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Woohoo for Yahoo
Even after the vote re-count, a majority of shareholders voted Yahoo's board in, and Carl Icahn settled for the right to propose two board…
How Long Should My Landing Page Test Run?
What's the right length for a landing page optimization test? That's a bit like asking 'how long is a piece of string?' But there…
Google Sells Performics to Publicis Groupe
Google has sold its Performics search marketing business to the Publicis Groupe. Chicago-based Performics has about 200 employees in Chicago, San Francisco, New York,…
New News Search Engine: Newsflashr
Newsflashr.com launched a new type of search engine for news stories today. Users are prompted to enter keywords and the search results are polled…
Time Warner to Split AOL Media and Access Divisions
After months of speculation, Time Warner has confirmed that it will split AOL’s media and internet access divisions. Despite TW’s revenue increase of 5%,…
Google Updates Search Appliance, Now Holds 10 Million Documents
Google has released a new version of their hardware product, Search Appliance. The new version can hold up to 10 million documents in a…
Perhaps Paris Hilton Should Run Yahoo
If you keep up with politics, then you know that a recent McCain ad portrayed as Obama as simply a celebrity, and included pictures…
Google Launches New Metric Tool, Insights for Search
Google has launched a new metric geared towards marketers: Google Insights for Search. The tool is very similar to Google Trends, but includes “Rising…
Yahoo Confirms Vote Error, Yang and Bostock Not Liked So Much After All
Yahoo has confirmed that a ‘tabulation error’ occurred in the shareholder vote count conducted by Broadridge Financial Solutions, the independent firm hired to do…
SEW Experts: How Long Should My Landing Page Test Run?
What’s the right length for a landing page optimization test? In today’s By the Numbers column, “How Long Should My Landing Page Test Run?,”…
SEW Experts: Woohoo for Yahoo
Even after the vote re-count, a majority of shareholders voted Yahoo’s board in, and Carl Icahn settled for the right to propose two board…
Planet Google – Everything You Always Wanted to Know
There’s one book every search engine marketer will be reading this fall: Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. Based…
Dogpile.com and Petfinder.com Agree to Search Partnership (Plus, Tell Us Your Pet Story!)
Infospace’s Dogpile.com has been selected as the search partner for Petfinder.com. Additionally, the partnership will see both parties producing and promoting widgets and toolbars…
Yahoo’s Right Media Exchange to Feature LucidMedia Contextual Advertising
Today, Yahoo announced that Right Media Exchange will feature LucidMedia’s patented ClickSense contextual advertising. The targeted ad solution has been testing since May, culminating…
Friendster Names Googler as New CEO
Friendster has named Google’s regional managing director of South Asia, Richard Kimber, as its new CEO. It has also raised $20 million in funding.…
SES Awards Finalists Announced
Search Engine Strategies today named 43 search engine marketers as finalists for the SEM conference’s first annual SES Awards. The 16 winners will be…
Yes, There is a New Yahoo Update
If you’re noticing changes in your Yahoo rankings, you’re not alone. Yahoo has released an update to their search index. The last update was…
Superpages.com Parent Idearc Media Partners with HelloMetro’s Network of 1500+ .mobi Sites
Idearc Media, which owns Superpages.com and publishes the Verizon Yellow Pages, has announced an advertising partnership with .mobi network HelloMetro. The two already have…
Will Yahoo Be Counting Hanging Chads?
With so much disappointment in the Yahoo board among shareholders, how did Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang manage to get more votes…
Google and Microsoft Gain in UK Search Engine Shares for June 2008
comScore has released UK search engine share data for June 2008. Here’s how it breaks down: Other notable findings from June 2008: There were…