Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Monday, May 7th, 2007
About.com (Parent company, The New York Times) recently announced that they were buying Consumersearch.com, a consumer shopping directory for 33 million dollars.
Consumersearch.com is a meta search engine that spiders the web (like Google) to find relevant reviews and information on products, services and other content. It generates revenue from ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
The search industry is highly competitive and the next big move out of Microsoft could be to just go buy out Yahoo.
The New York Post reported Friday that Microsoft has asked Yahoo to enter formal negotiations for an acquisition that could be worth $50 billion. Yahoo's market capitalization was ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
The first rule of Adsense Club is: you do not induce visitors to click! The second rule of Adsense Club is always follow rule one. Today Google is being a bit more clear in their explanation in a post entitled don't run the risk of click and miss, ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Incoming (and outgoing) links have always been integral to Google's link popularity based search engine ranking system. But the way links are gathered has come under fire in recent years, as one by one, Google has dismantled link schemes that "used to work", exposing certain business models to sudden ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
One thing about Google is that they are always busy making changes!
This week the big G is in the process of migrating older Adsense accounts into an upgraded interface. This move also gives publishers the opportunity to integrate multiple Google accounts
(GMail, Adwords, Picasso etc.) into one single login.
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
After providing 45 million dollars in second round funding last October to Right Media, Yahoo has bought out the remainder of the company in a $680 million dollar deal which will be payable to shareholders in cash and stock.
The acquisition is expected to help boost Yahoo's competitive edge in ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
If you have a search function on your website and it allows for publicly accessible searches to be performed, keep in mind that Google has said these search results must be dis-allowed from being crawled or your website can end up in trouble.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Recently Yahoo announced that they are adding a song lyric library that will allow users to access the words to over 400,000 songs.
This new service is being offered with Gracenote a company based in Emeryville that has negotiated deals with thousands of publishers who own the lyric copyrights. This ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Myspace recently announced that they are adding a news portal to their website.
This news portal is expected to work much like Digg and Netscape, but Myspace will search for news from online journals and other news sites. Digg and Netscape both rely on user generated stories.
Myspace will allow ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
comScore recently announced search market share for the month of March.
There were 7.3 billion Internet searches in March 2007, up 14% from March 2006.
Google led with 48.3% of search, Yahoo held 27.5%, followed by MSN at 10.9%, Ask Network with 5.2% and Time Warner Network at 5.0%.
How many queries do ...
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