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Will Google Image Search Get Display Ads? Are display ads in the future for Google Image Search SERPs? Marissa Mayer talked to Bloomberg Radio earlier this week and she didnt deny the possibility: We havent found a proper...
Yahoo India Launches "Glue" Pages Yahoo India has launched a new feature in their search results called Glue pages. As Barry Schwartz explains: Glue Pages are specialized pages that contain an enhanced visual search...
Google Adds Features to Custom Search Engines Google has announced enhanced features for custom search engines: the integration of sitemaps and AdSense for Search. The new features will improve search results in a Google...
Yahoo Makes the World a Safer Place Yep, Yahoo working to make the world a safer place"to search. Yahoo will now display warnings on SERPs to indicate that some of the sites listed in their results may not be entirely safe. Yahoos SearchScan feature will be a new default for SERPs served to the US, Canada, the UK, France, Italy...
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Near Something or Other Raise your hand if youre tired of hearing about the pending Google-Yahoo and/or Yahoo-Microsoft deals. All right, everyone who isnt me"youre excused from reading this post. Me"you...
Microsoft Launches Live Mobile Product Search, Locator Microsoft announced yesterday the launch of a new mobile search offering-product search under their Live brand. Microsofts browser-based mobile product search, from m.live.com
Google AdWords Displaying Quality Score Variables Reports are surfacing today that some Google AdWords ads, especially on Google.de (their German TLD), are displaying what may be variables used in determining quality scores: Pscore, mCPC and thresh. The numerical values have been spotted in both sidebar and shaded results:
Google: FTC Would Sign Off on Yahoo Deal As Andy mentioned in todays Pilgrims Picks, Reuters reports that Googles confident about the proposed ad deal with Yahoo receiving the OK from the FTC. If you dont remember, almost...
The Drumroll: Countdown to Yahoo Earnings I know youve been on the edge of your seat since last Monday, when we pointed out the sword of Damocles was hanging over Yahoo, tied largely to their Q1 results, due out tomorrow afternoon.
Google Updates Sitelinks, Not Webmaster Tools Over at SE Roundtable, Tamar reports that Google has updated her sites sitelinks. Google Webmaster Tools has been teasing me with sitelinks for my personal site for a while, I checked it out:
Google Website Optimizer: All Grown Up Googles Website Optimizer has reached a milestone that most launches today dont: it left beta. Not only that, but its also launching as an independent product, according to the Google Analytics Blog. What does it mean to get spun out in the Google product family?
Google's KML Becomes Industry Standard
Yahoo Running Out of Time with Microsoft If the Yahoo/Microsoft deal is to going happen at all, analysts think that itll happen this week, according to CNET. Despite having rejected the initial offer long ago, Yahoo is still feeling the pressure for several reasons. Two deadlines are looming for Yahoo: Q1 reporting and Microsofts latest ultimatum deadline.
Are You About to Lose the Right to Call Your Work 'SEO'? Do you use the word SEO to describe what you do? Look out: an enterprising marketer (both of those words are used euphemistically) has set his sights on taking your livelihood"or...
Microsoft, Yahoo Announce Mobile Moves Both Microsoft and Yahoo announce big moves in the area of mobile and mobile search today.Microsoft plans to upgrade its mobile Internet Explorer browser, according to an announcement released yesterday (no word on whether thats just prank, though). Microsofts press release states that this will bring...
Google Wants to Offer National Wi-Fi for Free Free, nationwide WiFi. Drooling yet, or do I need to say it again? Free, nationwide WiFi from Google. As we mentioned earlier, Google is lobbying the FCC for some of the wireless spectrum that will be freed next year when television will cease analog transmission. Googles plan? Wi-Fi on steroids. (Without the roid rage, Im guessing.)
Yahoo to Double Cash Flow in Three Years Still maintaining that theyre worth way more than $44.6 billion, Yahoos recent SEC filing yet again emphasized their belief that their stock is substantially undervalued. Caroline McCarthy...
Google Sky Spins Off
Yahoo Going for OpenSocial? Yahoos making moves as if to join the OpenSocial initiative of standardized APIs for social network developer/3rd party apps. And then we think about it: OpenSocial is Googles baby.
What Did Ask.com Really Say? It seems that some people dont wish to believe Ask.coms backtracking this week. After several mainstream media stories were published about Ask.com focusing its efforts on women...
Yahoo's Audience Skews Younger If youll recall, in December, Google lost market share by a minuscule amount. Instantly, the blogosphere abounded with rumors that Google was past its prime, that it was the beginning...
Google: 99% Safe External companies have long kept tabs on the safety of search engine results. McAfee, for one, regularly releases findings on the percentage of search results that bring up malware...
Political Donations For Search Engines
Google Laying Groundwork for Latent Social Networks Hours after VentureBeat kicked off the latest round of social search speculations, Google announced the Social Graph API. The API could use information contained in files and links...
Social Search from Google?
Yahoo's Fourth Quarter Not Enough Yahoo reported their Q4 earnings and revenue today. While their revenues are up and their net income per diluted share slightly beat expectations, as reported by Business Week...
Google Experimenting New Search Views Google started promoting their Experimental Search product more actively last week. This week, theyre making the formal announcement of new views in Experimental Search"with a familiar-sounding rationale. Now, Experimental Search isnt new news"and neither is a search interface thats not just a list of 10 blue links.
Google to NASA: Open Up
Yahoo: Gettin' Facebook-y Weve been following Yahoos push to "socialize" their large webmail userbase. In November, it was called "Inbox 2.0." At CES this week, Jerry Yang referred to...
Yahoo Loses Chief Performance Officer to Google Yet another Yahoo executive departs the twelve-year-old company. Steve Souders, Chief Performance Officer at Yahoo, will start at Google next Monday...
The New Search Engine Battle Its not a good day to be Google. First Ask premieres AskEraser, now theyre losing customers (well, at least one) to Microsoft. Yes, folks, gear up for the newest battle...
12% of this Year's Best SEO Posts are from 2005-2006 2007 was a good year for SEO blogs. But perhaps it wasnt our best year ever. In a classic and pretty well executed piece of linkbait, Evan Carmichael has listed...
Yahoo's Mobile Moves Google isnt the only one tearing up the airwaves wireless spectrum. After Google announced its new open source mobile platform, Android, last week, Yahoo is once again in the position of playing catchup. However, as Reuters states, they may still be able to garner millions of advertising customers before Google does.
70% of Searchers Experience Search Fatigue A Kelton Research study, commissioned by Autobytel, reports that 72.3% of US adult searchers experience search engine fatigue (either always, usually, or sometimes) when researching a topic on the Internet. What should this statistic tell us?
Yahoo Earning More Search Revenue Its no secret: Google dominates search advertising (PPC). We often say that for anyone to legitimately challenge their dominance, theyll have to capture more of the search advertising market. (Of course, to do that, you usually have to catch more market share, which you usually do by advertising, which you usually do with the extra revenue. . . .)
GPhone: Low Cost, Low Tech? The highly-touted, much-rumored GPhone may (or may not) actually be a reality"but it may not take the form were all expecting. Ever since the rumor first began late last year...
Google Hinting at Its Own Social Network? Unlike our good friend Steve, Eric Schmidt is one of the true believers in social networking. Perhaps hes just one of the younger people (or younger at heart people) that Ballmer said were so absorbed in the faddish nature of social networking, even though he is a couple months older than Ballmer.
Google Maps Expands Street View In addition to some high resolution photos, Google added the ability to pan up now. They give the example of the Sears Tower (in Chicago).
Google Attacks Verizon Over Secret FCC Lobbying Back in July, Google made waves (and headlines) with the wireless spectrum bid/bluff. The FCC would eventually agree to most of their open access demands.
Google Video Home to Pirates! We didnt mention it (too many bad scraper experiences, perhaps?), but last Wednesday was Talk Like a Pirate day. According to the National Legal and Policy Center...
Yahoo Index Update Speculation has been flying today about an update at Yahoo. Aaron Wall noticed: botching part of a sitewide 301 redirect that they had followed for months...
DMOZ Delisted? Last week, Rand Fishkin gave a good round up and reasoning behind what appears to be a recent Google penalty for sub-par directories. It looks like he might be able to add one more devalued directory to his list: DMOZ.
Eyetracking on Google Universal SERPs AT SMX Advanced in June, someone asked about eyetracking for personalized results. Gord Hotchkiss took on the challenge, and today...
Reuters Is Watching Reuters has announced a facial-recognition video search program this week. In conjunction with Viewdle, facial recognition software, Reuters will index its videos so that readers can search its news footage for individuals.
Can Yahoo Mash Cut It? Yahoo has unveiled its newest attempt at social networking: Mash. As Jerry Yangs 100 days draw to a close, predictions for Yahoo announcements have flown thick and fast over the last week:
Yahoo Spreads a Virus? Yahoo announced that they were acquiring Right Media in April (before this, theyd owned a 20% stake). And now just what Yahoo didnt need: Right Media servers appear to have been providing more than ads recently.
Yahoo to Break Open Business Week reports that Yahoo is working to open up: not just in transparency, but in involving users"and especially user-developers"to improve Yahoo.
Google Book Search Adds My Library Okay, so Website Optimizer and Reader arent the only Google products getting new features: Google Book Search has added an entire library, just for you.
Google Execs Talking about Video Ads Thursday at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York, Google Director of Product Management Sundar Pichai and Group Business Product Manager Nicholas Fox spoke about the possibility of image or video in the universal search interface"in the sponsored listings.
Google´s Blogger Under Attack The BBC reports today that Googles free blogging software, Blogger, is under attack from malicious spammers. According to the report...
Google Goes Social on Facebook The Wall Street Journal may have moved on, but Google is just getting to the Facebook party. Mashable covers yesterdays launch of the Google Facebook application.
Will There Be a Google Phone After All? The last time we mentioned the ever-persistent rumors of the Google Phone (or GPhone), it was to point out that Google has left a gaping loop hole...
MSN/Live Webmaster Portal in Private Beta Remember back in March when MSN/Live took their link: operator offline? Well, theyre now one step closer to opening up that information. This evening, theyve announced a new private beta of their Webmaster Portal.
Google Earth Indexing the Stars No, Google Earth isnt planning on providing maps to movie stars homes, or tours of Hollywood. Theyre looking to index the final frontier, as Reuters reports today.
Something Ask.com Does Right Ask.com has good news sprouting up everywhere, it seems. Their new feature-heavy, offensive-content-free commercial premiered last week and now comes the news that their new interface...
Google Expanding its Frontiers: Click Fraud Google premiered a number of new sites, including several ventures in China and a new click fraud resource center.
CNET Rates Search Engine on Privacy Google got an F on privacy from Privacy International earlier this summer. Their DoubleClick deal got scrutiny from the FTC for privacy issues.
Ask.com Ads: Confirmed as Creepy You already know that Ask.coms latest round of I got what I was looking for TV commercials are not what I was looking for.
SEO Is Dead. Again. Sorry, folks. If you were working in SEO, your career is over. Just ask Tadeusz Szewczyk, who guest posted on Google Blogoscoped earlier this week:
Local Search Trumps Paper I bet you thought scissors beat paper"local search beats paper, according to a recent TMP Directional Marketing study conducted by comScore.
62% Don't Trust Search Engines Hakia.com has sponsored the Search for Better Search website, which so far looks rather thin, though it does have some interested poll responses.
Google Webmaster Central Adds Message Center Google Webmaster Central announces the addition of a message center to the Webmaster Console (Webmaster Tools>Dashboard). What are they going to communicate with site owners about?
Is Personalized Search Really Better? At SMX's Personalized Search: Fear or Not? session, Michael Gray suggested that Google highlight the results in personalized SERPS that are "personalized." After all, he argued, if they're so much better, why not show them off?
Forbes Goes Negative on SEO It's not what you think: today Forbes wrote about "negative SEO." While we all know the benefits of "positive SEO," Forbes interviews Brendon Scott to find out more about...
Google Is a Machine; Mahalo, Our Human Search Savior We've already mentioned Matt Cutts's thoughts on humans' role in enhancing search engine results today. A New York Times article, "The Human Touch That May Loosen Google's Grip," yesterday prompted Matt's...
Blinkx Developing Video for AdSense, Release Set Monday The Next Net announces today that video search engine Blinkx is developing a video for AdSense model. The service is code named "Project Trilby," but will be released as "AdHoc" on Monday.
Ask's Marketing Mistakes? As a follow up to his story Wednesday, Barry Schwartz asked around and discovered that 74% of Diggers Thought Ask.coms Campaign was Googles Campaign.
New Google Analytics Features Screenshots If you request it, they will come-Google Analytics features, that is. The Google Analytics Blog announces today the premiere of new features, including features requested by...
Ask's Latest Commercial: "Chicks with swords"? Ask had a new campaign all ready to go in honor of the launch of the new Ask 3D interface. If you weren't a fan of their Unabomber ads, maybe you'll like the new one.
Something Interesting in Search Engine Land's CSS A thread at WebProWorld points out something interesting in Search Engine Land's stylesheet: text-indent: -9000px; Hm! Danny Sullivan didn't know about the line of code...
Google Maps in the Streets Google Maps has launched street-level maps for several major US cities today. Currently available only for New York, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami, the new features enable you to get a street-level view of the city.
IAB: Search Doing Well, Metrics Meeting Outcome The Interactive Advertising Bureau seems to be trying valiantly to stay at the top of the news this week. They've released their 2006 Internet Advertising Revenue Report and the results from last week's closed meeting with Nielsen//NetRatings and comScore.
Ask: "It isn't about beating Google, Microsoft or Yahoo!" Apparently Jennifer Laycock, Josh Catone and Andy aren't the only ones wondering about Ask.com's future.
SEW Editor Moves On Elizabeth Osmeloski, editor of Search Engine Watch, is moving on. Tuesday she announced that this week is her last at SEW. After three years there, she's moving on to become...
Video SEO With Wednesday's announcement of a new universally integrated Google SERP, it's doubly important to optimize your non-text content for Google.
Latest Product Improvements from Google Google has improved two of their products recently: Google Book Search and Google Analytics.
Google Market Share Up Again Hitwise released their April 2007 search engine market share numbers today-and, surprise, surprise, Google is still way out in front, climbing just over a percentage point over March's numbers.
LookSmart Getting Contextual LookSmart is expanding their paid search offerings to include contextual advertising. The press release says that they are now "the only company to offer publishers...
Google to the Rescue Theres definitely a reason why Google Transit is still in Google Labs.
Google Video Getting Personal In light of cases of Google losing personal data, reassurances from Matt Cutts, and even extremely well-targeted Adsense ads (ie they were relevant to the searchers interests...
Linkbait, Google Ads, Mobile Search and Suing Spammers! Marketing through social bookmarking sites from ClickZ. At first glance, sounds like a simple guide to Diggbaiting...
Linkbait Isn’t Always the Best I know, its sacrilege to say this, but linkbait isnt always the best way to promote a site. Yes, itts fun, creative and, when it works, highly effective. But its not always the best.
SEO Doesn’t Guarantee Blog Visitor Loyalty Mixed blessings for SEM come from a Boston University study entitled Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in the Blogosphere.
Search Spending On The Rise Googles not the only one growing. MediaPost reports that the entire search marketing industry is poised to grow as well.
Spanish SEO Contest: Since were on a Spanish kick this week, I thought Id give this a mention: We have yet another SEO contest upon us.
The Future of SEM It seems like every tradeshow, expo and seminar has to have at least one session on the future of its industry. Generally, the predictions are . . . general.
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