Google has canned its Google Answers program, which was the first major search operated question & answer service. Simply enough, Googlers would rather use the Google search engine to find answers to their questions, or turn to social question & answer services which are thriving due to their active member base. Enter Yahoo Answers. In [...]

Search engine optimization for small market sites and businesses just got a bit easier with the launch of SoloSEO; a web based self service project management tool for SEO campaigns. Is SoloSEO the replacement for an expert SEO staff member or agency? No. But for those businesses which want to try and tackle basic SEO [...]

Here’s the WSJ (sub req’d) on the deal: The agreement with Verizon is YouTube’s first major deal with a wireless carrier as it tries to extend the reach of its Internet video content beyond personal computers. YouTube, which was acquired by the Mountain View, Calif., Internet company for $1.65 billion, has attracted a huge audience [...]

For those long term search marketers who have been taking advantage of Yahoo’s generosity of allowing grandfathered bids below $.10 from campaigns which were carried over from Goto.com and Overture, those days are over. According to an email sent to a Webmasterworld member, Yahoo will not be honoring the old Goto.com grandfathered $.01 and $.05 [...]

Todd Malicoat has put together a simple yet effective guide to Digg for search marketers which is packed with stats on Digg usage, the traffic which Digg can bring to a site, the aftershock of linking and continued traffic and references to some of the best articles out there about Digg, which are penned by [...]

Barry Diller and IAC are going to launch something called “AskCity” next week, which will be a consolidated local offering under the Ask brand: The new Web-based city guides, due out on December 4, will be followed later in December by a redesign of IAC’s Ask.com search service, a small but fast-growing rival to Google [...]

Google has created a ‘secret’ Google Display Advertising Network to attract Fortune 1000 companies into the Google advertising realm. Google’s Display Advertising Network is exclusive and invitation only, and based upon high CPM (cost per thousand impressions) rates and not cost per click, like Google AdWords or the current AdSense network. John Chow describes the [...]

Yahoo Search Marketing just sent out the following email which alerts its advertisers to the changes in bid management from the current ‘auction PPC’ format to the new Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Estimated Average Position’ and Bid Range for Top Positions.’ Dear Advertiser, As you will soon notice when you log into your Sponsored Search account, [...]