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Search Ad Pricing and Current Events
Bambi Francisco takes a look at the relationship between current events (for example, the recent Vioxx recall) can drive keyword advertising in: News expands…
Threadwatch Tracks SEM Forums
Search engine marketing forums can be great reading, but finding the best stuff among the chaff can also be hard. Threadwatch is a new…
“Yahoo Next” For Tech Previews
OK, we’ve had Google Labs launched in 2002, a place where Google rolls out beta projects to the public. Overture then unveiled Overture Labs…
My Yahoo Search Offers Personal Search Features
Just a day after releasing Yahoo Local, Yahoo has launched My Yahoo Search, offering several new features that allow you to save, annotate and…
SEMPO Search Marketing Survey Opened
Last week, I complained that little is known about the size of the search marketing industry. Paid search spending, sure — we’ve got some…
Yahoo Introduces Personal Search
Yahoo has enhanced its My Yahoo service with personalization features including search history, the ability to save pages to a 'personal web' and block…
Search Personalization: A Marketer’s Perspective
After months of talking, personalization seems to have arrived big time with the major search engines. What's all this mean for search marketers? A…
Blogger Founder, Evan Williams, Saying Goodbye to Google
Evan Williams, the founder of Pyra Labs/Blogger and currently the Blogger Program Manager, has just posted an announcement on EVHEAD (his blog) that he’s…
Early Blog Reports From Microsoft’s Search Champs
Microsoft’s new Search Champs team has met, and now their blogs are reflecting comments. Microsoft Search Champs – morning from David Weinberger gives some…
Social Networking Meets the Yellow Pages
Stefanie Olsen reports in a CNET article about a new project from Bill Gross, the CEO of Idealab: Idealab chief stakes out new direction…
More Chinese Censorship At Google? I Think Not
Zhang Lin’s translated account on Epoch Times, My Experience of Google’s Censorship, explains how a search on his name at Google reveals tons of…
Tech Preview 2 Now Officially Live
MSN’s Search Tech Preview 2 is now “officially” live and ready for testing. It was available for a short period of time on Friday…
Redball Launches Discussion Search Engine
Not much to say on this one (they don’t have an English language interface yet) but Redball.info from Austria has launched a new engine…
Semel Speaks at Harvard
Terry Semel spoke to MBA students at Harvard on September 20th. Yahoo CEO Describes Art of the Deal from HBS Working Knowledge has the…
Yellow Pages Publisher Launches Search Marketing Program
Dex Media Pursues SME Market, Analysts Ponder Relevancy Source: Media Post Dex Media, publisher of print edition Yellow Pages, has designed a new program,…
Microsoft’s Search Champs A Man’s Club?
Microsoft’s new Search Champs initiative, which involves 30 bloggers to help the company brainstorm search, counts only one woman among 30 participants. That’s Liz…
Yahoo Local Tabs
With the launch of Yahoo Local today I’ve noticed that Yahoo can now add a tab for Yahoo Local on the streamlined search.yahoo.com interface.…
Keyword Search Audio From First Presidential Debate
C-SPAN and StreamSage (the folks behind CampaignSearch) have just made available the chance to keyword search the audio of the first presidential debate, find…
Just the Facts
An article from BBC Online, The future of facts, takes a brief look at information quality and authority issues on the open web and…
Yahoo Paid Inclusion Can Be A Bargain
Fredrick Marckini looks out how paid inclusion on Yahoo can bring in traffic more cheaply than paid placement through Yahoo-owned Overture, in some cases:…