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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...
Danny Sullivan Staying with Search Engine Strategies Conferences
Some good news from Incisive media just came into my Inbox, Danny Sullivan will be sticking around and helping to run and skipper the Search...
AOL Video Adds More Content
AOL Video is expanding the content available on its site through a deal with several content partners, the most visible of which is Viacom’s Paramount...
Popular Searches in China
Popular Searches in China Google Zeitgeist published the popular Chinese searches in the month August. Google added China again to its monthly zeitgeist in March...
YouTube Hands Private User Data to Studio Lawyers
When registering with a web portal, social network or search engine, privacy is always a concern since the companies one registers with are tracking large...
Google AdWords Starter Edition : Review
Every so often I check back in on AdWords. Quite some time ago now the company “bifurcated” AdWords into a simplified “Starter Edition” and a...
Google vs. Yahoo : Earnings Reports Comparison
Yahoo braced the world and its investors at a Goldman Sachs investment conference last month when Yahoo CEO Terry Semel told investors that a slowdown...
Google Earnings : Quarterly Profit Up 92%
Google published its 2006 Q3 earnings results yesterday which helped to fortify Google’s dominance of web search, search engine marketing, and online advertising as a...
Pronet Advertising : One of My Favorite Blogs!
One of my responsibilities as a professional blogger in the search engine news world is to keep taps on the many search engine marketing and...