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AOL Turns Up Dial on FullView Marketing
AOL launched its new FullView search interface in October, integrating Google search results with multimedia, local or other content from AOL and its partners.…
Google to Test CPC-based Site Targeting
Google announced plans to begin a test of CPC-based ads using the site targeting feature. Site targeting allows advertisers to choose individual sites in…
Search Headlines & Links: Feb. 13, 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…
Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog?
Why does Google News get more press and blog mentions than other news search engines, when Yahoo News and AOL News have larger unique…
The Tail that Wags the News Search Dog
Why does Google News get more press and blog mentions than other news search engines, when Yahoo News and AOL News have larger unique…
Beyond “Technical SEO”
I’ve said before that I believe a lot of the recent issues with SEO (see Jason Calacanis, Dave Pasternack) might be resolved if everyone…
Search Marketing Is…
A recent thread on the Web Analytics Forum on Yahoo Groups asked members to provide an explanation for what they do that would be…
Retrevo Closes on Series B Financing
I just learned that Retrevo, the search engine for consumer electronics product information, closed a Series B venture financing round for $3.2 million dollars.…
Yahoo Searchlight Awards Show Next Week
Yahoo’s second annual Searchlight Awards show rewarding creativity and innovation in search will be held next week in New York. Attendees at the event,…
Google News Slapped by Belgian Court
A group of Belgian newspapers on a crusade to remove all their content from news search engines has won a victory against Google, according…
Yahoo, Microsoft Get Mobile
Yahoo and Microsoft have each launched mobile search and advertising initiatives this week. Yahoo has introduced display advertising on its mobile-specific Web sites in…
Interview of Analytics Expert, Eric T. Peterson
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Peterson of the Visual Sciences Division of WebSideStory. Eric is one of the most well known…
Search Headlines & Links: Feb. 12, 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 Revamps Sitelinks
Google has apparently made some changes to the way it assigns and shows Sitelinks, the list of pages included under the search results for…
SES New York 2007 Speaking Update
I’ve now posted what speaking openings I have for SES New York 2007 over here. I’ve now also contacted everyone who spoke on a…
Google Webmaster Tools Loophole closed
Not to long ago, Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped reported that Google’s new link count tools would show the link counts for other sites…
Voices of the Few
The “voices of the few” seem to be setting the social search agenda, or at least influencing what we find on social sites. In…
More Sites Hitting Google’s Supplemental Index?
It seems that more Web sites are ending up with pages in Google’s supplemental index lately. Both Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans have posted…
Taggers Hitting the Mainstream
There are enough people tagging now to (almost) call it mainstream. In a recent Pew study, some 28% of online Americans are already tagging.…
Yahoo Builds “Brickhouse”
I missed this on Friday, but this Business Week story on Yahoo’s internal program to get more agile is definitely worth a look. It’s…