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Search Results Getting Safer
McAfee’s SiteAdvisor monitors the changes in search results and measures the level of what they call “dangerous” sites in all the major engines. Over…
Geeking Out on Statistics
Finding reliable statistics on the web isn't always easy, but a massive central data source called Nationmaster.com offers a handy way to search multiple…
Microsoft Files Patent for DVR Ad Server
Microsoft is adding to its pile of patents with one for an ad serving method for DVRs. How this will work should be interesting…
Google Says Click Fraud Makes Up Less Than 2% of Invalid Clicks
Google’s click fraud guru Shuman Ghosemajumder says click fraud makes up less than 2% of all “invalid clicks”, which means the actual click fraud…
Ingenio Grows its Mobile Pay-per-Call Network
Pay-per-call provider Ingenio has added JumpTap, the mobile search provider behind Alltel and other carriers, to its ad network. It now has five mobile…
US State Dept. Uses Google When CIA Says No
When the CIA denied the US State Department access to “the names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine…
Berkowitz Tells NYT about Microsoft’s Challenges
Steve Berkowitz, former CEO of Ask.com and now senior VP of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, overseeing Windows Live and MSN, describes the challenges with…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec. 11, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
November Search Trend Data Released by Compete.com
Compete.com, a new search popularity tool bar and measurement service, similar to Alexa, released their data for November 2006, indicating a bounce back in…
Search Arbitrage Gets Forbes Attention
Forbes did an article on search arbitrage Friday featuring interviews of Jeremy Shoemaker and Michael Gray. Shoemaker said he had made $2 million over…
Baidu Starts Chinese Blog Search Engine
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has launched a blog search engine – the first in the China. Nearly 20 million people blog in Chinese.…
WhoToTalkTo.com: Job Search Engine With a Twist
The newly launched job search engine, WhoToTalkTo.com, is using job seekers to help build its database of jobs. The engine requires users to post…
Yahoo Hosts Search Marketing’s Pop Culture Trivia Challenge
Sixteen of New York’s major players in the search marketing space went toe-to-toe last night for bragging rights as the champions of the first…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 8, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Offer…
Botnets and Click Fraud and Terrorists, Oh My!
Webmaster Radio’s Jim Hedger is causing quite a stir with his exposé on botnets, click fraud, and terrorists profiting from Google’s AdWords program. Hedger…
Changes at Yahoo Won’t Affect Search Marketing Team
With all the changes at Yahoo, it’s surprising to note that there won’t be too much changing on the search marketing side, at least…
Search + Display = Engagement
A couple of recent reports have confirmed what many SEMs already know: a mix of search and display advertising campaigns produce the best results.…
Another Introduction
This is a quick introduction to let you all know that I’ve been asked to help out as a blogger on Search Engine Watch.…
Moving Forward with Search Engine Watch
Hello, everyone. For the past five years or so, I’ve had the very great honor of moderating dozens and dozens of sessions at Search…
Local Service Business Searches on the Rise
Local online marketing firm WebVisible conducted an online survey recently and found that 70% had used the Internet to search for a local service…