Guest Blogger: Laura Rodnitzky is the Director of Production for PPC Associates, a search engine marketing agency with offices in San Mateo and Chicago. Last month I wrote about a few ways to use Google’s AdWords Desktop Editor to more efficiently manage campaigns in Google AdWords. This month I’ll share some of my favorite tricks […]
Google & Bing Admit to Having Whitelists / Exception Lists
Last week, our SEM team at Schipul – The Web Marketing Company, attended the SMX West conference in San Jose, CA. One of the much anticipated panels included “The Spam Police” featuring Google’s Matt Cutts, Bing’s Sasi Parthasarthy and Blekko’s Rich Skrenta. The panel was moderated by Search Engine Land editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan. One of […]
The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance
Well, it has finally happened. After coming to a basic agreement in July and finalizing the terms in December of last year, Yahoo! and Microsoft have received regualtory approval from the U.S. Government and the EU. The result is a search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo! in their combined battle for online advertising with Google. […]
Twitter Teams up with Google and Bing
Twitter recently partnered up with both Google and Bing to allow them to search and index the full stream of tweets. Both companies are taking a different approach to how to showcase the data. Here is a look at each one. Bing Twitter Page and Search Bing actually created an entire page at bing.com/twitter which […]
Microsoft begins revealing New Decision Engine – Bing
I suspect Microsoft has long felt the burr under their saddle when talking about Google. Looks like their competitive nature has them back in the headlines. They are unveiling the newest updates to their Search Engine technology called Bing. The biggest question is, can it be a competitor to Google? We do recognize that Search […]
State of the Search Engines Winter 2009
A lot has happened in the strange and wonderful world of Search Engines over the past year so lets recap: January 31 2008 – Microsoft offers up it’s services to run Yahoo! in an unsolicited take over bid. Yahoo! thinks it over. March 17 2008 – Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt says the deal is bad […]
Live Search Now Lets You Find the Perfect Image
Live Search announced it’s new image search function that allows you the ability to find similar images to ones that you like. In their example on their blog they show a search result of Muhammad Ali that returns a variety of results Hovering over an image you are given an option to ‘show similar images.’ […]
Microsoft & Yahoo! the Saga Continues
Yahoo! was again courted by Microsoft this past weekend in a deal that might be akin to drunk dialing. Drunk Dialing, you know, you’ve had too much to drink and its late and you really want to talk to someone so you convince yourself that you should call them even if it is 4 in […]
Microsoft "Search and Give"
Microsoft has just launched their Search and Give program where it will donate a penny to a charity each time you use this search page to do a search. More than 1 million organizations including schools and non-profits worldwide have participated in this charity event. How does this work? Start by going to https://www.searchandgive.com/ Sign […]
Microsoft to Yahoo: I Think We Should See Other People
The ongoing saga of the search engine world seems to have ended, briefly. Microsoft announced over the weekend that it is withdrawing its bid to acquire Yahoo ending its 3 month dance with the second most popular search engine. In a letter released on PR Newswire CEO Steve Ballmer cites Yahoo’s AdWord deal with Google […]