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Compete Develops Attention-Based Metrics
With the interactive Web, the value of the page view as a metric is debatable since the user can in fact change the page…
Medical Vertical Search Being Chased by Microsoft and Google
A recent post on the business | bytes | genes | molecules blog talks about the investments being made by Google and Microsoft in…
Google Tests TV Advertising
Google’s rumored foray into managing television ads with its AdWords platform has entered the next phase with a limited trial program over EchoStar’s Dish…
E-consultancy publishes online PR briefing
E-consultancy has just published an Online PR Briefing. You can download the 12-page report for free. It includes a summary of a recent roundtable…
fisssh!, a meta search engine, is launched
HGi Media Systems has announced the launch of fisssh!, a new meta search engine. fisssh! aggregates search results for queries across different types of…
Time and Money: Small Businesses Have Little of Each
By thoroughly evaluating each search marketing opportunity you're presented with, you'll be more likely to invest your time and money in things that work.…
A Plea to Stop Treating SEO as an Afterthought
When should you think about search engine optimization? The answer is simple: before, during, and after design and development. Organic Search expert Mark Jackson…
The Search Engine Update – Number 241 – Apr. 3, 2007
Search Engine Watch's recap of top search engine stories, featuring exclusive content for members since our last newsletter.
Search Headlines & Links: Apr. 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…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Apr. 2, 2007
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.
OFFICIAL SES NYC 2007 Party & Events Schedule Announced
If you haven’t been to a SES event before you may not know about the many social events that compliment the conferences – if…
SES NY is Coming — Plan Your Party Schedule Now
Search Engine Strategies New York is next week, and while I’m greatly looking forward to catching up with people and meeting many more, I’d…
ZoomInfo Retools Its Business Info Search
Business information search engine ZoomInfo has retooled its offering to create a single user interface for its various products. The new search engine gives…
Is Yahoo Underground an April Fool’s Joke?
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch takes a look at Yahoo Underground, presented by Yahoo News. The site was launched on April 1, and Arrington speculates…
Search-Related April Fools’ Round-Up
I’ve never been a fan of April Fools’ jokes. Some people can pull them off and make them funny. Other people don’t pick a…
Who’s Buying DoubleClick?
Last week, Microsoft was the rumored acquirer of DoubleClick’s remaining businesses, which include the DART ad serving system and Performics search and affiliate marketing…
MSNBC takes on Yahoo News
Emily Steel of The Wall Street Journal Online reports that “MSNBC.com, the No. 2-ranked news Web site behind Yahoo News, is starting its first…
Topix Relaunches as Citizen Journalism Site
Topix is repositioning and relaunching its local news aggregation site as a citizen journalism network. It’s also dropped the “.net” and will begin branding…
Rich Skrenta, Google, Vertical Search
Rich Skrenta, the CEO of Topix, recently offered up some thoughts about Strategies for Beating Google. One thing he states clearly is that going…
Desperately Seeking Stats to Prove the Value of Branded Keywords
Search advertising columnist Tony Wright discusses the value of bidding on your company's branded keywords, and testing to see if advertising on your brand…