Search Engine Journal

More than likely speculation, yesterday FORTUNE published a piece on rumors that Yahoo is in the hunt to purchase AOL from under Google’s feet.
* FORTUNE has learned from multiple sources that Yahoo (Charts) recently approached Time Warner (Charts) (parent of FORTUNE’s publisher) about buying America Online - essentially trying to jump-start talks that broke down […]

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This MediaPost piece discusses a Wendy’s “campaign” on YouTube — commercials that “masqueraded” as videos on the site. There was considerable exposure apparently, with some users responding positively and others critical of the spots.
Even though these spots may have been clever, edgy or entertaining, they’re effectively video spam because they were put there by an […]

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Despite the documented problems over the years, businesses and web development firms are continuing to use a flash base in site design, without regard of the challenges an all flash site poses for search engine rankings and SEO (not to mention usability).
Sure, some hybrids of flash and text work well, with the mutual understanding […]

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I’m a sporadic Flickr user, posting an image or screen capture from time to time, and have not really gotten as into the Flickr experience as I should be. Some of my friends, on the other hand, are Flickr Wizards; with Flickr generated business cards and seeming endless Flickr streams.
Bill Slawski, who has a secret […]

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CDC Corporation has launched the integration of Google Click-to-Play Video advertising on China.com; On the English Channel of China.com, Google’s click-to-play video ads will be accessible to both large and small advertisers and will provide brand advertisers with a richer and more engaging format to communicate their messages.
“Google’s click-to-play video ads are user-initiated, so […]

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A recent post on DigitalPoint proves the importance of forking over the cash for a dependable web hosting company as one member notes that after a 48 hour server outage, their sites dropped from their #1 or top ten positions:
About 2-3 of weeks or so ago our server was down for about two days… We […]

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Internal company papers from Google somehow found their way outside of the Googleplex and into the hands of Google Blogoscoped’s Philipp Lenssen.
Philipp has not published the papers but has outlined some of the Google Internal Company Goals which Google is working on including a new beefed up Google News (Google has been transferring blogs […]

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According to Barry Schwartz and a mail from a member at DigitalPoint, the new version of Firefox 2.0; which was just released by Mozilla, is not included in the Google AdSense Firefox Referral program.
Google AdSense has an affiliate style program which pays $1 per download of Firefox & Google Toolbar referral from a publisher’s site.
Google’s […]

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Yahoo has added another company blog to their growing internal blogroll, the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog. For those of you who may be wondering why the Yahoo Search Marketing team has just gotten around to launching a blog, chances are the launch was planned to accompany the new Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’ platform which is […]

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Yahoo has been on the social media track for over a year now, with Flick & del.icio.us acquisitions leading the way to the socialization of Yahoo Local, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Photos, Travel and Yahoo Answers; and the recent Google acquisition of YouTube paired with the maturing of Google Co-op has raised some eyebrows in the […]

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