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Yahoo and MSN Prove Competition for Google
Early this morning, right after the witching hour, Yahoo pulled the trigger and dropped Google search results from their Yahoo Search function. The move was...
Yahoo Introduces New Yahoo Search
Yahoo announced that it has created a more comprehensive and relevant search experience for users through the deployment of its own algorithmic search technology on...
Google Grows Index to 6 Billion Sites, Postings and Documents
Google, the search engine giant, claimed today that it has reached a new milestone in search by extending its web index to over six billion...
Yahoo Sneak Previews non-Google Search Results
Search engine people all over the world today are on the edge of their seats, waiting for the Yahoo to drop Google and switch to...
Yahoo Intros New Search Robot – Yahoo! Slurp
Yahoo just got a step closer to dropping the Google search results from its search function and replacing them with Yahoo’s own Inktomi search engine-...
UCmore Search Engine Tool Cleans Up Image
In a time when more and more search toolbars and browser based web surfing enhancers are stirring up the controversy of secretly placing themselves on...
Can Friendster Type Social Networking Make Money?
Google launched Orkut, Lycos is dropping normal search for friend networking, and Friendster is popping up clones all over the place. Social Networking has become...
Will Paid Search Engine Advertising Slow Down?
According to the new eMarketer Search Engine Marketing report, US paid search ad spending growth peaked in 2003, but it will exceed one-third of all...
Vivisimo Takes Bite at eBay Search Listings
Vivisimo, developer of Internet clustering search technology that groups search results into instant categories, has taken on the super messy product listings on eBay. eBay’s...
Activist Ads Dumped from Google AdWords
Google, the web’s top search engine, according to a news release, has banned the ads of an environmental group protesting major cruise line Royal Caribbean’s...
Local Search gets 25% of Online Buyers
The findings of a new survey of more than 5,000 online buyers conducted by The Kelsey Group and BizRate.com reveal that local commercial searches-those seeking...
Lycos to Drop Search Image, Goes Social Networking
Lycos has decided to throw in the Search Engine/Portal towell and dip into the realm of Social Networking, according to sources. Instead of trying to...
Paid Search Advertising: $2 Billion in 2004
US paid search advertising spending soared 123% over the previous year, rising from $923 million in 2002 to over $2 billion last year, according to...
Google Adwords Support Chinese Language Ads
Google, the web’s top search engine and search advertising network, introduced new online advertising services and payment options aimed at winning more customers in the...
FindWhat & eSpotting Search Advertising Firms Merge
FindWhat.com, a pay-per-click search engine advertising firm (a solid paid search service – with solid partners and a sound global reputation), finally announced today the...
Online advertising drew lower direct response rates in Q4
Online advertising drew lower direct response rates in the fourth quarter because of the higher volume of ads and more advertisers using them for branding,...
The 5 steps to successfully building a good e-commerce Web site
Register a .com, a .biz, a .cc or a .ca domain name (.ca are reserved for Canadian companies only). Whether you’re looking to reserve domain...
Website Usability & Search Engine Optimization
Today, I will slightly steer away from the subject of search engine optimization and instead present what should be the most important considerations when designing...
Microsoft has opened up a beta version of its long awaited MSN search engine
Microsoft has opened up a beta version of its long awaited MSN search engine
MSN + Google = Netscape : The Search Engine Wars
The search engine war between Google and MSN is generating some nasty tactics reminiscent of the Microsoft vs. Netscape battle of the mid ’90’s. Those...
IBM progressing on the development of its search engine technology
IBM would like to see its WebFountain supercomputing project become the next big thing in Web search.
Modifying Search Engine Keyphrases
Modifiers in search engine phrases are used for two main reasons: to increase the percentage of ideal prospects in the traffic the phrase attracts, and...
Search Engine Optimization for Good Rankings
1) Relevant Domain Name- Purchase a domain name for your site that is relevant to the search terms. If you are optimizing for “blog search...
Microsoft Beta Testing New Search Engine
Microsoft’s MSN division has launched a sneak peek beta test of its new MSN Search Engine. The new MSN Search is a full speed ahead...
Content Management Systems and their relation to SEO
A lot has been said about Content Management Systems (CMS) in the past. Since search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimisation (SEO) are now...
The latest on update Austin (Google’s January update)
Some of the websites that haven’t been hit too hard in Google’s Florida update (November 2003) got hit real hard on or around January 23....
The Real Value Of Online Services
I make reference to a thread I started at the High Rankings Forum that pertains to prospective clients bartering for SEO services. When is enough,...
What If Google Didn’t Like Blogs?
Google likes Blogs. Blogs do well in Search Results Listings on Google. This is because Blogs contain fresh content and are richly interlinked, despite their...