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Directories Still Have Value To Search Marketers

Directories have diminished in importance, given how the major search engines have abandoned them, as I’ve written about in the past. But in Directories: Love ’em or Leave…

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Apr 2005

Industry

Stanford University’s Student Paper & Selling Links

The Stanford Daily Selling Links thread at our Search Engine Watch The student newspaper at Stanford University has raised eyebrows by selling…

By Danny Sullivan · 18 Apr 2005

Industry

Search Advertising that Makes the Phone Ring

There's a new kid in town in the search advertising arena. No, it's not another search ad vendor, nor a new conversion…

By Patricia Hursh · 18 Apr 2005

Industry

Overture Becomes Yahoo Search Marketing & Comparing Listing Products At Yahoo To Google

Overture gets a new name, prompting a look at how listing products from Yahoo and Google compare.

By Danny Sullivan · 17 Apr 2005

PPC

Search Engine Rep Spills On Click Fraud

Pay Per Click Advertising Fraud – The Inside Story from Joe Holcomb, senior vice president of marketing at the Blowfish search engine,…

By Danny Sullivan · 15 Apr 2005

SEO

Search Is Also Navigation, So Brands — Are You Well Represented?

It’s been long known that searchers don’t just use search engines to find things but also depend on search to navigate to…

By Danny Sullivan · 15 Apr 2005

SEO

Groowe Releases Firefox Search Toolbar

A past Search Engine Watch Awards winner, the Groowe search toolbar makes it easy to search against multiple search engines from your…

By Danny Sullivan · 15 Apr 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 15, 2005

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 15 Apr 2005

SEO

Another Poke At Tags As Search Savior

I’ve been dubious before about tagging in relation to search, but Steve Rubel’s Targeting Through Tagvertising article makes me want to poke…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Apr 2005

SEO

B2B & B2C Search Marketing Closer Than You Might Think

At every SES show, I hear from those involved with business-to-business marketing that they want more content on that topic. OK, I’ve…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Apr 2005

Industry

Search Engine Algorithms & Research

As a searcher or search engine optimization specialist, do you really need to understand the algorithms and technologies that power search engines?…

By Christine Churchill · 13 Apr 2005

Industry

Get A Free Business Web Site at Yahoo

Yahoo Local is making it easy for the millions of U.S. businesses that don’t have an internet presence to stake out their…

By rumo · 12 Apr 2005

SEO

Mamma.com Gets Formally Probed By SEC

Several sources, including this Dow Jones story, are reporting that the SEC’s (Security and Exchange) Montreal-based search engine, Mamma.com, has been “converted”…

By Gary Price · 12 Apr 2005

Analytics

China’s Search Market Rises 81% in 2004

A brief article in the People’s Daily reports on the release of a report about China’s search market. The report released at…

By Gary Price · 10 Apr 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 8, 2005

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 08 Apr 2005

SEO

Updated Research Paper: A Taxonomy of Web Spam

A week ago, Chris blogged about the First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web that will be part of…

By Gary Price · 07 Apr 2005

Industry

Google Launches Q&A Service, Answers Directly on Results Pages

I’ve said for quite some time that search engines will slowly but surely become “answer engines” for “ready reference” or factual types…

By Gary Price · 07 Apr 2005

Industry

Yahoo Senior VP of Search Speaks at Wharton School of Business

A few weeks ago, Jeff Weiner, Yahoo’s Senior VP Search and Marketplace, gave a talk at the Wharton School of Business in…

By Gary Price · 07 Apr 2005

Industry

Google SEO Support Given To Advertisers

Google & SEO Support For Advertisers now posted for Search Engine Watch members looks at how increased editorial listings support being given…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Apr 2005

PPC

Online & Search Spending Rose In First Quarter 2005

Internet Ad Spending Up In First Quarter from MediaPost reports of a new study finding online ad spend continued to grow in…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Apr 2005

Industry

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…

By Chris Sherman · 05 Apr 2005

Local

Sabre Holdings Purchases IgoUgo Travel Info Community and Database

Dow Jones reports that a major player in travel, Sabre Holdings, has purchased the online travel community and searchable vertical database of…

By Gary Price · 05 Apr 2005

Industry

Google Removes Child Porn Post & Reports To FBI

Child Pornography Complaint at Chilling Effects illustrates how Google received a complaint of child pornography in its Google Groups service, causing the…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Apr 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 1, 2005

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 01 Apr 2005

SEO

WordPress Caught Spamming After Enlisting To Fight Spam

Back in January, blogging software provider WordPress was one of several vendors that signed on to support the new nofollow attribute designed…

By Danny Sullivan · 31 Mar 2005

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