Thu May 22, 2008

Google has a set of advanced search operators that can be accessed either through the advanced search page, or by using specialized commands in conjunction with your query from any Google web search box. One of the most useful for search engine...

Thu May 22, 2008

Lawmaker questions Google over privacy practices from Reuters reports Texas Rep. Joe Barton from the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee quizzed Google on how they will integrate DoubleClick's data with their own. Some questions...

Thu May 22, 2008

And the winner of the "Doodle 4 Google" competition is... Grace (Suryung) Moon, a 6th grader from Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, California. She designed the Google logo, "Up in the Clouds," which she said, "expresses a world in the sky." The...

Thu May 22, 2008

In a May 1st post to this column, my colleague Tom Wilde questioned whether direct response or brand marketing would lead the inflow of dollars to the online video advertising market. While both forms of advertising are potentially applicable to what is...

Thu May 22, 2008

Nick Wilsdon summarizes a continued saga that is taking place over at our Sphinn on the topic of a recent linkbait tactic deployed by Lyndon Antcliff. In short, the linkbait story was named 13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers, but the...

Wed May 21, 2008

by Diane Aull There's a lot of buzz lately about “social media.” People are saying effective participation in sites such as StumbleUpon, Facebook and del.icio.us can lead to increased traffic, more customers and a stronger online...

Wed May 21, 2008

by Jennifer Laycock Yesterday I spent the day at a small conference here in Columbus put on by Ohio Web Leaders. They'd asked me to come and speak about blogging for business and blog marketing to a mix of small business, PR types and in-house...

Wed May 21, 2008

Another ratings service shows Google hitting an all-time high for search share in the United States. This is according to April 2008 search share stats from Nielsen Online that were released (PDF) today. Last week, Hitwise also reported Google...

Wed May 21, 2008

The Yahoo Search Marketing blog announced that they have released several minor updates to make the use of the search ad console easier for advertisers to work with. Here is a list of changes and enhancements made to the system: Click to continue...

Wed May 21, 2008

You can now search for past Techmeme articles directly on the site or at http://techmeme.com/search/. Techmeme's founder, Gabe Rivera, announced the new feature today at his blog. He explained that the Techmeme search engine only searches full...

Wed May 21, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: You Can Search TechmemeYou can now search for past Techmeme articles directly on the site or at...

Wed May 21, 2008

The guy was in a panic. His ROI had been in a nose dive for the last few months, and he couldn't figure out why. With no major changes to keywords, copy, landing pages, bids or budget, he was dumbfounded about the decline. But when I asked him what...

Wed May 21, 2008

Google and the other search engines have begun mixing in more than just text-based results in their web searches. You can still perform specific searches for videos images and blogs but thanks to Google s Universal Search you can also find them in...

Wed May 21, 2008

Microsoft has introduced a new program called "Cashback" on Live Search. We were thoroughly briefed and are currently under embargo about some details of the program. But, as others are reporting, it's now live and you can investigate it from a consumer...

Wed May 21, 2008

Microsoft launched Live Search Cashback and Greg will have a more detailed post on his pre-briefing. But I wanted to take you through the experience of using Cashback as a searcher. It has been a rainy week here in New York, and I figured I would...