Search Engine Journal

The Google & MySpace Story
Back in May I wrote a post called “Google’s Social Awkwardness,” about how Google’s potential vulernability resided in its general absence of a “social networking” site (notwithstanding Orkut) and limited integration of social media into its portfolio of products and services. Since that time it’s done several things (e.g., Coop, Notebook) […]

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Google AdSense Tests Images Blended in Text Ads
Google AdSense seems to be testing and experimenting with a new style of contextual advertisement which is a blend of image, text, and links to search results which integrates the 3 major offerings of the Google AdSense program into one advertising format.
Google has been blending images into […]

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Alexa Site and Toolbar Down Today This Morning
This morning I’ve noticed that the entire Alexa.com site seems to be down and some other sites which feed off of Alexa, like Alexaholic, are not able to serve Alexa info. After opening my Internet Explorer browser to view some Alexa stats on its toolbar, I also noticed […]

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GenieKnows’ GenieLocal.com Running Verizon Superpages Advertisements
GenieLocal.com is now running Verizon Superpages advertisers in its local search results along with GenieKnows.com pay-per-click ads says IT Interactive Services, parent company of GenieKnows. SuperPages.com will provide GenieLocal.com local Pay-Per-Click and Pay-For-Calls advertiser information when users request specifics on pertinent local products and services.
GenieKnows.com Local uses local business-information listings […]

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AzoogleAds & eStara Partner for Pay Per Call Advertising
AzoogleAds and eStara have reached an agreement to partner for a new AzoogleAds click-to-call service. eStara’s click-to-call technology will provide AzoogleAds advertisers with the opportunity to bid on live conversation and lead generation with targeted customers.
“To maintain its leadership position, AzoogleAds required a solution that could […]

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Google GBuy Launching This Week?
Sure, industry speculation and some Google announcements have targeted this week as the launch of Google’s GBuy, the Google powered online payment and e-commerce system for Internet vendors. GBuy seemed to be lagging a bit until Yahoo & eBay announced their Yahoo Paypal partnership last month. With an expected launch date […]

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No MSN Search Updates on Weekends
Microsoft sometimes shocks you, it is like they do not follow the rules that Google and Yahoo! set forth in being secretive about how, why, what and when they do search index updates. Yahoo! recently began giving us updates, that yes, we did do an update. Google followed suit, to […]

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Yahoo Answers Grows Globally
Lesley Kao, Sr. Product Manager of International Yahoo! Answers, reminds us all on the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo Answers has added to its International expansion with nine new markets in five new languages, including Argentina, Mexico, Italy and Google Orkut’s backyard, Brazil. From the YSearchBlog:
For months now, many of you have […]

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YouTube Breaking Into MySpace Territory?
Garrett French has the Lowdown on YouTube creeping into MySpace’s backyard with the targeting of musicians and the usage of more personalized profiles. MySpace initially made it big as a central location for music fans to gather and meet on another based upon their musical and pop culture tastes.
Mr. French […]

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Google Opening Middle East Office in Egypt
Angelo Embuldeniya emailed me this morning with some clues that Google will be basing their Middle East marketing & sales operations in Cairo, although they already have a Research and Development Lab based in Israel. On Angelo’s blog he states that the Arab world had expected Google to open […]

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