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Latest NetRatings Stats Show Status Quo With Search Engines
I always warn not to worry much about month-to-month changes with search popularity stats. The now updated search engine popularity stats I’ve posted from…
Digital Marketing Remainders
Noteworthy from the past couple days… Google, Skype, Apple among the most impactful brands of 2005. Results from BrandChannel’s Reader’s Choice Awards. A Generation…
Oh Yeah, Yahoo? Google Says (Maybe) We’ll Make Our Ads Larger
Yahoo just shorted its ads to be like Google, so naturally Google will make its ads bigger to be like Yahoo was! Well, that…
Ask Jeeves Launches Their Own Image Database, New Refinement Features Also Available
Ask Jeeves has released their own internally built database of images and is no longer using imagery provided by PicSearch to power Ask Jeeves…
Google Not Installing Third Party Cookies — It’s Firefox Prefetching
John Battelle spotted a post from Chris Marino at Tumbling Duke that has the worrisome suggestion that Google is allowing third parties to set…
When Carl Talked to Barry: Sources Say Time Warner Investor Carl Icahn Has Had Conversations with IAC/InterActive (Ask Jeeves) CEO Barry Diller
According to this Fortune.com story: Time Warner: Is Icahn looking to deal with Diller?, that legenday investor Carl Icahn (controls about 3.1% of outstanding…
Yo Ho Ho and A Streaming of Rum
Bacardi is hoping young adults will tune in to all Bacardi, all the time. The rum maker just launched Bacardi Internet Radio “to further…
New Firstgov.gov Search Database Goes Live
The new Firstgov.gov search that offers access to content from U.S. federal, state, local tribal and territorial sources is now live. You can find…
The Challenges of Marketing in the Search Tail
The search tail, the group of queries that are relatively unique, offer major opportunities for savvy search marketers, but effectively taking advantage of the…
Yahoo: Not A Goal To Overtake Google In Search Market Share
Steve Rubel points to a Bloomberg news article, Yahoo! gives up quest for search dominance, examining Yahoo CFO Susan Decker saying “It’s not our…
BBC Money Programme Documentary On Google
The BBC’s Money Programme did a big look at Google over here in the UK last Friday night. John Battelle was interviewed as part…
Marketing in the Search Tail: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?
Popular search terms tend to dominate the headlines, but there are literally millions of unique searches conducted every day, and savvy search marketers are…
Some Advanced Search Syntax from Yahoo Hacks and the Launch of Rough Cuts from Safari Tech Books
The Yahoo Search team has allowed Paul Bausch, author of Yahoo Hacks, to share a couple of the many “hacks” from his book on…
Schmidt, Brin, Page Will Once Again Earn Base Salaries of $1.00 in 2006, Other Senior Execs Get $75K Raise
Google has just filed a report with the SEC that lists the annual base salaries (stock options and other items excluded of course) for…
Bye Bye Beta: Google News is a Beta No More
And you thought that Google News would always be in beta. (-: Well, that’s no longer the case. As of today, approximently 1219 days…
Yahoo Open New Research Labs in Chile and Spain with Respected Information Scientist In Charge
News from Yahoo that they have just opened new research labs in Chile and Spain. Yahoo has hired famed information scientist, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, to…
BusinessWeek on Yahoo and Social Search
BusinessWeek’s Ben Elgin takes a look at social search, focusing on Yahoo, in his article: Yahoo’s Social Circle. Ben’s article offers a review of…
How to Handle Yahoo’s Shorter Ad Descriptions
Last week, shorter ads descriptions came to Yahoo as Danny points out in this post. To assist with the change, Kevin Lee’s column on…
LonelyPlanet Adds Ads to Orbit
LonelyPlanet.com, the Web site complement to the well-known travel book series, is beginning to take graphical ads on its site for the first time.…
Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind
Wired’s “How to Foil Search Engine Snoops” is a nice guide to protecting your search privacy, but it doesn’t really go far enough. In…