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Local Search Marketing: New Challenges, New Opportunities
It’s tempting to think of local search as merely a subset of a broader search marketing campaign, but best results come with tactics specifically…
Local Search Marketing Tactics
It's tempting to think of local search as merely a subset of a broader search marketing campaign, but best results come with tactics specifically…
Screen Captures of Exalead’s Desktop Search Application
We’ve been tracking Exalead, the feature filled (putting it mildly) web search engine from France since it became available last October. About a month…
He’s a Googler and a Doodler
The Toronto Star has published a profile of Dennis Hwang, the Google programmer who is also the artist behind Google’s many special logos (aka…
Feed Search at Yahoo?
Yeterday, Steve “I’m reviewing my logs” Rubel over at Micro Persuasion posted an item about noticing a crawler named “Yahoo-NewsCrawler Test” in his RSS…
On Vacation!
The family and I are heading off on vacation for the next week. No email, no web, no blogging. So if you aren’t hearing…
Feb. 11 Search Engine Update Out
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member, the mid-month edition of the Search Engine Update newsletter is now posted, summarizing search news from the…
Fresh comScore & NetRatings Stats Posted
I’ve updated the long-standing comScore Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings and Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings pages I maintain with figures that show search…
Mark Jen Posts His Story
Former Google employee Mark Jen as posted his story “direct from the source” about his terminiation on his ninteyninezeroes blog. Jen does not offer…
Talking About Google’s Feb. 2005 Update
For Search Engine Watch members, I’ve posted a Google’s Feb. 2005 Update article that summarizes some things about the Google update that’s recently happened.…
Google and Its Betas
Danny wrote about Google’s many betas a couple of weeks ago. It was also discussed at the Google’s Analyst Day on Wednesday. During the…
More Press Attention Given to Clickfraud
Clickfraud continues to get mainstream press attention. This time around, the AP’s Michael Liedtke has the story, Click fraud looms as threat to search…
eBay President Says Keyword Pricing “Bubble Like”
An article from Reuters: eBay: Key word pricing ‘a little wild’, includes a comment or two from eBay North America president Bill Cobb about…
Australia’s Ansearch Set for March Launch
Ansearch Set For March Launch We’ve been tracking Ansearch, a new search engine from Australia, since November. The ZDNet article: Fledgling Aussie search engine…
Gates: Microsoft Was Stupid
A new AdWeek article: MSN Draws Its Sword In Search Battle With Google, offers some more details about how Microsoft plans to promote their…
Become Shopping Search Beta Now Open
Want to beta test the new Become shopping search engine? The public is now invited to take part, if you’re willing to register. Some…
Yahoo Tips On Crawling Issues
The Yahoo Search Blog has some webmaster tips out today: Yahoo! Search Tips for Webmasters: Saving Bandwidth. Gzip your files, and they’ll unzip and…
Google Maps Not In Google Search; Comparing Services & How Do They Do That?
Nice catch from Tara, finding in Google Maps Not Integrated into Google Search? that the new Google Maps service launched this week has yet…
Did-It Nabs Ask Jeeves/MaxOnline Exec
Did-it Hires New CEO Away from Ask Jeeves from ClickZ covers SEM firm Did-It getting a new CEO, courtesy of a steal from Ask…
Google Local Pulls More Than Froogle
Interesting interview from Fortune, Google: Going Beyond the Web, where Google surprisingly says that its Google Local service was getting more page views than…