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Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 Replaces Yahoo! Slurp Search Engine Crawler
The official launch of the new version of Yahoo! Search crawler comes as no surprise to members of Digital Point forums, readers of Search…
Rubicon Enters Free Ad Server Arena
Rubicon is the next ad serving company to enter the free services arena, the company announced. “Ad Network Ad Server is compatible with more…
Microsoft To Use Domain Age in SEO Ranking
Our industry’s leading authority on search patents Bill Slawski found another interesting patent submission. Apparently Microsoft is looking at, if not using, domain age…
UK Govt. Want To Flog Floggers
The UK will roll out a new set of advertising and marketing regulations May 28th. The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 include…
Changes to Yahoo Updates Noticed
Just over a week after changes to Google SERPs were seen, over at Webmaster World, forum participants are noticing some changes going on in…
Verizon Chooses AOL’s Platform-A for Online, Mobile Web Advertising
Verizon has chosen AOL’s Platform-A for its online and mobile advertising inventory. Platform-A will account for all of Verizon’s online inventory and a majority…
Content Ad Campaign Keyword Strategy Revisited – Part 2
A keyword-targeted content ad group's keywords should describe the pages/sites where an ad should appear. The best keyword list is composed of words/phrases that…
SEW Experts: Content Ad Campaign Keyword Strategy Revisited – Part 2
A keyword-targeted content ad group’s keywords should describe the pages/sites where an ad should appear. The best keyword list is composed of words/phrases that…
Exclusive Interview with Craig Newmark about SEO
So I ran into Craig Newmark, of the eponymous CraigsList.org at The Marker’s Com.Vention conference today outside of Tel Aviv, and I got to…
Search Engine Forums Spotlight: April 11, 2008
Found in the search marketing forums: AdWords Live on Yahoo; Can a Web Site Compete; Is PPC Irrelevant; and more.
Google: A Clear & Present Danger to Corporate Data Privacy
UPDATE: Editors’ Note: At the request of Google, we’ve removed the photo of Google engineer Jayant Madhavan, co-author (with Alon Halevy) of the Google…
Search Headlines & Links: April 11, 2008
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along…
We May Not Want Standards But FTC May Give Us Some
The standards debate may be in full swing in our industry – but the decisions may be soon taken out of our hands if…
Yahoo Execs Bad Mouthing AOL!
Guess Yahoo does not want to partner with anyone these days… well apart from their biggest competitor Google. The Wall Street Journal blog, All…
Are Google Search Results Going Wacky?
I had heard about a week ago that Google’s search results were throwing off some odd listings, but Navneet Kaushal over at SearchNewz gives…
AdWords Launches New Conversion Tracking Tool
A new update to AdWords tracking has been reported by the guys over at AccuraCast. Seems they have improved the conversion tracking allowing users…
Standards? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Standards!
The SEO community has been foaming at the mouth lately over whether or not we need standards for the industry. We don't need SEO…
Think Universal, Act Local
Much of the discussion around Universal search, or blended search, focuses on video and images. But local search may be a more important factor,…
SEM Tools of the Experts
There's a variety of SEM tools available to search marketers. You should be able to find something to fit every need, and every style.…
As Wifi expands, local and mobile search continue to emerge
Lately, there have been a swarm of announcements regarding Wifi coming to some previously unconnected spots. Jet Blue is testing limited wifi on one…