Search Engine Journal

Jambo Introduces Collect Pay Per Call Advertising
Jambo, a pay per call advertising company, today introduced Pay-Per-Call Collect,which Jambo says that their Collect Pay Per Call service is an industry first, and is a mix between paying for incoming lead generating collect calls with somewhat of a telemarketing opt-out / opt-in spin.
The service sounds a […]

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Link Baiting eBook : Viral Copy
Recently I’ve become a little obsessed with link baiting (although all blog posts are essentially link bait, it’s just that some worms are fatter & juicier than others), which is the practice of creating content interesting enough, funny enough, shocking enough, or smart enough which other bloggers and publishers will […]

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Ask.com Expands Search Engine & Information Focus
Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), in an effort to seriously contend with Google, Yahoo & MSN, has officially dropped the Jeeves character from their branding and are focusing on their Ask Search Technology, search tools and a simpler design. Ask.com feels that the new branding represents the achievements in search […]

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Google Brings National Archives to Google Video
Google Video has launched a program which aims to make media holdings of the National Archives available for free online. This agreement between Google and the National Archives and Records Administration will enable researchers and the general public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries and other […]

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Ask.com Spins Teoma into ExpertRank
In a move which helps to simplify Ask.com and focus on its core brand, Ask.com (sem Jeeves), Ask will be phasing out the Teoma brand and redirecting the Teoma site to search.ask.com.
Keeping within their recent rebranding under one Ask umbrella trend, the Teoma team is now to be known as […]

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Digglicious - Digg Meets del.icio.us
A colleague sent me over an email last week about Digglicious, an AJAX hybrid of Digg and del.icio.us where bookmarking meets social voting. The site is a bit of a novelty, but could prove to be a fine alternative to watching reruns of Three’s Company at 4 in the morning. Albeit […]

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Google Video AdSense Sightings
GoogleRumors reports that they have spotted a Video AdSense ad on the Entertainment blog ‘The Superficial‘, which is run via Flash Video : “The path from just text to full multimedia has finished (text->images->animation->Flash video). The ad in question appeared on entertainment centric site The Superficial and use the normal AdSense inclusion […]

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Google AdSense Temporarily Unavailable - Multilingual Message
Just went to log in and check Google AdSense statistics and am getting a message that AdSense is temporarily down. Google seems to have picked Friday evenings as Google AdSense upgrade time recently, so perhaps there will be some changes to the system tomorrow.
What’s amazing is that the Temporarily […]

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MSN adCenter Increasing Search Advertising Volume by 70%
I got an email an hour or so ago from MSN adCenter representative, Carolyn informing some of us that on Monday February 27th, MSN adCenter will be “increasing traffic by approximately 70% from our current levels.” So this will effect your budgets and traffic, probably by Tuesday February […]

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Great Blog from Google Employee Niniane Wang
Andy Beal has expanded his obsession of Google Software Engineer Niniane Wang and her blog from Andy’s safe laidback offices in North Carolina all the way to Sin Silicon and Gawker Media’s ValleyWag.
Andy has made the reading of Software Engineer Niniane Wang’s personal blog part of his daily […]

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