How often do people use a search engine? The percentage of Internet users who use search engines on a typical day has soared from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one half (49%), according to the latest study...
Google has sold its Performics search marketing business to the Publicis Groupe. Chicago-based Performics has about 200 employees in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, London, Hamburg, Sydney, Singapore and Beijing. The business will report...
Newsflashr.com launched a new type of search engine for news stories today. Users are prompted to enter keywords and the search results are polled and displayed in real-time from many of the leading news services such as MSN Live, Ask Big News,...
There's one book every search engine marketer will be reading this fall: Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. Based on unprecedented access he received to the "Googleplex," New York Times columnist...
Search Engine Strategies today named 43 search engine marketers as finalists for the SEM conference's first annual SES Awards. The 16 winners will be announced throughout SES San Jose during Orion and keynote panels, which are being held...
Microsoft launched a limited time promotion today called Back-to-School Deal Days for Live Search cashback. The promotion lets customers save big (and in some cases double the rewards) from hundreds of participating online retailers. The...
Google Translate is going live. The world's most comprehensive set of translation technologies will now be aided by human beings translating documents upon request. Google employees won't be in the business of translating documents. Rather,...
In the boldly headlined blog entry, "Search quality, continued," Googler Ben Gomes explaines in greater depth what search quality means to Google. It's too bad Google didn't publish the post before the Un-Search Engine, Un-Cuil, launched....
Jim Goldman, who writes Tech Check at CNBC, is live blogging the Yahoo shareholder meeting. The turnout was light and much lower than expected. So far there have been no fireworks, with only a facetious request that Yahoo Board members punch...
This morning the Guardian UK published a scathing analysis of Google, SEO and the launch of Cuil. In his article, Chris Williams claimed that the greatest threat to Google is spam. No argument there. But Williams takes the argument one step...
Today TechCrunch reported on the birth of a new search engine: Yuil. Now Yuil is dead. Yuil (pronounced yule) was a short-lived Yahoo-powered mashup designed to look like Cuil. Apparently the Yahoo Boss mashup -- something of a search...
Some skeptics have publicly predicted the death of Ask.com. With IAC planning to spin off its properties into four units, that's a bold prediction indeed. For the divisions that will become the new IAC, including Internet services such as...
In 2005, O'Reilly proclaimed it the "Year of Local Mobile Search," but that didn't work out. While this year may not merit that title either, Google sees 2008 as a key year in the battle for multiplatform search dominance.
Yahoo, Intel and Hewlett Packard announced an alliance to advance "cloud computing," backing a global trend that threatens Microsoft's iron-fisted grip on packaged software installed on computers. Earlier this year Google and IBM teamed up to...
Cuil, pronounced "cool," has officially launched. All the kool kids are talking about it. The question is whether anyone will use it. As a new search engine, Cuil is a longshot. It's no Google Killer. Check out Cuil.com. Google needs...
Billing itself as a "Super Search Engine,"IAC's RushmoreDrive.com has announced a 2009 Range Rover Sport Sweepstakes. RushmoreDrive.com, the new search engine for the Black community from Barry Diller's IAC (InterActiveCorp) announced its...
Monitor, monitor, on the wall, "Who's the most Internet Famous of them all?" Wired.com has launched a new, free service for everyone who wonders how Internet famous they currently are. It's called the "Celebrity Meter." It won't tell you...
Randy Pausch delivered the "Last Lecture" after he learned that he'd developed terminal pancreatic cancer. His video became an Internet sensation, with over 3,000,000 views on YouTube. Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie...
Compete has enhanced its Web analytics product features to include a breakout between organic search traffic and paid search traffic. Compete just announced Paid vs. Natural Search Breakouts in Search Analytics. This new metric takes an...
Knol is knowledge without the W(ikipedia) and an edge. Knol is the newest product launched by Google. The Wikipedia competitor is in beta. Get ready for Knollywood. Knol is basically Blogspot on steroids, organized by topic. Google...
