It’s search popularity statistics time again, and I’m starting off with
the latest figures from comScore. Finally, a change — Google slips while
Yahoo and Microsoft gain. Trouble for the Big G? Not really — because in
terms of raw number of […]

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Very Recent & Addictomatic: Finding What People Are Buzzing About Right Now! Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he’s crafted, Very Recent, designed to […]

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Very Recent & Addictomatic: Finding What People Are Buzzing About Right Now! Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he’s crafted, Very Recent, designed to […]

Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he’s crafted,
Very Recent, designed to pull back top
results from "recency search engines," for lack of a better word. Blog
search, news search, social news plus Twittering, all in one. It needs a lot
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In a previous article titled New Online Video News Search Study - Is the Business Case Made?, I discussed a DoubleClick Performics study that looked at how consumers interact with online video news, how they use search in the process, and their desire to see more video search results on the mainstream search engines. To […]

The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a video interview created by Juliane Stiller of Search Quality Team. Juliane interviewed Matt Cutts about search spam for the German Google Blog. My favorite question and answer set was when was the first time Matt found his first web spam.
The video is below:
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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.

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In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines and today’s in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Search Marketing Optimization Part 1 and To Broad Match or […]

Google announced that it had acquired “Begun,” a Russian contextual ad service, for $140 million. The service had been a unit of Russia’s Rambler Media. Rambler also owns the Russian portal Rambler.ru. As part of the deal, Google-enhanced search results and ads will appear on the Rambler portal site.
According to Reuters, Rambler expects annual […]

TechCrunch reports that Microsoft is testing their self-service AdSense/YPN product named Content Ads. The truth is, as TechCrunch said in an update to his post, they have started this pilot earlier this year. I have a post at the Search Engine Roundtable linking to the pilot enrollment form.
Content Ads is still a very […]