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Yahoo! Shopping : New Features Abound
Yahoo! Shopping has added a whole lot of goodies to its service, just in time for the holiday shopping season. New additional services include integration...
Google Testing Ads in 50 Print Newspapers
Google is launching what it is calling an “alpha” program in which 100 advertisers, both large and small, will have an opportunity to buy ads...
Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues
Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues China is in the news for many reasons but when it comes to the Internet one...
Amazon.com’s Clickriver Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising
Amazon.com’s A9 Search division has finally launched a service which is sure to catch the eyes of the search engine marketing world, Clickriver. Clickriver is...
Yahoo Food : Munchies 2.0
Yesterday, Yahoo! launched its “Green Center” for Autos. Today: Yahoo! Food. Among others, this is an Epicurious competitor. Food looks like a pretty rich (no...
GMail Mobile : Java Powered
Steve Bryant at eWeek’s Google Watch notes that today Google is unveiling a new java powered Gmail for mobile devices. The new Gmail mobile should...
Cracking the Digg.com Algorithm
Yesterday we looked at the new changes to the Digg.com algorithm which makes it more difficult for stories to make it to the Digg front...
Utube.com Suing YouTube.com
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, which has its web site hosted at Utube.com, is suing Google’s YouTube over domain name similarity and the harm which...
Ask.com Providing Search & Advertising to Lycos Network
Ask.com has partnered with the LYCOS Network to provide the search results and sponsored listings on Lycos properties. Under the agreement, Ask.com will provide branded...
Yahoo Autos ‘Green Center’
Getting out in front of the increasing market for “green” products and services, Yahoo! Autos has launched a “Green Center.” The site profiles and rates/ranks...
Digg Changes Its Algorithm : Harder to Get on Homepage
Have you noticed a decrease in the amount of stories hitting the front page of Digg.com over the past 24 hours and the increase in...
Google Acquires JotSpot Wiki Collaboration Software
Google has acquired Jotspot, which allows businesses and individuals to use wikis for collaboration. Google made the announcement today on the Google Blog, and gave...
Petr Mitrichev of Russia Wins Google’s Global Code Jam
Petr Mitrichev of Russia won Google’s Global Code Jam competition and was awarded with a $10,000 first prize. Mitrichev topped a field of over 21,000...
Kudzu.com Local Search Growing Outside of Atlanta
Ever take a drive down to Atlanta, Georgia? If you have, you probably had the chance to experience Kudzu. Kudzu is the Japanese weed which...
Search Marketing : Most Cost Efficient Customer Acquisition Tool
Internet Retailer reported on a Piper Jaffray study, which finds that search is the most cost-efficient customer acquisition tool. Print yellow pages ranked second. Here’s...
Daily Show & Colbert Report Zapped from YouTube
On Friday, the majority of uploaded YouTube clips containing the Comedy Central produced Daily Show, Colbery Report and South Park shows were deleted from YouTube....
Alibaba.com Invests in Koubei.com Chinese Classifieds
Alibaba.com, parent company of Yahoo China, made a ‘strategic investment’ in Koubei.com, which is one of China’s largest classified listing and community websites. According to...
Yahoo AOL Rumors
More than likely speculation, yesterday FORTUNE published a piece on rumors that Yahoo is in the hunt to purchase AOL from under Google’s feet. *...
5 Reasons Not To Use Flash
Despite the documented problems over the years, businesses and web development firms are continuing to use a flash base in site design, without regard of...
Flickr Interestingness Rankings & Yahoo Search
I’m a sporadic Flickr user, posting an image or screen capture from time to time, and have not really gotten as into the Flickr experience...
Server Outages Lead to Drop in Search Engine Rankings
A recent post on DigitalPoint proves the importance of forking over the cash for a dependable web hosting company as one member notes that after...
Leaked Google Documents Outline Internal Company Goals
Internal company papers from Google somehow found their way outside of the Googleplex and into the hands of Google Blogoscoped’s Philipp Lenssen. Philipp has not...
Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
Yahoo has added another company blog to their growing internal blogroll, the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog. For those of you who may be wondering why...
Yahoo Supporting NOODP “No Open Directory” Tag
Tim Mayer has stuck to his word and Yahoo Search has implemented support for a No Open Directory Project (DMOZ) tag. Priyak Garg posts on...
JobsInSearch.com Celebrates 2 Years of Search Marketing Jobs Classifieds
Since JobsInSearch.com‘s launch in October 2004 the site has featured job vacancies with leading Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firms in both...
Who Will Acquire Digg.com .. Google?
Michael Arrington writes on Techcrunch that Digg has recently been in multiple acquisition discussions with a host of potential buyers, including News Corp.’s Fox Interactive....
YouTube.com Relaunches Weird Al Yankovic’s Career
After just reading a story on how local businesses are using MySpace to bring in customers, I also ran across this amazing CNN coverage of...
MySpace.com Profiles Working for Local Internet Marketing
The Courier Journal of Kentucky is running a story on the success of local businesses which are promotiing on MySpace.com via setting up MySpace profiles....
Blog Search Engine Powered by Google Custom Search
In an effort to fully understand the technology and offerings behind Google Custom Search Engine, I have changed Blog Search Engine’s search index over to...
Google Custom Search Engine Launches
Google is launching its Google Custom Search Engine tomorrow now, which will let users & publishers construct their own specialized Google search indexes made up...