Today during the Universal & Blended Search session at SES San Jose, Tim Mayer of Yahoo discussed how they are blending video & multimedia into the Yahoo Search experience and used a search for Wilco (an American experimental folk rock band) as an example. Even though they have been out for a while, I had [...]

Microsoft adCenter has expanded the Content Ads Beta contextual advertising program to all US based advertisers who wish to place contextually targeted text ads throughout the Microsoft Network. From the adCenter Blog: We are delighted to make Content Ads Beta available to all U.S. customers! On Wednesday, August 29, we will upgrade adCenter to include [...]

Universal Search is the biggest thing to happen to search since the Florida update and when Google rolled out Universal Search is rewrote the rules on search marketing and SEO. Greg Jarboe says that the changes brought abot in Universal Search were the most radical change to search; ever. Jarboe uses examples of Google searches [...]

Meta search engines do the one logical thing that relates well to the “not-reinventing-the-wheel” concept, i.e. presenting results culled from the best repositories in the world. And this article is about one such meta search engine that has gained lot of traction – SurfWax. Along with the main search there are options for blog search, [...]