After carefully crafting a new ad for Google AdWords, the search ad receives no impressions and no clicks; before giving up in despair, read this. Fridays are bad for submitting new ads for review and approval with Google AdWords.
Google’s AJAX Search API Says ‘Hello, World’
Google has released a downloadable beta version of its AJAX Search API, a javascript library that allows webmasters to embed inline Google searches (Web, local, video, and blog) in web pages, blogs, and other applications alongside existing content.
Yahoo Helps Connect Webmasters And Search
Yahoo has been making an effort to be more available to webmasters everywhere by offering online help and resources, and a way to submit feedback to the Yahoo Search team.
Microsoft Funding Academic Search Projects
A dozen winners of Microsoft’s Live Labs Search request for proposals will share $500,000 in funding for their work in Accelerating Search in Academic Research.
Search Environment Prompts Specialization
The first six months of 2006 have been a period of expansion, growth and significant change in the search marketing universe.
AOL Employees Don’t Use AOL Search
AOL has been consistently 4th place in terms of search share, and Jason Calacanis thinks he knows why – because AOL sucks to search with. Calacanis, who joined AOL after the company bought his blog network, Weblogs Inc., slammed his parent company’s woeful search presentation on his weblog.
Search Patents Show Promise
A roundup of the latest search patents shows some interesting developments. As gathered and noted by SearchEngineWatch, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon all have new tweaks and developments in play, with Yahoo actually receiving two patents and Microsoft being granted three.
Search Engines C Demand For Programmers
The need for C/C++ programmers varies among the major search engine companies; Horace Greeley’s advice to go West definitely applies here.
Conversation Search The Next Generation
Forget about the page procuring prowess of Google or Technorati’s blog search boom, what the Internet needs most is a way to discover, index, and deliver relevant human conversations to searchers.
MSN Search ODP Opt-Out Option
MSN search has introduced an Open Directory (ODP or DMOZ) opt-out meta tag allowing webmasters and search marketers the option of preventing an erroneous or miswritten Open Directory description from appearing as part of MSN search results.