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LookSmart Closes Wisenut Search Engine
LookSmart seems be trimming their suite of search related products as they have closed the doors on the Wisenut.com website, which was once a respected...
10 Steps AOL Should Take to Reinvent the Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
Lately AOL has been taking some intriguing steps in their relationship building with the website publishing and marketing world. This week, AOL’s controversial Netscape Open...
The Beginning of the End for Incentivized Lead-Generation Online
If you’ve read my previous post on Valueclick and its lead generation practices, you already know about my experience with incentivized leads the ad network...
Google Goes Shopping Again, Buys Zingku
The Google Operating Systems Blog got the scoop today that Google has acquired mobile social networking site, Zingku. Zingku’s site has a small note informing...
Google Book Search Gets New Features
Browsing and searching for books at Google Book Search becomes even more better with the introduction of a few nifty features aimed at organizing and...
Google Adds Video Email Alerts
With videos becoming more popular as a source of information and entertainment, it becomes very hard to keep track of new videos that get uploaded...
Local.com Opens in the UK : UK.Local.com
Local.com continues to grow and has expanded into the UK with its new UK Local Search Engine, which was just released from beta. The new...
Yahoo Ranking Changes : Domain Name Importance & 301 Redirects
When Aaron Wall talks, the SEO community listens. Mr. Wall has recently noticed some major changes in the Yahoo ranking algorithm which could have a...
AOL Gears Up for the Mobile Web, Again
AOL wants to reclaim its lost glory for being one of the major players in the wireless industry. The BusinessWeek is reporting the AOL is...
Wikipedia is #1 : What Are You Going to Do About It?
I’m been noticing a lot of frustration lately with the dominance of Wikipedia in search results. And, I’ll admit, I never felt like I really...
Microsoft to Serve Local Video Ads on Online Video Network
Microsoft announces that it will be delivering video ads solution to the Online Video Networks of the Associated Press. Using its MSN Video product, Microsoft...
Last Month in China – A lot of launching
Since my last update on the Chinese search world all the major players have been very active in launching new channels and products. I like...
Practical Guide to Website Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
When it comes to analyzing the performance of your website, there is a seemingly endless (well, at least a few hundred) list of factors to...
Google Custom Search Offers Business Edition
The Google Custom Search team sent out an email this week reminding/announcing users that they now offer a business edition of Google Custom Search which...
Google & Yahoo Link Trackers Experience Problems
Funny how trends seem to follow themselves in the search world as Google and Yahoo backlink tracking services provided by Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo...
Could The Devaluation of the Dollar Hurt Your Search Engine Paid Results?
In July I wrote a piece about UK search marketers having the upper hand on U.S. search marketers because of the value of the pound...
Google Tops All US Searches for August
Here’s another round of statistical analysis on the search market for August. Hitwise just released the US search market data for August. The Hitwise numbers...
The 5 Essential Types of Site Links
Ben Yoskovitz of the Instigator Blog made a guest post over a CopyBlogger about the 5 types of links webmasters should be using properly, besides...
The SEO Reputation Problem
The equally titled panel discussion at Search Engine Strategies San Jose in August moderated by Jeffrey K. Rohrs, with Shari Thurow, Kristopher Jones, Kathleen Fealy,...
Propeller.com Goes Live : Netscape Makes the Switch
AOL’s Netscape social news Digg-clone has made the switch from Netscape.com to the new branding of Propeller.com. We had reported on the planned change last...
Promotional Vs. Incentivized Traffic
For those of you not too familiar with this story, “Valueclick Ad Network Serving Bogus & Incentivized Leads.” We’ve had a great response from industry...
After Adsense for Mobile, Here Comes Google Gadget Ads
After bringing Adsense units into the mobile web, Google Adwords is now launching a new interactive ad format for its Adwords advertisers, this time via...
Google Reminds Advertisers of Landing Page Quality
Google Adwords is reminding its advertisers about the landing page quality guidelines. The guidelines stressed the importance of directing users to good quality landing pages...
Jessica Bowman Joins Yahoo! as In-House SEO Evangelist
Jessica Bowman, a contributing columnist at Search Engine Journal and long time advocate for In-House SEO, just emailed to let me know that she has...
Google Adsense Goes to the Mobile Web
Google announces the availability of Adsense to mobile website content. Adsense for mobile will give advertisers more read for their ad campaigns and for publishers...
Powerset Natural Language Search Gears up for the Mainstream
Powerset is gearing for major launch sooner than Google, Yahoo and MSN live search can think of. Backing on a natural search language technology and...
Yahoo Acquires Zimbra Open Source Email & Collaborative Software for $350 Million
Yahoo has announced the acquisition of Zimbra, which is an open source Ajax based email, calendar and contact management software which can be used both...
Google AdWords & Analytics : Reporting Different Click and Traffic Numbers
Dan London from the AdWords Editor Explained blog has a rundown of some alarming stats he saw in his Google Adwords and Google Analytics accounts,...
Idearc Acquires Switchboard.com from Infospace for $225 Million
The local search land grab continues as today Idearc, the parent company of Verizon and Superpages.com, has announced the purchase of Switchboard.com and other local...
Should You Rush into BlogRush?
The buzz about BlogRush has rushed into the blogging world. Some bloggers joined the craze, immediately signed up and installed the Blogrush widget into their...