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Movements in Mobile Search Land

Mobile search has been quite, well, mobile lately. Becoming a regular topic in search marketing conferences, and often discussed in various forums and blogs,…

By Chris Boggs · 09 Jan 2007

Industry

Yahoo Acquires MyBlogLog

Yahoo today confirmed the persistent rumors that it would acquire MyBlogLog. According to Forbes, the deal was worth about $10 million. MyBlogLog is a…

By Kevin Newcomb · 09 Jan 2007

Industry

In the Second Week of New Year’s, My SearchDay Gave to Me:

Eight firms a-buying, seven forums buzzing, six engines searching, five Google things...

By Greg Jarboe · 09 Jan 2007

Industry

A SearchDay Carol, Part 2

In today’s SearchDay, Greg Jarboe continues with the second installment of “The 12 Days of SearchDay.” Last week we looked at the people that…

By Kevin Newcomb · 09 Jan 2007

Local

MapQuest API For All

MapQuest completed a one-two punch today with its second product launch in 5 days (last week’s mobile announcement was covered here and here). Today…

By Michael Boland · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

Court Supports Google’s View on Trademarks

Seems the courts have taken the same view of trademark use in online advertsing as Google has, according to a report at TechDirt. Eric…

By Frank Watson · 08 Jan 2007

Analytics

Starcom IP Introduces Share-of-Influence Tool for Search & Display Ads

Even though study after study proves that “assists” are invaluable in driving the final click in a search campaign, or that users who see…

By Kevin Newcomb · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 8, 2007

Below is a selection of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately:…

By Kevin Newcomb · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

ChaCha Gets Big Boost in Funding in 2006

Lee Odden reported at Online Marketing Blog today that “Assisted-Search” provider ChaCha was funded with $6 Million in private funding organized by Bezos Expeditions…

By Chris Boggs · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

Press releases return to AOL News

If you conduct a news search on AOL News, you will find recent and relevant press releases are — once again — included with…

By Greg Jarboe · 08 Jan 2007

Video

Online video usage increasing as TV viewing declines

Safa Rashtchy, Managing Director and Senior Internet Analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co., has just reported the results of their latest survey of online…

By Greg Jarboe · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

News at Seven has an avatar for its news anchor

Kate Goodloe of The Wall Street Journal Online reports that an online show, called “News at Seven,” is using “an automated computer program to…

By Greg Jarboe · 08 Jan 2007

Video

Search YouTube Content with Podzinger

Podzinger, the speech-to-text video and audio search engine, has announced the extension of their technology to searching the content in YouTube videos. A click…

By Amanda Watlington · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

Amanda Watlington Interview

Lee Odden at Online Marketing Blog has a terrific interview with Amanda Watlington, principal at Searching for Profit and the SEW blog’s resident expert…

By Kevin Newcomb · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

CNN.com to offer comprehensive on-site news search

Shankar Gupta of OnlineMediaDaily reports that CNN.com has selected Inform Technologies to provide an on-site news search engine that “allows users to search other…

By Greg Jarboe · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

Yahoo! China To Become Business Search Engine

The International Herald Tribune announced Yahoo! China will develop into a search engine for the business vertical. CEO Jack Ma of Alibaba Group –…

By Frank Watson · 08 Jan 2007

Industry

Highlights from the SEW Blog: Jan. 8, 2007

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the Web.

By Kevin Newcomb · 08 Jan 2007

Local

Backfence Faces Setback

Hyperlocal destination site Backfence has lost its CEO and co-founder Susan DeFife due to a failure to see eye-to-eye with the board of directors.…

By Michael Boland · 05 Jan 2007

Video

What about Targeting Video Ads?

According to MediaWeek, “Analysts and agency executives envision a new ad system that would use sophisticated targeting techniques to create ad messages users will…

By rumo · 05 Jan 2007

Video

Video Ads Are Small Potatoes

Total video ad revenues are supposed to reach $775 million this year or 4% of all online advertising. In the short term, there’s limited…

By rumo · 05 Jan 2007