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Online Advertisers Can Only Handle PPC Price Increase of Less Than 30%
Adotas reports on a presentation made at SES Toronto, where SEMPO said that 80% of PPC advertisers could only handle a 30% or less…
Google Adds Localized Domains For Google Maps
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google has added localized domain names for specific countries. The list Philipp has includes; + https://maps.google.de/ + https://maps.google.fr/ + https://maps.google.es/…
Searchonomics: Search Statistics Made Fun
Whoever said statistics about search must be dry and boring hasn't experienced presentations from two data giants of the search world, Geoff Ramsey, CEO…
Daily SearchCast, April 25, 2006: MSN Snags Ask.com Head; New Way To Search Blogs; Google Toolbar & Ranking Issues; Google Confirms UI Tests & More!
Today’s search podcast covers MSN stealing away Ask.com chief Steve Berkowitz, Google explaining some recent user interface tests and more! SearchReturn editor Detlev Johnson…
Reports from Search Engine Strategies Toronto: Day One
I am currently up in Toronto, Canada at the Search Engine Strategies Toronto conference. The sessions are now over for day one and I…
User Reviews Platform Gets Metrics
Word of mouth enabler Bazaarvoice has partnered with Coremetrics, Omniture, WebSideStory and WebTrends to offer its merchants deeper measurement of its user reviews product.…
A Well-Rounded Approach to Searching the Blogosphere
A new blog search startup called Sphere is launching today, with a different approach to finding content in the blogosphere. Sphere’s creators are veterans…
20% Of Google Mobile Searches Are Adult Specific
eWeek has a very interesting blog post covering how one of every five Google searches on a phone are for adult oriented keywords. That…
Quick Interview With Jim Lanzone; New CEO Of Ask.com
John Battelle has a quick interview with Jim Lanzone, the new CEO of Ask.com. He asks Jim three questions; 1) How feel? 2) Compete?…
Google Confirms More User Interface Tests
Google has officially confirmed recent tests with the Google user interface that has been spreading around the Internet. This is not the first time…
Yahoo’s Ad Inventory Beats Out Google
Susan Kuchinskas informed me of this post that shows recent comScore qSearch stats where Yahoo’s ad inventory is higher as a percentage, when compared…
Google Maps Europe Now With More Maps & Directions
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Maps, the European version, now has detailed street outlines and driving directions. Reportedly, before today, you were not able…
Sphere: A New Approach to Blog Search
The blogosphere continues to both fascinate and frustrate, because great content is out there, but it's often drowned in a sea of garbage. Newly…
Matt Cutts Of Google Comments On Google Toolbar & Rankings
There has always been speculation on the Google Toolbar and if Google uses the data captured from the toolbar for ranking and indexing purposes.…
Ask.com Appoints Jim Lanzone CEO
Just days after Ask.com chief Steve Berkowitz jumped ship to Microsoft’s MSN, IAC/InterActive Corp. has appointed Vice President of Product Management Jim Lanzone as…
Rumor: Google To Offer Free WiFi To Nation
Via tech.memeorandum, there are rumors that Google has plans to expand their current wifi efforts, to cover the whole nation. Danny discussed Google’s efforts…
Google Web Site Categories Explored
Social Patterns writes a detailed explanation of what he feels determines a site’s Google Web categories. What I define as a Web category are…
AdSense Launches Text Ad Referrals, Site-Flavored Search and New Image Ad Sizes
The Google AdSense team has made some new additions to the program over the past few days. The first is a new text link…
Google Alerts Now Available In Hebrew
Nathan Weinberg points to a Google Blogoscoped thread that shows that Google News Israel added the Google Alerts feature. Google Alerts is a way…
Matt Cutts Provides More Information On Google’s Crawl Caching Proxy
In response to the new caching techniques Jennifer reported last week, Matt Cutts posted a more detailed explanation of what is called “crawl caching…