Search Engine Journal

Google AdSense is giving publishers the option of assigning and labeling certain AdSense placements within their site as primary real estate for Google AdWords advertisers who wish to advertise within specific placements on specific publisher sites.
With Google Ad Placement, publishers create and serve custom channels which can be made to be visible to advertisers […]

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Webshots, which is one of the preferred photo storage and sharing destinations for millions of bloggers and MySpace members, has just gone video. While I don’t see them dethroning YouTube, they will serve millions of video impressions and advertisements. Quite a smart move by Webshots which already enjoys an active and vibrant user community.
Now you […]

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Yahoo! and Answers.com have announced that the social media driven question and answers content from Yahoo! Answers will now be integrated into Answers.com. Yahoo! Answers has more than 60 million users globally, and will now be providing Answers.com users with a rich supplementary source of community-generated questions and answers on almost any topic, according to […]

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Pronto.com, part of the IAC family which includes Ask.com, is out of beta and the shopping comparison engine is ready for the holiday season. Pronto.com has added aggregated consumer reviews of products from around the Internet and has increaed its search index to 50 million products.
From the press release :
Pronto.com is the first comparison-shopping […]

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Live.com is banning sites that take part in spammy and irrelevant link exchanges which are designed to corrupt and mislead search engines into ranking such sites highly.
Barry Schwartz looks at a thread from Search Engine Watch which published an email from Live.com to a publisher:
Your site is acquiring links through posting to or exchanging links […]

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Proving they can spread their peanut butter and eat it too, Yahoo has sealed a major alliance with the nation’s newspapers which include 176 daily publications under the houses of MediaNews Group, Hearst, Belo, E. W. Scripps, the Journal Register Company, Lee Enterprises and Cox Enterprises.
During the first phase of the partnership, newspaper companies will […]

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In response to the ‘Yahoo Bashing‘ going on throughout the blogosphere after the public leaking of SVP Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter Manifesto and the recent drops in Yahoo stock value brought upon by their inefficiency in monetizing search until now as well as shake ups in the Yahoo Publisher Network; Tabblo has posted their thoughts […]

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Google is prompting user response to its organic search query results via a small “Was this link useful?” question in the Google web listings.
Peter Da Vanzo at V7N found this today when searching at Google (yes, the man is known for his love of Gin & Tonics):

And no, this is not from AdWords, but from […]

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Rumored for some time, Yahoo! is apparently close to closing a deal with six newspaper groups. According the WSJ:

Yahoo Inc. is close to a deal with six major newspaper groups representing more than a hundred newspapers that would allow them to sell listings on Yahoo’s HotJobs online classified service, according to people familiar with the […]

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It was not too long ago when the European Business-Networking Service OpenBC.com announced their planned name change to Xing.com.
OpenBC.com is no longer and all links to OpenBC.com, including the links to profile pages, are being redirected to Xing.com. The reason for the name change is the plan to aggressively expand worldwide and to use this […]

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