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Embarrassing Yahoo! Search Marketing Flaw
Yahoo! recently finalized their consolidation of all their individual affiliate programs at Commission Junction to a single one. The Yahoo! Search Marketing affiliate program was...
YouTube Launches Political Vlog
There’s no doubt that political videos have become a popular campaign media for political figures. MySpace has its own MySpace Impact which has become an...
Yahoo Publisher Network Not Going Global Anytime Soon
For those of you who have heard the false news that Yahoo Publisher Network will be spreading Internationally, be warned, they have no intention of...
Del.icio.us Bookmarks Firefox Add-on Updated
Del.icio.us yesterday launched an updated version of their Mozilla Firefox extension, Del.icio.us Bookmarks Firefox Add-on. Del.icio.us users have skyrocketed over the past 6 months, jumping...
Is Google Too Powerful?
Business Week Online has a fascinating cover story which examines the growing dominance of Google on both the information economy and the business world. The...
5 Major Google Gadgets Usability Flaws
The new Google Gadgets for the Google personalized homepage have gotten a lot of attention in recent months. True, they’re a factor in Google’s personalized...
Win a Free Pass to FOOA Conference in New York
The Future of Online Advertising conference is scheduled for June 7th and 8th in New York and is going to feature the biggest names in...
LookSmart & blinkx.com Partner for Video Distribution
LookSmart has signed a strategic agreement with blinkx.com to power video search results on LookSmart’s FindArticles.com (which averages roughly 17 million unique visitors a month...
All about Search in China: A Current Market Analysis
Read/Write Web has a fascinating article on the outlook of Search in China. There is an intense competition for internet users among search engines, particularly...
DoubleClick Exchange Plan to Boost Value for Google, MSN, AOL or Yahoo Buyout
I’ve written about online ad “exchanges” in the past, which is one of the more interesting developments in online advertising in my opinion. There’s RightMedia,...
Google Inks Advertising Deal with DISH Network
Google announced that it will be selling commercials to the 125 national programming networks of Echostar DISH Network, U.S. second largest satellite service. Under the...
ZoomInfo Relaunched : Semantic Business Information Search Engine
Claiming to have created the first market-ready semantic search engine, ZoomInfo has announced a new version of ZoomInfo.com, a search engine that’s designed for business...
Last weeks in China – Chinese SEO, Baidu in Japan, Yahoo Search and Blocked Blogs
This week an intro to optimization for Baidu, the difference between Baidu Japan and the Chinese version as well as the latest on Yahoo search....
Nokia Developing Semantic Visual Search Engine for Mobile Devices
According to a patent filing, Nokia is working to develop a Semantic Visual Search Engine to organize the multimedia content on mobile phones. The technology...
Google & Yahoo Ranking Look at Domains Rather Than Individual Pages
Google AdWords Quality Score may be giving more critical evaluation to campaigns which are consolidated to one domain. If that domain has had issues in...
In-house Spotlight: Yahoo’s Director of Search Engine Marketing
Welcome to Search Engine Journal’s new column, In-house SEM, which features an in-house search marketer each week. For the kickoff, I spoke with Yahoo!’s Director...
Microsoft Live Search Working on Fixing Advanced Queries : link:, linkdomain: and inurl:
On the Live Search Weblog, Eytan Seidman addresed the problems Live Search is facing with advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:,...
Serph Social Media Search Engine Out of Beta, Open to Public
Serph, the reputation tracking search engine which scours results from various social media sites has come out of private beta testing and is now open...
A Search Engine that Searches All
WebFetch, a new search engine that enables user to search the web via Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search and Ask.com all at the same time. This...
MIVA To Provide Contextual Advertising for Conde Nast UK
MIVA Media has signed an exclusive Pay-Per-Click content deal in the U.K. with Condé Nast Interactive. According to MIVA, Conde NAst chose their service over...
Yahoo! Opens Mail Web Services
A day after announcing the upgrade of Yahoo! Mail into unlimited storage capacity for registered users beginning in May, Yahoo! unveils the Yahoo! Mail Web...
Google Products Now Pre-Installed On LG Handsets
From the press release: Select LG handsets, pre-installed with Google products and services will be shipped globally including North America, Europe and Asia starting in...
AfterVote : An Ajax Powered Social Search Engine
Younanimous is a AJAX-powered social search engine that provides users with additional details such as the Alexa Ranking, Google Page Rank and domain age for...
Google Mobile Search Gets Better
A few days after unveiling its Plus Box search results, Google announces a new mobile search engine that is more tailored to a user’s needs....
SEO Clinic : BigOceans.com – Blogging from the Sea while Sailing Around the World
For this week’s SEO Clinic the Search Engine Journal SEO team chose an independent blogger who has the dream of sailing around the world, from...
Yahoo Click Fraud Settlement Approved & Finalized
Over at Search Engine Watch, Kevin Newcomb is reporting that a judge has finalized the approval of the settlement which was reached last June by...
Yahoo Mobile Publisher Services Launch
Last week Yahoo introduced their oneSearch mobile search experience for the majority of cell phones which offer Internet access. This week, Yahoo is working to...
Are We Witnessing the Death of Print Journalism?
There’s a lot of discussion going on the websphere about the death of newspapers and print journalism lately. Although many are starting to believe that...
SEO Challenge : Neil Patel Increases Jason Calacanis Search Traffic by 21%
Finally some positive spin on the practice of search engine optimization has come from Calacanis.com, but not from the potty-mouth of Jason, who had this...
New Gmail Shortcut : Delete Email Messages
Amit Agarwal has unearthed a new shortcut for Google’s Gmail which lets users instantly Trash a mail by hitting the “#” button (shift-3). The user...