Search Engine Journal

I interviewed consumer empowerment engine Mpire’s CEO Matt Huelett in July. Mpire started *out of the gate* with an eBay partnership. That’s hot shit people.
I dug in back then to understand why eBay invested time with them, and how their approach to shopping comparison (perhaps better called consumer empowerment) differed from the 100 or so […]

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Believe it or not there are still people out there who are skeptical that the Internet is having a real impact in the “yellow pages” space. New survey data — albeit from an online panel — should silence those skeptics:
Local online marketing firm WebVisible conducted an online survey this past August regarding Internet usage to […]

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My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize their shopping cart feed for free to Froogle / Google Base. Cyber Monday is only 10 days away. If you’re not up on the shopping comparison engines, you’re potentionally […]

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While Google is currently the undisputed king (making others the queen, prince, baron, duke and viscount) of search that’s not necessarily going to automatically translate into mobile — the next big opportunity. Indeed, mobile is potentially disruptive (ring the bell!) of online market share.
GigaOm’s Katie Fehrenbacher has a good post on Google and mobile along […]

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Recipe sites experience the doubling of traffic during the Thanksgiving holiday week according to a recent Hitwise study, which shows that traffic to online recipe sites was up 17.5% last week. The bulk of the recipe searches are centered around traditional deserts such as pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie. A bit of irony as […]

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In an effort to assist news publishers with control over which articles are included in Google News and how, Google has now added Sitemaps for Google News to its arrary of Webmaster Tools. From Nathan Stoll, Product Manager, Google News on the Google Blog:
… we’re adding Google News support within Google webmaster tools.
Now, English-language publishers […]

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AOL’s Advertising.com, the largest third-party display advertising network in the United States, has reached a joint venture agreement with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to serve the Japanese online advertising market.
Under the title of Advertising.com Japan, the venture will operate the leading performance-based online advertising network in Japan, the world’s second largest market. The […]

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I had lunch last Friday with Ian White, CEO of Urban Mapping. The genesis of Urban Mapping is a fascinating story of perseverance and timing — starting from a printed map of New York.
At any rate, Urban Mapping is a technology and B2B data provider that is collecting and normalizing huge amounts of […]

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Nielsen//Netratings released their statistics on search engine market share and usage today which ranked the search engines by usage and growth. Google still dominates the American search engine market with almost half of all US searches taking place via Google.com and its partners. Google also enjoys more than double the amount of searches than Yahoo, […]

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According to a recent study from Nielsen//Netratings, Yahoo & Ask.com are growing faster than Google in terms of search engine usage.
While Google still undoubtedly holds the number one spot for the amount of searches at over 3 billion searches in the past year, or 49.6% of the search engine market share; Yahoo search usage grew […]

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