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Search Marketing for Video Content
In today’s SearchDay article, Video Search: Still “Early Days”, guest writer Greg Jarboe offers coverage of a recent Search Engine Strategies panel focused on…
Yahoo Loses Another VP, This Time To SideStep
Ouch. Last week, Yahoo saw the vice president in charge of its developer network split to start-up Automattic. Now there’s news that another Yahoo…
Yahoo Nabs SearchFox Assets
I never used SearchFox nor heard much about it, but they announced last week that they’d be closing. Techcrunch now says that’s because Yahoo’s…
Designers Should Love SEO, Plus Making Flash Friendly To Search Engines
Can’t We All Just Get Along? – The Battle Between SEOs and Web Designers has David Wallace at Search Engine Guide inspired by the…
See How Evil Google Is On Your Google Personalized Home Page
Gary wrote earlier of a site that lets you rate whether Google is evil or not, based on news items each day. Google Blogoscoped…
WSJ Profiles Digg News Technology Site
Digging Out the News at the Wall Street Journal gives you some background on Digg, a two year old technology news site that’s risen…
Shorter Ads Coming To Yahoo This Week
SEMs Welcome Shorter Yahoo! Ads covers the move this week by Yahoo to shorten ads to from 190 to 70 characters and many marketers…
Video Search: Still “Early Days”
Producing video content? There are video search engines that specialize in gathering up your video and making it available to searchers seeking such content.
Results from MSN Search Added to Jux2 Tool Metasearch and Results Comparison Tool
About a month ago I posted about the return of metasearch, search engine overlap and results comparison tool Jux2, after it was sold via…
Google Base & The v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO Contest
Damn — just when I thought I could ignore the latest SEO contest, it does something interesting. First, Greg Rockstar Boser notes that while…
No Page Reload Required: See Sponsored Ads in Various Categories on Yahoo Movies Pages
Is Yahoo testing something new with sponsored links on some pages found on Yahoo Movies? Allow me to explain. Sponsored links on Yahoo Movie…
WSJ: More Reality TV Type Programming Might Be Coming to Yahoo
The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Delaney and Brooks Barnes article (subscription not required): Yahoo Hopes to Make Network Flop a Net Hit, takes a…
New York Times On AdSense Earnings & Revenue share
New York Times published a piece on AdSense today, featuring Shawn Hogan of Digital Point discussing his AdSense earnings (roughly $10k per month) and…
Copyright Issues and Video Search
Om Malik has an interesting post about something we’ve mentioned here on the blog several times and that Om and I have chatted about…
Jennifer Slegg Joins SEW Blog As Contextual Correspondent
I’ve written before that Search Engine Watch doesn’t focus on contextual advertising because it’s not search. Having said this, with two major search engines…
Celebrate the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With New Digitized Newspaper Database
I just mentioned this new database on ResourceShelf and I think it’s more than worthy of a post here on the SEW Blog. The…
Tools that Optimize Web Content for Mobile Web: Google Joins Skweezer and IYHY
Since lots of web content has not been optimized for the mobile web, thanks to Nathan Weinberg* at InsideGoogle for the news tip about…
More Google Mentions on Saturday Night Live
Last night was the first new Saturday Night Live program since the Yahoo, MapQuest, and Google mention in the now famous “Lazy Sunday” video.…
Loomia Offers Podcast/Vidcast Search, Personalized Recommendation Service Now Available for Site Developers
A new post and positive comments from Greg Linden along with posts from SiliconBeat and an older post and company profile from Michael Arrington…
John Battelle Talks Google with NYC Googlers
If you’re in need for some Google-related weekend viewing, now available via Google Video (free) is a 57 minute presentation by John “The Search”…