Search engines.
Will Better Search Sabotage The Business Model?
Microsoft search researcher Eric Brill suggests that as search gets better, it will be less a money-maker: Microsoft Researcher Questions Search Engine…
Froogle UK Quietly Launched
Froogle finally moves outside the US and opens a UK edition: Froogle UK. Being based in the UK, I plan to put…
Sellling Online? Don’t Overlook Shopping Search Engines
Specialized shopping search engines are rapidly gaining popularity. A recent Forrester survey found that nearly 20% of online users look to shopping…
Shopping Search Tactics
Shopping search engines make it easy for people to research and buy products. They can also be a powerful and cost-effective customer…
Google’s Revenue Is Not All Search-Derived (AKA Gmail Isn’t Search)
So Gmail ads might be bigger than search ads for Google, we learn in this New York Post story: You Got Mail…
Minority Of Searchers Make Up Majority Of Searches
John Battelle’s got an interesting slide up from comScore showing that heavy search users, while making up only 20 percent of those…
Got To Censor Search Listings? Why Not Disclose?
Earlier coverage of Google omitting some China news sources included Google’s explanation that this was done to improve the quality of the…
Search Fuels Music Retailer Traffic
Why would Yahoo buy Musicmatch? Why might Google be looking at music search? Hitwise found 30 percent of those who went to…
Search History: Excite & Bluffing For Netscape Net Search
There was a time when I used to track who had what position on the Netscape Net Search page. If a service…
Getting More From Your SEM Budget
Kevin Lee continues his look at ways to get more out of your search marketing budget, including ads on second-tier search engines,…