engine Blog Awards To Be Announced Wednesday December 20th
The reader voting for the 2005 Search Engine Blog Awards is finished and the Search Engine Journal will be announcing the awared winners tomorrow, Wednesday December 20th. I was originally planning on announcing the awards winners yesterday, but due to the logistics of booking an International […]

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Ask Jeeves To Grow 20% Says IAC
Andy shows that The Street reports that Diller Asks Jeeves to Grow. Specifically by 20% says Berkowitz;
Barry Diller’s Internet empire expects to increase the staff at its Ask Jeeves search engine by about 20%, Ask Jeeves head Steve Berkowitz says. The expansion comes as Jeeves, which employs 650 workers […]

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Matt Cutts : Google & SEO Interviews
2005 may be remembered as the year of the Green Chicken for some, and the year of Paris Hilton and the Pritt-Aniston break up for others, but for the SEO community, I’m taking the liberty to declare 2005 to have been the Year of Matt Cutts. Since Matt started […]

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Google Landing Page Quality Rankings & Organic SEO
I saw this a couple days ago but didn’t give it much thought until an idea occurred to me. What if Google decides, after tweaking this landing page measurement algorithm, to begin applying it to regular SERPs? Well in this article I look at the pros and […]

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Local.com Search Engine Offers Insider Pages Reviews & Advertising
Local.com has been building some strong partnerships over the last three months, including new partners in Looksmart’s FURL and Ingenio Pay Per Call advertising. Now, Local.com has announced a new advertising and user review content partnership with Insider Pages, a community oriented local-search engine. Local.com and Insider […]

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Yahoo Sponsored Listings Getting Face Lift
An email went out last night to all Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture) customers notifying them of new changes to come to YSM in 2006. YahooSarah at Search Engine Watch created a thread named New Look Coming For Yahoo Sponsored Search Listings where she informs the rest of us about these […]

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Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion
In something of a surprise, Google is set to buy 5% of America Online from Time Warner for $1 billion. We had anticipated a Microsoft announcement. There’s more on this story from The N.Y. Times. This is obviously a big deal and may give Google access to coveted […]

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