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Meet The B2B Search Engines
One of the top trends highlighted at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose was the growing importance of vertical search, and one of the key sessions…
Lots of Job Resumes Appear at Google China; Chef Position is Still Open
After Dr. Kai-Fu Lee officially began his job (at least for the time being) last week at the head of Google efforts…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 28, 2005: Google Moving To NASA (Offices), Dropping Euro Commissions, Yahoo Preps Tools On Search Buzz, Releases Desktop Search From Beta, A Search Marketer On The Apprentice & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google expected to expand offices to the NASA Ames site, removing commissions for European advertisers and unifying logons,…
Roll Your Own Search Engine With Rollyo (Beta)
For the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to test out and create several focused and targeted search engines (based URLS…
Export or Backup Your Gmail Contacts List with Just a Few Clicks
I noticed a small addition to the Gmail Whats New page in the past day or so that points out that its…
Search Marketer A Candidate On The Apprentice
Member Promediacorp (Avi Wilensky) at our SEW Forums dropped me a note to say one of the contestants on the current series…
Google AdWords Logins Shifting To Google Accounts
Google’s been doing some consolidation of having people sign-in for various services through a common Google Accounts login. Dave Naylor noted this…
Better Yahoo Tools Coming To Measure Search Buzz – And Watch Google, Too!
Yahoo! Testing New Branding Metrics for Search at ClickZ covers how Yahoo is helping more advertisers tap into tools to measure brand…
Google Going To NASA — NASA Ames, That Is
Silicon Beat said earlier this week (and Gary last month) that Google was to open a research center at NASA Ames in…
Google Seeking Classified Ad Feeds
Classified Intelligence reports briefly in a press release that Google is looking to include listings from classified advertising web sites in its…
Yahoo Paid Inclusion Redirection & Hijacking Confusion
Paid Inclusion Making Yahoo Results Seem Hijacked? looks at the confusing situation one of our forum moderators Jeff Martin found when looking…
A Snapshot of the Search Marketing Industry
A new study by Jupiter Research and iProspect looks at several aspects of the search marketing industry, and draws some interesting conclusions…
Google Changing Agency Commission Payments In Europe
Google has announced plans to revamp the practice of paying commissions to agencies in Europe. Rather than tying the percentage paid mainly…
How are Search Marketers Performing?
A new study sheds light on the performance of search marketing firms, concluding that many are missing opportunities and failing to provide…
What’s An Ad Agency? What’s A Search Agency?
Ad/Search Agency Convergence from Hollis Thomases at ClickZ looks at when an ad agency is NOT also and SEM firm or more…
Google After Madison Avenue
Search ‘N’ Sell from the New York Post is a relatively short look at how Google is cozying up to major ad…
Delete Those Emails With SEO Pitches!
Ineffective SEO E-Mail Campaigns at ClickZ from Shari Thurow is a nice, fresh reminder of all those pitches you get for SEO…
TrustWatch & MSN Offer Anti-Phishing Tools To Searchers & Surfers
TrustWatch is a new Ask Jeeves-powered search engine designed to give you a green, yellow or red light warning on whether to…
Time For Results Counts / Number Of Matches To Go?
As Danny mentions, it’s good to see the total size war go away for at least the time being. Danny also points…
Didn’t Google Just Have A Birthday?
No, you aren’t losing your minds. Just earlier this month, Search Engine Watch and a wave of other sites wished Google a…
CNET Off Double Not-So-Secret Probation With Google
I mentioned this in my earlier post, but it deserves better play. Google’s talking with CNET again. Google stopped talking with the…
Roundup Of Google Size Announcement Coverage
Yesterday was pretty much spent by me writing my story about Google claiming to be most comprehensive search engine but also dropping…
End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count
Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the…
Google Accused of Issuing Misleading Statements in Gmail Name Dispute
Do you remember a blog post from a couple of week’s ago about a possible lawsuit by a UK firm against Google…
For Many, It’s All About the Very First Search Result
Jakob Nielsen’s new Alertbox article: The Power of Defaults, does a great job of summarizing and commenting on new search engine research…
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