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Study Finds TV Drives Searches
MediaPost reports in Yahoo: Internet Users ‘Mesh’ Web With Television about a new study from Yahoo and Mediaedge:cia about the very close relationship (AKA…
Bristol Buys Search Ads
Google Adds Boost to Bristol from eGov monitor covers out the Bristol City County in England is generating traffic for its Askbristol community web…
LinkedIn to Debut BtoB Local Search Service to Connect Professionals
Yes, even LinkedIn, the web-based networking tool is getting into the local search game. MediaPost reports that the company will announce that they will…
Yell.com Offers Local Search For Mobile Searchers in the UK
Although my article for SearchDay yesterday focused on mobile search tools for local info here in the U.S. that doesn’t mean that MANY (if…
FeedPlex, An Engine for XML Content Relaunches in Beta
FeedPlex, an engine for XML content (RSS, RDF) is back online. The database is being revamped and expanded by Nathan Enns, the person who…
The Pros and Cons of Pay-Per-Call Advertising
Pay-per-call search ads display phone numbers, rather than links, for searchers to act upon. Proponents say that anyone taking the time to pick up…
Google UK Gets Local Listings & Maps
Google Local UK has now launched. Not listed? Some data is gathered in partnership with Yell.com. Want to search locally on your mobile? A…
Search Advertising that Makes the Phone Ring
There's a new kid in town in the search advertising arena. No, it's not another search ad vendor, nor a new conversion tracking tool.…
Stanford University’s Student Paper & Selling Links
The Stanford Daily Selling Links thread at our Search Engine Watch The student newspaper at Stanford University has raised eyebrows by selling off-topic links…
The Mobile Searcher and Medical Information
The combo of mobile and local search is all the rage these days but mobile access to health and medical info/research has been building…
MSN Surveys Web Searchers
While perusing the Sympatico/MSN.ca home page this afternoon I noticed a link to a 19 question “search survey” that MSN is asking users to…
MSN Results Coming to InfoSpace Sites
InfoSpace is announcing that they’ve just inked a two-year deal with Microsoft to add MSN web search results to both their branded metasearch sites…
Hommingberger Gepardenforelle: German SEO Contest Announced
Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped has the scoop about a new search optimization contest from Germany. The contest is being sponsored by a German…
More Buzz for Become.com; BrilliantShopper.com to Launch Soon
Last Monday, Chris provided a great overview about the new shopping research engine, Become.Com. Today, both the E-Commerce Times and the San Jose Business…
TiVo Talks to Google and Yahoo
Can you name another service that here in America that has become a verb as quickly as Google has? I can, it’s TiVo. Stefanie…
Searching via your Mobile Phone
Google’s new Local Mobile search isn’t the first such offering, nor is it the most comprehensive. In today’s SearchDay article, A Roundup of Local…
A Roundup of Local Mobile Search Tools
Google's new local search for mobile devices is garnering a lot of press, but there are a lot of other alternatives that are worth…
Overture Becomes Yahoo Search Marketing & Comparing Listing Products At Yahoo To Google
Overture gets a new name, prompting a look at how listing products from Yahoo and Google compare.
Largest U.S. Corporations: Where Do Google and Yahoo Rank?
The 2005 Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 rankings of America’s largest corporations (ranked on revenues) have just been released. Most of the material is…
Washington Post Looks at Click Fraud
Yes, it’s another mainstream press look at the click fraud issue. This time David Vise from the Washington Post writes, Google, Yahoo and other…