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Yahoo Senior VP of Search Speaks at Wharton School of Business
A few weeks ago, Jeff Weiner, Yahoo’s Senior VP Search and Marketplace, gave a talk at the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia. This…
Newspapers Branding Their Own RSS Tools
It seems like everyone wants something to do with RSS these days. A Wired News article talks about several newspapers preparing to launch their…
MSN Officially Launches “Spaces” Blogging Service
A brief article from Reuters announces the fact that Microsoft has taken their Spaces weblog publishing service out of beta and is claiming more…
More Bad Press for Google’s Blogger Service
In his Media Hack column this time around, Adam Penenberg discusses what we’ve blogged about before (and where I share a few comments), about…
Update: NY Gubernatorial Candidate Removes Google Ad
Elliot Spitzer, a Democrat running for governor of New York has pulled the Google ad that Danny blogged about yesterday. The keyword ad appeared…
Wikipedia Gets Support from Yahoo
More Yahoo mojo? (-: We read a few weeks ago about how Google might help the Wikipedia by providing server space and bandwidth. A…
Blogs, Boards, and Posts: Capturing Consumer Buzz Online
A new category of software tools has emerged that uses search engine technology to find and organize consumer-posted thoughts and opinions. These tools not…
March 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…
Google SEO Support Given To Advertisers
Google & SEO Support For Advertisers now posted for Search Engine Watch members looks at how increased editorial listings support being given to large…
More On Analytic Vendor Access To Yahoo’s API
Earlier I posted how Yahoo was apparently not allowing some analytics vendors access to its advertiser API. Controversy Mounts over Yahoo! API Access from…
NY Governor Candidate Spitzer Targets Google Ads Against Prosecution Victim
New York gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer is apparently targeting campaign ads on Google to the name of one of his prosecution targets. Spitzer, currently…
SES NY 2005 Recap
There was an overwhelming amount of information and news that came out of the Search Engine Strategies show in New York last month. Looking…
Google Testing New Related Searches & Clustering System?
Over at Search Engine Lowdown, Andy reports that a member of his team has possibly discovered a new feature that Google might be testing.…
Google Using ODP Titles In Addition To Descriptions
Google has long used Open Directory descriptions in some cases for the web pages it lists. While that usage seems to have ramped up,…
Talking With MSN Search
Spotted via Search Engine Roundtable, Interview with MSN’s Web Search Team from Rand Fiskin at SEOmoz covers a range of topics, such as why…
Got Good Rep? Strut That In Your Search Ads
Give Your PPC Ad "Authority" and your CTR will skyrocket from Search Engine Guide has some nice advice on ensuring your play up your…
Feedster Adds Search Term Highlighting
A tweak at Feeedster to mention. I just noticed that the blog/RSS feed engine is now highlighting your search terms in their static search…
Online & Search Spending Rose In First Quarter 2005
Internet Ad Spending Up In First Quarter from MediaPost reports of a new study finding online ad spend continued to grow in the first…
Travellazer Crawls For Travel Content
Relatively new site Travelazer says it identifies sites as travel-related, then spiders them to provide searches that are focused to travel-related content. The spider…
Retaining Your In House SEM People
Those who are good at search marketing are in great demand. So if you’ve got a good in-house SEM person, how do you keep…