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Live Coverage from SES Toronto
Danny mentioned earlier that he was in Toronto for Search Engine Strategies that began this morning. Also in Toronto is none other than conference…
UK: Local Directory Publisher Inks Deal With Google To Sell AdWords
Revolution reports that Google has signed an agreement with Thomson, a major player in the UK directory business to sell AdWords. According to the…
Burnett Productions to Yahoo: Your’re REhired
Word that Yahoo has extended its deal Mark Burnett Productions, the producer of “The Apprentice,” to produce the official site for the program. Additionally,…
Setting A Date For Search Marketing Day
I’m currently in Toronto for our Search Engine Strategies show here and was at dinner with a number of other marketers last night. Everyone’s…
Google Faces Customer Satisfaction & Advertiser Trust Issues
Google: biting the hand that feeds it? from CNN Money shows Google slipping in some aspects of customer satisfaction among advertisers. An annual survey…
Searching for a Good Book
Google and Amazon both offer “search inside the book” features that allow you to explore the contents of printed books. Unfortunately, they both have…
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools
Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer…
Google Lowers Urchin Price, Continues Discounting Strategy
This afternoon the Googleplex announced that a monthly subscription to Urchin on Demand, a web analytics service, has been reduced by 60% to $199…
Profiles of a Few Seattle Area Search Companies
Spotted via Geeking with Greg, is this Seattle Times article: Entrepreneurs seek new ways to mine Web, that takes a look at a few…
Espotting Plans Pay-Per-Call Service in the UK
Netimperative reports that pay-per-call advertising is coming soon to the United Kingdom via a planned service from Espotting. SEM firm Think UK has been…
Google Signs Deal for Content With InfoUSA
This Dow Jones story and a news release alert us to the fact that Google has just signed a content deal with Omaha-based InfoUSA…
Yahoo Plans to Increase Number of Engineers at Software Subsidiary in India
Computerworld Singapore reports that Yahoo is planning to add 200 new product engineers and support staff at its subsidiary, Yahoo Software Development India, located…
RustySearch: A Search Engine Relevancy Challenge
We all know that trying to define and measure search relevancy is quite a challenge. There are so many variables both human and mechanical)…
Forrester: Search Engine Marketing Will Grow 33% in 2005
Forrester Research has just released a new forecast: Online Marketing Forecast 2005-2010, access to the full text report is fee-based but this news release…
Fastclick Unveils Contextual Search Ad Program
The Media Post article, Fastclick Takes On Google With Contextual Ads, offers a look at the new FastClick program that launched yesterday. As expected,…
Snap to the News
Searchblog turns us on to a new site for news search called Newsfilter.com. It could also be called Snap News Search (beta). Yes, Snap.com…
Meet the Webfeed Search Engines
At a recent Search Engine Strategies conference, representatives from some of the major webfeed and news syndication services sat down talked about how to…
April 2005 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Feeds: A New Channel for Search Marketing
Savvy search marketers are taking advantage of an increasingly popular technology to attract traffic: RSS feeds that get picked up virtually instantaneously as they…
The Search Engine Update – Number 196 – May 3, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of April 2005.