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Microsoft Research Unveils Three New Search Projects
Yesterday at TechFest, Microsoft Research unveiled three projects designed to enhance a user’s search experience. Two projects, SearchTogether and CoSearch, are aimed at collaborative…
YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook: Most Popular Social Media Sites in UK
Facebook lives! Reports of Facebook UK's death? Greatly exaggerated.
Yahoo Fires Back
Yahoo retaliated in the ongoing saga of Microsoft’s hostile takeover attempt today by extending the deadline for nominations of its board of directors to…
Yahoo Desperately Seeking Suitor: Time Warner
Yahooo’s desperately seeking a suitor. With a Microsoft proxy battle expected soon, Time Warner’s emerging as a white knight for the Sunnyvale search engine.…
Google: The Spy Who Loved Me
Dr. Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist and occasional Freakonomics Blog guest blogger, posted “Why data matters” on the official Google blog, cross-posted on the…
SEW Experts: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?
ComScore’s recent data showing flat paid search growth for Google led many in the media to declare that the paid search sky was falling.…
Load Time Impacts Google Quality Score
A member over at WebmasterWorld found that web page load time is now a factor in Google’s Qulaity Score for AdWords. This was started…
Search Headlines & Links: March 4, 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…
7 Deadly SEO Questions for Google’s Matt Cutts
Wired? Or Weird? The Matt Cutts Interview on Epicenter in The Wired Blog Network. The Question is no longer: “Is Google God?” Wired knows…
SEM Vendor Checklist
Finding the right search marketing partner requires legwork, research, and persistence. To make the process a bit easier, SEM agency owner Marty Weintraub has…
Deathknell for Gary Gygax D&D
Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died on Tuesday morning in his home. The news was reported first in the forums of Troll…
Ask.com to Cut 8%, Revamp Search Plans
Ask.com will stop trying to compete directly with Google as a mainstream search engine, and will instead focus on targeting niches where it feels…
Facebook Hires Sandberg to Make Microsoft’s $240 Million Investment Pay Off
A senior executive jilted Google for another search engine – and it’s not Yahoo or MSN Live. In the strange bedfellows game in tech,…
Yahoo Announces onePlace at CeBIT
Yahoo took advantage of the CeBIT conference in Hamburg, Germany to announce the forthcoming launch of onePlace, a content management solution developed as part…
Spot Runner Buys Weblistic: Local Search on Video Steroids
Today Spot Runner announced its acquisition of Weblistic, a provider of local online advertising, in an all-stock transition. Spot Runner is an internet-based television…
Virgin Charter Launches Vertical Search Engine
Sir Riichard Branson launched a new vertical search engine, Virgin Charter, that promises to revolutionize high-end corporate travel and last minute luxury travel. Scott…
Small Business Growing? Know When to Let Go
If you're spending more time on search marketing than actually running your business, it might be time to outsource.
Yahoo Makes Big Push In India
Yahoo “announced the expansion of its India R&D operations with the launch of Yahoo! Labs – Bangalore, its first in India. Dr. Rajeev Rastogi…
Gates Talks Smack – Google Talk Crack
Gates at the Barbarians: “In terms of Google, not to overstate it, but they really don’t understand the special needs of business. Today, their…
SEW Experts: Small Business Growing? Know When to Let Go
If you’re spending more time on search marketing than actually running your business, it might be time to outsource. If you depend upon search…