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Mobile Local Search (Mo-Lo) Still Has Miles to Go
Mobile Local Search (Mo-Lo) Still Has Miles to GoThere are lots of new mobile search initiatives going on. Most recently, AOL introduced a mobile search offering with technology that automatically renders Web pages for tiny cell phone screens. Meanwhile, Google and Yahoo! have Web search and SMS tools that they’ve ...

RSS and Blog Marketing for Real Estate
RSS and Blog Marketing for Real Estate Earlier this month, Realtor Magazine announced that they would be featuring an article about Tampa Bay Realtor John Mudd and the success he has been having in attracting prospects and media attention with his blog on real estate. Since then, many others ...

Choosing Domain Names for Professional Sites: Six Guidelines
Choosing Domain Names for Professional Sites: Six Guidelines A professional or business site is one where the primary purpose of the site is to facilitate business transactions. You can sell items directly online or exclusively offline, but the result is the same. You want customers to buy products and/or service ...

Web Hosting Operating Systems Explained
Web Hosting Operating Systems ExplainedA few time ago appeared a lot disagreements between opinions on the internet regarding, which is the best operating system for web hosting. There are people who hate windows, there are people who love FreeBSD and many others. The thing is that the best system that ...

Podscope Search Engine Plans to Index All Podcast
Podscope Search Engine Plans to Index Every PodcastWhat is this? A search engine issuing a challenge to index ALL podcasters in a month? Podscope already indexes more than 20,000 podcasts from more than 3,500 sites and is on track to cover every known podcaster by the end of August. Along ...

Feedster Powers AOL Personalized RSS Reader
Feedster Powers AOL Personalized RSS ReaderLast week AOL announced they had launched My AOL, a personalized homepae/portal which lets users set up their homepage to deliver the content that the user wants (like My Yahoo or Google Home Page). Part of the personalization is an RSS feed reader which is ...

Search Engine Marketing Association of North American Looking for Members
Search Engine Marketing Association of North American Looking for MembersThe Search Engine Marketing Association of North American, officially launched February 2005 aims to be an open, democratic, and responsible, member-focused trade organization representing the interests of professionals working in the field of search engine marketing. In addition to giving its ...

Ask Jeeves Paid Search To Rival Google &Yahoo
Ask Jeeves Paid Search To Rival Google & YahooAsk Jeeves plans to launch their own version of a paid search advertising platform as early as today according to Dow Jones and various search engine marketing analysts. The new paid search advertising platform will be a larger revenue generator for Ask ...

Ask Jeeves / IAC Launches Own Network
Ask Jeeves / IAC Launches Own NetworkIt’s official: Ask launches its own bidding engine/network. But the company still wants to preserve its Google relationship:"Ask Jeeves plans to continue to display ads from Google’s network but will feature them below the listings generated from its own auction-based ads. Since users generally ...

Google &Yahoo Sucking Up Brain Power
Google & Yahoo Sucking Up Brain PowerSlashdot has a great little write up named Google and Yahoo Creating Brain Drain? The /. links to a Business Week article where it says "In the second quarter alone, Google snapped up about 230 engineers." In a Cre8asite Forum thread EGOL gives the ...

Affiliate Management Software
Affiliate Management SoftwareThere is an outstanding thread taking place at Search Engine Watch for those of you that are deeply involved in the affiliate industry. The thread is about Favorite Affiliate Management Software and is already on post number 11.Stuntdubl, WMW mod & WeBuildPages SEO, asks about some good choices ...

JupiterMedia Sells Search Engine Watch
JupiterMedia Sells Search Engine WatchWell definately huge news for those of us in and around the search space...Jupitermedia, the owners of the #1 search related site sold SearchEngineWatch and the ClickZ network for $43 million to London-based trade publisher Incisive Media plc.Reading Meckler`s blog you never would have guessed he ...

Danger Ahead Rupert Murdoch
Danger Ahead Rupert MurdochNews Corp.’s purchase of social networking and music promotion site MySpace could only have been motivated by a desire to acquire social networking/community tools and the teen/young adult demographic that frequents the site.This AP article suggests that Murdoch may have trouble effectively using MySpace as a promotional ...

Dogpile Adds MSN to Metasearch
Dogpile Adds MSN to MetasearchAs others have already reported, InfoSpace’s Dogpile metasearch engine added MSN Search to its layered results. Here’s a visual tool where users can compare the uniqueness of search results across the major engines.Dogpile, with its ability to segregate results by engine, is right now a power ...

Testing Yahoo Publisher Network Contextual Ads
Testing Yahoo Publisher Network Contextual AdsAn interesting thread at WebmasterWorld named Will you test Yahoo Ads on your website? sprung up in light of the recent rumors that Yahoo! Publisher Network Coming Soon.Based on the thread it looks like most won`t be loyal and will try out Yahoo!`s AdSense-like product ...

Yahoo Publisher Network Invite Only Beta
Yahoo Publisher Network Invite Only BetaYahoo is finally releasing it’s AdSense competitor - Yahoo Publisher Network. Yahoo has had a while to take a look at Google AdSense and figure out what AdSense lacks so that they can improve on the network. Yahoo plans to address customer service issues and ...

Yahoo Contextual Ads Challenge Google AdSense
Yahoo Contextual Ads Challenge Google AdSenseGoogle AdSense has some competition coming. News.com posts Yahoo to launch blog ad network: "Yahoo is planning to launch on Wednesday an ad network for small Web publishers intended to strengthen its hand against rival Google, a source familiar with the plan told CNET News.com....Yahoo`s ...

Yahoo Shopping Launches API For Developers
Yahoo Shopping Launches API For DevelopersYahoo is taking larger steps to make itself a bit more attractive to web publishers. Besides the recent Y!Q Challenge and the newly announced Yahoo Publishers Contextual Advertising Network, Yahoo is also opening its back door to developers with API offerings. Yahoo announced the Yahoo ...

Coverage of Search Engine Strategies San Jose
Coverage of Search Engine Strategies San JoseSearch Engine Stratagies San Jose is happening next week and its sure to be filled with some interesting content including Yahoo`s Publisher Network, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings, the sale of Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch, and probably some surprise Google announcement to ...

Microsoft Enters Search Advertising Mix With MSN Keywords
Microsoft Enters Search Advertising Mix With MSN KeywordsThis is an extremely busy week in Search Engine Marketing with the announcements of Ask Jeeves that they are launching their own paid search interface, the Yahoo Publisher Network (Yahoo Context Ads) getting off the ground to challenge Google AdWords, Google expanding the ...

Advertising.com and FTC Settle on SpyBlast AdWare Charges
Advertising.com and FTC Settle on SpyBlast AdWare ChargesSeems that AOL owned Advertising.com got in some hot water with the FTC over charges of distributing AdWare to computer users based on user profiling. Advertising.com Inc.reportedly agreed to settle federal charges that the company offered free security software without disclosing the information ...

Yahoo News to Feature ABC and CNN Video Feeds
Yahoo News to Feature ABC and CNN Video FeedsNotice anything different in your Yahoo News listings on Yahoo`s homepage, My Yahoo, and other pages within the Yahoo network where Yahoo News stories are listed? Yahoo is placing a little TV screen next to some news stories to showcase its News ...

Mozilla Foundation Spins Off For Profit Mozilla Corp
Mozilla Foundation Spins Off For Profit Mozilla CorpThe Mozilla Foundation this week went "for profit" with the launch of a commercial subsidiary which will focus on the Firefox browser. The for profit version of Mozilla (Cashzilla?) will also be responsible for the development, testing, and distribution of the organization’s open ...

Google AdWords to Test Longer Descriptions in Ads
Google AdWords to Test Longer Descriptions in AdsBy way of Search Engine Watch Moderator, OptimizeOnline, Google Launch Phase 2 of Longer Ad Text Beta Programme. Basically, Google AdWords will up the description character limit to 200 and then test the CTR rates of those ads versus the original ads. OptimizeOnline ...

Yahoo Testing Blog Search in South Korea
Yahoo Testing Blog Search in South KoreaYahoo has quietly starting testing a blog search engine as part of its Yahoo! South Korea portal. ZDNet suggests that this is a prelude to rolling out a similar service for the United States and the rest of the world.Whilst this is possible, it ...

Yahoo Audio Search Engine Is On The Air
Yahoo Audio Search Engine Is On The AirWhat do you get when you mix Apple iTunes, podcasts, web files, and the world`s largest entertainment portal? Yahoo`s Audio Search Engine. Yahoo is coming out with an audio search engine that will not only index audio files available online (like SingingFish or ...

Jason Calacanis and Weblogs Inc?s $1 Million Google AdSense Goal
Jason Calacanis and Weblogs Inc`s $1 Million Google AdSense GoalJason Calacanis believes that Weblogs Inc. can bring in $1 million in Google AdSense revenue over the course of one year. His claim to build such an income on blogs from Google AdSense ads got some people in the industry talking ...

Only 6% of Americans Read Blogs
Only 6% of Americans Read BlogsA new study of 68,664 people from Forrester Research found that only 6% of Americans reported reading blogs.The study, widely mentioned in the main stream media, also found that only 2% of Americans reported using RSS.However, what was not made clear from the study results ...

AdGooRoo Updates Search Marketing Competitive Intelligence Tools
AdGooRoo Updates Search Marketing Competitive Intelligence ToolsAdGooroo has unveiled a series of new tools in its marketing console for pay-per-click advertisers. Chief among these service enhancements is coverage of Yahoo! Search Marketing. AdGooroo clients advertising on Yahoo! now have access to detailed information about every competitor in their industries. With ...

Google Powered Site Search Boosts Conversions for Net Retailer
Google Powered Site Search Boosts Conversions for Net RetailerThough e-commerce toy retailer Fat Brain Toys recognized that they had a problem with their homegrown site search functionality, they were reluctant to purchase a commercial solution for fear of big price tags and complicated integration. But for over two years the ...

Netopia To Showcase eSite Builder at SES
Netopia To Showcase eSite Builder at SESNetopia, Inc. will be showcasing its eSite Builder Platform at the Search Engine Strategies 2005 Conference and Expo at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center from August 8-11. Netopia sales representatives will be on-hand at Netopia`s Booth #130 to demonstrate the features found in ...

Interview With IceRocket Blog Search CEO Blake Rhodes
Interview With IceRocket Blogs Search CEO Blake RhodesThe IceRocket Search Engine has been around for a couple of years now but recently was thrusted into the public eye because of their connection with Mark Cuban and decision to redirect themselves as more of a blog search engine. Entering the same ...

Yahoo?s YPN Advertising Network Not Just For Blogs!
Yahoo`s YPN Advertising Network Not Just For Blogs!Finally caught up with Yahoo! PR folks—Gaude Paez in this case. She helped clarify for me that the new Yahoo! Publisher Network isn’t just about blogs; it’s for any small or medium-sized content publisher (right now by invitation only).Gaude told me the largely ...

Wireless Finally Passes Landlines in U.S.
There is so much news and there are so many announcements flying around these days I just have to duck much of the time. However, I feel compelled to point out a fact of some significance that got almost no coverage.The FCC says that at the end of 2004 there ...

Wikipedia?s List of Google PageRank 10 Sites
Wikipedia`s List of Google PageRank 10 SitesWikipedia has a nice rundown of sites which have a Google PageRank (a Larry PageRank) of 9 and 10. Not sure if those are all of the 9`s available, but its a good list of sites which have the Google blessing that most of ...

Online Maps Popularity To Expand Local Search?
Online Maps Popularity To Expand Local Search?Sometimes I’m even surprised by the level of interest and attention being given to maps of late. But the data keep reminding me of how mapping applications are so widely used and, dare I say it, beloved by consumers. Our Q3 joint online survey ...

David Letterman Shames Google
David Letterman Shames GoogleBrad Hill of the Unofficial Google Blog notes that David Letterman slammed Google`s search relevancy in tonight`s Top 10 list. The list was Top Ten Signs Your Kid Spends Too Much Time on the Internet and David described how when searching for a toy tractor for his ...

Update on Yahoo Publisher Network: Phone Support
Update on Yahoo Publisher Network: Phone SupportI received an automated email about some feature enhancements to the Yahoo! Publisher Network and it contained a phone number. So I gave them a call to report an issue with an ad not displaying on this archive page. They answered the phone, took ...

NewsGator Intros Enterprise Server for RSS
NewsGator Intros Enterprise Server for RSSRSS has become a widely used technology on the web. So much so, that NewsGator Technologies has now introduced an Enterprise Server, which is a business-class application for enabling RSS content delivery in a corporate environment. The package includes the popular NewsGator RSS reader and ...

Rupert Murdoch?s MySpace To Challenge MTV?
Rupert Murdoch`s MySpace To Challenge MTV?Targeting the youth demographic is not the only reason Rupert Murdoch`s News Corp bought MySpace, the music savvy social network. Robert Young believes that Murdoch isgoing to use MySpace as a channel to set upa competitor to MTV, "Much like Viacom’s CBS decided to use ...

Quigo Partnering With More Newspapers
Quigo Partnering With More NewspapersQuigo Technologies Inc. announced several agreements with the online divisions of American newspapers, including Newsday (a Tribune company), Media General, Scripps Howard and Media News Group. The contracts collectively call for over 130 newspapers across the country to install private label versions of the AdSonar Exchange ...

Howard Stern Suing Google AdWords
Howard Stern Suing Google AdWordsMarketingVox has an interesting rundown on a lawsuit filed by Howard Stern against Google claiming that Google AdWord`s daily budgeting does not work correctly and credits are not given to ad campaigns which Google serves over the desired limit. Google AdWords forecasting, rankings, and budgeting have ...

EffectiveBrand Releases Firefox Toolbar Builder Kit
EffectiveBrand Releases Firefox Toolbar Builder KitToday EffectiveBrand, the build your site`s own toolbar company, released a Firefox friendly version of their toolbar building service. From EB`s message : "We`re excited to announce the (beta) release of the EffectiveBrand Firefox toolbar! We have been working hard over the past few ...

Google Adding Depth to Search Results
Google Adding Depth to Search ResultsIn a week that`s going to focus on new offerings by Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, and MSN in paid search, Google has yet to introduce their new change that will counteract the interest generated by their competition. You see, companies like Ask (which I`ve always regarded ...

Apple iTunes Japan Hits One Million Downloads in Four Days
Apple iTunes Japan Hits One Million Downloads in Four DaysGiven the Japanese appreciation for the musical arts, love of shopping, and ever agile mobility, it is no surprise what-so-ever that Apple`s iTunes has hit a home run with one million downloads in four days since opening the Japanese iTunes store. ...

Google News Offers RSS and Atom Feeds
Google News Offers RSS and Atom FeedsGoogle News has added RSS and Atom news feeds to their news category sections and Google News search results after `years` of demand for this service. New Google news feeds can also be customized based on a users` personalized Google News page. The Google ...

GrabAll : Comparison Search Engine with Categories
GrabAll : Comparison Search Engine with CategoriesGrabAll sports a very neat and simple UI but it has all the good features for comparing search engine results whether from the web or audio, video or even the News sources like Google and Yahoo!. When you make a search on Graball, it ...

Google Acquiring Geo Aware Meetro Messaging and Social Networking?
Google Acquiring Geo Aware Meetro Messaging and Social Networking?Rumors are swirling that Google is planning the acquisition of Meetroduction, a geographically aware based instant messaging and social networking system. Meetro, the instant messaging system, allows users to take all of their current buddy lists with them, sporting compatibility with major ...

Amazon Entering Music Download Market?
Amazon Entering Music Download Market?Music industry executives have claimed that the one of the world’s most successful e-commerce portal Amazon.com is now considering making an entry into the music and video download business. The online portal is already a global leader in the sales of books, CDs and other products ...

AOL Expands Wireless Offerings With Wildseed Acquisition
AOL Expands Wireless Offerings With Wildseed AcquisitionIn an initiative to integrate AOL services into mobile phones and wireless devices, Time Warner`s AOL has acquired the privately held wireless technology company Wildseed Ltd. Wildseed Ltd. was founded by G. Eric Engstrom, who co-invented Microsoft`s DirectX multimedia and games technology.AOL`s goal to ...

50 Million Americans Visit Popular Blogs in Q1 2005
50 Million Americans Visit Popular Blogs in Q1 2005A new study from comScore Networks today found that nearly 50 million Americans, or about 30 percent of the total U.S. Internet population, visited top blogs in Q1 2005, representing an increase of 45 percent compared to Q1 2004. The study, funded ...

Search Engine Strategies - Earning From Search &Contextual Ads
Search Engine Strategies - Earning From Search & Contextual AdsThis session may be one of the most popular during the SES show since it is being put together on the heels of the launching of the Yahoo Publishers contextual advertising network which is competing directly with Google AdSense. Jennifer Slegg ...

Search Engine Strategies Coverage - Mobile Search
Search Engine Strategies Coverage - Mobile SearchSearch Engine Roundtable is covering the Search Engine Strategies conference (about 75% of the sessions) which began today in San Jose, California. Unfortunately, I cannot attend and cover live for Search Engine Journal like the New York show,but Barry Schwartz and company are doing ...

Yahoo Search Marketing Partners with Web Analytics Companies
Yahoo Search Marketing Partners with Web Analytics CompaniesYahoo Search Marketing has agreed to extend its search marketing application program interfaces (APIs) to leading web analytics providers Coremetrics, Omniture, WebTrends and WebSideStory. Under the agreement, Yahoo! Search Marketing advertisers can elect to share valuable insight into specific click-through rates, conversions and ...

Eurekster SearchPublisher Offering Personalized Site Search for Publishers
Eurekster SearchPublisher Offering Personalized Site Search for PublishersEurekster is now making its personalized search engine platform available for website publishers under the name Eurekster SearchPublisher. The service is the firstto enable site publishers to provide their users with a "highly tailored Web search experience, which results in greater user loyalty ...

Google Mad at CNET, Won?t Talk To Them For One Year
Google Mad at CNet, Won`t Talk To Them For One YearCNET News.com columnist Elinor Mills googled Google CEO Eric Schmidt last month to find out Eric`s net worth, the town he lives in, how much Google stock he sold, and his favorite presidential candidate and wrote about it. All of ...

Local.com New Local Search Engine Launches
Local.com New Local Search Engine LaunchesLocal.com, the name says it all, has finally launched after months of anticipation by those Internet users like myself who had stumbled upon their site after typing in the domain name, assuming that some sort of local search engine existed at the URL. Well ladies ...

ZoomInfo Provides Background Searches for BusinessWeek
ZoomInfo Provides Background Searches for BusinessWeekZoomInfo is now powering a new search tool on BusinessWeek.com which enables users to instantly retrieve a ZoomInfo summary of a person`s work history for detailed background information. ZoomInfo`s People Search is located on business content pages throughout the BusinessWeek.com site. By using ZoomInfo, ...

Google News RSS and Atom Feeds Reviewed
Google News RSS and Atom Feeds ReviewedNews of Google News providing RSS and Atom feeds from their categorical and news search results has led to some quite favorable coverage on the Internet from some people who feeds are quite important to, bloggers. Search Engine Journal covered the news early yesterday ...

Apple iTunes and Sony Clash in Japan
Apple iTunes and Sony Clash in JapanThis week Apple iTunes made huge news in the opening of their iTunes Japan store which hit record downlods sales in four days. Given the Japanese appreciation for the musical arts, love of shopping, and ever agile mobility, it is no surprise what-so-ever that ...

Ask Jeeves?s Steve Berkowitz at Search Engine Strategies
Ask Jeeves`s Steve Berkowitz at Search Engine StrategiesAt this year`s Search Engine Strategies San Jose the Keynote Conversation was with Steve Berkowitz of Ask Jeeves. Barry Schwartz, who`s blog Search Engine Roundtable is covering the SES Conference, summarized the conversation which dealt mostly with Ask Jeeves`s role with IAC, AskJeeves ...

Keyword Discovery Offers Search Competitive Analysis
Keyword Discovery Offers Search Competitive AnalysisRecently HitWise jumped into the keyword research market by offering their Keyword Intelligence tool starting at $89 a month. Trellian`s Keyword Discovery just joined the competitive analysis market.It is cool to see another competitive analysis tool available for those of us who can`t afford to ...

Google?s Bad Public Relations Day
Google`s Bad Public Relations DayGoogle has had another bad day on the public relations front yesterday. Three stories about Google made search marketing headlines which, for a company as interesting and innovative as Google is fairly typical. Yesterday`s headlines however were a headache for Google and should act as a ...

Vivisimo Launches Search Affiliate Network
Vivisimo Launches Search Affiliate NetworkVivisimo, the search and clustering software company and owner of Clusty.com search engine, has launched a search results and advertising distribution network called Vivisimo Affiliate Solutions. Vivisimo Affiliate Solutions is a combination of clustered search results and Sponsored Listings which provides web sites with a new ...

Feedster Hires Tony Guntharp to Enhance Feedster Media Network
Feedster Hires Tony Guntharp to Enhance Feedster Media NetworkFeedster., a blogs and RSS feeds search engine, announced today that Tony Guntharp (who is apparently well-known in the developer community by his blog name fusion94.org) has joined Feedster as their Senior Software Engineer.Mr. Guntharp, 36 will develop software to power and ...

Google Toolbar Update Bug Said to Crash Browsers, Hijack Links
Google Toolbar Update Bug Said to Crash Browsers, Hijack LinksApparently a new automatic update to the Google toolbar has a flaw which is freezing web browsers when the user tries to view a Google cached page using the toolbar. There is a conversation going on about it at SEOChat where ...

How To Avoid The Google Duplicate Content Filter
How To Avoid The Google Duplicate Content FilterMore and more webmasters are building websites with publicly available content (data feeds, news feeds, articles). This results in websites with duplicate content on the Internet. In cases of websites build on news feeds or data feeds you can even find websites that ...

LookSmart Back from the Brink
LookSmart Back from the BrinkI had a very informative meeting with LookSmart CEO David Hills (formerly of 24/7, About, Cox Enterprises and elsewhere). He acknowledged some of LookSmart’s past strategic missteps and gave me an overview of the company’s new three-pronged strategy. (Impressively he did it all in about 20 ...

Yahoo?s $1 Billion Investment in China?s Alibaba.com
Yahoo`s $1 Billion Investment in China`s Alibaba.comYahoo Inc finalized an agreement to buy 40 percent of Alibaba.com for one billion dollars cash, as Yahoo boosts its Chinese presence. Alibaba.com is China`s largest e-commerce company and part of the deal includes Yahoo handing over the running of its China operations to ...

Yahoo Site Explorer Announced at Search Engine Strategies
Yahoo Site Explorer Announced at Search Engine StrategiesYahoo`s Tim Mayer is at it again with using the Search Engine Strategies Conference as a platform for announcing new Yahoo products and search offerings. Yesterday at SES`s Q&A on Search Engines and Links, Tim let the crowd and present journalists in on ...

Google Still Most Popular Search Engine Despite Gains by MSN &Yahoo
Google Still Most Popular Search Engine Despite Gains by MSN & YahooYahoo and MSN have strived to come into their own over the past year with Yahoo Search growing at a spectacular rate and MSN blossoming into its own independent MSN Search. However, Google is still Google and the Godfather ...

Yahoo Boasts Size of Its Search Engine Index
Yahoo Boasts Size of Its Search Engine IndexTrying not to include any phallic analogies, Yahoo this week announced that its overall search engine index is much larger than Google`s and is the most in depth index of `web objects` on the search market. On the Yahoo Search Blog, Yahoo disclosed ...

Alibaba and the 40% Interest
Alibaba and the 40% InterestSite back and listen to a spellbinding tale of exotic lands, for I Scheherazade will enthrall you with stories of intrigue, riches and wonder. Our tale begins with a not-so-far-off-anymore land, a country once known as Qin. Many companies and inventors have heard of a cave ...

Rupert Murdoch the New Barry Diller?
Rupert Murdoch the New Barry Diller?Paid Content listened to Rupert Murdoch’s earnings call (bless them) and had this to report about Murdoch’s local musings (which are full of hubris of course): Murdoch sent a wake-up call to local online players, ticking off the lengthy list of local properties in the ...

Local Search Growing Beyond Yahoo and Yellow Pages
Local Search Growing Beyond Yahoo and Yellow PagesLocal search, the ability to search for specific types of businesses and services in a certain area, is getting hotter and hotter with every minute and may be on the verge of soon living up to its expectations. To date, between the major ...

Rumor: Yahoo Purchasing Technorati?
Rumor: Yahoo Purchasing Technorati?Public Relations guru B.L. Ochman apparently has the inside track with some Internet power houses as she spills the beans that Technorati is under the acquisition radar of some of the net`s largest search engines. Even better, the deal may have already been made as BL posts ...

Search Engine Strategies San Jose Overview
Search Engine Strategies San Jose OverviewSearch Engine Strategies has come to an end and its time for everyone to gather up their freebies, pack up, and head back to their search engine marketing jobs with oodles and oodles of new information and interesting ideas derived from the search engine fest ...

Ringtones Search Engine RingBits Powered by Google
Ringtones Search Engine RingBits Powered by GoogleLooking for Ringtones for your cell phone so you can look cool in front of your friends and also annoy everyone eating in the restaurant? Well, sowere the people at RingBit.com. They were looking so hard from site to site looking for Ringtones that ...

Opera Features Answers.com On Browser
Opera Features Answers.com On BrowserThe Opera Browser and Gurunet`s Answers.com have partnered to bring Answers.com content directly into Opera`s browser and its web portal. Opera browser users will have access to Answers.com content via Opera`s built-in dropdown search toolbar. Answers will also be integrated through the Opera Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and ...

President Bush Indicted for Podcasting?
President Bush Indicted for Podcasting?Two pieces of blog related news today centered around the President of the United States have nothing to do with his stance on speaking with Iraq War protesters, making millions by injecting Jose Canseco and the Texas Rangers with steroids, or whether or not Bush plans ...

China?s View and Japan?s Stake in the Yahoo Alibaba Deal
China`s View and Japan`s Stake in the Yahoo Alibaba DealWhile looking around the Internet for news this morning some rather different headlines caught my attention. The Yahoo $1 Billion buy-in of China`s mega-shopping site Alibaba.com has been covered by just about every news source online. For the most part, the ...

Yahoo?s Pay Per Call Advertising in the UK
Yahoo`s Pay Per Call Advertising in the UKHow did I miss this one? According to Netimperative: The service is already available in Yahoo! Cars and will be introduced into Yahoo!’s other e-commerce properties, Shopping and Travel following an initial introductory period beginning in early August on its shopping- comparison portal ...

Google Print Halted Amid Publisher Copyright Concerns
Google Print Halted Amid Publisher Copyright ConcernsGoogle Print, Google`s ambitious drive to scan the text of all books and make those books available to Google searchers worldwide, has run into a lot of flak from various publishers and has stopped its scanning of copyrighted books. Google announced their change of ...

Google And Apple iTunes Together?
Google And Apple iTunes Together?Google may soon be offering Apple iTunes through the Google site. Are we seeing the first of many uses of Google’s micropayment system? Combining music search and music downloads would place Google way ahead of Yahoo - its main competitor in the music search arena.I’d imagine ...

Spyware : An Internet Plague
Spyware : An Internet PlagueAs spyware threats continue to grow the methods by which users are infected becomes less and less difficult. It no longer takes physical access to a computer nor do users have to click on an ad or email attachment to install the malicious applications. Spyware can ...

Dell Computers Drops on Disappointing Sales Numbers
Dell Computers Drops on Disappointing Sales NumbersI purchased a Dell computer for the first time earlier this year for my parents to use and for me to work on while visiting them. The investment into the basic Dell desktop model with flat screen monitor was about $400 - a flash ...

Iran Bans Use of Blogrolling.com
Iran Bans Use of Blogrolling.comThe government of Iran has banned the use of Blogrolling.com and has ordered all Iranian ISPs to black and filter the blog rolling service. Apparently, Blogrolling.com is quite the popular blog linking tool in Iran, which is the largest blogging country in the Middle East (and ...

Which Search Engine Will Rupert Murdoch Buy?
Which Search Engine Will Rupert Murdoch`s News Corp Buy?Rupert Murdoch and News Corp are on a Barry Diller type quest to buy up online destinations in an attempt to expand their grasp on the news industry before they are left high and dry behind Google, Yahoo, IAC (Ask) and others. ...

ValueClick Buys Fastclick Internet Advertising Network
ValueClick Buys Fastclick Internet Advertising NetworkAccording to Clickz - the deal is done. Skip below to take a pulse and see what people around the forums have to say about the ValueClick - FastClick deal. I didn`t know FastClick was right across the street from Commission Junction. How convenient! I ...

Rupert Murdoch Wants The Blinkx Search Engine
Rupert Murdoch Wants The Blinkx Search EngineAccording to the LA Times, Rupert Murdoch`s News Corp is in negotiations to buy the Blinkx search engine. LA Times reports "News Corp. is in negotiations to buy Blinkx, a privately held Internet search company based in San Francisco, according to people close to ...

Firefox 1.5 Alpha 2 Release : Deer Park
Firefox 1.5 Alpha 2 Release : Deer ParkThe Firefox Roadmap states that Firefox fans would be able to download Firefox 1.5 beta in August 2005 while the final release of Firefox 1.5 would hit the shelves in September. Firefox is asking users to report about websites which are not working ...

Ask Jeeves Makes Sponsored Listings Available
Ask Jeeves Makes Sponsored Listings AvailableAsk Jeeves, Inc made its Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings search advertising program available to the public today. It was announced that Jeeves wasstarting the program last week at Search Engine Strategies, but their site gave a Coming Soon message to interested web marketers who wanted ...

Mozilla Firefox Losing Market Share?
Mozilla Firefox Losing Market Share?The market share of Mozilla Firefox browsers is slipping for the first time according to a study by NetApplications. The study shows that Firefox`s market share has dropped to 8.07% in July after an all time high 8.71% in June. Microsoft IE browsers grew from 86.56% ...

Ask Jeeves Name Game
Ask Jeeves Name GameLooks like the folks at Ask Jeeves are getting a free small focus group on the name change over at Search Engine Watch Forums. The thread is named Ask Jeeves Name Guessing Game and asks the members which name they think Ask Jeeves will choose in the ...

Viral Marketing, Spamming and Censoring Wikipedia
Viral Marketing, Spamming and Censoring WikipediaTwo stories about manipulating Wikipedia for commmercial and promotional purposes are floating around this morning. One is linked to a post on Boing Boing about viral marketers targeting Wikipedia entries for the planting of commercial info. The other is about Open Directory Project editors making ...

Google Loses Trademark Case Versus Geico
Google Loses Trademark Case Versus GeicoA US district court judge has ruled against Google and found that there was infringement where the terms “Geico” and “Geico Direct” were used in the text of sponsored ads. This new ruling emphasizes that the infringement breach refers only to sponsored links that use ...

Google Wireless ISP?
Google Wireless ISP?Google wi-fi broadband network? Om Malik hypothesizes. This would be potentially very appealing for both for consumers and advertisers (creates more reliable geotargeting). “Appealing?” Perhaps that’s too tepid—more like boom chaka laka!"What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it ...

Yahoo Search Index Size Inflated?
Yahoo Search Index Size Inflated?Forget if size is important or not, we probably all agree relevancy is where it is at. But the question if it is true or an inflated number. Anyone with some schooling in statistics knows that you can make a numbers say almost anything you want ...

Ingenio Launches Pay Per Call API
Ingenio Launches Pay Per Call APIAs many of you may have read at ClickZ or MediaPost, Ingenio launched an API today that will enable agencies and search engine marketing (SEM) firms to tap directly into Ingenio’s bidding engine and distribution. Effectively, this creates additional sales channels for the PPCall product ...

Oodle Classifieds Search Engine Getting to Scale
Oodle Classifieds Search Engine Getting to ScaleAccording to a press release this a.m. classifieds aggregator Oodle has now grown to 20 U.S. metro areas. It’s still a site in search of a business model, but it’s obvious value to consumers will probably bring a (perhaps newspaper) buyer at some point ...

Ask.com - Time For Jeeves to Sleep With the Fishes
Ask.com - Time For Jeeves to Sleep With the FishesExpect Jeeves to disappear from Ask Jeeves in the next couple of months as more signs are coming that Barry Diller`s IAC is planning on a way to off the butler mascot of Ask Jeeves, Inc and rebrand into Ask.com. Barry ...

Yahoo?s Index Claim Suspicious According To Study
Yahoo`s Index Claim Suspicious According To StudyMatthew Cheney, Mike Perry, and Dr. Orville Vernon Burton of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications have compared the size of Yahoo and Google’s Index. The researchers based their study off of an assumption that the search engine with more documents for obscure search ...

Google AdWords Testing Bid Price Structure Changes
Google AdWords Testing Bid Price Structure ChangesGoogle is making some changes in pricing of the AdWords program and currently testing them in the AdWords interface according to a Webmaster World discussion. In the discussion, dubbed Google AdWords Pricing Change Goes Into Affect, AdWordsAdvisor (a Google rep) confirms the testing. Honestly, ...

Landing on Google News Home Page
Landing on Google News Home PageGoogle News is rising in popularity and that means publishers want their content syndicated in Google News, I know I do (Matt???). A thread at Cre8asite Forums named Tips on getting on the Google News homepage asks the member base for advice on how to ...

Rupert Murdoch Planning a Smart Move in Blinkx
Rupert Murdoch Planning a Smart Move in BlinkxBlinkx, founded by Suranga Chandratillake, a Cambridge computer science graduate, is a multimedia search engine that indexes the web for video and audio clips and organizes them automatically into Smart Folders. Once a "smart folder" on a particular subject is created, the service ...

Google GMail Expands Language Support
Google GMail Expands Language SupportGoogle launched their popular webmail service GMail sometime in April last year. It has become so popular that the scared competition MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail had to expand their offerings in the form of improved web space. It is also said to be one of ...

BushAdmin Asks For Hold On Porn .XXX Domains
Bush Admin Asks For Hold On Porn .XXX DomainsThe Bush Administration and the Religious Right are pressuring ICANN to halt the launch of the proposed .XXX domains for porn and adult oriented sites. Some religious groups feel that adding a .XXX domain to the offerings from ICANN will lead to ...

Yahoo Local Upgrades with City Pages, Maps, and RSS
Yahoo Local Upgrades with City Pages, Maps, and RSSYahoo Local has introduced the ability to search by neighborhood and city pages to their popular local community search offering. New city and neighborhood (community) pages feature business, local events and restaurants which have received favorable reviews by Yahoo users. The new ...

Wikipedia Treated Too Well in Google?
Wikipedia Treated Too Well in Google?A WebmasterWorld thread named Wikipedia gets too many high rankings shows one members dissatisfaction with Google ranking Wikipedia too well in Google results. For those of you who do not know what Wikipedia is, it is basically the largest wealth of knowledge maintained by volunteers ...

China - Google and Yahoo?s New Battleground
China - Google and Yahoo`s New BattlegroundChina is the largest emerging market on the planet and it is coming of age more rapidly than anyone could have predicted. While the Chinese paid-ad sector was worth only $148 million in 2004 according to Shanghai based iResearch Inc., international business advertising targeting ...

Microsoft Renaming of RSS to Web Feeds is Market Friendly
Microsoft Renaming of RSS to Web Feeds is Market FriendlyIn case you’ve missed it there is a storm in a tea cup brewing in the blogosphere over the decision by Microsoft to use the term “web feed” in place of RSS in the new version of Internet Explorer (IE7, currently ...

Measuring Key Performance Indicators Can Improve E-Commerce Strategy - Part 3
Measuring Key Performance Indicators Can Improve E-Commerce Strategy - Part 3The first article of this series discussed page views per session as a kind of early warning system key performance indicator (KPI) for your website. The second discussed time on site as another warning flag. Both of these articles show ...

Measuring Key Performance Indicators Can Improve E-Commerce Strategy - Part 2
Measuring Key Performance Indicators Can Improve E-Commerce Strategy - Part 2The first article of this series discussed page views per session as a kind of early warning system key performance indicator (KPI) for your website. This article will discuss another KPI and why this is an important metric, the time ...

Measuring Key Performance Indicators Can Improve E-Commerce Strategy - Part 1
Measuring Key Performance Indicators Can Improve E-Commerce Strategy - Part 1The problem with most e-commerce marketing strategy today is that companies don’t understand how they use things like web analytics. Most e-commerce directors or web marketers are given a budget and told to stick to it, and good analytics don’t ...

Froogle Mobile Brings Comparison Shopping to Cell Phones
Froogle Mobile Brings Comparison Shopping to Cell PhonesGoogle`s comparison shopping search engine Froogle just released the Froogle Mobile service for cell phones. For phones that support WML (WAP 1.2), Froogle Mobile is accessible at http://wml.froogle.com. The new offering will take Froogle out of the online world into the brick and ...

Shopzilla Rampages Shopping.com
Shopzilla Rampages Shopping.comYahoo and Google aren`t the only search engines looking for bragging rights over size. Shopzilla recently published its second quarter earnings and highlighted strong growth which put Shopzilla ahead of Shopping.com in revenue earned. Brain Smith of Comparison Engines sat down with Farhad Mohit, Chairman of Shopzilla (formerly ...

New SMARTpages Prepares for YellowPages.com Integration
New SMARTpages Prepares for YellowPages.com IntegrationSMARTpages has relaunched with a new look and feel, preparing for the eventual merger of the site with RealPages.com under the unified YellowPages.com brand. The new site is a significant improvement over the user experience previously offered.FAST Search & Transfer is the vendor behind search ...

Advertisers Switching from Google AdSense to Yahoo Publisher Network
Advertisers Switching from Google AdSense to Yahoo Publisher NetworkIn a WebmasterWorld thread named How is the Revenue with YPN compared to Adsense? members who have the privilege of being accepted into the YPN beta testing period are discussing how the revenue compares. What is interesting is that people are now ...

What Will Google Do with $4 Billion?
What Will Google Do with $4 Billion?Google took investors by surprise in announcing that it would sell additional shares expected to generate US$4 billion. GOOG consequently took a bit of a hit. And now many in blogland are buzzing with speculation about what it means and why the company is ...

Google Desktop Search Sidebar Shines Bright
Google Desktop Search Sidebar Shines BrightOver the years, Google has introduced many interesting applications which up until now, had no real centralizing base. Google Gmail, Desktop Search, Google News, Stocks, Personalized Search and Google Web Clips were all introduced with fanfare - but the underlying critique was that the applications ...

Yahoo Japan Offers Free Streaming Music to Market Downloads
Yahoo Japan Offers Free Streaming Music to Market DownloadsYahoo Japan, possibly feeling the heat from Apple`s iTunes Japan success, has started an online streaming audio service which lets Yahoo Japan users listen to entire songs for no cost. Users then have the option to purchase the songs via Yahoo Japan ...

Google Desktop Sidebar - Toolbar Meets Browser
Google Desktop Sidebar - Toolbar Meets BrowserI got an opportunity to preview Google’s version 2 of its desktop client (GD2) late last week. It’s very interesting and, in the few days I’ve been testing it out, pretty useful. It offers much improved desktop search, indexing an expanded range of documents. ...

Everything About Google News Technology
Everything About Google News TechnologyThe first internal Google News demo appeared in Dec 2001. It used only 100 sources. Today, the Google News service scans 4,500 different websites real time, determines which news stories are related and then groups them based on importance. And there aren`t any journalists to work ...

Google or Yahoo! to Buy Classifieds Publisher?
Google or Yahoo! to Buy Classifieds Publisher?According to MediaPost; Google and Yahoo! are attempting to purchase Amsterdam-based Trader Classified Media, which publishes 578 print guides and runs 56 Web sites with classified ads in 22 countries, according to published reports in Reuters and the London Sunday Times.A kind of “double ...

Google Talk - Instant Messaging and VOIP App from Google?
Google Talk - Instant Messaging and VOIP App from Google?When Google talks, the world listens. People get ready to open your ears, because Google is about to speak loud and clear as the Internet anticipates the release this week of Google Talk - the Google Instant Messaging service. Google executives ...

Ask Jeeves Interested in Grouper File Sharing
Ask Jeeves Interested in Grouper File SharingOm Malik spills the beans that Ask Jeeves is looking into acquiring Grouper the peer to peer file sharing social network. Om sees the acquisition as a channel for Ask Jeeves to bundle its download offerings as well as show its new sponsored search ...

Google Loses Market Share in July, Yahoo and MSN Gain
Google Loses Market Share in July, Yahoo and MSN GainThe monthly number of internet searches in July 2005 reached an astounding 4.8 billion, a 22% increase over the number of searches conducted in July 2004. To the delight of Google’s competition, Google lost a portion of its market share. ComScore ...

Search Engine Marketers Yahoo Fantasy Football League
Search Engine Marketers Yahoo Fantasy Football LeagueIn the spirit of networking and getting to know one another, a Yahoo Fantasy Football league has been developed for grid-iron grinders in the search engine marketing field. If you love football, have a Yahoo account, and want to get involved in what may ...

Amazon Partners with Shutterfly for Digital Photo Store
Amazon Partners with Shutterfly for Digital Photo StoreAmazon.com and Shutterfly have partnered to bring Shutterfly`s digital photo services to Amazon`s customer base. Amazon and Shutterfly have built a co-branded site at Amazon.Shutterfly.com where Amazon customers can upload their digital camera photos to Shutterfly and order custom prints. Shutterfly services, a ...

MSN Search Slows Over Zealous RSS News Bot
MSN Search Slows Over Zealous RSS News BotAt Search Engine Journal we`ve been noticing some weird increases in our bandwidth lately and perhaps this new announcement by MSN Search has something to do with it. It seems that MSN has been rather active with the spidering of RSS files from ...

Earthlink Acquires Anti-Spyware Company
Earthlink Acquires Anti-Spyware CompanyEarthlink, one of the largest and most innovative ISPs in the US, has just acquired an anti-spyware firm to add to its anti-pop up, anti-spam and anti-virus offerings for Earthlink customers. Earthlink was one of the first ISP`s to offer anti-popup and anti-spam software for its users. ...

Monitoring AdSense Earnings on Google Sidebar
Monitoring AdSense Earnings on Google SidebarOne of the coolest things about Google`s Sidebar application is that it is open to adding plug-ins; created by both Google and other software manufacturers (an influence of Firefox?). The Google Desktop Plugins directory is available from Google and includes plug-ins ranging from chat to ...

Is Google Talk Instant Messaging Video Related?
Is Google Talk Instant Messaging Video Related?The boys at Google plan to launch a web communications tool on Wednesday which is going to be big news. Google executives and leaks have hinted that the company will be releasing a messaging and/or VOIP tool from Google - Google Talk. Google has ...

Section Targeting by Google AdSense
Section Targeting by Google AdSenseThis just makes so much sense! As a publisher and Webmaster, you can tell your contextual ads, which content is the real content on the page. As you and I know, many content management systems default text into titles and meta information into the pages, that ...

Google Talk Already Exists?
Google Talk Already Exists?Little did I know upon writing an overview of the rumors and leaks leading to the launch of Google`s anticipated IM and VOIP client, Google Talk; that Google Talk already exists. Seems that alot of the buzz centered around the talk.google.com subdomain could be an internal Google ...

Yahoo Search Marketing and Viacom Contract for Web Advertising
Yahoo Search Marketing and Viacom Contract for Web AdvertisingYahoo and Viacom have sealed an agreement where Yahoo Search Marketing ads will be shown across Viacom`s network of entertainment and news oriented web channels. Paid search. contextual ads, and other Yahoo powered search features will be integrated into web sites such ...

Skype Opens Up With Google Talk and Yahoo VOIP Competition
Skype Opens Up With Google Talk and Yahoo VOIP CompetitionGoogle Talk has been hogging both the search and messaging spotlights over the past 24 hours with its messaging and VOIP launch. However, let us not forget that there are other messaging tools on the market that are just as useful ...

Google Talk Instant Messenger is Finally Here
Google Talk Instant Messenger is Finally HereAfter an almost unprecendented frenzy of speculation Google Talk is live. What is it? It’s an IM client that has VoIP (good transmission quality). You have to have a gmail account to participate. (This may help drive gmail adoption). It’s simple and easy to ...

Google Speaks Loudly with Google Talk
Google Speaks Loudly with Google TalkOver the past 12 hours Google has taken over the major search and tech news resources with the launch of its Google Talk IM client. Google Talk, a messaging tool with text instant messaging and VOIP, is quite a simple tool except for its integration ...

AOL News More Popular Than Google News and Topix.net Combined
AOL News More Popular Than Google News and Topix CombinedSearch Engine Watch published an interesting overview by Greg Jarboe of the popularity of AOL News and how it has quickly become a major news search engine, second to only Yahoo News. Nielsen//NetRatings reported that in July 2005, only one month ...

Former Ask Jeeves International Honcho Now InfoSearch Media CEO
Former Ask Jeeves International Honcho Now InfoSearch Media CEOInfoSearch Media (TrafficLogic - the company based around selling optimized content) has brought in former members of the Ask Jeeves senior management team to steer their controversial business model ship. George Lichter, former President of Ask Jeeves International, has agreed to join ...

Google Developing Global Video Conferencing
Google Developing Global Video ConferencingGoogle is looking for a Sr. Video Conferencing Engineer to develop a digital video conferencing application for Google to roll out on a global scale according to a HotJobs posting. There has been much rumor centered around Google Video Conferencing being a major part of Google`s ...

Search For Singles Hotties Using Google Maps
Search For Singles Hotties Using Google MapsTalk about using the Google Maps API for the good of mankind. San Francisco software firm Frozenbear has combined the Google Mapping technology with the HotOrNot.com site to help Americans find hotties by zip code at "HotOrNot + Google Maps". The ability to pinpoint ...

Dude, Where?s My Yahoo Search Marketing?
Dude, Where`s My Yahoo Search Marketing?During a week dominated by Google news the Yahoo camp has been a bit quiet, especially over at Yahoo Search Marketing. Seems during a weekend upgrade to the search advertising interface there were a few problems that led to a slow down of the ad ...

Technorati and Newsweek Partner for Blog Roundup - Yeehaw!
Technorati and Newsweek Partner for Blog Roundup - Yeehaw!Technorati and Newsweek are now working together to bring blog posts and links to relevant blog stories into the Newsweek.com website. The partnership centers around the Newsweek Blog Roundup which will be shown on all Newsweek.com pages. According to Dave Sifry, the ...

Yahoo Publisher Network to Distribute Yahoo Content Beyond Ads
Yahoo Publisher Network to Distribute Yahoo Content Beyond AdsSomething that rang a bell during Search Views` Erin Bradley`s 5 question interview of David Zito, Sr. Manager, Development for Yahoo! Publisher Network Online, is that Yahoo Publisher Network is not all about Yahoo Search Marketing. When asked about the Wall Street ...

Google Sued By Soft Porn Site Perfect 10 Over Copyrighted Photos
Google Sued By Soft Porn Site Perfect 10 Over Copyrighted PhotosGoogle is being sued by adult magazine (soft porn) publisher Perfect 10 due to Google serving images of copyrighted material which is illegally posted on third-party sites. Unlike Playboy or other nudie mags, Perfect 10 specializes in photos and videos ...

Flickr Extensions for Firefox - Flickbar and FlickrFox
Flickr Extensions for Firefox - Flickbar and FlickrFoxFor those of you who have Flickr photo blogging and sharing accounts and use the Firefox browser, there are two extensions which are of interest to you. Amit at Digital Inspiration identified the Flickr extensions which "let you harness the full potential of ...

MSN Beta Testing Simple Search Oriented Homepage
MSN Testing Simple Search Oriented HomepageMSN is beta testing a new homepage which takes a simplistic approach to marketing MSN services, MSN Search, and other MSN partners to their user base. The new beta design takes the Yahoo and Google approach of centering the page around the search engine, with ...

Affiliate Product Landing Pages - Three Tactics That Sell
Affiliate Product Landing Pages - Three Tactics That SellToday`s "Affiliate Industry Watch" newsletter includes a pretty good article with tips for building 3 types of affiliate landing pages. I strongly recommend the use of customer testimonials, which is not mentioned in this article, but you can also read my quick, ...

RealPages Yellow Pages Gets 20 Million Searches in July
RealPages Yellow Pages Gets 20 Million Searches in JulyWant proof local search is growing beyond Yahoo Local and Google Local, look at the Internet Yellow Page sites for an example. In a hey look at us" type announcement, BellSouth has alerted the media that their RealPages.com Yellow Pages site experienced ...

Google AdSense Ad Links Reviewed
Google AdSense Ad Links ReviewedGoogle AdSense released Ad Links on June 09, 2005 and publishers had plenty of time to test them out. A thread at WebmasterWorld named AdLinks bringing most of the revenue? Can anyone confirm? shows how for some it does well, and for others, it does not ...

Google?s Matt Cutts Basically Says Do Not Buy Links
Google`s Matt Cutts Basically Says Do Not Buy LinksThe Link Selling O`Reilly Debate continues and a new thread popped up at WebmasterWorld with the catchy title, Google Says: Buying links not allowed? In that thread, he the thread creator quotes a statement by Matt Cutts; top Google engineer as saying; ...

Google Talk Spins Google in New Direction
Google Talk Spins Google in New DirectionSince Google Talk launched last week the focus of a lot of discussions about the Internet giant have turned from search results & rankings to messaging, downloads & chatting. With the release of the Google Sidebar desktop tool and Google Talk Instant Messenger, Google ...

Much Ado About Google PageRank
Much Ado About Google PageRankThere are those in our industry who will tell you that PageRank is dead. I’ve been reading a lot lately about how we are supposed to ignore the green bar in our browser but you know what? I disagree and I’m going to tell you why.For ...

Changing Target URLs in Google AdWords Can Hurt Campaign
Changing Target URLs in Google AdWords Can Hurt CampaignChanging the target URLs of your ads within your AdWords campaigns can really take a toll on your earned rankings within AdWords. As we all know, Google uses a ranking algorithm within its paid listing program which looks at both CPC and ...

Apple iTunes Cell Phone or Video iPod?
Apple iTunes Cell Phone or Video iPod?Apple has scheduled a rather large announcement for next week which may bring the most popular music download service to cell phone everywhere. On September 7th, Apple is set to announce another motherload of a new product or service, but only gave the press ...

Yahoo Mail Upgrading Search and Mail Features
Yahoo Mail Upgrading Search and Mail FeaturesAccording to Brad Hill at the Unofficial Yahoo Blog (not to be confused with the Unofficial Google blog, another Weblogs Inc blog), Yahoo is beginning to go live with their new "massive, retroactive reindexing of user mail and upgrade of Yahoo! Mail’s search tools." ...

How to Make Use of Google SiteMaps
How to Make Use of Google SiteMapsPersonally, I have not set up a Google SiteMap on any of my sites yet, well, because of all kinds of distractions like moving and current satisfactory indexing by Google search engine. For those of you who are interested in Google`s SiteMaps program (not ...

Google Experimenting with Brokering Print Ads
Google Experimenting with Brokering Print AdsI am not kidding with you. Google is actually experimenting with being some sort of brokerage house for advertisers to put ads in magazines. A C|Net article released this morning named Google takes ad sales to print describes this in detail. "Google recently began buying ...

Microsoft Teleo Acquisition Spells Advanced MSN VOIP
Microsoft Teleo Acquisition Spells Advanced MSN VOIPMicrosoft`s MSN most likely will be joining Yahoo, Google, and Skype with its own VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol or Internet Phones) offering after the announcement that Microsoft will be acquiring the net phone company Teleo. The addition of VoIP to the MSN Messenger ...

60% of Google?s Blogger Blogs Spam Blogs
60% of Google`s Blogger Blogs Spam BlogsA test from Google Blogscoped indicates that 60% of all blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger blogspot.com domain are spam blogs. The test of 50 random blogs found 30 of them to be rubbish. A later test by the site of a further 100 blogs ...

Evolution of Search Engine Marketing
Evolution of Search Engine MarketingThe world of search engine marketing (SEM) is in constant evolution. With increased numbers of search engines, and evolution in the techniques and technologies used, SEM is becoming a tool industries cannot afford to do without. Trends all over the world show that the pressure for ...

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