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SEMPO Gets New Advisors & Parody Site
SEMPO’s gained three new members for its advisory board: Chris LaSala from Google, Neg Norton from the Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association and Safa…
Google News In Beta To Avoid Ad Lawsuits?
Nice article spotted via Dave Winer, Google News: Beta Not Make Money from Wired. The article theorizes that Google has kept the "beta" moniker…
New Google Traffic Estimator Tool Up – Got Suggestions?
Google’s added a new Traffic Estimator tool that lets you discover traffic for a term without having to actually add the term to an…
More On Mixing Contextual & Search Spending
Niki Scevak saw my Google’s Revenue Is Not All Search-Derived post yesterday decrying the mixture of contextual and search revenues and points out that…
iZito & Ujiko: Meta Search With Personality
iZito is a new meta search engine with a clever feature. Click on any listing you are interested in using the P icon next…
Shopping Search Tactics
Shopping search engines make it easy for people to research and buy products. They can also be a powerful and cost-effective customer acquisition channel…
Bloglines and RSS Bandwidth Problems
A busy day in the RSS world. First, the removal of the beta moniker to the RSS/ATOM section on My Yahoo along with a…
Political Groups Dabbling in Search Engine Marketing
Political Campaigns And Issue Groups Take Search Baby Steps Source: Media Post The article takes a look at how the Republican and Democratic National…
Google Responds to China News Censorship Story
Last week we linked to a New Scientist report about Google omitting some controversial “sources” in their Google News China crawl. In a new…
New Yahoo A-Z Index Page
Along with the new My Yahoo beta release and the tweaks to the Yahoo home page that we’ve mentioned today, the company has also…
Commenting About Posts
Want to comment on something in our blog? Our Search Engine Watch Forums are where we invite you to remark on any blog posts,…
Search Marketing: Reaching out to Europe
If you’ve concentrated your search marketing efforts in North America, you’re missing out on one of the largest and most developed markets in the…
Yahoo, How About A Feed Search Tab?
I’ve only begun to play with the new My Yahoo Beta that Gary blogged about earlier. I was excited that it was now possible…
Google’s Revenue Is Not All Search-Derived (AKA Gmail Isn’t Search)
So Gmail ads might be bigger than search ads for Google, we learn in this New York Post story: You Got Mail (& Ads).…
Minority Of Searchers Make Up Majority Of Searches
John Battelle’s got an interesting slide up from comScore showing that heavy search users, while making up only 20 percent of those searching, are…
Top SEO Design Problems To Avoid
Shari Thurow lists her Top Five SEO Design Mistakes over at ClickZ: failure to design first, SEO second; using splash pages, lack of focused…
Search Marketing in Europe
Search marketing is increasingly global, but a local focus is still vital to achieve your goals. What does it take to have a successful…
My Yahoo Beta Launches, Cosmetic Changes to Yahoo Home Page
Reuters and the AP with on some cosmetic changes coming to the Yahoo and My Yahoo home page. According to Reuters the changes will…
Moo! A Bovine That Monitors Amazon.com
A new service (it’s free!) called Watchcow.net monitors the Amazon.com database looking for changes in the price of ANY product (new and/or used) or…
Got To Censor Search Listings? Why Not Disclose?
Earlier coverage of Google omitting some China news sources included Google’s explanation that this was done to improve the quality of the service. At…