The deal that was soooo close to happening so many times and never came through, well, finally came throughwith a lot less lead-up and fanfare than anytime it was rumored to be happening. I think this will be a good opportunity for Yahoo to spend time working on its content even more, and to help [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Search News'
Yahoo and MSN merge search – it’s official
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: bing · bing sucks · fail · Google · Google sucks · MSN · MSN sucks · online marketing news · Search News · win · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
MORE big news!
June 19th, 2009 No Comments
If the new position, new regular blogging duties at the Range Blog and the platinumizing travel schedule I’ve cleared in the last few months weren’t enough to make blogging trickier than earlier this year, another big opportunity just came along: I’m now a regular columnist at Search Engine Watch, writing and commenting on Enterprise SEM (how [...]
Tags: learning SEO · Search News · SEO News · shameless self promotion · win
Yahoo Image Search By Creative Commons License
May 26th, 2009 No Comments
For the blogging and presenting set, a new fun function from Yahoo Image search: Breakdowns by creative commons permissions.
Let’s face it – this never really stopped anyone from re-using content from other sites and especially images – especially in instances where the license wasn’t made especially clear. But, much like iTunes when it first came out, [...]
Tags: image search · Search News · universal search · win · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
Twitter is not a search engine
March 6th, 2009 6 Comments
I’ll confess, I don’t understand this new twitter-as-search-engine meme. In my opinion anyone who tries to tell you otherwise has either drank too deeply of the kool-aid 140 characters at a time, is trying to get you to fund it or is trying to convince Google to buy it (so that they can break that, too). [...]
Tags: Search News · twitter
Search queries getting longer
March 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Not like you really needed an excuse to do a smart thing, but in case you do (or need ammunition to be allowed to go the extra mile), Hitwise is saying that longer search engine queries are becoming more frequent:
The number of Internet search queries of five words or more increased by 10% year over [...]
Tags: PPC news · Search News · SEO News
Taxpayer funds training traditional media in online techniques
February 24th, 2009 No Comments
A newspaper group in Minnesota is using grant money to re-train its staff for the internet age.
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to retrain workers in manufacturing and other industries in transition.
The Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press will work with the [...]
Tags: Online Marketing · Search News
Congress wants to repeal online gambling ban
February 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Fresh off the $787 billion stimulus package needed after short-sighted, um, gambles on risky mortgages, Congress in general and Barney Frank in particular wants to repeal the online gambling ban. Yeah, there’s no way that this could go wrong. Not like we have a recent history of consumer-level speculation going bad, nor of government efforts [...]
Tags: online marketing news · political seo · Search News · SEO News
SearchWiki is on paid ads now, too
February 16th, 2009 No Comments
You know what’s better than letting an unpopular and easily spammable feature die a quiet death? Letting it affect your ad revenue!
SearchWiki, for those who haven’t heard, is an add-on to Google results when a user is signed on that will allow searchers to move a given result for a given result up, down or [...]
Tags: Google · Google sucks · PPC news · Search News
Dvorak needs a clue about SEO
February 10th, 2009 No Comments
Otherwise intelligent tech guy John Dvorak wrote a screed against time-honored SEO techniques in a very visible PC Mag article today. Lot of people hacked off about it. Basically, guy got some bad advice from an ‘SEO Maven’ that he needed longer URLs. To his way of saying it, all he heard was that search engines [...]
Tags: Search News · seo ignorance · SEO News
The original Google bomb lives again
January 23rd, 2009 No Comments
I swear this is the last thing I’ll have to say about political SEO for some time. Politics largely just serves to piss off either 47-52% of the population depending on what it is you have to say, and I’m only out to get involved with things that have the potential to piss off in [...]
Tags: fail · political seo · Search News · SEO News
