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Click Packages Draw Local Advertisers Into Search
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on the “bundle of clicks” search distribution packages that all the major yellow pages publishers in the U.S. are now selling…
Report: Advertisers Lost $800 Million To Click Fraud Last Year
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a click fraud study that claims 14.6 percent of all clicks and $800 million worth of…
New Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 – Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Near You
Google files patents for shopping offline with online assistance, a secondary map in Google Maps, and an updated review aggregator. Yahoo adds…
Google Knocks Off Apple On The Wired 40
The Wired 40 was just released and Google has secured the top spot, at number one this year. They have bumped off…
Yahoo Second In Market Share In China
TMCnet.com reports that Google is in third place in China, with 13.2% share. Yahoo is in second place with 21.1% market share…
Search Headlines & Links: June 28, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Google and Yahoo Come to the Aid of Craigslist
As many people already know, Craigslist is being sued under federal housing discrimination law for allowing the posting of allegedly discriminatory ads…
Some Funny & Crazy Yahoo Videos On YouTube
Loren Baker posted some of the funniest and craziest videos he found on YouTube related to Yahoo. If you have time to…
David Beach Leaves Yahoo For Start Up Wink
Brian Smith notes that the senior product manager of Yahoo Shopping Search, David Beach, has decided to leave Yahoo after five years.…
Follow-Up: School Couldn’t Reach Google Until Injunction Filed
Catawba County Schools in North Carolina obtained an injunction to remove private material from Google because it had no luck getting action…
Microsoft Promotes adCenter In Full Page New York Times Ad
ClickZ reports that Microsoft has a full-page color ad in this morning’s New York Times that promotes Microsoft adCenter, Microsoft’s PPC engine.…
Google Blamed For Indexing Student Test Scores & Social Security Numbers
Google “hacked our website” from The Inquirer points to Blame game from the Hickory Record, a story about how the Catawba County…
Yahoo Says Searchers are Better Patients
New research from Yahoo tells us that the majority of people who searched for health information subsequently visited their doctor (61%) and…
Ask.com Too Strict With Child & Sex Keywords?
The Hammer of Trust writes that Ask.com is way too strict for searches on keywords about sex and children. For example, a…
Japan’s Softbank Mobile Phones To Use Yahoo As Content Portal
MarketWatch reports that Softbank, who acquired Vodafone, will be using Yahoo to “bring the broad world of the Internet” to their mobile…
Google Partners With Adobe For Toolbar Distribution In Shockwave, Other Product To Be Named
Both Adobe (PDF link) and Google have announced a new deal where Adobe will distribute the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer as…
New Search Patents: June 22, 2006 – Google File System, Microsoft Blocks, and Yahoo Autonotifications
Google patents the Google File System, Microsoft claims a Functional Object Model for mobile devices, and Yahoo! (Overture) describes an autonotification process…
Microsoft Employees Use Google More Than MSN?
Philipp Lenssen reported on a Andrew Hitchcock post that detailed search engine usage by search engine firm. It appears that Microsoft employees…
Google Sub Sub Domain Issues Clearly Visible
Threadwatch reveals some more examples of issues Google is having. They note a search on queer forum returns CraigsList 97 times out…
New Search Patent Applications: June 19, 2006 – Autolinking, and Better Advertising through Deletion Predictions
Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and autolinking. Yahoo…
Yahoo To Reduce Search Ad Minimum Bid In UK To 5p?
I reported this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable that Yahoo may be reducing the minimum bid price from 10p to 5p.…
MSN’s Hand Crafted Results (Fake? – Shame On Me!)
“MSN Hiring People to Hand Code SERPS” at SEO Blackhat is a nice catch from the MSN Search jobs page talking about…
Yahoo Sued For Trademark Infringement Using Google AdWords
DenverPost.com reports that Yahoo was sued by lovecity.com for bidding on the lovecity.com trademark in Google AdWords. Reportedly, Yahoo placed bids on…
Getting The New York Times More Search Engine Friendly
Online newspapers have often ignored search engines, or viewed them with mistrust, relying on the power of their brands to drive traffic.…
A Look At Google’s Oregon Operation & Yahoo Leaves Pasadena
Niall Kennedy summarizes a NY Times article about Google’s Oregon center and Yahoo and Microsoft’s exploration in areas like that. The Google…
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