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Sohu Revenues Up 12% in Q4 2009

Sohu reported its Q4 2009 earnings this morning and the news is good for the Chinese Internet portal. (Sohu is basically China’s Yahoo!) Revenues came in at $135.8…

By Nathania Johnson · 01 Feb 2010

Industry

Yahoo! Earnings: Revenues Down but Profits Up

Yahoo! announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 today. Revenues came in at $1.7 billion, which was down 4% compared…

By Nathania Johnson · 26 Jan 2010

Analytics

comScore Shows Bing Growing in December 2009 Search Rankings

When Hitwise and Nielsen both released their December 2009 rankings and it showed Bing as dropping, I had a hunch that comScore…

By Nathania Johnson · 19 Jan 2010

Industry

hakia Launches NoBrandSearch.com, a Blind Test of Search Engines

hakia’s new site, NoBrandSearch.com, is an attempt at offering up a blind “taste test” of search results. The idea is that users…

By Nathania Johnson · 18 Jan 2010

Industry

Retail Boosts Search Spend in Efficient Frontier’s Q4 2009 Report

Tomorrow, Efficient Frontier releases their quarterly search report and we’ve got a sneak peek at the numbers. Let’s dive in: Search Spend…

By Nathania Johnson · 18 Jan 2010

Industry

Google Gains at Everyone Else’s Expense in Nielsen’s December 2009 Rankings

Google and AOL are up while Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.com are down from November in Nielsen’s December 2009 search rankings. But let’s…

By Nathania Johnson · 13 Jan 2010

Development

Google Friend Connect Now Available for Drupal and Joomla

If you’ve wanted to add some social functionality to your website but aren’t a hardcore developer, then things just got a bit…

By Nathania Johnson · 12 Jan 2010

Industry

Yahoo! to Shutdown Shopping API in Wake of New Partnership with PriceGrabber

Yahoo! has announced a new partnership with PriceGrabber that will change things up considerably over on Yahoo! Shopping. The partnership primarily involves…

By Nathania Johnson · 12 Jan 2010

SEO

Google/AOL Search Deal Ending, Big Interest In New Partnership

The AOL/Google search partnership agreement is ending this year and according to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong the company will be looking for…

By Frank Watson · 09 Jan 2010

Industry

Carol Bartz’s First Year Self-Evaluation: B-Minus

In an interview with Bloomberg, Carol Bartz graded her first year as Yahoo!’s CEO. She gave herself a B minus. That’s probably…

By Nathania Johnson · 08 Jan 2010

Video

Yahoo! Partners with Former NBC Exec’s Venture for Original Content

Sites like Hulu and the increasing adoption of media players such as the Apple TV are showing consumer desire (and willingness) to…

By Nathania Johnson · 08 Jan 2010

Video

Yahoo! Expands Availability of TV Widgets, Including Development Kit

Yahoo! is expanding their foray into television by creating a wider availability of their TV Widget Engine. They’ve announced new partnerships with…

By Nathania Johnson · 07 Jan 2010

Industry

A Few More Resolutions for Your Search Team

Want greater search marketing success this year? Try looking at search engine marketing as a whole, rather than two independent efforts, and…

By Herndon Hasty · 05 Jan 2010

Industry

Dictionary.com Names Shravan Goli as President

Shravan Goli will be heading up Dictionary.com after spending time at a couple of Ask.com competitors. Goli held several management-level roles at…

By Nathania Johnson · 18 Dec 2009

Industry

Bing, Google, and Ask.com Up in Nielsen’s November 2009 Rankings

Nielsen Online has released their search rankings for November 2009. Things remain awesome for Google and Ask.com saw a hop. But Bing…

By Nathania Johnson · 16 Dec 2009

Local

Yahoo Integrates Local Results into Results for Broad Keywords

Yahoo! has a new update that serves up some personalization into search results. Let’s say you’re searching for pizza. You’ll now get…

By Nathania Johnson · 16 Dec 2009

SEO

Social network search terms top Hitwise list for 4th straight year

Last month, “unfriend” was named Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2009. This afternoon, our friends at Experian Hitwise analyzed the…

By Greg Jarboe · 15 Dec 2009

Industry

AOL’s Independence Brings Focus on Content and Advertising

Tim Armstrong and AOL employees rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, to signal the beginning of trading…

By Nathania Johnson · 10 Dec 2009

Industry

Yahoo! Encourages Charity Through Acts of Kindness Campaign

Yahoo! has launched a new charitable effort called “You In?” The idea is to encourage random acts of kindness that are then…

By Nathania Johnson · 09 Dec 2009

Video

Yahoo! Adds TV Series and Popular Movie Actors to Video Search

Hot on the heels of launching a music video search last month, Yahoo! is expanding their foray into entertainment video search by…

By Nathania Johnson · 08 Dec 2009

Industry

Yahoo! Launches Consumer Tool to Provide Niche-Specific Ad Controls

The tool is called “Ad Interest Manager” and it lets you opt-in and out of ads based on interests and preferences. Here’s…

By Nathania Johnson · 07 Dec 2009

Industry

Microsoft and Yahoo! Make It Official, Now Time for Some Good Ol’ Fashioned Politicking

Microsoft and Yahoo! have finalized the search agreement initially announced last July. Originally, they had planned to finalize things by late October.…

By Nathania Johnson · 04 Dec 2009

Social

In 2010, Y!ou Can Access Facebook on Yahoo!

Yahoo! really does want you to make their homepage the center of your web-browsing universe. Next year, they’re going to make that…

By Nathania Johnson · 02 Dec 2009

Industry

Google Takes on Ask.com in Deals, Yahoo! in Times Square

Google has launched a new Deals page, almost two months after Ask.com unveiled their new Deals site. Google’s Deals page features the…

By Nathania Johnson · 30 Nov 2009

Industry

Microsoft-News Corp. Talks: A Marriage Made in Hell?

Two weeks ago, I commented on Rupert Murdoch’s threat that News Corp. was thinking of blocking Google from being able to search…

By Greg Jarboe · 24 Nov 2009

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