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Wiki Search Adds Jabber Founder to Team
Tectonic has posted an article indicating that Jabber founder, Jeremie Miller, is joining the Wiki Search project. Miller is known for founding the open…
Yahoo Brings Mobile OneSearch to Canada, Europe
Yahoo today launched its OneSearch mobile search application in Canada and five countries in Europe (U.K., Spain, Italy, Germany, and France). It’s been designed…
Microsoft Buys Mobile Ad Firm
Microsoft has acquired Paris-based mobile ad network ScreenTonic, which serves text and display ads to mobile phones and devices in Belgium, France and the…
Google (but not Google News) indexes Belgian newspapers again
Aoife White, an AP Business Writer, reports that Belgian French-language newspapers are back in Google. In a joint statement, Google and the newspapers’ copyright…
B2B Issues: How to Beat Out Competition with Keyword Intelligence
Jessica Bowman focuses on competing in a business to business marketplace, and offers tips on how to refine your keyword strategy in this vertical…
Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow: Link Building for the Long Term
Justilien Gaspard takes a look at the long-term results of popular link building tactics and explores why successful link building is just good marketing.
Search Headlines & Links: May 2, 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…
With Growth, Paid Search Gets Complicated
The complexities of paid search (SEM) have apparently reached a critical point, where re-evaluating and re-b uilding the internal search team infrastructure is becoming…
How Well Can You Guess the Right Keywords?
Eric Enge reveals suprising results from the ultimate keyword challenge put on by the Wordtracker keyword research service.
Yahoo Lets Webmasters ID Non-Essential Page Elements
Using a new “robots-nocontent” attribute, webmasters will soon be able to tell Yahoo’s spiders that certain elements or sections of a page are not…
Eric Ward Podcast
Eric Ward and I recently did a podcast about link building. In particular, we focused on personalization and Google’s new spam reporting form moves.…
Google may be interested in acquiring Wall Street Journal
Leon Lazaroff and Cecile Daurat of Bloomberg.com report that Rupert Murdoch’s $5 billion takeover bid of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall…
What will be the Downfall of Google?
Andrew Goodman was recently interviewed by Pandia Search Engine News. One of the things I like about the interview is his discussion about a…
Citysearch Updates Site, Adds Video
IAC-owned local search site Citysearch has redesigned its site, and has added new features like improved recommendations and video. Video on Citysearch, powered by…
Search Headlines & Links: May 1, 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…
Neo@Ogilvy Partners with SEMDirector
Neo@Ogilvy, a digital media agency under the Ogilvy umbrella, will begin providing its clients with search marketing automation technology from SEMDirector. The technology, which…
Hitwise Tracks the Storm of Online News and Media
A new report from Hitwise maps the current state of the online news and media industry. In effect, the report shows a “perfect storm”…
Google’s iGoogle Announcement
Google just announced their new iGoogle Personalized Homepage service. This announcement includes a variety of new features, and more insight into where Google is…
Google Fights Back in Viacom/YouTube Copyright Suit
When Viacom sued Google in March for $1 billion as a result of alleged copyright infringement on YouTube, it accused Google of building a…
Yahoo Panama Announcement Shows Up Multiple Account Difficulties
It gets confusing some times. A search engine sends you an email about updating some element of its product and you don’t know if…