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Google Adds Tabs To Personalized Home Page
Last night Google has added the ability to add and manage tabs on your personalized home page. At the top of the page, you…
Windows Live Hot? You Won’t Know Since Referer Data Is Stripped
Shocking, but true, Live.com Is Not Passing Referral Information, as I reported this morning. I spent the past 30 minutes or so debating with…
Search Forums Roundup: Sept. 15, 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: Links to…
Search Headlines & Links: September 14, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
SEM For Drugs, Booze & Other Regulated Things
If you’re doing a search marketing campaign for a pharmaceutical company, alcoholic beverages company or any firm that falls under the purview of a…
Google.org Creating For Profit Hybrid Cars
In a New York Times article named Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual, describes how Google.org is actually a for-profit company, unlike the “Google…
Yahoo Adds More Social Features To Local
Yahoo has been rolling out its “FUSE” (find, use, share, extend) strategy across its many properties and has just made its popular Yahoo Local…
YAT21L: Matt Cutts On SEO
The only problem with Matt Cutts blogging is that it gets harder and harder to remember all the great nuggets he gives out. I…
Google Fights To Use “Gmail” Name In Germany
News.com has a great write up named Behind Google’s German courtroom battle. Google had to stop using the name Gmail in the UK, the…
Business Searching Beats Sex Queries & Who’s Handing Out The Query Data?
There’s a new paper out saying that business topics have ousted sex topics as top searches. Forget the findings, however. In the wake of…
Checking Back Links From Wikipedia Articles
Steve Rubel spotted a new page at Wikipedia that allows you to quickly locate all the links pointing to a specific site from within…
Yahoo & Acer Partner: Yahoo Search Default Search Engine on Acer Computers
The Financial Times reports that Yahoo has partnered with Acer, the fourth largest PC manufacturer to set the default search engine to Yahoo Search…
Google: Expanding One Start-Up At A Time
The Washington Post has an interesting article looking at Google’s acquisition strategy, in Google Goes to Market. The article shows how Google has spent…
Search Marketing in Regulated Industries
Developing and promoting a site for a company in a highly regulated industry can be a challenge to a search marketer on many unforeseen…
Intuit & Google Announce Major Local Search Marketing Partnership
In a development with potentially sweeping implications for local search and small business online marketing, Intuit has announced a partnership with Google that integrates…
Hitwise Data Center Offers Search Terms & Top Search Engines For Various Countries
New from Hitwise is the Hitwise Data Center, sharing details on web surfing behavior. There are different data centers for various countries, and for…
Search Headlines & Links: September 13, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
The Vice Presidents of Search
A sure sign that search marketing is maturing is the emergence of high-level executives responsible for the search marketing function in larger organizations. Who…
Google Earth Adds Featured Content Partners
Google just announced that they launched new featured content on Google Earth from the United Nations Environmental Program, Discovery Networks World Tour, US National…
Site Search Volume More Than Web Search Volume
There were two interesting articles on site search, searches done directly on a web site versus a web search engine, recently. The first was…