Search Engine Journal

UK property search engine Dothomes is expanding its range of coverage to now include the lucrative U.S. market. Slightly less than two years after the initial founding of the search engine, the site’s parent company, BytePlay, indicated that they were ready to launch a concerted effort to break into the US market and challenge […]

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Aaron Wall noticed that SearchGuild.com, which was one of the first major search marketing portals, news sites and forums which just kind of died off over the past 2 years after endless hacking and bad hosting, just sold on SEDO for the low low price of $8,655.
Aaron points out that the price was a major […]

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Today I opened my email inbox to a subject line so bad, it added a nice slice of humor into my daily morning routine. I thought the text of the Tarzan-esque email is worth sharing not only for its absolute funniness, but also as an example of what not to do when sending emails promoting […]

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Gameseekr is a search engine tailored for games which are accessible and playable on the internet. It also supports a social model that enables users to share and create communities that further enhance a vertical that does require a dedicated engine of its own.
How Gameseekr Works
The engine maintains its own database of content obtained by […]

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Things are about to heat up (and get dirty) between Amazon and Apple’s digital music venture as Amazon announces that it will soon be launching its DRM-Free MP3 digital store. Amazon’s digital music store boasts of around 3.3 million songs from the four major U.S. music labels as well as around 33,000 independent labels. This […]

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In what first was seen by the search and branding community as the perfect mix of Yahoo’s social properties and advertising, Yahoo has now discontinued its Yahoo Brand Universe initiative, exactly one year after its birth.
AdWeek reports that a Yahoo rep said the destinations “did not fit into the broader strategy laid out by CEO […]

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According to DomainTools, Google is about to stop monetizing domains that are less than five days old, effectively killing the practice of “Domain Tasting“. There is a huge amount of money involved in domain tasting, where AdSense for Domains ads can be thrown up on domains during their free five-day grace period.
Potentially, one could […]

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Despite rivals’ concerns that Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick may increase the cost and difficulty in advertising online advertising, EU regulators reviewing the case are likely to approve the $3.1 billion takeover deal. The European Commission is about to make their ruling on the acquisition, and with the US already having approved it, it is not […]

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Let’s all take the time to stop checking our rankings, searching for new blogs in TLA and sending link request emails to envision an alternate universe, a world wide web where Google does not exist. An Internet where link anchor text does not influence ranking, because link based ranking does not exist.
Let us pretend […]

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Earlier this month, Microsoft filed a patent application that presents a method of collecting information about users’ “cellphones, geolocation systems, credit card information” and other sources of data to select and display “targeted advertising”.  While collecting user data to target advertising is nothing new, Microsoft’s filing points to another source of data: offline sources.
This collection […]

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