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20 Great Google Secrets
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1306756,00.asp excl.gif No Active Links, Read the Rules – Edit by Ninja excl.gif Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see www.pcmag.com/searchengines But most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Online Ad Marketplace TRAFFIQ Scores $10 Million in Series B Funding
By Robin Wauters, Tech crunch Online advertising marketplace TRAFFIQ today announced it has closed a $10 million Series B round of venture funding from Grotech Ventures, Greenhill SAVP and Court Square Ventures. The New York-based company, which operates a management platform designed to connect buyers and sellers of online media, had previously raised $7 million [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Microsoft to shut down adCenter Analytics Beta
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Microsoft is ending its adCenter Analytics Beta. The company is no longer accepting new users, although existing users will be able to access the service through the end of 2009. You’ll probably want to export your data by December 31st though, unless you’re cool with watching it all disappear. Microsoft adCenter [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mobile Advertising Spend on the Way…
By Jordan McCollum While there are a multitude of reports having marketers bracing themselves for this recession, there are still a number of optimists who say that the best is yet to come. The Kelsey Group is one such optimist, reporting that mobile ad spend is on the way up, and mobile search will lead [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )WebMynd Makes Your Search Engine Smarter With New Browser Plugin
By Jason Kincaid WebMynd, a Y Combinator company that launched early last year, has released a new plugin that is looking to streamline the way you search. The plugin, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, enhances the search results on most popular search engines by inserting a handy sidebar with related search results [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )8-Word Search Queries Up 34,000% in Last 5 Years!
By Andy Beal If a picture is worth a thousand words, we might want to start scanning-in images of what we’re trying to find on the search engines. As new data from Hitwise suggests, we’re gradually starting to use more & more keywords when conducting our search engine queries. Hitwise compared January 2009’s data with [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Paid Search Just Got Visual: SearchMe Launches AdView Beta (Free Ads For First 500 Signups)
By Erick Schonfeld What happens when you make paid search ads both relevant and visual? Searchme, the search engine startup which presents results as a stack of full-page previews that you can flip through, is hoping to find out with the beta launch of AdView. Its first foray into advertising, AdView is SearchMe’s version of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Reunion.com And Wink Morph Into MyLife.com
By Robin Wauters When Reunion.com and Wink announced their merger in early October 2008, the company indicated that it would be relaunching under a different brand name and with a completely overhauled website in early 2009. That day has finally come, and henceforth the merged companies will live on as MyLife. The website for Reunion.com [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Do You Want Your Search Experience Personalized?
By Chris Crum In recent months, there has been a whole lot of talk about where search is going, and what search is lacking. This is commonplace for months encompassing the changing of years. A big part of the discussion is personalized search. Many SEOs aren’t entirely thrilled with the idea. It changes the way [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo Launches Trio Of Tools For Advertisers
By Mike Sachoff Yahoo has introduced three new tools aimed at making it easier for advertisers to target users based on their online behavior. Yahoo’s Search Retargeting tool allows advertisers to offer display ads to users based on searches for particular keywords on Yahoo. The company’s Enhanced Retargeting tool offers personalized display ads to users [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Using Directories for Search Engine Reputation Management
By Michael Gray Search engine reputation management (SERM) is a growing discipline under the larger umbrella of search engine optimization (SEO). If you deal with client services, and you don’t already have at least one reputation management client, chances are you will in the very near future. The more tools or options you have at [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google, Yahoo, Microsoft All Show Search Gains
by Chloe Albanesius Whether they’re searching for jobs or video clips of Britney Spears, Americans conducted 13.5 billion online searches at the core search engines in January, the majority of which were done via Google, according to Wednesday data from comScore. About 63 percent of January searches were done through Google-owned sites, with 21 percent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo 2.0: Richer ads and a tiny piece of Google’s audience
by Sam Diaz Yahoo is getting ready to throw richer advertisements – think video – into its search results page, bringing a much-needed facelift to the boring ads that are made up of a headline, a couple of lines of text and a link. More importantly, Yahoo – now under new management – may be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Yahoo Shows Search Ads With Images and Video
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings, the company plans to announce Thursday. Search advertising typically shows only text advertisements and links. Marketers usually devote part of their online budget to search — which shows text-only advertisements and links — and part [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Google Shows Healthy January Growth In U.S. Search Volume
by Erick Schonfeld Google saw healthy growth in the number of search queries on its core U.S. search engine in January, according to comScore qSearch numbers that came out last night. Google’s query growth rate was 38.4 percent, compared to January, 2008, outpacing the industry’s overall 28.6 percent growth in search queries. Any way you [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL search up; Google down
by Dawn Kawamoto Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL each carved out a little more U.S. search market share in January, but Google still had the biggest piece of the pie, according to a report Wednesday by ComScore. Yahoo Web sites accounted for 21 percent of the market (up half a percent) compared to the month before, [...]
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