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Will 2005 Bring More SEM Acquisitions?
I bet a friend last year that no, ad agencies are not going to swoop in and eat up all the search marketing firms…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 23, 2004
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Having Trouble…
Asking Search Engines Who’s The Top Search Engine
It’s been done before, but Gord Hotckiss takes a fresh look at what comes up tops for a search for “search engine” at, well,…
Copywriting For Search Ads
Kevin Lee’s got a two-parter at ClickZ on writing copy for search ads. PPC Search Copywriting Strategies, Part 1 looks at the importance of…
Search Year In Review, With A Laugh
Peter Da Vanzo’s 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article over at SearchEngineBlog.com (soon to gain the rightful tag, The Original Search Engine…
Google, Yahoo Post 2004 Most Popular Search Terms
The list of most popular search terms from 2004 continues, with Google weighing in today. The 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist gives you: Top 10…
JavaScript & Search Engines
Shari Thurow shares some tips on how search engines interact with JavaScript in the aptly-named ClickZ column Search Engines and JavaScript.
MSN, MSN UK Plug-Ins For Firefox
Use a Mozilla-based browser like Firefox, with the integrated search box? The ability to hit a number of search engines is already built in,…
Fire Them Search Spammers!
Patricia Fusco, one of the new SEM columnists at ClickZ, comes out swinging with an argument that if the firm you outsource SEO work…
Trademarks and Search Engines
IDG’s Juan Carlos Perez offers a lengthy look at trademarks and search engine advertising in the Infoworld article: Trademark owners battle search engines.
MSN Launches a Search Wiki
This afternoon and just in time for the holidays, let’s say hello to the MSN Search Wiki. The new wiki is another way of…
A Conversation With MSN’s Justin Osmer
Internetnews.com’s Susan Kuchinskas had a chat with MSN product manager Justin Osmer last week during SES and her report is now available. Microsoft Search…
iProspect Acquired by Aegis Group
Search marketing firm iProspect was acquired today by the UK-based Aegis Group and will become part of their Isobar digital network. According to a…
Searching for Joy in All the Wrong Places
Here’s a trick question: When you’re looking up a phone number, would you use a dictionary or an encyclopedia? Neither? Good answer. But how…
Google Now Blocking Santy Worm
The good news is that Google is now blocking the Santy worm. The the bad news is that people in the antivirus and computer…
Searching for Quick Answers To Odd Questions
Looking for an obscure fact, and need the answer right now? Forget search engines: Specialized search tools can help you track down offbeat information…
Happy Belated Birthday to AltaVista
A bit of web search history! Last week, December 15th to be precise, was the ninth anniversary of AltaVista’s launch. + In 2002, Chris…
Search Mandatory On All U.S. Government Web Sites by End of ’05
According to a just released memo (PDF) from the U.S. government’s Office of Management and Budget, all publicly accessible federal government web sites and…
Web Worm Uses Google To Spread
News.com reports that a web worm named Santy is utilizing Google to help it spread to web bulletin boards using the PHP scripting language.…
New Accounting Officer at Yahoo
For those of you who closely monitor the management at the major search companies, some news from Yahoo today via an SEC filing. On…