Yahoo Search Marketing & MSN Search Officially Part Ways Due to escalated competitiveness and the new MSN adCenter picking up speed to become a massive player in the search engine marketing world, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Search have finally ended their relationship as YSM will no longer be serving sponsored keyword advertisements on MSN [...]

New Google PageRank Update? Over the past few days I’ve been noticing some sites (of my own and some others) with new or changing Google PageRank. At first I got all excited, thinking that the datacenters have all updated with a new uniform PageRank update, but sites went back to zero or previous ranks, and [...]

Google Video Adds Video Ratings, Tags and Comments In another step to further socialize the Google Video service beyond sharing and video producer profiles, Google has now added a new rating system, tags and comments to its searchable index of videos. Adopting more of the basic methods which has propelled YouTube to superstar status, Google [...]

Burma (Myanmar) Blocks Google! The Times of India is reporting that according to Burmese Internet users, the government of Burma (or Myanmar, depending on which governmental name and body your country recognizes) has blocked Google and GMail. Those attempting to view either Google or Gmail are confronted with a message saying “Access Denied”. An official [...]

Jambo Airs Pay Per Call on the Radio Jambo is going to introduce PPCall ads via remnant radio inventory. Here’s a write-up in MediaPost (reg. req’d): Jambo, known for distributing through directories like InfoSpace, will buy remnant ad time from BidForSpots.com, which aggregates airtime from roughly 2,000 different stations, and arbitraging the space to its [...]

MTV Selling Videos on Apple iTunes This has been one crazy week with online entertainment & content distribution partnerships with YouTube and NBC hooking up along with Warner Brothers and Guba, now MTV is getting into the act with an Apple iTunes deal. MTV is already working with Microsoft to run their URGE digital music [...]

Yahoo Search Marketing Settles Click Fraud Suit Chris Sherman has the huge write up on Yahoo’s settlement of the click fraud case. He describes; The terms of the settlement include a cash payment of $4.95 million to plaintiffs’ counsel and a provision that will allow advertisers to file a claim for Yahoo to investigate potentially [...]

Google’s a Verb in the Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary has officially listed Google as a verb in their latest update on June 15th. According to Gary Price at ResourceShelf, other new entries include “yada yada” and Energizer Bunny. The search-related news is that Google (as a verb) is now a “draft entry [...]

Performancing Partners Blog Advertising Network Coming Soon Remember Performancing.com? The bloggerific lovechild of Nick Wilson (formerly of Threadwatch), Chris Garrett, Andy Hagans and some other investors? Performancing. The blog metrics and Firefox blogging extension startup which has proven to also be a non-stop destination of incredibly useful blogging tips, case studies and experiential anecdotes… yes, [...]

Microsoft Windows Live QnA Invites Microsoft’s Windows Live QnA, which is expected to be a similar question and answer powered informational resource to Yahoo Answers, Answerbag and Google Answers, has sent out limited invites to US based beta testers of Live.com. LiveSide reports : Windows Vista beta testers, living in the US (yes, yet another [...]