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iGoogle Being Promoted Forecfully
Some visitors to iGoogle were greeted with a slightly altered interface today. The new interface grayed-out the default iGoogle interface and pushed it into a background. The foreground consisted of a layer forcing users to create their personalised Google homepage. More »
Posted on October 24th, 2007 in Google.
Microsoft Live Search Mobile Gets Voice Input
Since their acquisition of TellMe back in March 2007, mobile search experts have expected Microsoft to develop a voice-activated search function. Today they have announced just that, with the release of three new updates for Live Search Mobile. More »
Posted on October 19th, 2007 in Mobile.
InfoSpace Sells Mobile Services Business To Motricity
InfoSpace, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its mobile services business to Motricity, a privately held provider of mobile content services and solutions, for $135 million in cash. More »
Posted on October 15th, 2007 in Mobile.
SEO Quality Assurance Checklist
Andrew Shotland at the Local SEO Guide blog has written a very interesting post following up the recent release of the Google Ranking Factors poll. In his post he argues that perhaps the most important factor to determine Google ranking is an overall quality assurance check of the website that covers simple things such as the robots.txt file. More »
Posted on October 11th, 2007 in SEO.
Google Search Interface Experiments
Google Labs currently features four experimental search results interfaces that they are trialling. Users are invited to join one of the experiments and provide feedback on their experience with the new interface. The four experimental services are described below, along with a review of their good and bad points. More »
Posted on October 8th, 2007 in Google.
Nokia Splashes Out In Bid To Dominate Mobile Search
Mobile search has been earmarked as the advertising battleground of the future, with all the big brands of search scurrying to gain a stronghold. Nokia has just joined the fray with two big announcements. First, they opened up their N series phones to allow easier third party application integration. And now they’ve announced the acquisition of Navteq for $8.1 Billion. More »
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 in Mobile.
Live Search Updates But Still Lags Behind
Microsoft Live Search has just launched a major update, their biggest update since their debut in January 2005. The reformed search engine is supposed to be faster, more relevant and easier to use. Instead it looks like not much has changed and the need for Microsoft to catch up with Google, Yahoo! and even Ask is painfully obvious. More »
Posted on September 27th, 2007 in Search.
Newspaper Ads And Gadget Ads On AdWords
Google AdWords has announced two new features in the short span of the last 48 hours. First came the introduction of Google Gadget Ads, followed by the release of the Google Print Ads creative tool yesterday. More »
Posted on September 21st, 2007 in PPC.
Introducing Google Product Search For Mobile
Google is currently testing and improving on the latest addition to their mobile service offering - Product Search For Mobile. The new service will port the former Froogle onto Google Mobile in the US and UK in beta. More »
Posted on September 18th, 2007 in Mobile.
Local SEO For Multiple Locations
Chris Smith has written an extremely informative article for Search Engine Land’s Local Search Week. The article discusses how bricks-and-mortar companies with multiple stores, offices, hotels spread out across a city or region can optimise their site for local search. More »
Posted on September 17th, 2007 in SEO.
£2.2 Billion Spent On Search Engine Marketing in 2007
UK companies are expected to spend £2.2 billion on search engine marketing this year, up 58% from 2006, according to E-consultancy’s SEM Buyer’s Guide (2007). More »
Posted on September 7th, 2007 in SEM.
Yahoo! Integrates Video In Search Results
Searches for music videos and artists on Yahoo.com now bring up a special OneBox that allows users to hear music and play videos from Yahoo! Music within the search results page itself. More »
Posted on September 4th, 2007 in SEO.
New Search Measurement Report From comScore
qSearch 2.0 is the new search measurement report from comScore. The new report goes beyond traditional search to encompass other forms, such as multimedia and shopping searches, that occur on the Internet. Keeping the variety of searches that are carried out on a wider variety of platforms in mind, the new comScore reports will include data from: More »
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 in Search.
Google Earns USD 0.12 Per Search In The USA
Following the release of April US search engine rankings by comScore, Don Dodge, Microsoft’s Director of Business Development for Emerging Business, has written a very interesting post on his blog about why 1% of search market share is worth over $1 Billion. More »
Posted on May 28th, 2007 in PPC.
