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Searching for Name Brands
You’d think that well-known brands would have an advantage in search engines. After all, if you’re searching for a Hilton hotel or the official…
So Long Overture, Hello Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions
A bit of re-branding news to begin the month of March. The Overture brand is no more. All of Overture’s and Yahoo’s marketing services…
Yahoo Search Makes APIs Publicly Available
Danny, Chris and I are here in NY at SES but we’re still trying to post items to the blog. Here’s some big news…
A Search Tool for Name Brands
Looking for the official site of a major brand? VisioBrand is a comprehensive directory of major global brands, organized by category, and presented in…
Reports from SES NYC: Day One
Barry Schwartz (aka Rustybrick) and Benjamin Pfeiffer (aka Phoenix) are posting summaries from the sessions they attend in the SEW Forums. Here are links…
New Services from MSN Maps
News of a few new services from MSN Maps this afternoon. + An option to paste a formatted address from a web page, Word…
Yahoo: Remembering The Early Days
As many of you know, Yahoo! will celebrating their 10th anniversary later this week (March 2nd to be precise) and the AP has put…
Study: UK Searchers Understand Differences
An article from Netimperative: Brits search smarter than Yanks, reports on the findings from a new study about UK web searchers. Nine out of…
Keyword Search Movie Trailers via Blinkx
More multimedia search news to report. Chris Gaither in the LA Times article: Film Download, Search Firms to Link Services, writes about a deal…
Full Text: The State of Search Engine Marketing 2004
The SEMPO report: The State of Search Engine Marketing 2004, is now publicly available as a full text (PDF) document (free) here. Highlights from…
Envisioning the Web, 60 Years Ago
Sixty years ago, Vannevar Bush laid out a passionate vision of an 'information appliance' of the future. Looking back, we find a remarkably prescient…
AOL’s Advanced Search Preview Feature
As someone who teaches many web search training classes I would like to offer a tip o’ the cap to a simple but elegant…
Google Maps Takes a Safari and Sings at the Opera
A new item on the Google Blog points out that Google Maps now works with the Apple Safari and Opera web browsers.
Off To SES NY, Our Biggest Search Marketing Show Ever
I’m off to our Search Engine Strategies New York show, which is turning out to be our largest ever event. We’ve got over 1,300…
February 2005 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition (the 100th!) of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month.…
The Boys Versus The Adults: Google Goes Public Story
Spotted via John, Journey to the (Revoltionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google from GQ is a great, great long read about…
Googlebar For Firefox, Plus The Google & Firefox Deal
Last week, when Google rolled out the latest version of its toolbar, I was dumbfounded that a Firefox version still wasn’t offered. What’s the…
French Survey On Search Marketing Up
ZDNet France and Imitiki have posted the results of a survey on search marketing issues in France. Search Engine Marketing Survey in France has…
Impression Spam A Problem For Google Ads?
Earlier this month, our Disabling Google Ads With Bots? post looked at the idea in an article that automation might be used to help…
German Search Engines To Self-Regulate Censorship
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting item, German Search Engines Self-regulating, on how major search engines serving Germany are forming a voluntary group to streamline…