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One Strong Cuppa Joe
Consummate campaigner Juan Valdez, along with the GEICO Gecko, took home the “top icon” title, winning the surely very scientific popularity poll conducted in…
Down the Rabbit Hole with Microsoft
Bloggers (and presumably gamers) are abuzz over a European-targeted Web site to promote Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Site visitors follow a pair of white rabbits…
What’s An Ad Agency? What’s A Search Agency?
Ad/Search Agency Convergence from Hollis Thomases at ClickZ looks at when an ad agency is NOT also and SEM firm or more to the…
Google After Madison Avenue
Search ‘N’ Sell from the New York Post is a relatively short look at how Google is cozying up to major ad agencies, holding…
Linking Neighborhoods, Illustrated
Threadwatch points over to the Picture of Link Neighborhoods post at Jim Boykin’s new SEO blog, where he posts a nice illustration (PDF) of…
Delete Those Emails With SEO Pitches!
Ineffective SEO E-Mail Campaigns at ClickZ from Shari Thurow is a nice, fresh reminder of all those pitches you get for SEO services via…
TrustWatch & MSN Offer Anti-Phishing Tools To Searchers & Surfers
TrustWatch is a new Ask Jeeves-powered search engine designed to give you a green, yellow or red light warning on whether to trust pages…
Time For Results Counts / Number Of Matches To Go?
As Danny mentions, it’s good to see the total size war go away for at least the time being. Danny also points out this…
Didn’t Google Just Have A Birthday?
No, you aren’t losing your minds. Just earlier this month, Search Engine Watch and a wave of other sites wished Google a happy 7th…
CNET Off Double Not-So-Secret Probation With Google
I mentioned this in my earlier post, but it deserves better play. Google’s talking with CNET again. Google stopped talking with the news organization…
Roundup Of Google Size Announcement Coverage
Yesterday was pretty much spent by me writing my story about Google claiming to be most comprehensive search engine but also dropping any page…
Google Claims To Be Most Comprehensive – But Helps Defuse Size Wars By Dropping Home Page Count
Today’s SearchDay article Google Says Now Biggest, Most Comprehensive – But Size Wars Defused By Dropped Home Page Count covers the latest chapter in…
End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count
Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive…
Google Accused of Issuing Misleading Statements in Gmail Name Dispute
Do you remember a blog post from a couple of week’s ago about a possible lawsuit by a UK firm against Google over the…
Google Looking More Portal-Like
Google has struck its first deal to promote TV programming through video content on its site. The search company is working with UPN to…
For Many, It’s All About the Very First Search Result
Jakob Nielsen’s new Alertbox article: The Power of Defaults, does a great job of summarizing and commenting on new search engine research from Cornell…
IAB Report: Search Ads Account for 40% of Ad Sales During First Half of 2005
Via a thread in the Search Engine Watch Forums, news from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterHouseCoopers about online ad spending in the first…
Infospace Gets Ready to Launch Mobile Search Client
The Seattle Times article: Cellphones emerge as local-search tool, reports on some new mobile search/local search client software that InfoSpace (there’s a company we…
A Behavioral Network for Branding Campaigns
Tacoda’s CPM-based behavioral ad network, which the company talked about in April, officially launched today. Called Audience Networks, it boasts approximately 60 million uniques…
Google Video Gets Flashy
A Google spokesperson has confirmed what we first learned via a InsideGoogle post over the weekend that reports you’ll no longer need to download…