March Madness : NCAA Tournament & Search Engines It’s March Madness time and Yahoo & AOL are gearing up their Video Search, Search & Sports offerings for the tournament. AOLSearch.com has been tracking NCAA tournament oriented searches since the beginning of March and says : The Atlantic Coast Conference dominates college searches, with six of [...]

Search Marketing Salaries : What You Should be Paid Yesterday, I covered at the SEW Blog a ClickZ article about SEM Salaries. Here is a quick summary on how much SEMs get paid based on the ClickZ article. * Entry-level SEM position; $30,000 to $45,000 or about $10 per hour. * Three to five years [...]

CenSEARCHip : Compare Censored Search Results CenSEARCHip is a tool developed by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer at the Indiana University School of Informatics for comparing the differences in the results returned by Google and Yahoo! versions for the United States, China, France, and Germany. When you enter your search terms and select one of [...]

Mozilla Googlebot : Mozilla or Godzilla? Jim Trivolette of Blackwood Productions has been checking out the Mozilla Googlebot which he says is a “new Googlebot which has the ability to index many more pages then the old Googlebot.” Jim says that Mozilla Googlebot has the same tendency of Godzilla; in an effort to protect its [...]

Looking for Writely Invitations? At Google Blogoscoped Philipp has set up a comment thread on sharing Writely accounts. Writely uses an invitation system similar to Gmail and ever since the Google acquisition the demand for such accounts has skyrocketed. So, feel free to drop by Google Blogoscoped and ask for a Writely account invitation or [...]

Yahoo Social Search Looking for Engineers and Managers Jeremy Zawodny is on the lookout for future Yahoos to work on Yahoo! Answers, MyWeb, del.icio.us and other social search / social media offerings at Yahoo. This could be the chance of a lifetime for the people who can fill these spaces: Following that theme, we’re hoping [...]

Filtering Yahoo Publisher Network Ads from International Traffic I hear that the Yahoo! Publisher Network does not like its banners to be served up to international users (users outside of the United States). There are even reports of YPN publishers being banned from YPN for having too many international people click or view their ads. [...]