Search Engine Journal

Ask.com Adds RSS Smart Answers
Ask.com has put together which may be one of their most useful and, well, smartest Smart Answers offerings to date; RSS Smart Answers. Currently when searching for specific blogs on Ask.com (try TechCrunch), the three latest RSS feeds from that site are served at the very top of the Ask.com search […]

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Umdum & V7N Directory Half Price Specials
I’m quite happy to announce that the Umdum Directory has partnered with the V7 Network’s V7N Web Directory (remember V7ndotcom Elursrebmem?) for a special summer time promotion which offers a ‘two for one’ deal on directory submittals at both of these highly trafficked listings hubs.
Here’s how it works; submit […]

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Google, Yahoo, eBay & Linking : Today’s Search Engine News
Doing some traveling today down to Tampa Bay, so posts on Search Engine Journal will be sparse. Here are some summaries of some Search News on the blogs and news pages today.
Google Accessible Web Search :
Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify […]

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Yahoo Ads Appearing in eBay Search Results
Yahoo Search Marketing advertisements are beginning to be shown on some result pages in eBay, according to Ina Steiner at AuctionBytes. Yahoo & eBay struck up a powerful multiyear partnership in May which will result in Paypal integration throughout Yahoo, more eBay presence within Yahoo Channels and Yahoo Search […]

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Yahoo & Zillow Partner for Home Estimate Search
Zillow and Yahoo have teamed for real estate estimate search as Zillow Zestimates are showing up as a shortcut in Yahoo search results. In addition to the search shortcuts, Zillow is also be featured in Yahoo’s real estate section for finding the value of a home.
From the Yahoo […]

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LookSmart’s AdCenter for Publishers
LookSmart as unveiled a new version of its AdCenter for Publishers, which is a platform that helps online publishers maintain and grow critical small and large advertiser relationships. LookSmart says that several additional publishers are now licensing the white label AdCenter to “increase their online advertiser base and corresponding revenue.” Such publishers […]

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AOL & Calacanis Recruiting Netscape Navigators at $1,000 a Month
Jason Calacanis and the new Netscape project (AOL Digg) are working to recruit active Digg, Flickr, Newsvine and MySpace users in an effort to build the transition of the mass social bookmarkers of the world from their current homes over to Netscape. The Netscape Navigators will […]

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Million Dollar Homepage Meets Mass Linking : TagsPage
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, TagsPage takes the mass limited adspace & linking concept of the Million Dollar Homepage and adds some text to it, with a 2.0 style tagging format.
Want to list a link to your site on TagsPage? Although I doubt how effective […]

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On India’s Banning of Blogs
Amit Agarwal, Indian blogger extraordinaire, has answered some of the questions on the recent banning of certain blog networks & blog hosts by the Indian government. The blog ban in India is speculated to be connected to the recent Mumbai Train attacks; ‘Probably the groups behind the bomb blasts used blogs […]

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Google Out Ranks KinderStart.com in Lawsuit
Yesterday it was announced that a California judge granted a motion by Google to dismiss a lawsuit by KinderStart.com over the site’s rankings in the Google search engine. KinderStart.com alledged that a change in Google rankings is responsible for a 80% drop in advertising revenue after its site was dropped […]

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