Search Engine Journal

Consider it an online video version of American Idol, as Yahoo! Media is launching the Yahoo Talent Show to help build publicity for Yahoo Video.
“With the launch of this new contest, Yahoo! demonstrates our commitment to continue offering the most original, high-quality video content for our users”
Cristian Mezei reports at SEOpedia:
The Yahoo! Talent Show […]

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Some good news from Incisive media just came into my Inbox, Danny Sullivan will be sticking around and helping to run and skipper the Search Engine Strategies Conferences.
Incisive Media and Danny Sullivan today announced that both parties have signed an agreement to continue to work together to produce the market-leading Search Engine Strategies series of […]

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I created an entry for “Bruce Clay” at Wikipedia for the group of articles called “Famous SEOs” which are listed at the entry for “Search Engine Optimization”
 One of the things that come to mind when talking about Bruce is the fact, correction, assumption that he coined the phrase “Search Engine Optimization” to describe to other […]

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AOL Video is expanding the content available on its site through a deal with several content partners, the most visible of which is Viacom’s Paramount Pictures. According to the release I received, movies and TV shows from the studio will be available to download and own and priced from $9.99 to $19.99 per movie. (It […]

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Popular Searches in China
Google Zeitgeist published the popular Chinese searches in the month August. Google added China again to its monthly zeitgeist in March 2006 and it gives a nice insight in the world of Chinese search.
In a previous article I attempted to analyze the popular Chinese queries from March until July 2006.
The month […]

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According to Elinor Mills at CNET News.com, Google Maps is planning on introducing its new political Google Earth 2006 Election mashup.
The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool indicates the country’s 436 congressional districts with stars on the popular 3D map of the country. Clicking on a star pops open a bubble window that has information […]

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When registering with a web portal, social network or search engine, privacy is always a concern since the companies one registers with are tracking large chunk of your online activity and lifestyle choices; especially as companies such as MySpace, Yahoo and Google try harder and harder to emulate life in their online offerings.
Recently Yahoo and […]

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Every so often I check back in on AdWords. Quite some time ago now the company “bifurcated” AdWords into a simplified “Starter Edition” and a “Standard Edition.” Starter edition is in fact simpler – much simpler – for new advertisers (small businesses). I finally walked through the process, which is still extensive, but it was […]

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Yahoo braced the world and its investors at a Goldman Sachs investment conference last month when Yahoo CEO Terry Semel told investors that a slowdown in advertising in the automobile & financial channels may hurt Yahoo stock.
Google, on the other hand, went out an paid $1.65 billion (in stock) for YouTube.
One does not have […]

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Google published its 2006 Q3 earnings results yesterday which helped to fortify Google’s dominance of web search, search engine marketing, and online advertising as a whole.
Google quarterly profit almost doubled in Q3, with an increase of 92% while gross revenue rose 70% to $2.69 billion.
“Our third quarter results are a testament to the strength of […]

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