Search engines.
It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson™
Earlier today, Intellext™ and AOL announced the launch of the AOL@SCHOOL desktop sidebar, designed to help K-12 elementary school students with their homework, but without having to search…
Future of Search: The European View
Richard Firminger, Director of Northern European Sales for Yahoo Search Marketing emailled his version of the future of search today. Interesting to…
Yahoo’s Tim Mayer Talks Search Builder
Stone Temple Consulting’s Eric Enge has posted the latest in a series of interviews with search luminaries. This one’s with Yahoo’s Tim…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 18, 2007
A selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW…
PPC Back Fill Map or Who Is King Of Garbitrage
While this is not news – it really should be. Most of the small search engines are arbitraging one way or another.…
Social search engine Sproose surpasses 250,000 unique users 30 days out of beta
Sproose, a recently launched social search engine, today announced that it has surpassed 250,000 unique users in just 30 days out of…
Two- and Three-Word Queries Rule
According to data collected from users of European Web analytics provider OneStat, most people use 2- or 3-word queries in search engines.…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 17, 2007
A selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with today’s search-related headlines from around the Web: From the…
Wired Writes Yahoo’s Eulogy
Wired reporter Fred Vogelstein has penned a 3,200-word eulogy to Yahoo, “How Yahoo Blew It.” The story chronicles Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s…
An Introduction to SEO Best Practices
Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans.
Jimmy Wales Discusses Search Wikia on MarketWatch
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales went face to face with Bambi Francisco on today’s MarketWatch, and shared more about the concept of Search…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 15, 2007
Below is a selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with today’s headlines from around the Web: From…
Social Features Key to Yahoo Local
Yahoo has recently been putting more of an emphasis on social media and user-generated content in its local search product.
CNN.com to offer comprehensive on-site news search
Shankar Gupta of OnlineMediaDaily reports that CNN.com has selected Inform Technologies to provide an on-site news search engine that “allows users to…
Yahoo! China To Become Business Search Engine
The International Herald Tribune announced Yahoo! China will develop into a search engine for the business vertical. CEO Jack Ma of Alibaba…
Search Forums Roundup: Jan. 5, 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:…
It’s Time to See What’s In the PPC Sausage
Optiem's Jeffrey Rohrs has penned a "sausage manifesto," asserting that advertisers' click fraud concerns should be addressed as a customer service and…
Google Is Granted Two More Patents
The US Patent Office has issued Google two more patents. One patent, for a similarity search engine – to check duplicate content…
China Fines Sohu For Posting US Movies Online
In another victory against media piracy, the Chinese courts fined search engine and portal Sohu for allowing the distribution of American films…
A SearchDay Carol
Technically, today is the ninth day of Christmas, so we’re still allowed to sing the search-ified version of our favorite carol. Hum…
Optimizing Images for Search Engines
One of the more potentially advantageous yet wholly underused areas for optimization is in image search engines. Yet while site owners and…
Top 10 Google Myths Debunked
I came across this in one of the blogs today. Google Myths impact everyone – they are becoming urban legends. So Ionut…
Are Contextual Ads Worth the Hassle?
Even though the contextual ads offered by search engines aren’t search advertising, in the strict sense, they often become the responsibility of…
Contextual Search Ads: Boon or Bust?
Scared of contextual search advertising? Not sure how to explain a lower click through rate to your boss? Never fear: A panel…
Wikipedia and Amazon Taking on Google
Update: Liana Evans of Seach Marketing Gurus has done a great job of journalism and corrected some of the errors that myself…
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