Search Engine Journal

Yahoo Teaming With Newspapers
This Reuters piece reports on a BusinessWeek article (I couldn’t locate), which says a group of newspapers is in talks with Yahoo! to create a partnership that would include content and distribution. It’s unclear from what I saw what the form of it would be precisely.
Two of the named newspaper publishers were […]

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Google Video Expands to Europe and Canada
Google Video has expanded beyond its US-centric offering by launching new video search and store services in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and Canada.
From BBC News:
Before now, all of Google’s video offerings, which include clips made by amateurs as well as content from broadcasters and […]

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Local.com & WhitePages.com Launch PeopleSearch
Local.com has again added to its robust list of technology and content partners with the announcement that they are launching a PeopleSearch function on Local.com in conjunction with WhitePages.com.
PeopleSearch enhances Local.com’s nationwide search capabilities by adding the ability to look up 92 million residential listings in addition to more than 10 […]

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Feedster Gets New President & Funding
Feedster, the blog & feed search and subscription engine, announced today that Tyler Goldman will join its Board of Directors and become acting president of the company. Goldman’s background is in entertainment, with positions of Senior VP of Corporate & Business Development at Movielink, and founder and CEO of Broadband […]

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Google Selling Radio Advertising Soon?
TechToolBlog reports that Google AdWords is sending out surveys on radio advertising which is a powerful clue that Google might be ramping up its much anticipated Radio AdWords.
Today, I received a Google survey for some free adwords dollars. The entire survey was about radio advertisement. I think this is pretty good […]

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Yahoo Publisher Network Holding Focus Groups
Yahoo Publisher Network is holding a focus group in San Francisco and inviting publishers in the California area according to a DigitalPoint Forum member who received a phone call on participating.
Seems YPN is also offering publishers the added bonus of a $200 payment for attending.
I just got a call from […]

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Weighing MySpace.com & Yahoo Popularity
Yesterday Hitwise sent out a press release stating that MySpace.com was the most popular site on the Internet during the first week of July. More popular than Yahoo Mail and more popular than Google.
The Hitwise statement and numbers which back it up have caused some questioning by some, including Yahoo, […]

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SEOMoz Page Strength Tool : Replacing Google PageRank?
SEOMoz has put together a new tool which Rand & Co. feel can “replace the often inaccurate and infrequently updated Google PageRank score in the toolbar.” SEOMoz has consolidated various metrics used to judge site value, visibility and SEO strength into one easy to use tool which hopefully […]

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Interview with Laura Lippay, SEO Program Manager for Yahoo
Lee Odden has recently interviewed Yahoo’s SEO Program Manager, Laura Lippay, to find out exactly what her job is, SEO tips, optimization and usability, and tries to get some insight on some Yahoo secrets. Lippay also discusses some of the blogs she reads and forums she participates […]

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Yahoo News Looking for Vietnam & Korean War Video and Experiences
In what may prove to be the testing ground (or possibly killing fields) of the Yahoo News user generated video and content experiment, Yahoo’s Kevin Sites In The Hot Zone has put forth an open call for Vietnam and Korean War videos, photos and account […]

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