Search Engine Journal

The business networking social media company LinkedIn has announced that they have hired Patrick Crane as their new VP of Marketing.
Prior to LinkedIn, Patrick was the VP of Marketing for the Yahoo Network Division and was a major part of the marketing and success of Yahoo Answers. LinkedIn of course, has its own professional version […]

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Ever wanted to develop your own useful and fully functional Google gadget but could not push through with your ideas due to time and financial constraints? Google just answered your dilemma with the launch of Google Gadget Ventures, a pilot program that would distribute grants and seed investments to developers and users of Google […]

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Google is expanding the usage of its enterprise search solutions by teaming up with Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest technology products distributors. Google and Ingram Micro had sealed an international IT Distribution Agreement that would grant Ingram Micro the right to distribute Goolge Mini and Google Search Appliance.
Google Mini is a search […]

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Guess what… Yahoo.com is available again:) Would love to know what the cause was of their unavailability. I’ll keep monitoring to see if things change.

Yesterday China Herald tipped me that the Yahoo.com website (the English version) didn’t resolve. I checked, saw that it was true and thought I would check back the next day if […]

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At a panel yesterday at Ad:Tech Miami, Social Media and UGC were discussed. The panel consisted of Emily Riley from Jupiter Research as the moderator, Antonio Otalvaro from Barrio305, Rick Marroquin from Batanga, and Demian Bellumio from Hoodiny Entertainment Group, LLC (ElHood.com).
Riley started with some very interesting facts found by Jupiter Research:

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What do Stanford grads Anand and Venky have in common with Google founders, Larry and Sergie? One, they were batch mates. And two, they are into the prolific and perhaps most competitive of web domains, Search.
Kosmix.com, the topical search engine, founded by the Indian duo attempts to resolve the Gordian knot of “meaning” in a […]

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Yahoo Search is currently doing limited testing on a new multimedia, multi-content driven search shortcut, which is powered by its content partners, Yahoo Local and Yahoo Travel.
Some searchers will find that when they search for information on major cities, a Y! Travel shortcut will be served above the organic and sponsored Yahoo Search results.

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Showing that it is not only a profit-oriented company, Google launches its own socially relevant program called Google Earth Outreach. Utilizing the power of its mapping technology,Google Earth Outreach aims to leverage the power of Google Earth to illustrate and advocate for the kind of work they do and where exactly they do their work. […]

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets as it is right now is a powerful and useful tool for creating, organizing and sharing various types of documents. Now, it gets more even useful with three new features that would improve the way we organize our online documents.

New document list interface - a complete overhaul that is so in […]

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Relevancy is the key to contextual advertising, and online contextual advertising is big business. That’s a no-brainer, as all web and software heavyweights are vying to make the most of contextual advertising.
How is relevancy measured? And how is that used to shoot the most relevant of ads based on what you do online?
Microsoft, […]

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