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Using Wikipedia to Improve Search Quality
Bill Slawski put up an interesting post over the weekend titled Can Web Search Use Wikipedia to Understand References to Names?. Bill references a paper by Microsoft researcher…
ZoomInfo People Finder and Company Intelligence Tool
Did you ever need to find a long lost buddy? Or maybe you're in need of business intelligence but the company is…
Seth Godin Interview
Latest in my interview series is a chat with Seth Godin about Squidoo, and about the challenges facing Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.…
RSS Mashups – Emerging Tools with Great Potential
Whenever I see the term “mashup,” I visualize cleverly altered, often funny video or audio clips, modern contributions to the art of…
U.S. Search Engine Rankings, April 2007
Top Search engines and verticals by share in the U.S. for April 2007.
Salesforce.com, Google Partnership Discussions
The Washington Post reported talks between Google and Salesforce.com, a hosted CRM application vendor. This move is another direct challenge to Microsoft,…
Ego Bidding Gone Wild
What happens when the ego gets in the way of smart bidding and positive ROI? Tony Wright talks about the danger of…
Who Said It…
It’s the Saturday after major ownership changes have been announced in the online ad business. We have heard all the official reasons…
Microsoft to Acquire AQuantive
It looks like Microsoft wasn’t really missing out on getting 24/7 Real Media after all. This morning, the company announced plans to…
WPP Snaps Up 24/7 Real Media
Ad agency holding company WPP has acquired 24/7 Real Media for $649 million. The company has three main businesses: a CPM-based display…
Podcast on Winning on Digg with Neil Patel
Neil Patel and I have put together a two part podcast series on how to succeed on Digg. The first podcast covers…
Start.com Stopped
Microsoft is shuttering Start.com, its experimental interface launched in February 2005 that developed many of the features that ended up in the…
Search Headlines & Links: May 9, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch…
Yahoo and Microsoft: A deal made in heaven or hell?
It appears that the on-again, off-again merger talks between Yahoo and Microsoft have cooled once again, but they’re not officially dead. And…
Microsoft Takes Stake in CareerBuilder
Microsoft has acquired a minority equity stake in job search engine CareerBuilder, owned jointly by newspaper companies Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy. In…
Gates Plans to Spend Remaining Time Focusing on Search
Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates said yesterday that he plans on spending his remaining 15 to 18 months of active duty…
Microsoft AdCenter: Hear My Plea
Tony Wright lets off some steam, recapping some of AdCenter's most recent failures and begs the team: stop the madness!
Is Microsoft Driving Low-Quality Traffic to its Search Ads?
Earlier this week, Microsoft updated its terms of service for adCenter, with some key changes: Microsoft may use matching criteria other than…
Yahoo and Microsoft Planning Merger Talks?
We’ve seen plenty of unfounded speculation lately about Google’s plans to acquire NBC, or Dow Jones. Now we’ve got another rumor that…
Microsoft Buys Mobile Ad Firm
Microsoft has acquired Paris-based mobile ad network ScreenTonic, which serves text and display ads to mobile phones and devices in Belgium, France…
What will be the Downfall of Google?
Andrew Goodman was recently interviewed by Pandia Search Engine News. One of the things I like about the interview is his discussion…
Yahoo, Comcast Partner on Display Ads
Yahoo and Comcast announced today that they will partner for displaying advertising on the Comcast website. Interesting when Comcast recently joined FastMedia…
The Google World is Growing: Should Advertisers Be Scared?
Tony Wright takes a critical look at the rapid reach of Google power, and questions how growth will have long lasting impact…
Google and DoubleClick’s Integration Hurdles
The New York Times is picking up on the fact that Google’s potential DoubleClick acquisition gets more difficult when you consider Performics,…
Utah Legislators Doing Research — After They Passed the Law
After passing a misguided Trademark Protection Act that will ban advertisers from using the trademarked terms of their competitors to target ads…
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