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Blog Buzz News: PubSub Improvements Coming, BuzzMetrics Sold
PubSub to Measure Blog Influence by Category from ClickZ says that PubSub is supposed to release a new version of its LinkRanks service, to…
Google’s Marissa Mayer Profiled
John Battelle called Google’s Marissa Mayer a "hummingbird" of a woman in his new book The Search, which is a great description for anyone…
More Transparency Needed On How AdWords Are Ranked?
Google Goes Las Vegas from Robert X. Cringely at PBS looks at the anecdote of someone who was paying $0.10 per ad to promote…
More On Yahoo & Its Own Programming
It’s Not TV, It’s Yahoo from the New York Times is another look at Yahoo’s moves to provide its own programming. The opening anecdote…
Emcee James Fallows Expects Blogorrhea Leaks Of Google Zeitgeist 05
Reader P. Webster sends me word that in the current edition of transAtlantic, a rundown of happenings related to The Atlantic magazine by that…
Microsoft Opens adCenter & MSN Keywords To Singapore & France
Microsoft has officially launched its adCenter system to sell paid search in France and Singapore. More details in this company press release. More info…
Google Targeting College Students With Newspaper Ads
I wrote earlier of Google targeting colleges with a special "College Life" page at Google. Now the other part of that story — how…
Apology To David Berlind
I postscripted an apology to my critique of ZDNet’s David Berlind’s complaint in wanting Google Alerts to offer a blog-specific email alerting service. I…
Vivisimo and MSN to Power FirstGov
Vivisimo has been awarded a federal government contract to provide search technology to the U.S. Government's FirstGov.gov portal, with MSN Search playing a key…
FirstGov Switches to Vivisimo & MSN
FirstGov, the official U.S. government information and services portal, will soon be powered by Vivisimo and MSN Search. Since 2002, FirstGov has been powered…
Avoiding Holiday SEM Blunders
The holiday season will soon be upon us, and it can be a fantastic time for search marketers, provided you make all of the…
Search Marketing Spend Increasing at a Healthy Clip
A new survey from Marketing Sherpa reports on current and projected spend for search engine optimization and paid search campaigns. MarketingSherpa cites Merrill Lynch…
Pay-per-Call: Hype vs. Reality
Pay-per-call advertising is being touted by many as the next big thing in search marketing. With eBay justifying its recent purchase of Skype by…
Miva UK Launches Algorithmic Search
Miva has rolled out a new algorithmic web search functionality to its distribution partners in the UK, powered by Fast Search & Transfer. Miva…
MSN Search Offers Free Full Text Access to Encarta Encyclopedia
Researchers might be interested to learn that MSN Search is offering a free access to the full text (not just blurbs) of Microsoft’s Encarta…
Scale is a Key Technology Challenge at Google
Lengedary computer programmer, Peter Weinberger, now works at Google as a software engineer. Unix geeks might already know that Weinberger is the the “W”…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 23, 2005: Forbes And The Richest People In Search, Getting AdSense Into Your Blogger Blog, Time Warner Loves AOL, New Search Suggestion Feature For Google Toolbar & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Forbes naming the richest people — and lots of them are in search. Plus getting AdSense more easily on your…
The Source of South-Sourcing
Outsourcing. It’s not just for programmers and developers anymore. Zach’s covered the trend among major agencies to oursource rich media work. I had a…
Google Testing Remove Results Feature
Google’s testing a new option letting a small percentage of people remove results they don’t like from their own personalized search results. This will…
Vivisimo and MSN Awarded Contract to Power Search on FirstGov
Word in this news release that Vivisimo (the Clusty people) has been awarded a federal government contract to provide search techology to the U.S.…