Search Engine Journal

Microsoft’s Pay-Per-Click advertising program, adCenter introduced three new features to aid advertisers better manage their ad placements on Microsoft’s search advertising program.

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For awhile I thought AdBrite had already folded up until I read from News.com that it is opening advertising opportunities for Facebook Apps developer and giving AdBrite advertisers a new avenue to place their advertisements on. I use to run AdBrite in my personal blog, but low CTR and revenue generated prompted me to take […]

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Microsoft is really serious on gaining a good ground in the web search arena. New features after new features are being slowly carried out by Live Search. The most recent of which are ten new features of its Live Search Maps.
The Live Search blog enumerated these 10 new features and in brief here are […]

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Now, you can get your daily Google News fix right into your iGoogle home page. Google has just made it possible to add the iGoogle News gadget right smack into the middle of your iGoogle. The iGoogle News gadget lets you display your Google News in a small screen format with headlines, snippets and thumbnail […]

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Yahoo stock has climbed again over the weekend, but not soley because of its new advertising partnerships or efforts to open up the Yahoo network to third parties. Instead, the stock is climbing as Wall Street prepares for the $1 Billion Alibaba.com IPO, which Yahoo is set to purchase 10% of, or $100 Million.
Beyond the […]

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For those who have stopped using Yahoo Messenger for instant messaging purpose and have shifted to GTalk this post may not interest you. But for those who remained loyal to the once most popular Yahoo Messenger (or is still popular right now?) you would be glad to know that Yahoo has just launched the beta […]

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Matt Cutts emailed Search Engine Journal last night to let us know that in fact, the partial Google ‘Toolbar’ PageRank update which happened last week was a result of Google’s campaign against paid linking and advertisement links which influence PageRank.
The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding […]

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Maybe Microsoft Live Search ought to rename its search engine into “Smart Live Search”. After introducing auto-spell Correction and search stemming, Live Search is introducing the concept of equivalencies and implementing intelligent stop words retention. Both search enhancements are geared towards giving Live Search users higher relevance in the search results they get from Live […]

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I’m seeing a number of new sites showing PageRank updates tonight, and assume that it has to be happening elsewhere as well. This of course comes on the heels of the PageRank massacre earlier this week.
There’s not too much to post right now on this as more information comes in — but I wanted to […]

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When you cannot bring the Internet to the people, bring the people to the Internet.
Yahoo Vietnam’s Yahoo! powered Internet Cafes are opening around Vietnam’s Hanoi and Ho Chi Mihn City in an effort to bring Internet to people and effectively brand Yahoo services. The Yahoo Internet cafes are sponsored by Yahoo and exclusively offer […]

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