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Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 26, 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…
Yahoo Directory Links Gone from Search Results
Yahoo has removed the “category” links, derived from the Yahoo Directory, from its previous position in its search results. The move, which Barry Schwartz…
Google Finds Less is More
In some cases, less is more. Google is finding that out in respect to the number of ads it shows on certain search results…
What Makes Us Search Online To Buy Offline?
Our online behaviors certainly influence the retail buying cycle. According to a recent National Retail Federation study, a whopping 93% of respondents spend time…
SES Munich Coverage Wrap-up
Search Engine Strategies Munich is underway, and not surprisingly, Barry Schwartz has it covered by live-bloggers at Search Engine Roundtable: SES Munich 2007 –…
Is Google Planning to Expand in Beantown?
It looks like Google’s shopping around for space in Boston or nearby Cambridge, according to WebProNews, which spotted some want ads for account reps…
Kinetic Results Now Dexterity Media
Dallas-based search and social media marketing firm Kinetic Results has rebranded itself as Dexterity Media, and founding partner Kevin Ryan has left the company.…
Microsoft Search Share Troubles
Business Week Online just put out an article about the troubles that Microsoft is having in capturing search market share. According to the story,…
TV Guide Joins the Video Search Race
When I was growing up, almost every home had a TV Guide sitting on the top of the family TV. Now TV Guide is…
Idearc Launches TV Campaign
The local search space is heating up, and now one player is moving the fight to TV. Idearc Media, the owner of the Superpages…
Bryan Eisenberg Talks about Persuasion Architecture
The latest in my line of interview is a discussion with Bryan Eisenberg of Future Now. Bryan is very well known in the web…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Mar. 26, 2007
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.
Measuring Link Popularity
How to determine the link popularity of a web page, or how well the page is ranked in relation to the number of other…
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 23, 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…
Google’s New Text Link Ads — Hotornot?
As I was putting together the latest Search Engine Forums Spotlight, I came across some threads on various search marketing forums discussing Google’s new…
Microsoft is Down, but Don’t Count Them Out
Microsoft has clearly stumbled in implementing its search and online advertising strategies. They were late to the search game, depending on Overture and Inktomi…
NewsCorp-NBC Deal Matters, But Not As Google-YouTube Killer
No one can argue that well-produced entertainment will draw an online crowd. If there’s interesting product available online, then visitors or viewers will stream…
iCrossing Acquires Sharp Analytics
Earlier this week, the Scottsdale, AZ based search marketing firm, with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Brighton, U.K, has…
Google Blog Bar Proving Popular
Launched last week, the Google Blog Bar has proven popular and received quite a bit of feedback, according to the Google AJAX Search API…
Remapping Dynamic URLs to Static URLs can Increase Traffic
Our second case study has been brought to us by PlumberSurplus.com. In this case study we explore what happens with all the URLs on…