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UpSNAP and Looksmart Announce Partnership
UpSNAP, the SMS-based search tool Chris wrote about last month has announced a partnership with Looksmart. The company [UpSNAP] will offer its customers a…
Topix.net and Citysearch Announce Partnership
Topix.net (a news resource I utilize several times each day) and Citysearch are announcing a deal today that will bring news headlines from Topix.net…
Search Marketing Beyond Google and Overture
When most people talk about pay per click (PPC) search engine advertising, Google and Overture (Yahoo!) take center stage. But in reality, there are…
Interface Changes at Ask Jeeves Local
Mr. Jeeves has just introduced a couple of interface changes on his recently launched Local Search (beta) service. What’s new? + The Local Search…
Changes to Snap
On the Snap blog, Bill Gross lets us know about some changes to the appearance of his new search engine. We changed the right…
$30 Million Jump in Domestic Paid Search Ads at AOL
The Washington Post takes a look at the Time Warner earnings announcement in: Time Warner Sets Aside Legal Reserve. On Paid Search and AOL:…
Two New Ways to Search Froogle Via SMS
When Google launched their SMS-based search tool about a month ago you were only able to search the Froogle database by using a specific…
Learning from a Master in the Web Search Garage
There are searchers, and then there are Super Searchers. Super Searchers have the ability to find seemingly any type of information, either by teasing…
Large Publisher Comments on Working with Google
The UK’s Daily Mail reports that publisher and database provider, Reed Elsevier “has called a truce” with Google. I wonder if Google knows that…
Happy Graduation to the Google Deskbar, Googleviewer.com
Google has just posted an update to the Google Labs page to let us know that the Google Deskbar has graduated from the lab.…
Questions For Yahoo Spam/Content Police?
Tim Converse manages Yahoo Search’s “content classification” group. Those are the people who among other things try to automatically determine what’s search engine spam.…
Googlewhacking Adventure Comes To New York
Last year, a search marketing colleague from the US came out to visit me here in the UK. After showing her the delights of…
Tuning up your Skills in the Web Search Garage
Every now and then a book comes along that's a must-read for every serious searcher, and Tara Calishain's Web Search Garage falls squarely into…
PageRank Goes From 5 to 7
Just one day after RustyBrick at Search Engine Roundtable pointed out a press release (he calls it one the funniest he’s ever seen) touting…
Google-BellSouth Partnership — Not Quite Revolutionary
AdAge examines the new Google-BellSouth deal to explain why the two partnered: Why the Google-BellSouth Yellow Pages Deal Happened. Frankly, there’s nothing that revealing…
Local Search will Fuel Paid Search Market
An interesting paradox: Despite the fact that many early paid search advertisers were small businesses, there hasn’t been a big shift in advertising dollars…
Desktop Search & The Search Marketer
Fredrick Marckini weighs in on how desktop search may impact search marketing: Google’s Desktop Search Could Change SEM Forever, from ClickZ. A key point…
AOL: Personal Search Will Come
AOL has said before it plans to do things in terms of personalizing the search experience. This article from IDG has them saying it…
Most Search Marketers Unsophisticated
Another bit of catch-up from last week, news of a report from JupiterResearch that finds search marketers still have a lot of maturing to…
Special Logos for Election Day
Both Ask Jeeves and Google have special logos for Election Day 2004 in the U.S. Clicking the Ask Jeeves logo searches for the word…