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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 turning around Microsoft’s online…
Search Forums Roundup: Nov. 17, 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:…
Groowe Toolbar Gets Digg & Delicious Support
Groowe is that rare product promising to improve search that I’ve stuck with over the years. Indeed, this toolbar that lets you…
Windows Live Local Gets “Virtual Earth” 3-D Cities
Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window. Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the…
Yahoo Adds NOODP Support & Weather Report Update
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo has finally added support for the NOODP META tag. You can deploy this two ways;…
WebFetchPro UK Metasearch
WebFetch Pro is a multi/meta search engine creted by InfoSpace and it promises to give you the ‘best search results available on…
ResultR – One Search Many Useful Results
ResultR is an interesting new search engine for a number of different reasons. However, the basics first – it’s a multi/meta search…
MSN Belgium Drops Some Newspapers, Negotiating On Inclusion After Cease & Desist
Earlier, we touched on the fact that Copiepresse was threatening to go after MSN for carrying Belgian newspapers in the way it…
Consumer Satisfaction Doesn’t Equal Market Share
Earlier this week J.D. Power and Associates released the findings of its “2006 Residential Online Service Customer Satisfaction Study.” The study, based…
New Interview on Belgian Press vs. Google News (Microsoft Next?)
Sean Daly, from Groklaw, interviewed Margaret Boribon of Copiepresse on September 28th about their copyright lawsuit against Google, which targets the use…
Ballmer: YouTube Overvalued & Google Transferring Wealth From Content Owners
The Web According to Ballmer from BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer questioning the value of the Google-YouTube deal and oddly warning…
Url.com – Results Ranked By Users
The ability to rank or rate results delivered by search engines is slowly becoming more commonplace, and I’m noticing that one or…
Yahoo To Support The NOODP Tag; Won’t Prevent Display Of Yahoo Directory Title
Last night, I spoke with Tim Mayer of Yahoo about supporting the NOODP tag at Yahoo. In short, the NOODP tag allows…
Microsoft Consolidates Platform, Portfolio In ‘Digital Advertising Solutions’
Microsoft announced the launch of “Digital Advertising Solutions” and a related media campaign to promote it. What is “Digital Advertising Solitions?” It’s…
Google Leads In Dead & Old Pages
In Google Has the Largest Number of Dead and Old Pages, the Google Operating System Blog points to a video and some…
Compare & Contrast: Search Ad Program Strategies
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's pay-per-click (PPC) programs are similar, but each have unique features that require different campaign tactics to use effectively.…
Big Brands: Do You Know What Wikipedia Saying About You Via Google?
Steve Rubel produced a small study on the top 100 advertisers, according to AdAge, to see where in the Google rankings does…
Bringo Click To Call Service Attempts To Help Consumers Foil Voice Response Systems
If you’re a credit card issuer, a cell phone carrier or an airline you use IVR (interactive voice response) phone trees to…
Google Modifies Navigational Search Results
I reported this morning that Google has changed the way they handle navigational like searches. For example, if you do a search…
Search Engines Handle No Index Inconsistently
Matt Cutts has a nice illustrated survey of how various major search engines deal with the meta noindex tag in Handling noindex…
Yahoo Hiring Up All The Brains
The Wall Street Journal published an article five days ago named Hoping to Overtake Its Rivals, Yahoo Stocks Up on Academics (free…
Microsoft ContentAds Inviting Advertisers into Pilot
Microsoft adCenter began inviting selected advertisers into the ContentAds pilot, which is expected to begin displaying contextual ads across selected MSN properties…
Google, Yahoo, & MSN Update Search Results
It appears that all the major search engines have been reported to be updating their indexes in some way. Google is updating…
Hitwise: Google & Yahoo Make Tiny Gains In July 2006
Today I look at figures from Hitwise, as part of my series on search engine rating figures that have recently been released…
Hitwise Search Engine Ratings
The latest Hitwise ratings for search engines, showing which search engines are most popular, based on visits.
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