After some discussions at SMX last week with other members of the search marketing industry (community) I was quite surprised to find that I am one of the only people I know who works in search that actually likes the Mahalo project and really do feel that the overall opinion of Mahalo by various members [...]

Yahoo Inc. has been sued by a group of Chinese political activists who claim that the company aided the Chinese government in tracking the online activities of political dissidents.  This marks the second such lawsuit against Yahoo in recent years. Yahoo was sued last year by two Chinese journalists who claimed that Yahoo provided the [...]

On Wednesday in the company’s annual report, Yahoo admitted that its executives have been distracted by Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition bid, and indicated the possibility that advertisers might cut and run in light of the uncertainty. The unwelcome bid, which was ultimately rejected, might not just cause advertisers to leave, but perhaps even employees. Microsoft’s $44.6 [...]

In trying to help webmaster’s life easier, at least the three top search engines could agree on something. As announced in their respective webmasters’ blogs, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are unison in adhering to the cross-submission of sitemaps to the three search engines. With the simultaneous announcement of the three search engines, webmasters who are [...]

This is my third post on competitive research here at SEJ; so if you missed the first two, check them out: Evaluating your overall competition; Determining who to compete with. Today I will be sharing a quick practical guide to exploring your competitor’s link building techniques. This research should be both helpful for your overall [...]

Users of Opera Mini as the default browser of their mobile phones will be surprised to find out by March 1 that the mobile phone browser’s default search engine is now Google instead of Yahoo search. Google and Opera have extended their seven years of partnership in Opera’s Desktop browser into the mobile web, giving [...]