A beta version of Yahoo’s Audio Search will let users find, among other things, music from services like iTunes and Napster as well as its own Music Unlimited.
Jupitermedia sells Search Engine Watch, SES and ClickZ Magazine
Search marketers were surprised yesterday by the announcement that three of the most influential publications in the search marketing sector had quietly been sold to new owners.
Yahoo Seeks Sound Search
Yahoo’s makin’ a lotta noise with their new audio search. Other search engines have audio searches but Yahoo is the biggest one to pick up the audio search so far. This search will include downloadable music, podcasts, news interviews, historical recordings and lots of others. The one basic rule is no peer to peer listings.
Behavioral Analysis: Is Claria Building the Next Great Search Engine?
Claria’s RelevancyRank, a search technology under development, challenges Google, Yahoo, and MSN with a comparison of where they would rank the sites that RelevancyRank (based on behavioral indicators that Claria gathers by following users around with its adware) would rank in the top ten for the phrase “cheap tickets.”
Should You Steer Clients Towards Local Search?
When providing SEO/SEM services for clients (or doing it for yourself), do you target, or at least pay attention to the growing number of local search presences? If so, is this something you consider worthwhile and if not, would you ever consider doing so…?
A9 Toolbar Can Search Any Site
The search options under the A9 Toolbar allow users to search a site or page they are currently visiting.
Ask Jeeves To Revamp Search Pages With Less Advertising
Now that Ask Jeeves has acknowledged they are going ahead with their own search advertising service, in order to celebrate the switch, apparently Ask is going to revamp the appearance of their search engine result pages in order to reflect these changes.
Next Gen Search: Thinking Engines
For those who’ve been keeping up, keyword relevance-based searches will soon look like top-loading VCR’s; they still may work but who has the time? Soon search engines will think, as evidenced by Engenium’s latest patented application, Semetric V.4.0.
Yahoo Wants User-Specific Vertical Search For Itself
Yahoo has filed several patent applications, including one for user-specific vertical search, but Yahoo may or may not be so lucky as to have that patent granted.
Alan Meckler On Why He Sold Search Engine Strategies and ClickZ
I love it. Alan Meckler, CEO of publicly traded Jupitermedia, is blogging today about why his company sold some of its most well known online and offline properties.