Search Engine Journal

My apologies for this ‘unprofessional’ post, but we are currently experiencing commenting problems in our Wordpress script here at SEJ.
If you have a chance, could you try and leave a comment below. If you are taken to a blank screen, then you are experiencing the same commenting problem as I am. Please email me […]

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Google Maps Details Europe
Google Maps has upgraded its European maps and driving directions (per SEW and Google Blogoscoped). Side by side on a query for the Ask (Jeeves) offices in London (at the highest available level of aerial resolution), here’s:

* Google
* Yahoo!
* Windows Live Local
* MapQuest (aerial coming soon)
Ask only maps US locations currently. Here’s […]

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Umdum Update : Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN Indexing
It’s been a week since the launch of the Umdum Web Directory and Umdum would like to take the chance to thank all of those who have submitted their sites already and those who covered the launch.
We’ve been monitoring the indexing of Umdum by the major search […]

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Jim Lanzone : CEO of Ask.com, the Firefox of Search
Jim Lanzone has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ask.com - after former CEO Steve Berkowitz left Ask for Microsoft. Jim is not only a large part of the reason for Ask.com’s turn around over the past year, but he has served as an accessible and […]

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Google AdWords Abuse Video on YouTube
Evan Roberts posts on Marketing Shift the recap of a video from YouTube which shows how “a couple different forms of adsense abuse including Made-For-Adsense sites and multiple accounts bidding on the same words both violations of Google Policies.”
From the YouTube member who posted the video:
“There has been a recent […]

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Yahoo Serves More Search Advertisements than Google
According to a comScore qSearch search advertising study, Yahoo now serves more search oriented advertisements than Google.
From the 360TechBlog:
In March 2006, Yahoo increased the proportion of its searches that contained a sponsored ad by 30 percent year-over-year; 59.7 percent of searches now display ads. Google showed ads on […]

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Internet Explorer 7 Beta Now Available for Download
According to the official IE Blog, Internet Explorer 7 Beta is now available. More from the site:
“We acted on a lot of the feedback and bug reports from the previous public releases. In particular, I feel good about changes we made based on reports from web developers around […]

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Google’s Big Daddy Cleaning House
The Google Big Daddy update has been underway for a bit now and I’ve noticed a thread on Digital Point Forums about a large amount of sites being cleansed from the Google Big Daddy index.

The thread is about 10 days old, but is stil fairly active with accounts of thousands of […]

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MySpace Banned at Del Mar College
Yet another college has banned the popular online social networking website MySpace.com. The latest in the line is the Texas based Del Mar College. Students of this college would have to access this website from outside their campus if they want to stay in touch with their friends.
The reason for […]

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Google’s GData: Portal is Nigh, APIs as Marketing Resource
I’ve seen surprisingly little written about Gdata over the past few days, both in my regular blog reads and in the main stream media (which I find out about from blogs :).
So it was great to see “Why Google is extending RSS” this morning in bloglines […]

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