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Microsoft & Alibaba Seeking Partners for Yahoo Bid
A bidding war for a potential buy of Yahoo is in the preliminary stages. While Microsoft, Alibaba, and several purchasing groups ready their figures and hunt for partners,…
DuckDuckGo Raises Money From Union Square Ventures
Startup search engine DuckDuckGo raised its first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures, company founder Gabriel Weinberg announced. Terms of…
Yahoo-Bing Integration Complete Everywhere but Korea
Yahoo has finished transitioning to a Bing back-end in every country except Korea (where Bing will take over by the end of…
Microsoft CEO: We’ve Got Siri Beat, Bing vs Google = Draw
How do you really feel, Steve? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was as candid as ever at the Web 2.0 Summit as he…
Search Engines Can Save the Podcast: Lessons From ‘The Office’
Once an usher of liberated 21st century communications, the podcast is now a big disappointment. How can search technology help create a…
Yahoo Q3 2011 Earnings: Search Revenues Fall 13%
Search revenue was $374 million, a 13 percent decrease from the previous quarter. Search revenue was bolstered by the fact that Microsoft…
How Google’s Human Search Quality Raters Assign a URL Rating
A leaked URL Rater guidebook from Google’s Search Quality Rating Program offers important insight into what human raters are looking for when…
Google Shutting Down Buzz and 4 Other Services
Google announced that several products will be shut down by early 2012. This includes Google Buzz, Code Search, the University Research Program…
Google Promotes Online Safety With ‘Good to Know’ Campaign
Teaming with the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), Google will promote “safe computer usage” for users. The "Good to Know" campaign offers advice…
Google Launching an MP3 Store, Say Label Execs
Google's Cloud-based music service may soon give users both the option to buy music and have the highest quality version of their…
The NFL & Fantasy Football: A Match Made in Search Heaven
The relationship between the NFL and fantasy football is obvious, but search marketers must understand the subtle but important differences in search…
IRS Audits Google’s Off-Shore Tax Strategies
Google's profit reporting for and the distribution of "intangibles" to foreign divisions is under review by the IRS, which is reviewing for…
How B2B Search Engine Marketers Can Better Impact the B2B Buying Process
For B2B search marketers, the right details and explanation of features and value added resources should be identified. In turn, this creates…
Google Offers Tests More Targeted Daily Deals
Google is testing a segmentation feature that allows people signing up for Offers to obtain more personalized deals. People can select subcategories…
September 2011 Search Engine Market Share from comScore, Hitwise
Google’s U.S. search engine market share is back above 65 percent, while Yahoo declined after two months of growth, comScore reported. Meanwhile,…
Google Reports Q3 2011 Earnings, Record $9.72 Billion Revenue
Google, which for the first time topped $9 billion in revenue in Q2, once again set another company record as it delivered…
Google Sends Picasa Users to Google+ Photos
Google has changed its toolbar navigation to direct users to Google+ Photos rather than Picasa. Though picasa.google.com still works, this may indicate…
The 7 Principles of Bulk Outreach for Link Building
Your task: to build lists of relevant prospects and their contact info, then create an offer that will get these prospects to…
4 Companies Winning in the Foreign Language Internet
The question for ecommerce businesses right now isn’t “can I afford to invest in foreign language websites?” Rather, it’s “can I afford…
Google Gumby Logo Honors Art Clokey’s 90th Birthday
Today Google is honoring Art Clokey, clay animation and stop motion animation pioneer. Clokey brought us Gumby; now Google has a Doodle…
Bing’s New Back-end: Cosmos and Tigers and Scope, Oh My
Microsoft’s plan to stop losing money on Bing includes a new back-end search infrastructure powered by Tiger, their search indexing technology, a…
Google Forced to Release WikiLeaks Volunteer’s Gmail Info
The U.S. government has seized the email information of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum from Google and ISP Sonic.net, though they have no…
Should the Government Decide Where You Rank at Google?
Top rankings at Google should be seen as a bonus in your overall marketing strategy not an inherent right. Although Google's halo…
Rule-Abiding Merchants Abandoned by Google Product Search
After more than a month since Google Product Search began requiring shipping information for all products, Google still doesn't enforce the requirements,…
Facebook Launches Bing-Powered Translation Service
Facebook users can now install an app that translates fan pages written in a foreign language into their native tongue. The feature…
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