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Local Ads Spend Online To Rise; Paid Search Nearly 10 Percent Of It
Local Online Ad Spend to Rise 46 Percent in ’05 from ClickZ summarizes a Borrell Associates report on 210 US media markets predicting that…
LookSmart Reports $1.5 Million Loss
LookSmart reports a $1.5 million loss for last quarter, blaming the failure to go after sales in high-margin topics. Next quarter, it expects a…
MotionBridge Offers Mobile Sponsored Search
MotionBridge, which provides mobile search services to various European and other cell phone providers, has rolled out a new paid listings service for the…
Google Completes Definition Move To Answers.com
We blogged last week that Google was to moving to Answers.com for its dictionary definitions from Dictionary.com. Gary Stock from over at Googlewhack alerts…
New ClickTracks Optimizer For Mid-Range Tracking Needs
ClickTracks is a popular web analytics tool that I personally use and love. Now the company is releasing a new ClickTracks Optimizer version ($1,200…
Rojo: Feed Search Plus Social Networking
The new Rojo social networking service that utilizes RSS and search is featured in the Technology Review article So what are you reading these…
Threats To Referrer Info & Workarounds To Loss
Referrer information is priceless to search marketers and others. It can help you understand exactly which search engines were used to reach your web…
Search Engine Sizes
Page with charts showing how large the search engines are and how much coverage of the web they provide.
Yahoo! and Showtime: Something “Big” Coming Soon
TV Week is reporting (subscription only) that Showtime, a cable TV network and Yahoo! have plans to announce a content and promtion deal. The…
Google AdWords API Launched
As rumored, Google has released an API for its Google AdWords program. More details from Google here, plus a new AdWords API blog has…
FyberSearch Now Offers Results in RSS
Nathan Enns, the developer of FyberSearch has let us know about few a new services and advanced features. + Results are now available in…
Yahoo Factor: Victory In Search Wars Through Vertical?
Last to the game with desktop search, The Yahoo Factor from Technology Review argues that Yahoo may succeed in the search wars through a…
More Search Survey Results
It’s a busy week for searcher surveys. The Daily Rundown’s Sid Yadav has just posted the results of his NextSearchSurvey. It’s easy to see…
Isobar’s Fay On Multiple Search Groups
Last month, iProspect was acquired by Aegis Group to be part of its still relatively new Isobar network. Isobar also encompasses Carat Interactive, which…
Now Available: A New Service from Yahoo! Local
Yahoo Local users can now easily and quickly send phone numbers and addresses from the Yahoo! Local database to their cell phones or mobile…
New Search Behavioral Network Launched
AlmondNet has launched a new “Post-Search” program that will deliver advertising across the web targeted to the topics someone has searched on recently, including…
Redesign & Retain Rankings
Time to redesign your web site? Matt Bailey at Search Engine Guide offers some tips on doing that and maintain your search traffic in…
Google Survey On Improving Its Advertising Professionals Program
Lee Odden posts the questions he was asked in a Google survey about how the recently launched Google Advertising Professionals program could improve or…
A9 Debuts Visual Yellow Pages
I’ve long been fascinated by France Telecom’s Yellow Pages site, Pages Jaunes that I wrote about last year. Why? The directory features millions of…
Amazon’s A9 Launches Visual Yellow Pages
A9's new nationwide yellow pages directory comes with a twist—thumbnail images of business storefronts that let you take a virtual walk through the streets…