I’m sure most of you understand the concept of a Google bomb (it should be called a search bomb because these “campaigns” effect more than Google’s index) and how they can cause humorous search results. Sometimes however, these little contextual backlink pushes associate concepts with sites you and I may find disagreeable or downright pathetic. […]
Google, Yahoo Get December Search Boost
The rich got richer during the big holiday month of December, as Google and Yahoo gained in comScore’s search engine rankings while the competition gave ground.
Video Game Search Engine Eyes U.S. Launch
In a new round of capital funding, Wazap has received an additional $7.9 million as part of its effort to expand its presence into the United States. Currently, the gaming search engine is only available in the Chinese, Japanese, and German languages, respectively.
Search Ads: Big Buys Last Month
Interesting Netratings data on ClickZ for the month of December 2006.
Maturation of Paid Search – End of Free Lunch
There’s certainly been a lot of noise being generated by medium-sized companies, complaining they’re no longer getting the same ROI from paid search – especially from Google AdWords.
Big Guys Put Squeeze On Search Ads
The much-heralded level playing field of paid search has begun to experience the unpleasant reality of a monopoly in the marketplace. So much importance is placed on Google that deeper-pocketed businesses may be driving smaller competitors out of AdWords.
Redirecting Google Blog Search
One of the biggest threats to Google’s dominance will doubtfully be a competing search engine, at least for the time being… No, if you had to narrow it down, the biggest threat will probably come in the form of search result spam – the main reason Google’s engineers have paid so much lip-service to cleaning up their organic results.
Cranky Boomers Get A Search Engine
The arrival of Cranky.com comes with features its founder, Jeff Taylor of Monster.com fame, thinks will be well received by the 50 and over crowd.
Opera Goes Yahoo For Mobile Search
A year ago, Opera announced Google would be the default search provider on its mobile browser. That has changed to Yahoo, a fundamental shift that seems surprising on the surface.
Best Search Blogs Of 2006
Posted by Chris Richardson Over at Search Engine Journal, Loren Baker held a “competition” to see which search-related blogs were the most popular. The contest was broken down into categories including topics like local search; affiliate marketing; search optimization; black-hat SEO and so on. A quick glance at the various winners shows there weren’t really […]