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Gmail Trademark Infringement Lawsuit News
AFX News has a brief item about the Gmail trademark infringement suit that Independent International Investment Research filed against Google over the summer. The…
Kraft Supports Pro-White Groups? Lack Of Search Ad Targeting Makes It So
I’ve long written that advertisers should be able to pick and choose exactly where they show up in a search company’s network. Gary just…
New Numbers: Value of China’s Search Market
Asia Puluse (via Yahoo News) reports that China’s search market in 2004 was valued at $113.6 million/U.S. and is growing at 60%-70% annually.
FyberSearch Gains Ignore Tag To Help With Blog Spam
Nathan Enns of FyberSearch dropped me an email to say he saw my proposal for search engines to consider an ignore tag and implemented…
$10 Billion From Paid Search In 2009
From MediaPost, Merrill Lynch Bullish On Paid Search, ‘Neutral’ On Google has Merrill Lynch predicting that paid search might generate $10 billion in 2009,…
Getting Free Of Search Spam
Learning From SEM Blunders at ClickZ has PJ Fusco looking at extracting sites from actual or potential search engine spamming situations, based on her…
MarketingSherpa Puts Call Out For SEM Firms To Be Reviewed
Via Search Engine Lowdown, news that if you’re a search marketing firm and want to be included in the next edition of MarketingSherpa’s long-running…
University FAQs On Google Scholar
The On Google Scholar blog points to two university FAQs about the Google Scholar program designed to help those considering using the research service.…
Google To Restrict Affiliate Ads
Google is to limit the number of affiliate ads that show up in search results, as has been rumored over the past few weeks.…
Up Close On Google Affiliate Ad Changes
Google will be limiting the number of affiliate ads that show up in search results. This article looks closely at the changes.
Mac Version of Blinkx Coming Next Week
On Monday, Blinkx will launch a verion of its app for the Mac. It includes desktop search functionality. Mac versions are something that many…
Howard Stern is a Yahoo! Guy
This morning at about 7:20, popular and often controversial radio host Howard Stern said he was a Yahoo user because that’s what he has…
Sergey and Schmidt Sell Shares
Since many of you follow Google very closely, a quick note to point out that both Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt have sold shares…
Google Experiences Brief Outage in Australia
AustralianIT reports in: Google plays down outage, that the search engine was unavailable in Australia for about 15 minutes yesterday morning (Australian time). “Very…
More On Rumored MSN Search Ad Program
DMNews.com has a follow up to the story yesterday’s blog post by Andy Beal sparked off, the rumor that Microsoft may be launching its…
Google To Restrict Affiliates This Week?
We’ve had rumors that Google might introduce a system to restrict how many affiliates can bid on a term on behalf of a particular…
Keyword Prices Rise Again, But Only Slightly
The Keyword Price Index from Fathom Online for December showed a 2 percent rise from last month, the smallest month-to-month change since the index…
Web Search Into Consumer Search & Other Reflections
In today’s SearchDay article Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search, I review some major developments I saw in search during 2004 and…
Looking at Image Searching
John Gartner at Wired News takes an interesting look at the future of image searching in the article: Search Looks at the Big Picture.…
Convergence: Yahoo! and Microsoft Announce Relationship
Yahoo! has announced in this news release that: + The “Best of Yahoo” (including My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Premium Video) will be available to…