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Google Will Bank on VisualRank – PageRank for Images
On Thursday, Google Research engineers presented a paper at the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing on PageRank for Google Images (pdf) to…
Microsoft’s Deadline Passes Without Yahoo Deal
Steve Ballmer’s “Deal or No Deal” utlimatum has passed without a deal and the analysts are all-a-flutter with predictions and speculations. If you read…
Microsoft Prepares Push into Chinese Search Market
When it comes to search, Microsoft is ever the egg while Google remains the chicken. Just a week after news of Google amping up…
SEW Experts: Killer Site Targeting: PPC Content Scrape & Bake Tools
Successful placement-targeted content campaigns depend on showing your ads on all the right sites. In today’s Content Advertising column, “Killer Site Targeting: PPC Content…
Top 10 Toughest Jobs to Fill? The Top 3 Are In Search Engine Marketing
Here’s the best example of misleading statistics we’ve seen, outside of the ads skewering the mythical Cable Corp: “DirecTV – Cable Corp Inc. –…
At Arm’s Length: Managing a Parent Company Dynamic
Google is getting rid of DoubleClick's SEM business. Should Microsoft do the same with Avenue A | Razorfish? An insider defends the decision by…
Social Media Power: UC Berkeley Student Twitters Out of Egyptian Prison
CNN is reporting that Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. The “twit” (messages)…
Londoners faceoff online in support of their candidates for the Mayoral Election
If the popularity of Facebook fansites was an indicator of how Londoners will vote on May 1st then Boris would be a clear winner…
Q1 2008 Click Fraud Down from Last Quarter, Up from Last Year
Click Forensics has released data showing a decline in click fraud rates in the first quarter of 2008. The overall industry number came in…
So You Wanna Be a SearchMonkey?
Yahoo is creating some wide open spaces for web developers. This is no API playground, people. It’s a zoo. SearchMonkey will let developers go…