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Yahoo Search Marketing Changing Ad Copy
Yahoo Search Marketing Changing Ad Copy A thread at WebmasterWorld named Does Yahoo Change Your Ad Copy? discusses a annoyance some advertisers are having with...
Topix ‘Contextual News’ Links
Topix ‘Contextual News’ Links Newspaper-owned news aggregation site Topix, which has a number of third-party, local news distribution deals with the likes of AOL and...
Google AdWords Customers to Target Specific AdSense Pages (Not Just Sites)
Google AdWords Customers to Target Specific AdSense Pages (Not Just Sites) Reported over at Search Engine Watch Forums, AdWords Now Allows Targeting Ads To Sections...
Google Reader – Google’s RSS Feed Aggregator?
Google Reader – Google’s RSS Feed Aggregator? Eric Baillargeon found a new subdomain at Google which may be a hint to their newest offering (yes,...
Adware – Rogue Affiliates – The Hidden Money Trail
Adware – Rogue Affiliates – The Hidden Money Trail PCWorld has just published a very long and enlightening article about Adware and Spyware and how...
Yahoo’s Semel: ‘Google Has No Plan’
Yahoo’s Semel: ‘Google Has No Plan’ AP’s Mike Liedtke, covering Web 2.0 in San Francisco this week, wrote a piece in which he quoted Yahoo!...
Google Advertising Patents for Behavioral Targeting, Personalization and Profiling
Google Advertising Patents for Behavioral Targeting, Personalization and Profiling Google filed two patents this week dealing with ad targeting based on user search history behavior...
More on the Google Sun Microsystems Deal
More on the Google Sun Microsystems Deal Yesterday, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt and Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy held a mid-morning press conference to...
Fake Google & Yahoo Spyware Scammers Busted by FTC
Fake Google & Yahoo Spyware Scammers Busted by FTC The FTC is clamping down on spyware companies. These guys contribute to the growing need for...
Some Google AdSense Publishers Must Wait Another Month for Payment
Some Google AdSense Publishers Must Wait Another Month for Payment JenSense reports that AdSense error means many publishers must wait until NEXT payment cycle for...
Google Mashup: Google Maps + Google Local
Google Mashup: Google Maps + Google Local Google has brought Local out of beta and combined it with the surprisingly popular Google Maps in a...
AOL’s AIM Presence for Networking and Blog Communication
AOL’s AIM Presence for Networking and Blog Communication AOL is working with some blogging, networking, and podcasting communities to integrate AIM “presence” into their systems...
Former Ask Jeeves Employee Wants to Save Jeeves
Former Ask Jeeves Employee Wants to Save Jeeves There were quotes and statements leading to the dropping of Jeeves the Butler from Ask shortly after...
Google Appoints Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D., to Board of Directors
Google Appoints Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D., to Board of Directors Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University’s President and Professor of Molecular Biology, was...
Yahoo Hiring Blogmaster for Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
Yahoo Hiring Blogmaster for Yahoo Search Marketing Blog Two pieces of search and blog related news here from Yahoo. First, Yahoo Search Marketing will be...
AOL Buying Weblogs Inc Blog Network
AOL Buying Weblogs Inc Blog Network AOL is buying Weblogs Inc, the blog media network behind such sites as Engadget, AutoBlog and Luxist. PaidContent.org broke...
More ‘Upcoming’ for Yahoo! Local
More ‘Upcoming’ for Yahoo! Local Yahoo! announced that it had acquired upcoming.org (an events calendar that is user-driven). This is going to bolster Yahoo!’s already...
Blinkx Taps MIVA for Blinkx.TV and Toolbar Sponsored Listings
Blinkx Taps MIVA for Blinkx.TV and Toolbar Sponsored Listings Running one of the Internet’s most innovative video search engines can become costly and blinkx.TV, the...
BodyBuilding.com Pumps Sales Via Search Engine Optimization, No Paid SEM
BodyBuilding.com Pumps Sales Via Search Engine Optimization, No Paid SEM InternetRetailer ran an article on organic search and the power of trusted content with a...
Google and Sun : Partnership to Kill Microsoft
Google and Sun : Partnership to Kill Microsoft As you have probably already heard, Google and Sun have partnered up to distribute the Google Toolbar...
Mozilla Firefox Community Site Hacked Again
Mozilla Firefox Community Site Hacked Again For a software developing organization claiming to develop safe and secure software, a repetition of this kind is not...
Sun + Google Partnership = More Toolbars… Yawn
Sun + Google Partnership = More Toolbars… Yawn So Google agreed to promote Open Office & Sun’s other open source software. When specifically asked how,...
GoogGoul Halloween Event Search Engine – Spotlight #11
GooGhoul Halloween Event Search Engine – Spotlight #11 Looking for some Halloween events in your area or simply looking to get spooked while performing a...
Mesothelioma Still Baffles SEM World
Mesothelioma Still Baffles SEM World Mesothelioma is one of the only words in the English language which makes cancer lawyers and search marketers drool and...
Philadelphia Chooses Earthlink for City Wi-Fi Service
Philadelphia Chooses Earthlink for City Wi-Fi Service Free WiFi equals targeted ads and user data. Philadelphia chose Earthlink [sub req], a company which recently called...
Google Maps Says Taiwan is Province of China, Sparks Protest
Google Maps Says Taiwan is Province of China, Sparks Protest Search engines have become hot property in the Chinese market with Google’s interest in Baidu...
Ask Jeeves Helps With Search Engine Wedding Proposal
Ask Jeeves Helps With Search Engine Wedding Proposal Barry Schwartz, a downright good guy and die-hard search engine industry tracker, was looking for a little...
GMail Offering Auto Save for Email Composing
GMail Offering Auto Save for Email Composing Google GMail has been adding tweaks to its interface which have not been making huge news, but have...
blinkx.tv Offering Video Blogging and Video Upload Space
blinkx.tv Offering Video Blogging and Video Upload Space Joining the web services which are offering free video upload and storage (including Google Video and The...
WhitePages.com Quietly Building a Juggernaut
WhitePages.com Quietly Building a Juggernaut WhitePages.com announced a deal with SuperPages.com to feature WhitePages.com’s residential listings on its site. WhitePages.com already has similar deals with...