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| Yellow Pages Publisher Buys Business.com For $350 Million |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 9:20 am |
| Tags: Search Engines B2b Engines |
| RH Donnelley, which acquired SEM firm LocalLaunch in 2006 and owns the local search/online yellow pages site DexKnows, has announced the acquisition of Business.com and its related properties for $350 million. Click to continue reading... |
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| Search Suggestions On Steroids: Yahoo Search Assist |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:39 am |
| Tags: Yahoo Search |
| got when they launched Yahoo Search Suggest earlier this month because I knew something even better was coming: Yahoo Search Assist. Finally, it's going live and in the wild for lucky people who are selected at random for testing. If all goes well, eventually everyone will get to use this new search refinement feature that I find very |
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| Report: Search Most Popular Online Marketing Strategy For Realtors |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 12:58 pm |
| Tags: Search Ads |
| The survey found that search engine marketing was the most popular category of online advertising. Click to continue reading... |
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| Live Search Now Supporting Sitemaps Autodiscovery Via Robots.txt File |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 10:28 am |
| Tags: Microsoft Live Search |
| This morning I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Microsoft Live Search is finally now supporting sitemaps via autodiscovery. Microsoft will only use your sitemaps file if it is listed in your robots.txt file. You cannot currently ping Microsoft or upload your sitemaps file to Microsoft. Click to continue reading... |
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| Google & Other Search Apps For The iPhone |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 10:10 am |
| Tags: Search Engines Mobile Search Engines |
| It has been almost two weeks since I got my iPhone and I have been playing with it for a while now. I wanted to share with you the various cool search applications I use on my iPhone, including Google's AJAX iPhone search. Click to continue reading... |
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| Superpages Adds Video To Local Search Site |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 9:51 am |
| Tags: Search Engines Maps Amp Local Search Engines |
| the second major local search destination to add video advertising after Citysearch did so recently (in partnership with TurnHere). Other local search and yellow pages sites with video include DexKnows (published by RH Donnelley), Smalltown, SavoyNewYork and MojoPages. And there are an increasing number of travel sites that have video as |
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| Should Stronger Keywords Subsidize Weaker Keywords? |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 9:34 am |
| Tags: Paid Search |
| Some keywords perform great. Some keywords perform OK, and some keywords stink. Today I'd like to write about keyword portfolio economics, asking, Does it ever make sense to use stronger keywords to subsidize weaker keywords? My answer is Yes—when done correctly. Efficiently bidding a large keyword portfolio is not simple. |
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| Search Illustrated: Google's Organic Crawl |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 8:26 am |
| Tags: Search Illustrated |
| Google has two crawlers, each with a different function, to assure that it's index of the web is both deep and up to date. Today's Search Illustrated shows the function of each of these content discovery utilities: Click to continue reading... |
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| Of Permanent Value: Archiving The Web |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 3:46 pm |
| Tags: Search On Search |
| on something of interest for Search Engine Land and not worrying about conflicts of interest with every sentence I write. Good news: I have found a topic that not only interests me but grows in significance for all of us as each day and each version of a web page passes: The importance of making web content more permanent. It's crucial for |
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| Search On Search: New Column From Search Engine Land |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 2:49 pm |
| Tags: Search On Search |
| Our newest Search Engine Land column, Search On Search, launches today. Search On Search is a column written by employees of search engines. Columnists are free to discuss technical details of how their search engine works or write opinion pieces that may or may not reflect the official position of their employer. The Search On Search column |
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| Microsoft To Anonymize Log Data; Calls For Industry Standards Along With Ask.com |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 9:49 am |
| Tags: Microsoft Live Search |
| Google's lead and anonymize search log data after 18 months. In addition, it has partnered with Ask to call for an industry effort to develop privacy principles. There's a tinge of PR stunt in this, but if looking for a PR edge will get the search engines moving, I suppose that's a necessary evil. Below, a look at what Microsoft is doing, |
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| Local Shopping Site Krillion Expands Inventory |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 9:26 am |
| Tags: Search Engines Maps Amp Local Search Engines |
| Development for Yahoo Search. While the Internet continues to rapidly expand its influence over consumer purchase behavior, the overwhelming majority of transactions are made in local stores. Sound like a contradiction? It's not. Click to continue reading... |
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| Microsoft Monday: Today's Google Free Alternative |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 12:02 am |
| Tags: Microsoft Live Search |
| Similar to the previous AOL search guide and Ask.com search guide, there is some light comparison to Google. This is not meant at a definitive look at strengths and weaknesses but instead to give you a feel on how the two differ. Click to continue reading... |
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| Search in Pictures: Yahoo Hair, Google Beach & Extremists |
| Published: July 20, 2007, 3:28 pm |
| Tags: Search In Pictures |
| In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Click to continue reading... |
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| "Google Promotion" Box Found On Google Product Search |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 9:48 am |
| Tags: Google Product Search |
| Label within Google Product Search results. Ionut Alex. Chitu saw this being tested for a product search on watch and send Philipp a screen capture. I personally do not see this promotion box come up. This is the second sighting of a box labeled "promotion" in Google results. Click to continue reading... |
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