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Local.com Gets Location-based Search Patent

The local search space is becoming a patent battleground. in the third local search patent to surface in the last month, Local.com today announced…

By Kevin Newcomb · 25 Jun 2007

SEO

Yahoo! Names Hastings, Nebraska Greenest City

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced that Hastings, Nebraska, has won its “Be a Better Planet” Greenest City in America challenge. The birthplace of…

By Frank Watson · 25 Jun 2007

Industry

Human Input and Algorithmic Search

The subject of human edited search is hot again. Many factors are driving this, but I believe that the basic reason for this resurgence…

By Eric Enge · 25 Jun 2007

Video

blinkx launches contextual online video search ad platform

The video search engine blinkx today announced its new advertising platform, AdHoc, billed as “the first contextually relevant video advertising platform.” The program is…

By Grant Crowell · 25 Jun 2007

PPC

Can Google Analytics Be Evil?

Tony Wright has a question for you about Google Analytics. Like most marketers, he preferred third party analytics tools due to data privacy concerns.…

By Tony Wright · 25 Jun 2007

Industry

SEW Experts: Can Google Analytics Be Evil?

In today’s Search Ads column, “Can Google Analytics Be Evil?,” Tony Wright is looking for feedback on Google Analytics. Like many search marketers, he…

By Kevin Newcomb · 25 Jun 2007

SEO

Google May Stop GMail in Germany Over Privacy Issues

The German government’s proposal to monitor and record email usage in their country has Google threatening to stop Gmail service to the country, according…

By Frank Watson · 24 Jun 2007

PPC

Yahoo Combining Search And Display

Yahoo has announced it is combining search and display under one department. Heading up this newly formed division of North American Sales is David…

By Frank Watson · 24 Jun 2007

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: June 22, 2007

Want a snapshot of the day’s search engine news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along…

By Kevin Newcomb · 22 Jun 2007

Industry

Getting Ranked on News Search Engines Is Getting More Difficult

There was a time when simply optimizing your press release with the right keywords and links got you top ranking on news search engines.…

By Kevin Newcomb · 22 Jun 2007

SEO

Advanced Dynamic Keyword Insertion

Dave Davis of redfly marketing has an interesting post that gets into great detail about how to make the most of dynamic keyword insertion…

By Eric Enge · 22 Jun 2007

Industry

Flash: The Pink Elephant or the Spark

Listen up, designers and SEOs, while Chris Boggs goes over the history of epic battles between SEOs and designers over Flash. To make your…

By Chris Boggs · 22 Jun 2007

Industry

SEW Experts: Flash: The Pink Elephant or the Spark

In today’s Outsourced column, “Flash: The Pink Elephant or the Spark,” Chris Boggs goes over the history of epic battles between designers and SEOs…

By Kevin Newcomb · 21 Jun 2007

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: June 21, 2007

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…

By Kevin Newcomb · 21 Jun 2007

Industry

The Crowded World of Press Release SEO

Getting ranked in news search engines, and now in universal search engines, is about to get a whole lot harder with the influx of…

By Greg Jarboe · 21 Jun 2007

Industry

Murdoch Wants to Trade MySpace for Chunk of Yahoo

Got to love the aggression of Rupert Murdoch. Buys MySpace and now wants to leverage it for a chunk of Yahoo! Since he only…

By Frank Watson · 21 Jun 2007

Industry

Microsoft Upgrading, Adding Negative Keywords to Category Level

I was informed the Microsoft adCenter will be offline on Saturday to do upgrades. And they tacked on the information about improving the negative…

By Frank Watson · 21 Jun 2007

Industry

Google Getting Serious About Lobbying U.S. Government

Google has stepped up its lobbying efforts in the last two years, moving from a single lobbyist in Washington to a staff of 12.…

By Kevin Newcomb · 21 Jun 2007

Industry

Google Expands Pay-per-Action Ads

Google has expanded its pay-per-action advertising beta for AdWords, pitting Google more squarely against affiliate advertising programs. Advertisers choose how much they want to…

By Kevin Newcomb · 21 Jun 2007

SEO

Askville Update

I had not heard any news about Amazon’s Askville question and answer service since it’s launch on December 8, 2006. However, just yesterday I…

By Eric Enge · 21 Jun 2007