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Changing Venues of Search – Search Going Mobile
Changing Venues of Search – Search Going Mobile For the past few years I have been writing about the immense changes happening in search marketing....
Self Tagging by Ask Jeeves
Self Tagging by Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves just deployed MyJeeves 1.2: Tagging Solution for Virtual Folders but it does not offer the community aspect focus...
Searching for Quality, Marchex Buys IndustryBrains
Searching for Quality, Marchex Buys IndustryBrains Seattle-based Marchex, which is the parent of TrafficLeader, the SEM/SEO firm behind several YP (and newspaper) simplified search marketing...
Yahoo to Power Boeing In Flight Web Search
Yahoo to Power Boeing In Flight Web Search Yahoo has come to save the sanity of all business flyers and long distance travelers with a...
Ask Jeeves and AOL Search Engines Grow in Popularity in 2005
Ask Jeeves and AOL Search Engines Grow in Popularity in 2005 Ask Jeeves and AOL’s search volume share rose substancially over the first 6 months...
Andrew Goodman on Google’s Recently Announced AdWords Change
Andrew Goodman on Google’s Recently Announced AdWords Change Andrew writes a 4 page article about the new AdWords system. Smart of him to reinforce his...
Ask Jeeves Rumored to Launch Paid Search Network on August 1st
Ask Jeeves Rumored to Launch Paid Search Network on August 1st Ask Jeeves is rumored to be launching a new Paid Search advertising interface on...
Microsoft Windows Vista Facing Trademark Problems
Microsoft Windows Vista Facing Trademark Problems Seems like these days, every new product that launches runs into some kind of problem with trademarks, especially if...
Google Codejam 2005
Google Codejam 2005 Hey coders, registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2005 : “Google’s annual online coding competition consisting of a series of...
Firefox 1.5 Coming This Summer
Firefox 1.5 Coming This Summer Mozilla has announced that Firefox 1.1 will not be released as planned and will be spun into the new Firefox...
Grand Theft Auto, Porn and Free Publicity
Grand Theft Auto, Porn and Free Publicity Recent video game controversies heating up around the US Senate have SEOBook’s Aaron Wall thinking outloud about how...
Microsoft Virtual Earth Launches
Microsoft Virtual Earth Launches MSN’s Answer to Google and Yahoo!’s dynamic Web-based mapping tools, Virtual Earth, went live this morning. Needless to say it works...
Yahoo Acquisition Opens Door for Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo Acquisition Opens Door for Yahoo Widgets Over the past year the major search engines, Google and Yahoo, have made acquisitions to expand their offerings...
Microsoft Brands Longhorn As Windows Vista
Microsoft Brands Longhorn As Windows Vista Microsoft has announced that it will be launching its long awaited Longhorn operating system as Windows Vista – not...
Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal Integration
Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal Integration Let’s put aside Yahoo!’s FUSE (Find, Use, Share, and Expand) strategy for the moment and look at what the company is doing...
Tracking Advertising Performance
Tracking Advertising Performance An article that has received a good deal of attention, from yesterday’s NY Times, is “How Effective Is This Ad, in Real...
Brazilians Used Google’s Orkut to Manage Drug Ring
Brazilians Used Google’s Orkut to Manage Drug Ring Social networking has been on the verge of taking off for about a year now, and Google’s...
Search Engine Journal Update – An Exciting Month
Search Engine Journal Update – An Exciting Month Due to numerous happenings at Search Engine Journal over the past month I felt the need to...
Google Improves AdWords System
Google Improves AdWords System Google recently introduced two new changes to their AdWords system. (via Inside Adwords) Both these changes will help advertisers improve their...
Will Blinkx Get Bought?
Will Blinkx Get Bought? I got a press call today about Blinkx’s newly announced RSS video/multimedia feed. That quickly led to a broader discussion about...
Yahoo Updates Search Engine Index
Yahoo Updates Search Engine Index Yesterday Tim Mayer announced the newest Yahoo “Weather Report” on their newest search engine index update. The changes to the...
PubSub Aggregates Customized Baseball News from Blogs
PubSub Aggregates Customized Baseball News from Blogs PubSub.com yesterday announced the launch of PubSub Baseball, a collection of free, pre-built subscriptions that provide customized delivery...
Microsoft Sues Google On Kai-Fu Lee Hiring
Microsoft Sues Google On Kai-Fu Lee Hiring Google announced this week that they are planning to open up a research lab in China and have...
News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace
News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace In the emerging tradition of “old media†buying “new media,†Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced today that it was acquiring Intermix...
Interview with Yahoo Shopping V.P. Rob Solomon
Interview with Yahoo Shopping V.P. Rob Solomon Brain Smith has hit a great niche target with his blog ComparisonEngines.com where he reports on news and...
Firefox Site Hacked With Intention to Spam
Firefox Site Hacked With Intention to Spam Recently the Mozilla Firefox promotional site, SpreadFirefox.com, was hacked by someone exploiting a vulnerability in the CMS package...
Small Pay Per Click Search Engines Are Worthless
Small Pay Per Click Search Engines Are Worthless Smaller search networks can not compete with the big boys in building advertisers, users, and monetizing traffic....
Meta Social Networking Coming Soon
Meta Social Networking Coming Soon One of the points former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus made in his keynote address at Interactive Local Media ‘04 was...
Google PageRank Update Analysis
Google PageRank Update Analysis For those of you not yet aware, Google is currently updating the PageRank they are displaying in their toolbar. Each update...
Google Raising AdWords Prices for Less Relevant Ads
Google Raising AdWords Prices for Less Relevant Ads In another way to reap the online advertisers of more dollars and keep escalating click prices beyond...