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No Action for Triple X
As widely reported, ICANN Board members rejected the application for a new .xxx top level domain yesterday. After reading through how the board voted…
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 30, 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…
Voting Helps Dining Search, But Not Enough
Voting is one of the methods that we all accept for refining search results. While voting helps from a directional standpoint, results won’t be…
Yellowpages.com Launches Text-based Mobile Local Search
Similar to the Starbuck’s SMS search tool that we wrote about a few weeks ago, Yellowpages.com today announced text-based local search tool for mobile…
WebFetch, new meta search engine, launches in UK
E-consultancy reports the launch of WebFetch, a new meta search engine in the UK. In addition to web search results from Google, Yahoo Search,…
Is This the Year for Mobile Search?
Each year for the past three years, mobile search has been predicted to break out. It hasn't yet, but there are signs that 2007…
ZipLocal Brings Local Search 2.0 to Canada
Today I had the chance to talk to Elaine Kunda, CEO of Toronto based local search site ZipLocal, which launched earlier this week in…
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 29, 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…
NYT Reviews Google’s Offline Media Efforts
The New York Times had a great piece on how Google is doing in their efforts in the offline media world, newspapers, radio etc.…
Google Wants Your SPAM Reports
Stefanie of the Google Search Quality Team in Dublin posted yesterday an Update on SPAM Reporting. She detailes what Google does with the spam…
YouTube Adds New Functionality for Categories
Andy Plesser at Beet.TV reports that You Tube last night introduced new functionality that will let users to organize clips around designated categories. For…
Link Checking at Live Search Has Been Disabled
Webmasters observed earlier this week that the link: command at Live search was delivering either a blank page (my experience) or an error. It…
NYIM Throwing SES Charity Event
New York Internet Marketing (NYIM) is throwing a charity event on Monday April 9th from 7-10 pm to raise money for the Ronald McDonald…
Local Video Advertising on the Move
After catching my breath after The Kelsey Group’s Drilling Down on Local ’07 conference (and catching up with other things), it’s (finally) time to…
Online users finish more stories than print readers
According to the Poynter Institute’s Eyetrack study released today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors conference, online readers finish news stories more often…
Beware of In-House Communications Breakdowns
While you may think you're getting your search-related points across to programmers, sysadmins, and others, that's not always the case.
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 28, 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…
Microsoft Eyeing DoubleClick
According to Crain Business, Microsoft may be acquiring online ads serving platform DoubleClick. “DoubleClick, which hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to work on a…
MySpace Making $30 Million Per Month From Advertising
Guess the monster AdSense partner for Google is MySpace. According to a report just released, they are making over $30 million a month in…
Do You Speak Programmer?
Just because search marketers and programmers happen to speak the same language, doesn’t mean they are communicating. In today’s SearchDay, “Beware of In-House Communications…