The FTC sent out letters to what they considered the primary general-purpose search engines, which includes AOL, Ask.com, Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Google, and Yahoo. They also sent out letters to 17 specialized search engines, ones that specialize...
Retailers spent more than $2.3 billion on paid search advertising with Google AdWords and the Yahoo Bing Network in 2012, according to AdGooroo data (disclosure: I work there) making retail the most robust category for paid search in terms of ad...
Yahoo also shared its data for last year's Mother's Day to put spend and shopping behavior in perspective. Last year, 47 percent of Yahoo visitors searched online for Mother's Day gifts. Browse Google Shopping "shortlists" custom packaged by themes...
Here are the top 10 sites which appear in news integrations on Google.com (the number of times they appeared are in parenthesis): patch.com, (4,352) huffingtonpost.com, (3,530) go.com, (3,140) nytimes.com, (2,141) washingtonpost.com, (1,873...
Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will reach 9.3 percent, Yahoo will have 6.2 percent, and AOL will account for 1.1 percent. EMarketer predicts Google will remain the leader in display ad revenues in 2013 with...
And yet, less is known about the entity that reportedly accounts for roughly the other third of searches – the Yahoo Bing Network (YBN). AdGooroo (disclosure: I work there) addressed these questions in a recent study comparing the paid search...
Yahoo! Davis notes that many of these are "unconfirmed assumptions from dealing with the shopping engine on a daily basis for more than 6 years": Google Shopping places a relevance score on merchants that relates to how complete a merchant's data...
If Alibaba takes Yahoo’s search algorithm and combines it with purchasing insights from Taobao and ETao to create Aliyun as a “best of breed” engine for searching, it will be a serious threat to traditional search players like Baidu and Google...
Yahoo Buzz Log: Shows top overall keyword searches by Yahoo users with rank, buzz score, and how the search volume has moved in rank. Update: "Effective April 1, 2013, Yahoo Clues (beta) will shut down," Yahoo announced.
Market participants welcomed the news, confirmed by Yahoo today, that it has signed a global agreement with Google to display its ads on selected Yahoo properties and co-branded sites. The deal is non-exclusive, so Yahoo will also continue to...
That’s obviously good news for Google (and for Yahoo! New formats, different ad styles and, as mentioned, competition from Yahoo! They either couldn’t change dance partners or were reluctant to do so heading into the holiday shopping season.
Yahoo had issues with management turnover (remember Scott Thompson’s resume fiasco? Yahoo Just when Yahoo kicked itself to the curb, it experienced an emotional rebound by hiring ex-Googler Marissa Mayer as Yahoo’s new CEO, who brought optimism and...
During his three and a half years at Yahoo, Seth's responsibilities included overseeing such products as Yahoo Search, Local, Shopping, Mail, Flickr, Answers and many more. Another executive is out at Yahoo.
Aside from Google/Yahoo/Bing, there are actually many alternative ad networks that can provide a very cheap cost per click for budget conscious advertisers, which can help your brand excel far beyond your wildest dreams.
It can also be beneficial to know where your competitors are spending their budgets and whether you can get a leg up by advertising on the “other” search engine, Bing/Yahoo. The graphic below shows retailers such as Best Buy, JCPenney, Staples...
Marin Software reports that Google is better at monetizing its searches than Yahoo and Bing. According to IgnitionOne, “Google continues to hold 79 percent of market share compared to Yahoo! Again this quarter, the search ad spend increase YoY for...
So that’s what we do, we integrate with sites like Bing, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and more to enrich your search experience with neutral social signals. Social search startup Wajam is taking the shopping world by storm by adding product...
Visual search, done right, is more than simply the image search feature on Google, Bing or Yahoo. One only has to look at the subsequent explosion of image orientated socially enabled shopping sites such as ShopCade, Fancy and Glimpse (from The...
Merchants using Pricegrabber also have the added advantage of sending their product listings to Yahoo Shopping. Each quarter, CPC Strategy gathers data from more than 4 million clicks and nearly $8 million in revenue to determine the best...
Yahoo Yahoo Yahoo search has a very different look from the others. It offers a tab-based interface that displays “trending now,” followed by a series of tappable search queries topping the Yahoo search trends at the time.
