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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?