Search is winning the hearts and minds of marketing managers across the US, (and this is good news for search worldwide). Brand managers that tend to buy display advertising more readily will continue to be a tough sell for search, but that may...
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately: From The SEW Blog… Daily SearchCast, June 2, 2006: NoFollow Changes Linking, Reputation...
Today's search podcast covers how the "psychology of linking" has changed, handling bad behavior with reputation management and the DOJ wanting to prosecute so Internet companies need to store those records! Plus Microsoft's planned investment...
Interested in playing games? Want to learn a few other trick things you can do with Google? Google Blogoscoped author Phillip Lenssen has written a book titled: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google. Learn about playing the classic Snake game among...
If you're an AdSense publisher, then you have a Google Account with access to Google Calendar and other services. As announced on the Google AdSense blog, you can now populate your Google Calendar with events from the AdSense team. Instructions...
Speaking at a business conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his company would spend $6.2 billion over the next year, $2 billion more than previously budgeted. Most of this investment will go towards further developing Microsoft's...
Last week during meetings with executives, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asked several Internet companies to retain records for aiding in their prosecution efforts of terrorists and child predators. They requested lists of emails sent and...
Jeremy Zawodny posts his commentary on the NoFollow tag after finding an interesting blog entry on how the NoFollow attribute has changed linking behavior. NoFollow was introduced by Google over a year ago to combat prevalent comment spam as...
The [failure] GoogleBomb had become well-known enough to have seen Marrissa Mayer post a response on the Google company blog last September. I first heard the phrase "Reputation Management" as applied to search from Heather Lloyd-Martin during a...
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately: From The SEW Blog… Daily SearchCast, June 1, 2006: New Online Ad Spending Record, Offline Print...
Today's search podcast covers record new online ad spending while offline print ads disappoint, Ask launches impressive blog search with preview feature, a new AdSense API and Google Base used to generate Froogle feeds. Listen in as we talk about...
Radiator.com is a company spotlighted in a recent Associated Press article about the proposed settlement of a class action suit against Google over click fraud. Radiator.com Boiling over Bum Clicks from Multichannel Merchant takes a closer...
Google Fumbles Offline from BusinessWeek covers how during an investor call held yesterday, Google senior vice president of product management Jonathan Rosenberg mentioned the experiment in print ads "probably hasn't taken off as fast as we would...
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately: From The SEW Blog… Daily SearchCast, May 31, 2006: Travelin' Green With Google, Microsoft...
Today's search podcast covers Travelin' green with advice from The Earthday Network and Google, Bill Gates talking about Microsoft's 5-year battle plan to get users to navigate to them for search (instead of Google) and some nice SEO tips about...
The latest figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the IAB shows another quarter of tremendous growth in online ad spending. By now it has reached just about double the spend during the year 2000 before the tumble. Inside the numbers, search is...
The pay-per-call industry has a number of folks that assumed far faster growth than what has realized to date. Pay-Per-Call Struggles to Prove Worth in Internet Ad Realm from E-Commerce Times looks at the latest in the space, how the companies...
Promoting companies that offer environmental benefits, Google has partnered with The Earth Day Network to provide Have a Green Summer tips for traveling green. Check out special "tours" using Google technologies that highlight businesses that...
Marketwatch, reporting from the D4 conference, quotes Bill Gates discussing Google as "very much the leader" contrary to Microsoft having made previous grand statements about matching Google within 6-months far longer ago. Bill Gates announced...
A very well written elaborate (PDF) whitepaper by Huiping Iler explains in great detail what's involved, and most of the difficulties, with search engine rankings outside English. Consider that users are faced with filters, radio buttons and...
