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Yahoo officially launched SmartView Tuesday, moving still farther ahead of Google in the race for local search.
SmartView adds functionality and a wider choice to Yahoo’s old “maps” page. Type in your zip code in the form on the top left of the page and a map of your neighborhood pops up.
If you want to be found in the search engines, it is important that you add search engine optimization to your action list. In a nutshell, search engine optimization-or SEO for short-is the process of making your web pages “search engine friendly.”
Internet media leader Yahoo! announced today its SmartView Technology, a mapping tool taking web content searches to the next level.
To round out our conference coverage I asked several of my conference friends about what they learned. I talked with SEO experts, expo presenters, and Jackie Jahosky, who’s gained fame for her in-session response to Site Match: “I just don’t like it.”
The past year has been one of major transition in the search engine industry. Changes to the landscape have been enormous with mergers, acquisitions, and the easing of several formerly big-players out of the sector or, in the case of AltaVista, Lycos and LookSmart, into the minor leagues. We’ve seen new technologies and revenue models being tested by search firms, along with fresh promises of personalized ad-delivery through contextual placement. While there is no end in sight for changes in this evolving medium, this is a good time to examine the impact of such upheaval on the state of website marketing and search engine placement.
Nacho Hernandez of Mexgrocer.com is excited about the future of search.
I had lunch with Tim Mayer of Yahoo yesterday. I’d heard he was “looking for me,” at PubCon one night in the hotel bar, and figured it was because we broke news on the SiteMatch product a little earlier than Yahoo would have liked. So I kind of avoided him after that.
During this week’s Search Engine Strategies conference it was stated that search engine marketers currently make up 22% of the people buying online advertisements, often bidding on thousands of search terms with million dollar budgets.
Greg Jarboe, President and co-founder of SEO-PR, revealed to Murdok yesterday some insight into the new Yahoo! Search.
At this morning’s Search Engine Strategies session, Google’s Craig Silverstein shared his vision of the future of search.
