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Reinstalling My PC, Part 1: Top Timesavers
My home PC has started running, to paraphrase an Election Night Dan Rather, slower than a lame horse in molasses on a January morning.…
Google Loses Rock Star CIO to EMI Music
Douglas Merrill, Google CIO and VP of engineering, has accepted a new gig: president of digital at struggling EMI Music, home of the Beatles…
SEW Experts: How to Survive a Recession In Search
If you listen to the media, you’d know that a recession is nigh, and you should be locking yourself up in an underground bunker…
YouTube Crime Scam Solved on April Fool’s Day
A 24 year-old woman who used a YouTube video to accuse 3 male youths of raping her has been arrested by Scotland Yard after…
The Shifting Power of Words
In the glory days of advertising, consumers could be influenced by whatever words the advertisers fed them. Today, advertisers must learn the language of…
Search Headlines & Links: April 1, 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…
Dana Todd and Sarah Holoubek on SEMPO at SES NY 2008
Anne Kennedy, Manager and Managing Partner of Beyond Ink, interviewed Dana Todd, the CMO of Newsforce, and Sara Holoubek, a Free Agent Consultant, about…
Yahoo! Open Search Platform Recap with Andrew Tomkins
At last month’s SES New York, Kevin Newcomb covered the Thursday morning keynote by Andrew Tomkins in an article entitled, “Chief Scientist at Yahoo!…
New gDay algorithm threatens future of search marketing
There’s very few questions Google has not been able to answer and, equally, there have been very few loopholes that SEOs have not been…
ChaCha Refocuses Business Model on Mobile Text Search
Almost two years ago, ChaCha launched a service that enabled users to conduct a live chat with a “search guide” to aid in search…
Facebook and CareerBuilder Team Up to Target College Grads
Graduation is on the horizon, and Facebook is making the most of its college-heavy demographic by teaming up with CareerBuilder. The partnership will primarily…
Microsoft to Stay Firm in Original Yahoo Offer
According to published reports, Microsoft is unlikely to raise its bid for Yahoo. It seems that Microsoft doesn’t think Yahoo’s recent projected revenues provide…
Risk Astley and More April Fools Day Goodness
Happy April Fool’s Day everyone, or, as we call it in Israel, Monday! But it does give me the opportunity to be awake (hopefully)…
Small Business SEM Takeaways from SES NY
Search Engine Strategies New York had something for everyone, including tips for small business marketers.
SEW Experts: Should Your SEO Strategy Target the Head or the Long Tail?
If you’re focused on ranking for that one major keyword, having a deep Web site full of great content is necessary to achieve authority…
SEW Experts: Small Business SEM Takeaways from SES NY
Search Engine Strategies New York had something for everyone, including tips for small business marketers. In today’s Small Business Search Marketing column, “Small Business…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: March 24-28, 2008
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week.
Search Headlines & Links: March 31, 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…
Will We Pay More For Google’s Fewer Clicks
The drop in AdWord clicks over the past two months has created a bump Google’s ongoing success. But not to worry, CEO Eric Schmidt…
Standards Is A Dirty Word For Search Marketers
For the past two weeks our industry has been debating the need for standards, many of the regular blogs have weighed in as have…