We love 72 day marriages, we love comment flame wars and we love YouTube videos of people playing horrible tricks on their friends. Here's how trash-talking your competition comes back to haunt you. The purpose of the Scroogled campaign isn't to...
Last month Almunia suggested that the company should use its time wisely and save everyone from a long and drawn out investigation into its business practices, because his team already had a lot of cases, such as patent wars, already on the table.
There is no doubt Yandex will face many challenges ahead in the face of browser wars, mobile operating systems and even new competition beyond Google. The search industry is one of the most competitive in the world and has been for many years and...
In an earlier post, SEO Wars: Forget Black Hat, White Hat - What Color Is Your Lightsaber, I introduced six unique SEO styles (and respective lightsaber colors) for wielding the Force of magnetic content.
The first thing I did was take advantage of the pretty photoset interface on Google+, so I uploaded the pictures from this year's Black Hat / White Hat event which was the most awesome yet, thanks to a completely new format based on Angie...
Currently, it requires technology giants – which initiate capitalistic "wars of the Titans" – to make a mark. As leading search industry expert and SEMPO Vice President Mike Grehan so eloquently put it: "You have no more right to rank at Google...
Star Wars" theme : e e e q te q te u u u i te q te http://goo.gl/doodle/X0zy The post was also incredibly popular with Search Engine Watch readers, who shared their own song creations with us – some of which are downright awesome.
Browser Wars Heat Up As someone who lives and breathes search every day, my eyes were immediately drawn to the new look of the search bar in the top right corner of the browser. While it defaults to Google search, a dropdown enables you to access...
This will mean that there will be bigger margins for bidding wars to take place. Just about ten days ago, we reported on the launch of the new Google search results pages (SERPs). Some positive feedback has emerged, both from the general public and...
That much is clear alone from Techcrunch's enthusiastic (if repetitive) coverage of the "location wars" that took hold of the iconic South by Southwest conference this week. As someone who has spent most waking moments of the last few years...
This time, we're fueling the flame of the search wars by looking at results for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Tell us your favorite search engine for Olympic information. Recently we took screenshots and compared search results on Oscar nominations and...
Seems to me that the battle drums in the search wars are growing louder and more intense. This kind of competition is entirely necessary and is ultimately going to be a very good thing for search and its cottage industries.
History teaches a great deal, and battles have been won and lost in the search wars since the concept of choice was introduced to search. How appropriate on the day Hitwise announces that Google is pulling 69 percent of all search activity that we...
We have battles between search engines, browser wars (congratulations to Firefox for setting the record yesterday), and feuds between open source and proprietary programmers. With all the technology we have -- personalizable search engines, inner...
Forget Competition, the Search Wars Are Over» SEARCHING FOR MEANING: Industry oversight, insight, and best practicesAdvertisers love competition because (arguably) costs will be driven down. Search Engine Watch Experts Columns
The other search engines should just give up and declare Google the winner. Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask, and the thousands of search utilities on the Internet should direct traffic to Google because it's clearly the best search engine.
In today's Searching for Meaning column, "Forget Competition, the Search Wars are Over," Kevin Ryan wonders if maybe we shouldn't count the other (non-Google) search engines out just yet. Advertisers love competition because (arguably) costs will...
In fact, it could be a really cool viral video based on the "Star Wars" scene. The monopolization of our industry is fast becoming a reality, and yet the users of search -- our beloved potential customers -- are oblivious.
Wired Or Tired: West Coast SEMers Infighting Getting AttentionPersonally, I am hoping it is just like the rapper wars – more for the publicity than actual animosity. Google American Idol: Competition For AdWords Local Search TalentSearch marketing...
SEW Experts: Microsoft adCenter Could Win the Search BattleTony Wright explains why he thinks Microsoft adCenter can win the search wars -- if it can scale the audience. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
