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WOMMA Names First Elected Board
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) has named its first elected board of directors. WOMMA’s new directors are: * Idil Cakim, director, Burson-Marsteller…
Search Forums Roundup: May 26, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Yahoo! and…
Ballmer On Google And Don’t Be Evil: Laugh & No Comment
When I asked Barry Diller earlier this year if Ask needed some type of "Don’t Be Evil" like Google, his answer got the audience…
AOL Video Gets Google Video Promotion
Way back when Google and AOL cut their partnership deal, AOL was to get promotion on Google Video. What, big flashing neon AOL banners?…
Google Seeks Employees Through Wired Ad
Google Ad in Wired from Google Blogoscoped covers Google doing print ads. No, not to drum up new users, though it has done some…
NetRatings Data: The Local Angle
Danny posted here about April Nielsen//NetRatings data reflecting that Google had crossed the 50% threshold in search market share. I want to point to…
NetRatings: Google Tops 50 Percent Mark In US Web Searches
New stats (PDF) out from NetRatings show Google now handles half the web searches in the United States: Search Engine April 2005 April 2006…
Google Dropping Conservative Sites?
Is Google Dropping Conservative Sites They Disagree With? from Jennifer Laycock at Search Engine Guide is an interesting article regarding the possibility that Google…
Google AdsBot Now Coming To Assess Your Landing Pages, Will Impact Your AdRank
Google's rolling out a new system where ad landing pages will be automatically spidered by a new AdsBot. Not participating in the new spidering…
Researching Keywords
A look at major resources that help search marketers perform essential search term research.
New Search Patents: May 25, 2006 – Yahoo Units and Microsoft Redundancy Filters
New patents from this week from Yahoo on indexing by concepts and on uses of scripts on different computers to share data between them.…
Direct Navigation: good, bad or ugly?
Direct navigation is seen by some as the seedy underbelly of search marketing designed to capitalize on naïve searchers. Others find it to be…
Search Headlines & Links: May 25, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Daily SearchCast, May 25, 2006: Google To Get Dayparting; Affiliate Sites Have New Worries From Google; YahooBay? eBayhoo? Not Quite, But The Two Are Partnering & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google getting dayparting of ads; Google saying no to low-quality affiliate sites; eBay and Yahoo get chummy; Ask’s aerial maps…
Google & Dell Partner: Google Software To Be Installed On Dell PCs
The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell will be installing Google software on “millions of Dell personal computers.” That means software like Google Desktop…
Travel Search Used By Few But Will Grow & Kayak Gets Top Honors In Review
A new report finds few use travel search engines but that declares the area set to grow. Meanwhile, an recent review gives Kayak top…
YouTube Dominant In Video Search, Now an Acquisition Target?
The short answer is “yes.” The site — shall we call it the “MySpace” of video :) — is now the dominant destination for…
Search Marketing Growing Rapidly in the U.K.
A new report from industry analyst firm E-consultancy finds that search marketing revenues grew more than 65% in the U.K last year, and that…
MIVA Seeing PPCall Monetization Growth
One of the most interesting elements of the announced eBay-Yahoo! alliance today is the potential for click to call and pay per phone call…
eBay & Yahoo Partner On Graphical Ads, Other Areas
Everyone is talking about the eBay & Yahoo partnership, where Yahoo will be eBay’s exclusive provider of graphical ads and Yahoo will promote eBay’s…