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AOL Merger Speculation
Mediapost reported last week that Merrill Lynch was eyeing the possibility of AOL merging with either Microsoft or Yahoo, in an attempt to gain back market share from…
News search terms vs. web search terms
Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has written a detailed analysis entitled “The Lies Of Top Search Terms Of The Year” that…
‘Tis the Season for Top Ten Lists
UK-based local search engine 192.com has released a list of its top local searches for the holiday season. Some search term top…
NYTimes.com hires former Yahoo executive
Leon Lazaroff of Bloomberg reports that The New York Times has named Murray Gaylord, a former Yahoo executive, to oversee marketing of…
Visits by college students to MySpace power its lead in page views
comScore Networks has released a study that analyzes the impact of visits from university locations to the top two Web properties, Fox…
Top news searches differ from top web searches
When is a search term not a search term? That’s a question worth asking after looking at a year’s worth of search…
Yahoo! Helps Children’s Charity Search Engine For Christmas
DonorsChoose.org and DonorsChooseGift.org got a visit from a purple-clad Santa this week. In place of the gifts they usually give to their…
Yahoo!’s Overture Korea Renews With Top Korean Engine Naver
Yahoo! announced it has resigned their agreement to provde Naver, Korea’s leading search portal, with their sponsored search listings. Overture Korea and…
Microsoft Using Baidu PPC Ads. Does Google Know?
Okay this seems a little too like the end game of DodgeBall…. Microsoft agrees to serve Baidu paid listings in its Chinese…
Brand Advocates More Active in Search, Social Media
Research from Yahoo and comScore shows that brand advocates — vocal champions of a brand — tend to perform more searches and…
Yahoo! Organic Rankings Update Confirmed
Yahoo! has been updating its organic search results database since Sunday night and states they will complete the process by the end…
Yahoo! Partners With New Zealand Telecom
Forbes reports that Yahoo! through a joint venture with the 7 Network in Australia have partnered (51/49%) with Telecom New Zealand Ltd.…
Yahoo Mid-Year Offer to Buy Facebook Rejected
According to Michael Arrington at Techcrunch, Yahoo proposed a $1 billion acquisition of the social network Facebook in mid-2006. According to leaked…
Google Copies Yahoo’s IE7 Marketing Page
Jeromy Zawodny has found that Google used the existing Yahoo IE7 promo page. Comparative pictures of the two promo pages supports his…
Panama Now Open to New U.S. Advertisers
An earlier-than-expected launch in October for existing Yahoo advertisers has apparently gone well, since Yahoo today opened up the platform to new…
Search Results Getting Safer
McAfee’s SiteAdvisor monitors the changes in search results and measures the level of what they call “dangerous” sites in all the major…
November Search Trend Data Released by Compete.com
Compete.com, a new search popularity tool bar and measurement service, similar to Alexa, released their data for November 2006, indicating a bounce…
Search + Display = Engagement
A couple of recent reports have confirmed what many SEMs already know: a mix of search and display advertising campaigns produce the…
SES Chicago After Hours
Okay so we have all been to our share of panels… and I have one to do at 9 am tomorrow -yet…
Yahoo Turns Down Google’s Request For Information On Book Search
The NY Times reports that Yahoo has recently rejected Google’s subpoena for help with the Google Book Search project legal woes. Reportedly,…
A Superbowl Marriage Proposal?
Joe Morin thinks he’s got the next Million Dollar Home page mixed with romance going. To wit: someone named JP (to stay…
Goodbye Google Answers
Wow. Google is shutting down its Google Answers service. The company has announced that new questions won’t be accepted after the New…
Live’s Erik Selberg On Microsoft’s Tough Search Challenge
Talk about the echo chamber coming full circle. The stats on Microsoft’s search share decline that I posted last week were commented…
Yahoo China’s President Xie Wen Resigns After Six Weeks
PC Advisor reports that Xie Wen, president of Yahoo China, has resigned after only six weeks on the job. Zeng Ming, senior…
Exalead CEO Warns Of “Google Monster” & Closed Yahoo & Microsoft
The Multilingual Search Blog covers Exalead CEO Francois Bourdoncle taking a big stick and swinging at Google in a keynote talk at…
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