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Yahoo! Favicon Test Offers Opportunity for Increased Branding in Search Ads
Yahoo! is testing placing Favicons (that little graphic next to the URL or in the tab of your browser) next to search ads. This…
Google Trends Releases Embeddable Widget
Google Trends has released an embeddable widget that you can place on your website. The annoying thing is that you can’t set what terms…
Microsoft Integrates Photosynth with Virtual Earth
Last year, Microsoft introduced Photosynth, which creates 3D images by using multiple images “stitched” together. A few months later, Photosynth search was enabled via…
Google and YouTube Accounts are Now Linked
When you sign up for a Google account, you get access to a account-level features on a bunch of products through a singular login.…
MySpace Ad Revenue Drops in Q1 2009
News Corp, which owns Fox Interactive Media, which owns MySpace, has reported their first quarter earnings for 2009. The news was not so great…
New Version of Android Includes YouTube, Picasa Uploads
The new version of Android, version 1.5, includes the ability to upload multimedia directly from the mobile device. Here’s what can be done: YouTube:…
Luxury Brand Survival
Did you ever notice that luxury brands that have been with us since the dawn of time somehow survive economic turmoil? Ever wonder how…
Don’t Lose Out on Vertical Search Opportunities
Vertical search engines offer huge potential opportunities for publishers, yet many organizations fail to take advantage of them. The potential traffic may be smaller,…
Webtrends Proposes Digital Marketing Measurement Standards
Webtrends is offering up The Digital Marketing Maturity Model (DM3) as a model for standards in digital media measurement. Webtrends says the model will…
Judge Dismisses Anti-Spam Lawsuit Against ValueClick
A California judge has dismissed a $45 million lawsuit against online advertising network, ValueClick. The suit was brought forth by an internet service provider…
Google Ad Planner Seeks Voluntary Data Contributions from Publishers
Google has launched an Ad Planner Publisher Center, which they hope will improve the data offered by the media planning tool. Through the Center,…
AdSense for Feeds Update Offers New Features
Recently, AdSense underwent a slight makeover where the ads being served up changed their root URL to doubleclick.net. Google is now making the same…
SearchDay | Selecting an SEO Firm: The What, How, and Who
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Selecting an SEO Firm: The What, How, and Who; Google Goes for Social; FTC Looks Into Google/Apple…
Google Goes for Social with Google Talk Location and Friends Expansion in Reader
Google is really going after social media with two updates. First up, if you use Google Latitude, you can now automatically update your location…
AdMob Runs Publisher Bonus in May
Between May 4 and May 18, mobile advertising network AdMob is giving publishers a 35% bonus on any money transferred over to ads. For…
FTC Looks Into Google/Apple Ties for Antitrust Concerns
Google is really having a hard time escaping antitrust concerns. Last year, it was the nonexclusive search advertising deal with Yahoo. Last week, it…
Charlene Li, Co-Author of “Groundswell”, to Keynote at SES San Jose
Charlene Li, the co-author of “Groundswell,” will be one of the keynote speakers at SES San Jose 2009. The event, which will be held…
SearchDay | Click Fraud 101
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Click Fraud 101; Should Local Marketers Get Twitterpated?; Yahoo! Makes Web Analytics Available to Advertisers; and more.
Scour Attempts to Attract Searchers with $1,000 Giveaway
Social search site Scour is holding a contest where the prize is a $1,000 giveaway each month for the next three months. For every…
Click Fraud 101
Thanks to increased efforts from the search engines and ad networks, click fraud is less of a problem than it once was, but it…