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NYT Reviews Google’s Offline Media Efforts

The New York Times had a great piece on how Google is doing in their efforts in the offline media world, newspapers, radio etc. Seems the bigger publishers…

By Frank Watson · 29 Mar 2007

Industry

Google Finds Less is More

In some cases, less is more. Google is finding that out in respect to the number of ads it shows on certain…

By Kevin Newcomb · 26 Mar 2007

Video

TV Guide Joins the Video Search Race

When I was growing up, almost every home had a TV Guide sitting on the top of the family TV. Now TV…

By Amanda Watlington · 26 Mar 2007

Industry

Microsoft is Down, but Don’t Count Them Out

Microsoft has clearly stumbled in implementing its search and online advertising strategies. They were late to the search game, depending on Overture…

By Kevin Newcomb · 23 Mar 2007

Video

NewsCorp-NBC Deal Matters, But Not As Google-YouTube Killer

No one can argue that well-produced entertainment will draw an online crowd. If there’s interesting product available online, then visitors or viewers…

By rumo · 23 Mar 2007

Industry

Remapping Dynamic URLs to Static URLs can Increase Traffic

Our second case study has been brought to us by PlumberSurplus.com. In this case study we explore what happens with all the…

By Eric Enge · 23 Mar 2007

Industry

U.S. Search Engine Rankings, February 2007

Search volume rose 19 percent over February last year; Google retains its dominance in search share.

By Enid Burns · 23 Mar 2007

Video

AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! Strike Deal for Video

News Corporation and NBC today announced the launch of an Internet video distribution network that will bring as soon as this summer…

By Amanda Watlington · 22 Mar 2007

Analytics

February Share of Search Numbers Are In

February share-of-searches numbers are in from comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings, with Google widening its lead over Yahoo once again, though the two had…

By Kevin Newcomb · 21 Mar 2007

Industry

Google Hires SideKick Team To Build GPhone

The G Phone is coming and it needs a sidekick. Okay that sentence was a little cheesy… apparently Google has hired the…

By Frank Watson · 21 Mar 2007

Industry

Minus Expenses Yahoo, Google Ad Revenues Similar

While it is well known Google has higher search market share, recent analysis of profits show Yahoo’s ad revenue is a lot…

By Frank Watson · 21 Mar 2007

Industry

Lycos Europe Rebranding As Jubii in US

Lycos has been a player on the web long before Google came along. The company’s history almost mirrors the rollercoaster ride of…

By Frank Watson · 21 Mar 2007

Video

Get Some Video Ad Accountability

The biggest players are still scratching their heads about how to define and quantify accountability, based on what we heard at ClickZ’s…

By rumo · 20 Mar 2007

Industry

Google Makes Plus Box Official

The “Plus Box” feature, which was spotted in November and which Matt Cutts blogged about in December, is now an official feature.…

By Kevin Newcomb · 20 Mar 2007

Industry

Gmail Blocking Yahoo Groups Emails

The ever vigilant Barry Schwartz posted about this today. Seems Google does not like Yahoo Groups. Interesting that they have been aware…

By Frank Watson · 20 Mar 2007

Industry

Google to Test Pay-per-Action Ads

Watch out Commission Junction. Here comes Google. Google today announced a limited beta test of pay-per-action advertising, a new pricing model for…

By Kevin Newcomb · 20 Mar 2007

Local

Innovectra Launches LeadStream

Local search consultancy Innovectra is launching a local search product today at the Kelsey Group’s “Drilling Down on Local” event. The new…

By Kevin Newcomb · 20 Mar 2007

Social

Microsoft Sucks, According to Robert Scoble

Former Microsoft Live evangelist Robert Scoble is now saying “Microsoft Sucks”. Scoble wrote in his Scobleizer blog, “the words are empty .…

By Frank Watson · 19 Mar 2007

Industry

AOL France Drops National Search Engine Exalead For Google

TelecomPaper.com reported today that AOL France will drop the national search engine, Exalead, for Google. This loss of usage from a prominent…

By Frank Watson · 19 Mar 2007

Industry

Yahoo! Finance Market Share 52 times Bigger than Google Finance

Last month, I asked: “Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog?” Today, I’d like to follow up by asking:…

By Greg Jarboe · 19 Mar 2007

Industry

Comcast Playing Hardball with Google?

The Wall Street Journal reports (behind pay wall), based on “people familiar with the matter,” that cable operator Comcast is talking to…

By Kevin Newcomb · 19 Mar 2007

Industry

Google Provides Webmasters with More Linking Data

Google has enhanced the reporting capabilities in its Webmaster Tools to show full phrases being used in anchor text, instead of just…

By Kevin Newcomb · 16 Mar 2007

Industry

Q&A With Ask.com’s Gary Price

Gary Price, Ask.com's director of online information resources, talks about his role in reaching out to the research and librarian communities.

By Eric Enge · 15 Mar 2007

Video

Has Video Search Arrived?

It’s sad but true — we can measure the maturity of any market by the ways it gets manipulated. By that measure,…

By Kevin Newcomb · 15 Mar 2007

Industry

Google Audio Ads Expands Beta

Google is expanding its beta test of audio ads, which began in December with a limited number of advertisers. The Audio Ads…

By Kevin Newcomb · 14 Mar 2007

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