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Ebay China Sells Business to Tom Online
It has been hanging in the air for sometime now. Back in September 2006 the rumor circus already pointed at Tom online as the likely...
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me : Blog Tag
In the tradition of friendly blogosphere blogging, I’ve been blog tagged by Peter and Lee in the great search blogger meme of the five things...
Ask.com’s Ask X : Search Testing Ground
Lisa Barone, super search blogger, has the beef on Ask.com’s search interface & user experience testing ground, Ask X. Google has its SearchMash to test...
10 Reasons Why Digg Could Bury Google and Suggested Improvements
Todd Malicoat has jotted down his thoughts on why Digg is the new Google and why Digg is attracting the ‘geek mindshare’ that Google did...
9 7.5 Ways To Get Banned (or Penalized) by Search Engines
Putting together an SEO campaign and thinking that cloaking, link farming or regurgitating content will get your site high rankings? Think again. Chances are, your...
Google 2006 Top Searches : Very 2.0
Once Google filtered out all of the questionable, offensive and not-safe-for-work search terms, looks like the people Googling on Google were in fact searching for...
Benefits of CSS in Search Engine Optimization
Mikhail Tuknov, founder of Infatex.com, sent in this article on CSS and its importance in search engine optimization. I found it to be a basic...
Google Radio Ads Sell Out; Not Enough Airtime
Ben Charny at MarketWatch reports that Google Audio did not secure enough radio airtime “for would-be advertisers to thoroughly test out the initiative.”
Google Maps Multiple Destinations
Google has added a new feature to Google Maps which I first experienced when testing out Ask.com’s AskCity, multiple destination directions. Google Maps lets users...
PayPerPost Moves to Full Disclosure
PayPerPost has rolled out a new Terms of Service which, as effective today, requires bloggers to announce that specific Postvertising is indeed paid for.
MySpace.com on Cingular Cell Phones
Reuters reports the announcement coming today: Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones...
Yahoo : No Click Fraud, But Plenty of Goodwill
Nice play on words from the Yahoo Search Marketing team as PepperJam reports on the back and forth requests for credits due to apparent ‘click...
Google Cell Phone (GPhone) and Its Prospects
Om Malik has an interesting post and speculation about mobile carrier Orange, mobile device maker HTC and Google teaming up for a Google-branded phone. Here’s...
Google Defines Good Linking & Bad Linking
Google’s Stefanie Ulrike Dürr has laid down the defining lines in the battle of link building and the value of link popularity. In summary, the...
Want to learn for real how to increase conversion, sales and ROI?
Marketing Experiments is looking for quallified Research Partners for the year 2007 who will work together with MEC using their GrowthEngine technology and methodology on...
Last week in China – A Lot of Baidu and a bit of Microsoft and Google
Last week in China, a Lot of Baidu and a bit of Microsoft and Google There hardly goes a week by that Baidu is not...
Google & Expanding Beyond the PC
There’s a long article today by Kevin Delaney in the WSJ (sub req’d) about Google’s efforts to woo advertisers into its print and audio ads...
Google Domain Registration : $10 a year?
Google has entered into the domain registration game via a partnership with eNom and GoDaddy, wherein Google is only offering the registration of .com, .net,...
2006 Search Blogs Awards — Nominations Now Open
It’s December 2006 which means like last year, Search Engine Journal will be hosting and holding our annual Search Blogs Awards. Last year was our...
Yahoo! Answers : Survey Says Users ‘Get’ Social Q&A
Yahoo! Answers is celebrating its 1st birthday today with a party and the release of some interesting survey data which shows why Q&A type services...
MySpace.com The Biggest?
There’s no offical comScore release out yet, but several sources are reporting (this is the TechCrunch post) that MySpace has become “the biggest site on...
decipho : New Social Search Engine
Decipho, a new search engine built upon categorization, voting, ranking and social media measurement, has launched today with some most interesting features, one of my...
Yahoo! Answers Celebrates First Year
Yahoo! Answers, the leading Q&A site on the web, has just turned one years old and is celebrating its thriving community of users and their...
Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’ Open to New Advertisers
This morning Yahoo! announced that its new search marketing platform, Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’, is now available to advertisers that wish to open a new...
Google Maps Plus Box : Local Meets Organic Search
Matt Cutts touched upon the addition to Google Maps powered collapsible maps Plus Box integrated within Google’s organic search results over the weekend, and I...
Search Marketing Recruiter : Josh Gampel
Looking for the SEO or Search Marketing dream job? Jessica Bowman of Business.com recommends the services of Josh Gampel, who is with recruitment firm Mangieri/Hull...
Yahoo Search Index Updating
Yesterday webmasters began noticing shifting and changing within Yahoo Search results. Usually, before such changes occur, Yahoo posts a Weather Report on the Yahoo Search...
Yahoo Paid Inclusion : Informative Overview
Yahoo has been practicing paid inclusion under the Yahoo Search Marketing and Inktomi umbrellas for almost 5 years, yet for some reason Paid Inclusion does...
Yahoo’s Reorganization is ‘Genius’
Bill Wise of Media Post has put together a thoughtful review of Yahoo’s reorganization. I had heard a couple of people referring to the Yahoo...
Google Earth Meets Wikipedia & Geographic Web Layering
Google has aggregated what it’s calling a “Geographic Web Layer” in Google Earth. It’s a collection of photos and informational content from Wikipedia, Panoramio and...