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Google Denied EU-Wide Trademark on Gmail Name
Google Inc. lost their recent bid to obtain European Union-wide trademark protection for the term “Gmail”, the name of their web mail service. According to...
Hakia Licensing its Ontological Semantics Search Technology : OntoSem
Hakia.com, the semantics oriented meaning-based search engine, is now licensing its Ontological Semantic technology; hakia OntoSem. hakia OntoSem is a modular, extensible, and adaptable toolset...
Can Yahoo Deliver with its Detailed Financial Plan for 2008?
If there is one company that should be reading Yahoo’s 2008 financial plan, it’s got to be Microsoft. The detailed financial plan for 2008 which...
Search Around the World : Europe and the UK
Search Around the World : Europe and the UK : Andrew Girdwood of the UK, Thomas Bindl from Germany, Sebastian Langlois of France, and Joost...
Creating Compelling Ads at SES NY
If you are using paid search as one of your online marketing strategies (who isn’t, if you’re not, get with the program,) this was one...
Organic Listings Forum : Google PageRank, Blogs and Paid Links
How Relevant is Google PageRank? Reporting live from SES New York, Mike Grehan is moderating this open forum with Greg Boser, Dave Naylor and Jill...
How to Organize Your Keyword Modifiers to Create Long Tail Strategy
What is a keyword modifier? A modifier is a word that in combination with your core keyword creates your long tail strategy (definition by Dan...
Top Search Based Facebook Apps to Help You Find Anything
The intermixing of search and Facebook is minimal in terms of web search, as when I was browsing through the list of search oriented Facebook...
Microsoft Eyeing Ad Yield Management Solutions Provider, Rapt
Microsoft announced that it is planning to buy Rapt Inc., an advertising yield management solution for digital media publishers. Microsoft is planning to integrate Rapt...
Google: Bots Haven’t Broken Our Captchas Yet
As the amount of spam coming from Gmail accounts has been increasing in recent months, some have suggested that spammers have come up with a...
How to Build Links with Email Marketing
Quality links to your website remain one of the strongest contributors to high organic rankings in search engines. Plus, a link from a popular website...
Connect with Search Engine Journal on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
Some of our readers have noticed that recently Search Engine Journal has been popping up in their Facebook Social Maps and Twitter accounts, and have...
12 Search Engines Which Can Replace Ask.com
Ask.com was/is one of the most resourceful and innovative search engines on the market and has claimed a relatively significant chunk of online search market....
Natural SEO FAQ – Linking In And Out
I plan on starting the short new series at SEJ explaining most dubious and controversial SEO questions from the keep-things-natural point of view. If you...
AOL Acquires Bebo for $850 Million
AOL has pulled off a major move in acquiring the social network Bebo for $850 million in cash from under the noses of Yahoo and...
Google to Launch Ad Manager Service
Google is launching a new service that aims to help web publishers, specifically those with small-to-medium size sales force, manage their direct ads serving. Ad...
Yo! SEO Raps! Mo Serious Raps on Search Marketing, Paid Linking and Social Media
I just cannot get enough of these search marketing rap videos from Mo Serious at Pop Labs. They’re smart, witty and entertaining … very clever...
The Link Building Rap : Hip Hop Meets SEO
Today has been a big linking day, between two posts here at Search Engine Journal on link building and blog comment links leading to some...
Top Google Exec Donates $3 Million to SJSU Engineering Dept.
Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior vice president of global sales & business development, has made a generous $3 million donation to his alma mater, San Jose...
Google to Hold Web 2.0 Developer Event in May
This week, Google announced that it will be holding a developers event in May that will cover a variety of topics as related to “Web...
Alltop Launches, Do We Need Another News/RSS Aggregation Site?
Guy Kawasaki has launched his new news aggregation site, Alltop. This service from Guy’s very own words is an “online magazine rack” that displays news...
Six Explosive Organic & Paid Link Building Tips
My name is Loren Baker and I’m a link builder. I admit it, I’m a link building SEO and I’ve been building links for clients...
Is Yahoo Joining the OpenSocial Alliance?
Citing a source with direct knowledge of Yahoo plans, NYT is reporting that Yahoo is seriously considering plans to join to Google-led OpenSocial Alliance. Launched...
Google Expects to be “Very Significant” in Display Advertising
Google have all but conquered contextual-based advertising and are the clear leader in that area, however, they’ve yet to take the top spot in another...
Google DoubleClick Sends Email to DoubleClick/Dart Clients on Final Acquisition
The Google DoubleClick acquisition has just gone through the EU hurdle, which means Google and DoubleClick can finally seal the acquisition deal. DoubleClick just sent...
Decreasing Click Rates on AdSense are Intentional
After a recent ComScore report indicated that the paid click rates for Google AdSense had dropped 12% year-over-year, and 7% from last December, Google felt...
Google DoubleClick Deal Approved in EU
CNNMoney reports that the European Commission has cleared the $3.1 billion dollar buyout of DoubleClick by Google, after the EU commission has been debating on...
Get Paid to Click on Ads: Unethical Web Marketing
I was answering some questions on the Digital Point forum when I came across a thread about getting paid to click on ads, instantly, a...
Yahoo Opens Ad for Adobe Program to All Publishers
If the lack of hype over Yahoo’s new advertising program is an indication of its impending failure, then the Yahoo Ads for Adobe may soon...
FyberSearch Search Engine
FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a...