Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Search Marketing & The US Presidental Race, Case Study: Sarah Palin After reading yesterday about how savvy both US presidential campaigns seem to think they are about […]
After reading
yesterday about how savvy both US presidential campaigns seem to think they
are about search marketing, I decided I’m going to take a closer look at
watching them. In particular, I noticed yesterday that both seemed pretty
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Tamar reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Google has confirmed that they are testing displaying search ads under the search results. You and I are accustomed to seeing AdWords ads at the top and right hand side of the Google search results page, but we never see them under the search results.
Stephan Kopp […]
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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Microsoft successfully bid to acquire Greenfield Online for approximately $486 million. But Microsoft isn’t really interested in Greenfield, it was after the company’s subsidiary Ciao GmbH.
Founded in 1999 and acquired by Greenfield in 2005, Ciao is an Munich-based EU comparison shopping site with user reviews.
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A few days ago, Ask.com relaunched Ask Kids, their search flavored for children. The Ask.com blog just wrote about the launch last night.
Ask.com said the Ask Kids site was “built from the ground-up, with our own search technology.” It seems like Ask.com added a “very strict” list of which sites are allowed in […]
When looking to predict how MBA students and analysts would find information in a digital environment, Peter Pirolli found his answer in an unlikely place: animal’s foraging patterns. Pirolli, working at the Palo Alto Research Center, was trying to predict with some mathematical accuracy the behavior of humans when searching for information but was having […]
The Wall Street Journal analyzes and compares the online marketing strategies, successes and weaknesses of the two US presidential candidates. McCain turns out to be the more savvy search marketer, while Obama does a better job at SEO and is investing more in online display advertising.
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Many search marketers know of "data geek"
Bill Tancer, who has long
entertained folks at search marketing conferences with tales and
observations of what you can tell about people through search trends. Bill’s
got a great new book coming out,
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Are You Giving Your SEO Enough Information to Succeed? Three years ago Todd Malicoat published a blog post titled Balancing the Link Equation, which offered conditional tips […]