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SEW Experts: Universal Search: The (War) Elephant in the Room
When the ancient Romans tried to defend themselves from Hannibal’s war elephants, they learned that they needed to throw away their old ideas about…
SEW Experts: Build Your SEM Network — Get LinkedIn
How does one go about getting a job in search, or enhancing their career as a search professional? In today’s SEM.edu column, “Build Your…
SearchDay | Travel Brands Walking a Social Media Tight Rope
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Travel Brands Walking a Social Media Tight Rope; SES Chicago 2008 Invitation and Primer ; Ballmer Says…
SES Chicago 2008 Invitation and Primer
An exciting agenda, several SEM experts, great speakers, and plenty of networking opportunities await in Chicago for the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo.…
Travel Brands Walking a Social Media Tight Rope
As if major airlines don't have enough trouble these days, two well-known brands are in the midst of a very public online reputation management…
Google Search Quality Team Talks Field Studies
Over at the Official Google blog, Dan Russell of the Search Quality team, has written a lengthy post on field studying search behavior. One…
Microsoft Goes after the Verizon Default Search Deal
Microsoft is attempting to pull the rug out from under Google’s talks with Verizon to be the default search engine on its mobile phones.…
Google Help Forums Being Converted to New System
Google is converting their Help Forums to a new system. The new features include: improved search results, including posts from current and new forums…
Live Search Maps Enables Photosynth Search
The Live Search Maps team has made it easier for you to search for Photosynths. If you’re not familiar, Photosynth was launched earlier this…
Ballmer Says No to Yahoo Acquisition, Maybe to Search Deal
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has responded to Jerry Yang’s comments about being open to a Microsoft acquisition. Speaking to a group of developers in…
Google’s Blogger Launches New Reactions Feature
Blogger has released a cool new feature that lets readers offer quick responses. It’s called Reactions, and it allows bloggers to create a variety…
Bill Tancer of Hitwise Analyzes Economy on SES Webcast
Just a quick reminder, Bill Tancer, the General Manager of Research at Hitwise and one of the keynote speakers at Search Engine Strategies Chicago,…
SEW Experts: Travel Brands Walking a Social Media Tight Rope
As if major airlines don’t have enough trouble these days, two well-known brands are in the midst of a very public online reputation management…
SEW Experts: SES Chicago 2008 Invitation and Primer
An exciting agenda, several SEM experts, great speakers, and plenty of networking opportunities await in Chicago for the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo.…
SES London: Now Accepting Speaker Proposals!
The London agenda has been posted and we are now accepting speaker proposals. Please keep in mind that the main focus of this event…
The Account Quality Score: Money Pit for the Uninformed
In Google AdWords, an ad's Quality Score calculation is based on how well the account's campaigns have performed over time, especially in terms of…
SearchDay | Obama’s Link Strategy Fuels Election Victory
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Obama's Link Strategy Fuels Election Victory; The Account Quality Score: Money Pit for the Uninformed; Yang Says…
Obama’s Link Strategy Fuels Election Victory
Internet link love proves more powerful than old-school politics in the 2008 election, thanks in part to a visionary social networking election strategy. What…
YouTube Adds Search to Embeddable Videos
YouTube is adding search and 3 other features to embeddable videos. The search feature will appear at the end of videos that are embedded…
Yang Says Microsoft Deal is Best Bet for Yahoo
Jerry Yang told attendees at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday that a deal with Microsoft is still the best option for Yahoo. To which…