Pew Internet & American Life Project: 49% Use Search Daily Posted by Kevin Heisler Aug 7, 2008 How often do people use a search engine? Google Sells Performics to Publicis Groupe Posted by Kevin Heisler Aug 6, 2008 Google has sold its Performics...
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 from...
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.
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 Randall...
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 August 18...
Google Translate Goes Live with Human Translators Posted by Kevin Heisler Aug 4, 2008 Google Translate is going live. Today's Top Story: David Szetela Awesome Ad Groups: Small is Good PROFITABLE PPC Trying to fit all your keywords in one ad group...
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.
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.
Director, Online Sharon Gallacher, West Coast Managing Director, Neo@Ogilvy pm-4:00pm War of the Search Worlds: Unifying Your Global Search Marketing Program Moderator: • Kevin Heisler, Executive Editor, Search Engine Watch Speakers: • Olivier...
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 time...
Posted by Kevin Heisler Jul 31, 2008 This morning the Guardian UK published a scathing analysis of Google, SEO and the launch of Cuil. Yuil Is Dead - Long Live Yuil Posted by Kevin Heisler Jul 31, 2008 Today TechCrunch reported on the birth of a...
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 further...
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 engine...
Ask.com and IAC Beat the Street:: 2Q 2008 Earnigs Posted by Kevin Heisler Jul 30, 2008 Some skeptics have publicly predicted the death of Ask.com. Cloud Computing Unites Yahoo, HP, Intel Posted by Kevin Heisler Jul 29, 2008 Yahoo, Intel and Hewlett...
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 Ask.com...
Cloud Computing Unites Yahoo, HP, Intel Posted by Kevin Heisler Jul 29, 2008 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...
Let's be clear right off the bat.is NOT the Year of Mobile Search. Or the Year of Local Mobile Search. We've seen those proclamations since O'Reilly proclaimed "2005 is Year of Local Mobile Search" in an article by Nathan Torkington.
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...
