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The State of Paid Search in the U.K.
At SES London last month, search providers and agencies discussed the latest happenings in paid search.
Google Enhances its Local Business Center
Google announced today that it has added a few new features to its Local Business Center, the place where businesses can enter their information…
The Future of Search is for the Nimble
Christine Churchill has written an interesting overview of how small companies can succeed in search. Her tip: Be Nimble The complexity of search and…
Flixfind.com – A Directory of Movie-Related Sites
When you tire of all the user-generated movies on YouTube and want 90-minutes of pure escapism, nothing beats a trip to the movies. Flixfind.com…
Call for Case Studies
Do you have a great SEO case study story that you would like to tell? I would like to publish a few SEO case…
AP, Microsoft Joint Venture Video Platform
The Associated Press is launching a new video platform, courtesy of Microsoft, to help its news affiliates to better monetize their online video content.…
Is Amazon Hedging Search Engine Bets?
The lure of the search dollars seems to haunt Amazon. They have used a few of them over the years, even created a short-lived…
Wikipedia To Check Poster Credentials, Are Employees Next?
Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia should have started the poster credential checking they announced to the Associated Press Wednesday, a little earlier, as part of…
Payne to Leave Microsoft?
The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the Seattle PI are reporting via anonymous sources that Christopher Payne, VP of Microsoft’s Windows Live Search group,…
AskCity Adds Search-Enabled Drawing Tools
Ask.com is adding new tools to define a geographic search area by drawing on a map to its AskCity local search product. The search-enabled…
Beware of Averages
Are the visitors you drive from search made up of low-income, under-educated 30-somethings, or high-net-worth, highly educated retirees and their grandchildren? You’ll never know…
Online Ad Spending Reaches New Heights
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers released their quarterly report on online ad revenue for Q4 2006. Overall revenue for the quarter reached…
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 7, 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…
Early Returns Encouraging for Panama
Early returns from search ad agencies using Yahoo's new ad platform show improvement, but it's still too early to declare it a winner.
More Early Yahoo Panama Results
As more early results roll in, it appears that Yahoo’s Panama platform is delivering as promised, improving ad performance for big-brand marketers and quality…
The Future of Link Building
Gord Hotchkiss did an interesting interview of Matt Cutts a while back, which I posted about here on Search Engine Watch. One of the…
Podcast with Jim Sterne
Jim Sterne is one of the most well known names in the world of analytics, and recently I sat down with him and did…
Friendster Drops Yahoo For Google
Reuters reported today that social networking company Friendster has signed an agreement to run Google ads, replacing their previous ad provider Yahoo. The plan…
LookSmart Goes Offline
I needed to check something at LookSmart today around noon EST – site would not load. I reached out to a few other people…
Yahoo Using Craigslist, Not HotJobs, to Find Employees
ZD Net reporter Donna Bogatin wrote an interesting article today about how Yahoo HotJObs is using Craigslist to find candidates for its own job…