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Yahoo Releases Q3 2005 Earnings

From the news release: “Yahoo had another record quarter and continued to see solid growth across our business. We introduced a number of new and innovative products and…

By Gary Price · 18 Oct 2005

SEO

What to Buy a Meta Search Engine? Jux2 is For Sale on eBay

Jux2 was the winner of our most recent Search Engine Watch Award for Best Meta Search Engine. It was also a great…

By Gary Price · 17 Oct 2005

Industry

Yahoo Adds New Member to Technology Development Group

Yahoo, like their competitors, continues adding new members (it’s a recruiting war out there folks) to their staff. Just this evening, JZ…

By Gary Price · 17 Oct 2005

PPC

Good Clickthroughs Like Getting An Ad Discount

Brand Discounts at the Major Engines has Kevin Lee talking about a brand discount, but don’t get excited that big brands are…

By Danny Sullivan · 17 Oct 2005

Industry

The Top 100 Global Brands: Where Do Google and Yahoo Place?

BusinessWeek has released their ranking of the Top 100 global brands. What’s the criteria to be considered for the list: The table…

By Gary Price · 16 Oct 2005

Industry

Now It’s Yahoo’s Turn to Make a Play for AOL

Surprised, nope. The way it’s going, kids will soon be asking their parents for AOL for the holidays. No, not the service…

By Gary Price · 14 Oct 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 14, 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 · 14 Oct 2005

Industry

Google and Comcast are in Talks to Acquire Minority Stake in AOL

Here we go again. More news on the AOL/Microsoft/Google story. The Wall Street Journal has just posted a report that Google and…

By Gary Price · 12 Oct 2005

Industry

Yahoo Blog Search Gets RSS Feed

Yahoo dropped me a note to tell me one of my complaints about its new blog search service has been solved. You…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

Social

Some Interesting Stats on RSS Usage

With the major search players finally getting into feed and blog search in a big way, a new study from Yahoo and…

By rumo · 12 Oct 2005

Local

Google Maps & Maps API Draw From Different Data

Google Maps and Their Data Providers over at O’Reilly Radar looks at how for Google Maps, data comes from NAVTEQ while the…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

SEO

Big.com For Really Big Results; How About The Majors Offering The Same?

Search marketer Laura Thieme mentioned in an email to me loving Big.com. Hmm. Never heard of it. Taking a look, it’s pretty…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

Industry

Study: RSS Still Not Widely Adopted

New research from Yahoo and Ipsos suggests that although blogs and feeds are trendy among the technorati, awareness of RSS remains quite…

By Chris Sherman · 11 Oct 2005

Industry

Interoperability: Yahoo Instant Messenger and Microsoft Messenger Will Be Able to Talk to One Another

When Google Talk launched Danny wrote, “This is also a good point to note that Search Engine Watch has no intention of…

By Gary Price · 11 Oct 2005

Industry

Daily SearchCast, Oct. 11, 2005: Yahoo Gains Podcast Search, Blends Blogs & News; Google Gains Feed Reader, Bookmarking Feature, GoogleGuys Brin & Cutts Speak, Gada Meta Search For Mobiles Launches & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo getting both a new podcast search service and mixing new blog search results into Yahoo News, while…

By Danny Sullivan · 11 Oct 2005

Industry

Searching (or Not) With Spam Google

Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped fame has a new parody site online today called Spam Google. The site’s slogan is, “Just the…

By Gary Price · 10 Oct 2005

Video

The blinkx / Autonomy Relationship

Over the past few days I received an email asking just who owns and runs blinkx and blinkx.tv. JD also blogged about…

By Gary Price · 10 Oct 2005

Industry

Yahoo Gains Podcast Directory

News from the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo’s gained a new Yahoo Podcasts site, where you can search for podcasts or listen…

By Danny Sullivan · 10 Oct 2005

Industry

WordPress Selling Links — But Using AdBrite Solves Search Engine Concerns

Revisiting how link selling can be frowned upon by search engines unless nofollow or redirection is used in some way to prevent…

By Danny Sullivan · 09 Oct 2005

Industry

Hey Dude, Yahoo Wants You To Dig It, Tag It, and Share It!

The Yahoo team in Sunnyvale has filed for a new trademark/service mark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that hits on…

By Gary Price · 09 Oct 2005

Industry

Finding “Patterns” in Your Face

Spotted on Searchblog and elsewhere, news that Google demonstrated a tool at Web 2.0 today that uses pattern recognition to determine sex…

By Gary Price · 07 Oct 2005

Industry

Google Opens Lobbying Office In Washington D.C.

It looks like I have some new company here in DC, Google. According to Andrew McLaughlin, a Google Senior Policy Advocate, big…

By Gary Price · 07 Oct 2005

Analytics

NetRatings: Average Searches Per Searcher Increases; Google Top Ranked In August 2005

Gavin O’Malley’s, Media Post article: Search Activity Jumps In August, reports on some new search stats that were released by Nielsen//NetRatings yesterday.…

By Gary Price · 07 Oct 2005

SEO

Weblogs.com Ping Server Bought By Verisign

Dave Winer’s Weblogs.com ping service has been purchased by Verisign. Dave does a rundown on the sale here. Verisign does a rundown…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Oct 2005

Industry

Top Ten List Of Search Ranking Factors

A new list of top SEO factors to consider has been rated. A look at what's in it and some further advice.

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Oct 2005

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