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Experian Parent Buys PriceGrabber For $485 Million
Well, that didn’t take long. Little more than a month after PriceGrabber CEO Kamran Pourzanjani told me that his company would “continue to do well as a stand-alone…
Big.com For Really Big Results; How About The Majors Offering The Same?
Search marketer Laura Thieme mentioned in an email to me loving Big.com. Hmm. Never heard of it. Taking a look, it’s pretty…
Talking With Google’s Matt Cutts
Interview Of Matt Cutts from Aaron of SEO Book is a nice talk with Matt Cutts, Google’s spam fighter, webmaster relations guru,…
Yahoo Paid Inclusion Redirection & Hijacking Confusion
Paid Inclusion Making Yahoo Results Seem Hijacked? looks at the confusing situation one of our forum moderators Jeff Martin found when looking…
Is the Butler Licensing Some Technology from Looksmart?
Search gumshoe (-: John Battelle has done some url detective work and hypothesizes that Ask Jeeves is licensing some Looksmart technology for…
Looksmart Averages 15 Cents Per Click; Contextual Text Ads Coming
LookSmart’s Q2 2005 earnings were released last week and losses were greater than in Q1. Looksmart reported a net loss of $5.4…
More Questions On Adware & Search Ad Distribution
Last month, we wrote about allegations that Ask Jeeves was gaining distribution through misleading installations of software. A month later, and the…
Allcheckin Travel Search Engine Launched
A new travel search engine especially aimed at the UK market has been launched. Allcheckin is backed by former executives from BT…
LookSmart Faces Delisting
Times might be rosy for the likes of Google and Yahoo, revenue-wise — but LookSmart’s having a tough time. Investors Turn Cold…
Playing with Kids’ Search Engines
Looking for the best ways of discovering kid-friendly content on the web? Check out our just-updated listings and reviews of Kid Search…
Kids Search Engines
A list of search engines designed for kids or families, either in focus or by filtering out possibly inappropriate sites.
LookSmart Launches Five New Verticals
Search verticals are hot so LookSmart launched five new vertical sites today aimed at different user groups. Each offers access to FindArticles…
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines
A list of major metacrawlers. Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to…
FindArticles Redesigns, Adds Sort & Search Options
FindArticles has always been a great resource for locating periodical content that might not be available on the web in general. Now…
MSN To Launch Its Own Paid Listings Program
MSN has announced it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by…
Report: Most Search Marketers are Unsophisticated
The majority of search marketers are unsophisticated, despite having worked in the field for two or more years, according to a study…
Yahoo Seeks SEM Manager
Nice mention by Barry of Yahoo wanting someone to do search engine marketing for its own properties. It’s not the first search…
LookSmart Reports $1.5 Million Loss
LookSmart reports a $1.5 million loss for last quarter, blaming the failure to go after sales in high-margin topics. Next quarter, it…
LookSmart Reorganizes, Raises Loss Projections
LookSmart has revised the loss it expected to make last quarter from less than $1 million up to $1.4 to $1.7 million.…
Community-Based Search Engines
A list of search engines where volunteers or members of a community help create the listings, such as by contributing bookmarks, managing…
Snap Stats: Seeing What’s Up With Snap.com
Via John Battelle, news of a nice nice write-up from SiliconBeat looking at the data Snap is freely providing about its operations,…
MSN Search Technology To Debut (Again) This Week
Rumors are swirling that MSN plans to release its new search technology this week. But why’s that big news? After all, hasn’t…
UpSNAP and Looksmart Announce Partnership
UpSNAP, the SMS-based search tool Chris wrote about last month has announced a partnership with Looksmart. The company [UpSNAP] will offer its…
Search Marketing Beyond Google and Overture
When most people talk about pay per click (PPC) search engine advertising, Google and Overture (Yahoo!) take center stage. But in reality,…
Google-BellSouth Partnership — Not Quite Revolutionary
AdAge examines the new Google-BellSouth deal to explain why the two partnered: Why the Google-BellSouth Yellow Pages Deal Happened. Frankly, there’s nothing…
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