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[2005-08-31] Gmail Slips Web Clips Into Inbox
A quietly performed update now has a new information bar appearing at the top of the inbox view in Gmail.
[2005-08-31] MSN Chips Phishing Filter Into Toolbar
Two new add-ins for the MSN Search Toolbar provide phishing protection and one-click access to online MSN games.
[2005-08-31] Fake Yahoo Games Site Phishes For Users
Someone apparently set up a site on Yahoo's GeoCities hosting to try and scam people into entering login information.
[2005-08-31] Yahoo Yammys Cruise NYC, LA
The online video awards created by Yahoo serve as a big promotion for the portal's video search service.
[2005-08-31] Zooming Sales For Online Ads
The first half of 2005 has seen a big rise in online advertising spending, but not as high as some predicted.
[2005-08-31] Chirac Helps Fund New European Search Engine
Telegraph reported that French president Jacques Chirac has pledged to aid the funding of a new European Internet search engine to compete with Google and Yahoo.
[2005-08-31] Google Printing Money With Print Ads
Advertisers have been chasing their audiences from traditional media to the online world; Google has passed them going in the other direction.
[2005-08-31] MSN Boosts Feed Searching With 2 New Commands
MSN Search has reportedly made efforts to amp up its searching within RSS and Atom feeds, with two new commands for feed searching.
[2005-08-31] New Shortcuts For Google's Mobile Search
Google has made three new search features available for users of its mobile web search (XHTML) service including easy ways to find movie showtimes, weather conditions, and stock prices.
[2005-08-31] School Kids Search Too
One week left. That's it. One week from the time this piece is being written the school doors open and the dog-days come to a close.
[2005-08-31] Google Takes the UK to the Movies
Google UK now has a feature that has been available in the U.S. since February - the movie showtime and review feature.
[2005-08-31] First Print Ads, Then The Google Wallet
Google's actions as the middleman between advertisers and publishers have yielded a fresh batch of Wallet rumors.
[2005-08-31] Phrase Research For Search Optimization
Selecting keywords is just the start of a search engine marketing campaign, especially for the advertiser with an eye on global sales.
[2005-08-30] Yahoo Debuts Mail Search Features
Yahoo begins rolling out new mail search features to some of its users today, and plans to have it available to all in the coming months.
[2005-08-30] Google Wants Lee Contract Dismissed
The saga of Kai-Fu Lee continues as his new employer seeks summary judgment in federal court.
[2005-08-30] You Are Google's Passive Job Recruit
Not content with bringing Kai-Fu Lee out of Redmond, Google seems intent on bringing other Microsoft staffers in from the cold.
[2005-08-30] Google’s Quiet Revolution
We are witnesses to the seed planting of revolution. As the masses look for escape clauses in their SUV leases, real life distractions keep their thoughts focused elsewhere-Google's impact upon the world and its tech future is an obscure byline in the Wall Street Journal, or less, an industry news portal. Certainly the Paul Reveres of the tech world are shouting "Revolution!" and few are noticing.
[2005-08-30] Top Search Engine Ranks - The Only Secret You Need - Explained
The top three search pages- the only place you'll be noticed they say. Unfortunately, they are correct.
[2005-08-30] Google’s New World Order
No doubt about it, Google has Gates-like ambitions. Bill Gates told Fortune magazine in a discussion about Google, …"they are more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with." Clearly, Google is the biggest threat to Microsoft dominance that Microsoft has ever seen.
[2005-08-30] Top Search Engine Ranks: Mastering The Secret- Explained
In the first part of this series on ranking at the top of the search engines, we discussed diversifying your Internet marketing efforts.
[2005-08-30] Coremetrics Combines Google, Yahoo SEM Management
The web analytics firm has unveiled a product that consolidates management of SEM across search engines.
[2005-08-30] Baidu Bad To Google
Though its stock price has settled well below Google's, Baidu has made gains in search engine share on its minority stakeholder.
[2005-08-30] Google Launches Mobile Sitemaps
If you design web pages designed for mobile users or if you develop two versions of your web pages, one for the web users and one for the mobile users, then Google has a tool designed to make acceptance into Google's mobile web index all the more easier.
[2005-08-29] Blog Readership Near Mainstream Status
With 50 million US-based readers in the first quarter of 2005, blogs have moved beyond a simple self-publishing niche.
[2005-08-29] Flickr Users Displeased With Yahoo Focus
Some users of the popular photo sharing service aren't big fans of Flickr's new owner, Yahoo, and a forthcoming terms of service change. Wired Magazine notes the emergence of a small group of Flickr users who do not want to become Yahoo users, despite the fact Yahoo purchased Flickr earlier this year.
[2005-08-29] Content Match Needs A Reality Check
Advertisers with contextual ads appearing on CNN.com just received a lesson in Negative Keywords 101, courtesy of Hurricane Katrina.
[2005-08-29] High Oil Prices An Online Retail Opportunity
The threat of persistently high prices for crude oil through the winter could be a boon to web-based retailers.
[2005-08-29] Yahoo Ad Problems Persist
The post-update issues plaguing Yahoo advertisers have continued to rear their heads two weeks later.
[2005-08-26] AOL Enjoys A Sticky June
The June 2005 figures from Nielsen//NetRatings show AOL users spent over six hours per person using its sites.
[2005-08-26] MSN Discovers The Joys Of Whitespace
White is the new blue, as MSN experiments with a new look for its home page with a beta test.
[2005-08-26] Jeeves Told You Where To Go, Mate
The Ask Jeeves search engine adds maps and driving directions to its offerings, but only for users of its UK site.
[2005-08-26] Linking Strategies: Do's And Don'ts
In the first part of this article we learned some techniques to build a solid potential link partner list for your website. Those sites aren't any good to you if you don't use a strategy for writing the textual content of those links. Yes. I mean those few little words that are underlined in blue. In the right order they give the key to your website door to the world. In the wrong order, they don't budge the cylinders in the lock.
[2005-08-26] Is Overnight SEO Success Still Possible?
As the owner of a search engine optimization company, I have seen the SEO industry evolve a great deal over the years but never more dramatically than it is right now.
[2005-08-26] Putting ContextWeb In Context
The year-old New York-based contextual advertising company has seen rapid growth and an influx of new VC funding.
[2005-08-26] Feedster 500 List Is Dead Wrong
Okay so I took some time to review the first 100 blogs on the Feedster 500 [top 500 blogs in popularity as Feedster sees it]. Let me tell you, we've got a long way to go in blog search, ranking and categorization... this list is a great example of just that.
[2005-08-26] Yahoo, Music Publishers Battle To A Draw
ASCAP and NMPA reps announced they have broken off talks with the heads of Yahoo and other digital subscription companies.
[2005-08-26] Yahoo Checks Out New Checkout
Small businesses will get a choice of single or multiple page checkout options for their Yahoo stores.
[2005-08-25] Google Raises Bar With New Lawyers
The search engine company has added lawyers from a high-powered firm that has represented Grokster and Frank Quattrone.
[2005-08-25] In The News: Yahoo, AOL, And Google
While Google News and its mechanistic approach to headlines has been very popular, it seems even more people prefer services from Yahoo and AOL.
[2005-08-25] Dialing Up Gmail To Get Google Talk
It's now possible to sign up for a Gmail account without needing to receive an invite from an existing Gmail user first.
[2005-08-25] Advertisers Ready For Google Talk Ads
The AdSense and AdWords programs will have even greater interest once Google starts placing ads in its Talk client.
[2005-08-25] Newsweek Embraces Blogosphere
Newsweek magazine's web site will work with blog search engine Technorati to provide links and integration of blog content into stories.
[2005-08-25] Baidu Bubble Bleeding Badly
Rampant speculation that drove up shares of the Chinese search engine has dwindled as investors take profits.
[2005-08-24] Google Sidebar Tops Apple Dashboard
A Gartner analyst finds lots to like about Desktop 2, and favors it over the widgets of Yahoo and Apple.
[2005-08-24] Google Talk Taking Page From Microsoft Playbook
After having watched Microsoft enter new markets with bland first release products, it's odd to see Google do the same thing.
[2005-08-24] Skype Takes Note Of Google Talk
After Google made its IM and voice application available, Skype announced it would let its products be integrated into software apps and web sites.
[2005-08-24] Microsoft Chats Up MSN Messenger
Version 7.5 of MSN Messenger quietly debuted recently, with support for text, voice, and video chat.
[2005-08-24] Google Talk Is Live
Ladies and gentlemen, check out Google Talk, instant messaging done by Google, and done right with an open protocol. Sign in with your Gmail account. Installing…
[2005-08-24] Rock Your Rank With A Dynamite Text Link at Yahoo Directory
Last week a client called me excitedly exclaiming that their Google PageRank had jumped a notch and their targeted keyword term now ranked #23 (up from #45) for their competitive search phrase.
[2005-08-24] Google Backlash Rearing Its Head
This question has been tossed around recently because it seems there are some who are trying to knock the current big dog down a few pegs.
[2005-08-24] Retailers Further Their Embrace Of The Hispanic Online Market
As the Hispanic penetration into the online world continues, slowly but surely retailers and site owners are being more conscience of this audience and the spending power they can provide.
[2005-08-23] Today Google Searches, Tomorrow Google Talks
Rumors of a forthcoming Google instant messaging and voice platform get a boost from the LA Times.
[2005-08-23] AdSense Gets Relevant
Google AdSense customers can define portions of their sites as sections AdSense should target.
[2005-08-23] SEO & Competition Analysis – Part One
Analyzing your competition should be the second step taken during the SEO process (right after and sometimes even during keyword selection). Looking at what and how your competition have positioned their website where you want yours to be placed will lend great insight into how to get yours there.
[2005-08-23] SEO & Competition Analysis – Part Two
Once you have optimized the onsite factors from part one of this series it's time to launch into the external factors. External SEO factors generally refer to the internal links to your, and your competitor's, website.
[2005-08-23] Search Engine Marketing Guides
When undertaking a search engine marketing campaign, it is wise to equip yourself with as much knowledge as possible. Understanding what your options are and how each option operates is extremely important to any successful venture.
[2005-08-23] Viacom To Nick Yahoo Content
Yahoo and Viacom announced a deal where Yahoo search and marketing will appear on Viacom's web properties.
[2005-08-23] Yahoo Draws Up Free Sitemaps
When Google debuted its Sitemaps to allow for faster spidering, many wondered when Yahoo would do the same.
[2005-08-23] Very Good, Jeeves
Smart Answers from Ask Jeeves offers quick facts on countries, planets, and most importantly, NASCAR drivers.
[2005-08-22] Google Desktop Beta Gets A Sidebar
An updated beta version of the Google Desktop search tool has a new look and a new module to gather web content.
[2005-08-22] Lee Says He Never Saw MSN Search Code
The saga of Dr. Kai-Fu Lee continues, as he seeks to escape the clutches of Microsoft by denying he ever had access or made contributions to MSN search technology.
[2005-08-22] Arigato! Yahoo Japan Streaming Music For Free
Yahoo welcomes Apple to the digital music business in Japan by utilizing the time-tested "first one's free" marketing strategy.
[2005-08-22] Truth Or Lies? Google Isn't Saying
CNN discussed the real buzz at the Google Dance party held during SES 2005, and learned the truth is out there.
[2005-08-22] Google Releases Desktop 2
Google has released a new version of its desktop search product, now called Google Desktop 2, and now back in beta. The big difference in this new version is a sidebar which goes on the side of your desktop and gives you access to your Gmail, news, weather, photos (not from Picasa, but folders and RSS feeds), stock quotes, RSS headlines (or Web Clips), a Scratch Pad (for quick note-taking) and a Quick View list for web pages and files you use often.
[2005-08-22] Aaron Wall Launches Back Link Analyzer
The ability to see what sites are linking to us is valuable one in the world of SEO. Unfortunately, when a backlink query is searched (link:www.nameofsite.com) the major search engines only return a cross-section of the sites that are linking to query site, not the entire list.
[2005-08-22] MSN Hunting For AdCenter Marketers
It looks like one doesn't have to be a google-eyed scientist to work for MSN, where marketing jobs abound.
[2005-08-22] Google Deskbar Observations
So, I've been trying out the various features of the new Google Desktop 2, and one thing that grabs me is the Deskbar. Since I find the Sidebar takes up too much space without doing enough, I've been running the Deskbar instead.
[2005-08-22] Search Engines Swap Bids For Trader
Print publisher Trader Classifieds Media has become the love object of Google and Yahoo.
[2005-08-22] Ask May Be Fishing For Grouper
Barry Diller's search engine Ask Jeeves may soon tuck file-sharing company Grouper into the IAC/InterActive creel.
[2005-08-19] Musing On New Google Stock Sale
Google has big plans for those big bucks, and WebProNews has uncovered a plan for you to consider.
[2005-08-19] Blogger Captchas Round Two Versus Comment Spam
Hot on the heels of enabling the Flag button to tag objectionable content comes an option to require word verification for comments.
[2005-08-19] Push Comes to Shove
MarketingSherpa has a study that newsletter open rates have dropped 10% in the past year, but I almost didn't get the message because I hardly ever read those emails anymore... which sort of explains why my company didn't make it into this year's SEM Buyer's Guide (Paid Search Version), in case you're wondering why Page Zero Media doesn't show up in Sherpa's guide to paid search management firms.
[2005-08-19] SEO Business: Real World Marketing
SEO as search engine optimization is commonly called, is my main business. My blog provides information, and helps others to succeed. That is the purpose of the blog.
[2005-08-19] Yahoo Adds Y!Q Button To Toolbar
What do you do if you are a search engine company with few search presences you are testing and each presence has its own toolbar and people are commenting about this fact? In the case of Yahoo, you can consolidate these features onto the flagship toolbar and release an update, which is exactly what Yahoo has done.
[2005-08-19] Monkeying Around With Clicks
Committing click fraud offers a sure-fire way to get booted out of an online advertising program. Here's a site that helps you get started.
[2005-08-19] Google Tops In July Market Share
Not much surprise with the release of comScore's qSearch analysis for last month, as Google and Yahoo top the list.
[2005-08-19] Google's Matt Cutts And JavaScript Redirects
There are a number of different optimization techniques webmasters use to try and improve their search engine rankings, some acceptable (white hat SEO), some not (black hat SEO).
[2005-08-19] Feed Your Readers
RSS offers the web site publisher an effective way to get the news about updated content out to users.
[2005-08-19] Google Spurs Speculation On Demand
The world of search engine speculation has been abuzz with the deeper meaning of the latest news about Google.
[2005-08-19] Library Of Congress Readies Thomas Upgrade
After ten years of work, the LOC will have a prototype ready to replace the legislative search engine.
[2005-08-18] Google – Now With 50 Percent More Sponsored Links
Two sponsored ads atop search result pages for popular searches may be joined by a third sponsored link.
[2005-08-18] Blogger Flags Hurtful Blogs
A new option that will let users immediately report "objectionable content" to Blogger works by clicking the Flag button.
[2005-08-18] Yahoo Messenger Calls On Voice Feature
A few updates to the Sunnyvale company's messenger client adds support for voice calls and other features.
[2005-08-18] Rupert Murdoch Eyes Blinkx
Last week the big news was that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp was in talks to acquire an established but unnamed entity.
[2005-08-18] SEO Product Add-in Helps Index Dynamic Sites
A Torrance, CA e-commerce software firm will include the SEO Catalog Generator in an upcoming release.
[2005-08-18] AdSense Blog Goes Beyond First Post
Rob from Google Product Marketing has placed post number 2 on the AdSense blog, where they discuss variations in the number of ads.
[2005-08-18] Add Vivisimo’s Clustering Technology To Your Site
If you run a site that features a great deal of content, having an effective site search function can be a deal breaker for visitors and for potential customers.
[2005-08-18] Yahoo Raise Y!Q Quotient
The Yahoo search blog says the new Yahoo Messenger and an updated Toolbar contain support for the Y!Q Contextual Search function.
[2005-08-18] Cuban Smoking Out Blog Spam
Broadcast.com founder turned billionaire basketball owner Mark Cuban wants to ban blog spam from his IceRocket search engine.
[2005-08-18] Toys For Those Who Like SEM
Quite a few little applications can help search engine marketing efforts; this is a quick look at a few.
[2005-08-17] Yahoo Local In Every City
The search engine and portal company has unveiled the next generation of Yahoo Local, and claim to have every place covered.
[2005-08-17] Google Enhances Froogle Mobile
Price comparison shopping via Google's Froogle service is now just a phone call away for mobile users.
[2005-08-17] Earth Delivered In A Flash
A developer has created a Flash-based interface portal for Google Earth and MSN Virtual Earth.
[2005-08-17] Chinese Search Engine Drops Music Search
NetEase has bowed to US concerns on music piracy and disabled a music search service from its Chinese portal.
[2005-08-17] Quality Matters
Danny's fed up with the search engine index size wars, and proposes that the biggies duke it out on a more important front: relevancy (or relevance as we like to call it over here). He proposes that they all agree on some sort of standard test and to have an independent institute or consortium run the tests.
[2005-08-17] Search Engines And Streams
A Hitwise report for August on US search engines shows who depends on their portals to feed their search boxes.
[2005-08-17] Yahoo And Google Almost Tied In Customer Satisfaction
There are many ways to measure the effectiveness of web property, especially sites with such broad reaches that their name recognition is almost second nature.
[2005-08-17] Amazon Enters SEM Fray
The online retailer will offer a search engine marketing solution from Efficient Frontier to its clients.
[2005-08-17] SMARTpages Gets Smarter
SBC Communications has upgraded several features on its Internet Yellow Pages web site.
[2005-08-17] Yahoo Takes A Village
Women's interest site iVillage.com will switch from Google's AdSense to Yahoo's Content Match service in September.
[2005-08-17] Of Course Size Matters!
I've been trying to stay out of the size debate for the last few days while I digest what others have been saying. Now that I've done that, I get to react to a few of the things I've been reading.
[2005-08-17] Search Engine Spiders Lost Without Guidance - Post This Sign!
Robots.txt Signpost Warns Trespassers From Private Property
[2005-08-17] Mamma To Put Copernic In Its Cradle
The self-proclaimed "Mother of all Search Engines" signed a letter of intent and will pay cash and stock for desktop search tech company Copernic.
[2005-08-17] Google Testing Simplified AdWords Pricing
Quality counts the most when composing an ad, as one AdWords user found when logging into the ad system today.
[2005-08-16] A9 Adding Block Views To Maps
Twenty-four cities have had A9 trucks rolling down their streets, photographing building fronts for the A9 Maps search engine.
[2005-08-16] Search Engine Maven Calls For Relevance
Danny Sullivan again says Google and Yahoo need to dispense with the whole index size issue.
[2005-08-16] Feedster Introduces List of Top 500 Blogs
With the exploding popularity of all things blogs, keeping track of which ones are the most popular can be difficult task. It's been estimated that there are 30-80 thousand new blogs created daily, with 500-900 thousand* new posts being made as well. With this bulk of information being delivered daily, finding which blogs are considered popular, unless you have a list to guide you.
[2005-08-16] Yahoo Open or Yahoo Closed?
Well, it seems that I get to quote Greg Linden a second time today. He points to the Yahoo's Personality Crisis article that's been stirring up a bit of discussion about whether Yahoo! will be opened or closed.
[2005-08-16] Miva Settles Overture Case With Yahoo
The performance marketing network company will pay Yahoo, which holds Overture as a subsidiary, $8 million to settle a patent infringement suit.
[2005-08-16] Google 166.9 Percent Greater Than Yahoo!
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studied Yahoo's claims of a 20 billion item index and found them lacking.
[2005-08-16] MSN Introduces Weather Add-in For Search Toolbar
It appears as if MSN Search will continue to focus a good amount of their development skills on the MSN Search Toolbar, which is famous for finally introducing tabbed browsing to the Internet Explorer environment.
[2005-08-16] AOL Reveals Top Back To School Searches
It's that time of year to round your kids up and get them ready to return to the world of academia, otherwise known as Back to School. To many, this time of the year is as big of shopping period as any of the other spending holidays, save Christmas.
[2005-08-16] Google/Blogger Launches Blogger For Word Toolbar
In an effort to reduce the amount of step between writing and publishing your latest blog entry, Google/Blogger has developed a new toolbar that was designed to do just that.
[2005-08-16] Google Under Fire For Oz Gambling Ads
In Australia, it's illegal to display gambling advertisements on Australian web sites, and Google Australia may be in violation.
[2005-08-16] 4INFO For Your SMS Info
Another entrant in the SMS search engine and services field has announced a panoply of partnerships and offerings.
[2005-08-15] Google, GEICO Get 30 Days To Settle
A recent ruling in US District Court calls for the search engine and the insurance company to try and settle their AdWords battle.
[2005-08-15] Music May Be The Apple Of Google's Eye
Reports last week contend Google will disclose a deal with Apple that sees the iTunes Music Store available from the Google site.
[2005-08-15] Google Takes A Break From Print
The highly-criticized Google Print Library project has been put on hold until Novemeber. Google will use this break to find out which copyright holders don't want their property included in the project.
[2005-08-15] Dissecting Technorati Top 100 & Blog Ranking Algorithms
About 9 months ago I started working on a document describing the technical differences in blogs versus a standard website. I began that doc in order to determine how a search engine like Google might apply a different variant of it's PageRank algorithm to blogs than it does for websites.
[2005-08-15] Thoughts On The San Jose SES
As many of you know, Mike and I attended the San Jose leg of the Search Engine Strategies conference last week. There certainly was a deluge of information we had to wrap our heads around and I hope the tips, tricks, and strategies we detailed last week served you guys well.
[2005-08-15] How Important is ALT Text In Search Engine Optimization?
For years, search engine optimizers have included their important keyword phrases in ALT text for images, feeling confident that many of the search engines considered the contents of ALT text when determining relevancy.
[2005-08-12] Googletestad - Profit From Optimizing A Meaningless Keyword
Sometimes, researching for profitable keywords for Search Engine Optimization can lead to some astonishing and unusual surprises.
[2005-08-12] An interview with Wendell Davis of Meetro. What's up with Meetro?
Randy: Meetro's cool. I downloaded it and tried it out myself, but most of my readers have never heard of Meetro. Can you summarize what Meetro is for my readers?
[2005-08-12] Publishers Put Google Out Of Print
Continued complaints from the publishing industry via its trade association have brought a pause to the Google Print Project.
[2005-08-12] ValueClick Fastclicks To Online Ad Leadership
The purchase of tech firm Fastclick will make ValueClick the biggest online advertising network.
[2005-08-12] MSN Local Search Available For Mobiles
The MSN Search blog has divulged a beta test for a mobile version of its local search function.
[2005-08-11] Doing The Google Dance
Mike McDonald and Chris Richardson from WebProNews took some time away from the fun and games at SES 2005 and ventured out to the Googleplex for the Google Dance after-party.
[2005-08-11] The SES In-House Forum On SEM
Mike McDonald kept himself occupied before Google Dance by taking in a roundtable Q&A at SES 2005 on driving SEM in house.
[2005-08-11] Link Buying – The Search Engines Respond
Google, Yahoo, and Ask have a much different take on link buying than do the SEMs. Chris Richardson of WebProNews sat in on this Q&A at SES 2005.
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It seems to me that for a company as large, successful, and experienced as Google, having a reliable estimation tool for their AdWords program wouldn't be so difficult.
[2005-08-11] Website Usability Leads to Conversions
Known as the web's Usability Czar, Jakob Nielsen is one of the Internet's most respected consultants, authors and commentators.
[2005-08-11] Ask.com Presents Virtual Neptune
Being a site where the purveyors of the Ask Jeeves search engine offer an in-depth look at the solar system's eighth planet.
[2005-08-11] B2B Or Not B2B, That’s An Easy Question
It's great to get customers, but it's even better to get business customers. Mike McDonald of WebProNews took in a morning SES 2005 session on Business To Business Tactics.
[2005-08-11] Local Search Makes Your Business a Big Fish in Your Local Community
The Internet Contains Billions of Website Pages - All Clamoring for Attention
[2005-08-10] Google News – Now With RSS, Atom Feeds!
It took a while for Google to make feeds available from its well-known news aggregator page.
[2005-08-10] More Yahoo, Google Ad Features Near Debut
Yahoo's LinkSpots contextual ads, and further Google tweaks to AdSense and AdWords, will be forthcoming.
[2005-08-10] Google Fills In The Blanks
An update to the Google algorithm allows for better wildcard pattern matching in user queries.
[2005-08-10] Is Something Missing From Your Keywords (Part 2)
In my previous article, I raised the issue that proper keyword research must take into account countries. The reason for that was that the demand for keywords can vary between countries. I gave examples of that fact using the Overture keyword tool.
[2005-08-10] Release from Google Sandbox Only to Search the Playground
The Google Sandbox Effect has been discussed at length in our case study of a new website first crawled in May by Googlebot.
[2005-08-10] AskJeeves Automated Ads Available August 15th
A new service called Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings will become available to all advertisers on Monday.
[2005-08-10] What Did We Learn From The Great Search Engine Experiment?
Last Week I did a Search Engine Experiment. I wanted to see if I could brand myself as the coolest guy in the universe.
[2005-08-10] Quigo Printing Money In Newspaper Ads
The search marketing and advertising company announced at SES 2005 a newspaper-focused version of its AdSonar Exchange product.
[2005-08-10] SES 2005 Executive Roundtable
Mike McDonald of WebProNews reports from SES 2005 on a discussion held with several big names in attendance.
[2005-08-10] Working Together At SES 2005
Mike McDonald of WebProNews took in the afternoon session on Working Together, which focused on getting everyone on track with SEO initiatives.
[2005-08-10] Buying And Selling Links
Chris Richardson of WebProNews is in San Jose for SES 2005. Today, he stopped by a session that is part of the Linking Track on today's agenda.
[2005-08-09] Yahoo Now Indexing 20 Billion Items
The search engine and portal company indexes nearly double the items its rival, Google, does.
[2005-08-09] How To Avoid The Google.com Duplicate Content Filter?
More and more webmasters are building websites with publicly available content (data feeds, news feeds, articles).
[2005-08-09] Is Google Gunning For Directories?
Why is it that webmasters are so quick to blame Google if their website falls down the search rankings, or out of the rankings altogether? Can it never be their own fault...
[2005-08-09] Google May Break The Ice With Meetro
Sources say the search engine company may be ready to acquire introware company Meetroduction.
[2005-08-09] Successful Site Setups Satisfy Search
Chris Richardson of WebProNews attended this afternoon's Successful Site Architecture session, and sent some tips along exclusively to WPN readers.
[2005-08-09] Landing Pages Make Or Break Sites
Mike McDonald of WebProNews is at SES 2005 in San Jose, and took in an afternoon session on landing pages.
[2005-08-08] IBM Offering New Search Concept
The technology firm plans to give away search solutions capable of sifting through concepts and facts in a corporate environment.
[2005-08-08] Google Finds Partner For China AdWords Sales
The search engine company, which recently announced operations in mainland China, will sell advertisements through China Enterprise.
[2005-08-08] Yahoo Bidding For China E-commerce Stake
The portal and search engine company may grab 35 percent of Alibaba.com, a Chinese e-commerce firm, for $1 billion USD.
[2005-08-08] Google Toolbar AutoLinks Addresses To Maps
A new feature in the Google Toolbar takes a street address and converts it to a link to an online map.
[2005-08-08] Yahoo Extends APIs To Analytics Firms
Yahoo! Search Marketing has entered into agreements with four web analytics providers to better enhance its reporting and help fight click fraud.
[2005-08-08] Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs
Search Engine Optimization is something that makes many blogger's heads spin - I know this because every time I write an SEO article I get comments from bloggers telling me that its too big a topic and that they'd rather just write ‘quality content'.
[2005-08-08] Google Total Brings Options To The Masses
The search engine company has a lot to offer its multitude of users. One blogger has crafted a page that combines those options into one page.
[2005-08-08] Inceptor Debuts BidCenter At SES
The search marketing technology company will be in San Jose to discuss its Pay-Per-Click campaign management tool.
[2005-08-08] King Of All Media Suing King Of Search Engines
Howard Stern is part of a lawsuit filed August 3rd against Google on an AdWords budget issue and seeks class action status.
[2005-08-08] DoubleClick Indexing Search Engine Marketing Campaigns
The company has unveiled the Performics 50 index to reflect overall activity of of the search market.
[2005-08-08] Indeed, New York Times Interested In Company
Job search engine Indeed.com announced a joint venture including the New York Times has invested $5 million USD in the business.
[2005-08-08] Google's Pregnancy Discrimination Suit -- A Pregnant Business Owner Weighs In
A report released in July 2004 by The National Partnership for Women & Families found that pregnancy discrimination complaints have increased 39% from 1992 to 2003, even though the nation's birthrate has dropped by nine percent.
[2005-08-08] SES - Managing Your Search Engine Marketing Campaign
I attended the Search Term Research & Targeting session, which featured a Q&A with John Slade, Yahoo! Search Marketing's director of Product Management.
[2005-08-08] Are You DELIBERATELY Keeping Your Website Out Of The First page Of Google?
Search engines are very difficult to completely understand. There are no complete explanations of how their ranking algorithms work.
[2005-08-08] MSN Search Playing In Silicon Valley Sandbox
They're a distant third to Google and Yahoo, but Steve Ballmer says they're going to be a search contender. Tonight they'll tell you why over drinks in San Jose.
[2005-08-08] Make Friends With Search Engines
Mike McDonald of WebProNews sits in on Search Engine Friendly Design, and finds a sensible approach works best for site owners.
[2005-08-08] Viewing The Search Engine Landscape
Chris Richardson of WebProNews sat in for the Search Engine Landscape session at the SES 2005 conference, and found out local search blurs the line between fixed content and dynamic results.
[2005-08-08] KnowledgeStorm Readying Vertical Search Engine
Chris Richardson of WebProNews spoke with Amber Reed, Public Relations Manager for KnowledgeStorm, at SES 2005 about that company's plans for a tech-focused search engine for the B2B market.
[2005-08-05] MSN Keywords: “Holiday Pilot”
Ads delivered as part of MSN's new contextual advertising offering should start hitting MSN search engine result pages in October.
[2005-08-05] Is Google Taking Descriptions From Alexa?
In a recent study looking at the "descriptions" of website search engine listings, we have noticed that your main SERP listing is being manipulated by Alexa.com.
[2005-08-05] Baidu IPO Price Raised
China's biggest search engine, Beijing's Baidu.com launched its initial public offering (IPO) selling at $27 per American depository share (ADS).
[2005-08-05] Search Engine Strategies 2005 – San Jose
Why go to San Jose in August? A chance to learn about the latest and greatest ways to benefit from the potential offered by search engines, that's why.
[2005-08-05] IBM At SES With Big Blue Book Of SEM
IBM Press will promote its new book, "Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site," at Search Engine Strategies 2005 in San Jose.
[2005-08-05] SES - Let's Get This Party Started
What is the best part of these Search Engine Strategies conferences? Is it the all of the helpful business information? Maybe it is the awesome parties.
[2005-08-05] Baidu Soars On IPO Opening
The first day of trading for the Chinese search engine company on NASDAQ leaped from $27 to a close of $122.54.
[2005-08-04] Yahoo Speaks To Audio Search Fans
A beta version of Yahoo's Audio Search will let users find, among other things, music from services like iTunes and Napster as well as its own Music Unlimited.
[2005-08-04] Factiva Introducing Big Brother To Blogosphere
The company announced a new search engine tool designed to help corporations find what is being said about them in blogs and other media.
[2005-08-04] Copernic Desktop Search Available
Version 1.6, recently out of beta testing, can search the desktop from its toolbar on Internet Explorer.
[2005-08-04] Korea Gets First Taste of Yahoo's Blog Search
Yahoo is currently testing its blog-search in Korea. When Yahoo releases the blog-search in other countries such as the United States, it will pose a competitive threat to other blog search engines like Technorati.
[2005-08-04] Discussing The Google Sandbox
Monitoring how your site performs with respect to the search engine industry is a key aspect of business in today's era. As a result, the growth of SEO-related services has been tremendous in recent years. Once SEO services are administered, being the creatures of instant gratification that we are, site owners expect to see results immediately.
[2005-08-04] A Brief History of Search
The SEO Consultants Directory is a useful resource for search marketers and potential clients of SEM firms.
[2005-08-04] Why Daniel Brandt No Longer Recommends Firefox
Recently, the Mozilla Foundation announced they would be introducing a corporate version of Mozilla, which some feel is designed to capitalize off Firefox's exploding popularity. However, one pundit believes this is a move that puts them in a position of being potential Google fodder and therefore, he can longer recommend using Mozilla's browser.
[2005-08-04] Languages a Factor in Google's Urchin Purchase?
Back in the Spring, Google, which is well known to be very multilingual, bought Urchin as you probably know. Urchin itself is translated into 11 languages.
[2005-08-04] Brilliant Shopper Adds VC Cash To Cart
Additional funding will enable the shopping search engine site to continue developing its technology.
[2005-08-03] Yahoo Imitates Google On Contextual Ads
The Yahoo Publisher Network will provide its advertisers with a service similar to Google's AdSense program.
[2005-08-03] Yahoo Shopping APIs Available
The search and portal company has made three application programming interfaces available for developers creating shopping-related applications.
[2005-08-03] A9 Toolbar Can Search Any Site
The search options under the A9 Toolbar allow users to search a site or page they are currently visiting.
[2005-08-03] Jupitermedia Offers Bluelight Special On ClickZ, SES
ClickZ, which Jupitermedia had purchased for nearly $20 million USD, and the Search Engine Strategies trade shows, went to UK-based Incisive Media for $43 million.
[2005-08-03] Behavioral Analysis: Is Claria Building the Next Great Search Engine?
Claria's RelevancyRank, a search technology under development, challenges Google, Yahoo, and MSN with a comparison of where they would rank the sites that RelevancyRank (based on behavioral indicators that Claria gathers by following users around with its adware) would rank in the top ten for the phrase "cheap tickets."
[2005-08-03] An SEO Client Adds Blog Component
A business blog component as part of every online business is one of my main SEO recommondations. Because of the search engine power of business blogs, it's a natural addition for every website.
[2005-08-03] Should Keyword Arbitrage Be Called "Click Pimping"?
I have a friend who calls keyword arbitrage - the practice of buying cheap clicks on one PPC engine and then collecting a higher CPC based on ads served (and clicked often enough) on a content-oriented site - "click pimping."
[2005-08-03] Smarter Move In China
Los Angeles-based MeziMedia announced its Smarter.com product comparison site will set up operations in Shanghai.
[2005-08-03] MSN Keywords: “Contextual Ad Profits”
Microsoft will reportedly begin a test of its ad placement service in the US at MSN Search.
[2005-08-02] Microsoft’s Google Challenge
The defection of Dr. Kai-fu Lee to Google is the first digit to fall from the leprous giant, Microsoft-the outward manifestation of a bigger problem long in the making. That which made the software giant tall, the nourishment of cutting edge engineering, is also the chief repast of the unexpected rival in Google. The nervous tapping of billionaire fingers can be heard all the way from Redmond.
[2005-08-02] Dogpile Fetches MSN Search Results
The metasearch engine combines results from Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves with MSN, citing minimal duplication in their answers.
[2005-08-02] Jupitermedia's Search Engine Strategy: Sell!
SearchEngineWatch.com and the Search Engine Strategies trade shows now have a new owner.
[2005-08-02] Yahoo Wants User-Specific Vertical Search For Itself
Yahoo has filed several patent applications, including one for user-specific vertical search, but Yahoo may or may not be so lucky as to have that patent granted.
[2005-08-02] Google To Set Up Shop in Russia?
The Russian media has reported that Google may be interested in setting up operations at a new IT park in St. Petersberg.
[2005-08-02] Users Have Two Words For Search Engines
A study by real-time web analytics firm OneStat.com claims most users submit two-word queries to search engines.
[2005-08-01] LexisNexis Adds Video Search To AlaCarte
The news and legal information providers will partner with Critical Mention to provide print and video search via the LexisNexis AlaCarte service.
[2005-08-01] Yahoo Gets CNN, ABC News Video
News feeds from the two news media companies will be featured on Yahoo's web site in two forms.
[2005-08-01] IceRocket Ices BlogScour Rumors
Last week, it was reported that IceRocket was to become BlogScour, but it turns out that the information was false. IceRocket CEO Blake Rhodes told SearchEngineJounal the facts.
[2005-08-01] SEO Secret That Everybody Ignores
Search engine optimization is a very critical task in the success of any website. In recent times search engines seem to have complicated this task further by their frequent changes in rules. This has caused lots of anxiety as some of these changes have seen some sites lose virtually all their regular traffic instantly as their rankings have tumbled.
[2005-08-01] Gigablast Offers Toolbar for IE, But Not Yet Firefox
Gigablast is now offering a new toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The toolbar allows users to conveniently search over 2 billion pages.
[2005-08-01] Google Maps HYDESim Show Detonation Effects
As it has often been discussed, since the launch of the Google Maps service, especially the satellite image aspect, there have been a number of hacks and utilities developed that further the usability of Google's popular tool.
[2005-08-01] Successful Pay Per Click Ad Copy
Writing outstanding ad copy for pay-per-click advertising campaigns is critical if a webmaster wants to be successful. Why waste money on clicks from people who aren't going to buy what a webmaster has to sell? To be as targeted as possible descriptive titles and effective ad copy are needed. Since the webmaster is paying for each click it's very important to have ad copy which conveys the right message to the right person.
[2005-08-01] Google Celebrates Swiss National Day
During Google's rise to the top of the search engine world, one of their standard operating procedures has to do with the alteration of their logo in order to celebrate particular holidays.
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