Search Engine Journal

Speaking of video . . . As is being widely picked up this morning, the LA Times is reporting on a YouTube rival being created by News Corp. and NBC Universal:
News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today that they are creating an online video site stocked with TV shows and […]

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Yahoo! Inc. has appointed Reggie Davis to Vice President of Marketplace Quality, where Davis will serve as the company’s first senior executive dedicated to continually enhancing the quality of Yahoo!’s display and search listings marketplaces.
As click fraud debates continue to get more and more heated, it is good move by Yahoo to assign Davis […]

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What do pop singer Kevin Federline and a Yahoo-powered search engine have in common? Nothing except a fascinating collusion of celebrity branding with Internet search. I’m referring of course, to SearchWithKevin.com a Yahoo-powered search engine that allows you to win prizes such as a Kevin Federline T-shirt or Autograph CD, whenever you search the web.

We’ve […]

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John Andrews over at Johnon.com has an insightful quiz about URL’s.
Q: How many web resources are represented by the following list of URLs, according to Google?
1. http://www.example.com/
2. http://www.example.com
3. http://example.com/
4. http://example.com
5. www.example.com
6. example.com
7. www.example.com/
[…]

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While Yahoo improves its mobile search results, Google on the other hand unveils Plus Box. From the official Google blog:
We’re very excited to unveil Plus Box, a new search feature that lets you see more information about individual search results. Whenever you see the plus box icon - - click on it to see […]

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As some of your have noticed, we changed the URL structure on Search Engine Journal entries today from the classic “/?=4556″ to “/seo-friendly-url-structure-for-wordpress-blogs/4556/” on all Search Engine Journal posts.
I had not done this before because of 4 years of incoming links to SEJ stories which used the old URL structure, and fear of duplicate […]

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Reuters is running a story on Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and how happy he is over the implementation of the new Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’ platform. According to Reuters, Semel recently spoke at an AdAge conference saying that Yahoo will be showing some “very exciting numbers” in its Q1 2007 earnings report.
Panama’s new ranking technology […]

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Considering that MSN has only somewhat recently launched their PPC ad serving system, most folks agree that they are doing a good job. After all, MSN’s launch came out more usable than Yahoo’s existing system, or at least that’s the general consensus I get from those that use both, and my personal opinion. […]

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Matt Cutts noted briefly at his blog that Google’s motions to dismiss the 2nd amended complaint case without leave to amend and for sanctions against the plaintiff Kinderstart.com LLC and it’s attorney were granted by the court.
Rewind
Kinderstart.com is a content site that started monetizing the site with Google Adsense in 2003 and fell out of […]

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Megite today announced the launch of their blog news tracker which tracks all recent posts in a blog with surrounding conversations, like Techmeme or Megite would normally do. The difference of the Megite blog news tracking service is that it only tracks stories and conversations related to the main blog which uses its service.
As […]

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