Search Engine Journal

Fast Search and Transfer has launched FASTMedia, a software offering which allows media companies and publishers another option of delivering in-house managed search and advertising campaigns without dependency on Google AdSense or Yahoo’s YPN.
Reuters reports :
U.S. newspaper companies are looking to offset weakness in traditional classified advertising businesses by signing deals with Internet search companies […]

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Ogilvy’s Neo@Ogilvy, the marketing & advertising giant’s interactive agency arm, has partnered with SEMDirector to form a new search marketing service for Ogilvy clients.
Ogilvy hopes to offer a superb search marketing offering for their A list portfolio which is centered around ROI and performance tracking.
From SEMDirector & Neo@Ogilvy:
The Neo@Ogilvy / SEMDirector alliance:

Provides a scalable technology […]

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Google has partnered with Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia to help the public information and data available from each state government to become more findable on the Internet.
These partnerships developed as both Google and officials with the four state governments recognized that the public is increasingly turning to search engines like Google to access government […]

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Wikipedia has become notorious for using the No Follow attribute to link to all outgoing links from Wikipedia entries.
TechCrunch, however, has learned that Wikipedia is lifting the No Follow tag for links to their ‘for profit’ Wikia Search project.
The links to Wikia that don’t have the nofollow tag are created using a special Wikipedia […]

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Yahoo is reportedly eyeing Right Media, a privately owned advertising company. The company previously bought a 20% stake in the company last October and will shell out some $680 million dollars more to have full control of  the said company.
In a New York Times report, Yahoo’s Chief Executive, Terry S. Semel said:
The acquisition, to us, […]

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There seems to be a common misconception in the webmaster and search engine marketing field that inbound links which use the ‘no follow’ attribute have no value to the site which they point towards.
Earlier in the week, Raj Dash commented in a post on Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines that in addition to […]

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ThomasNet’s search strategy was well underway when Jill Sampey took over search engine marketing. Having been with the company for several years, she was at an advantage in understanding how to run with things successful and make changes in the direction. ThomasNet is an industrial business directory with millions of pages, one of the key […]

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Last December Google introduced the Local Business Center and allowed businesses to provide their address, phone numbers, website, offered services, business hours, accepted payment methods, special coupons and more.
After you provided all the information, is it necessary to get your information active and used by Google. The activiation is done by either Google sending a […]

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One of the peculiarities with Google search in China is the question of domains. Which Google domain censors search results, which does not and does it depend on the location the searcher originates. I have made a quick comparison. Additionally as always an overview of what has been happening in the world of search and […]

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Take a look at the Yahoo! Homepage and the new AOL Beta Homepage. The look like basic clones of one another; placement of the search box, tabbed news and content browsing, advertisement section and easy access for mail and other personalized tools.

So, if this a result of user experience optimization, or lack of imagination?

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