First panel today for me is the Search Industry Update panel moderated by Sandeep Aggarwal of Collins-Stewart with Sean Walsh of LuxuryLink.com, Heather Dougherty of HitWise, Kevin Lee of Didit and Jaldeep Singh of Spock.com Sean Walsh is speaking about using Google Insights to explain search volume for the keyword ‘vacation‘ and how search […]
Cuil Search Engine Launched
There is a new search engine in town – Cuil (pronounced "Cool") was officially launched yesterday by three former engineers from Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Cuil claims to have more than 120 billion pages in the index that is "three times as many as Google" How does Cuil rank search results?Cuil’s […]
Yahoo! Introduces BOSS – Build Your Own Search
In positive Yahoo! news the hottest search commodity has announced it’s BOSS(Build Your Own Search) platform that will help ‘developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies… …build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index’ Yahoo!, recognizing the extreme talent base of its web users, is opening the doors in an effort […]
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 […]
Yahoo! New Minimum Bid Webinar Available
If you’re managing your own Yahoo! Paid Placement Campaign and need help with the new minimum bid structure, Yahoo! has released their Webinar on this topic to better help advertisers with understanding why they’re doing so and where you can go in to your account to update your bids. The Webinar will go over some […]
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 […]
Microsoft to Yahoo! Employees – We Want You to Stay
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is to ‘Devote $1.5 Billion to Retaining Yahoo Employees.’ WSJ reports that the ‘plan was revealed in court transcripts regarding a suit by shareholders against Yahoo’s directors.’ According to the report Yahoo directors are being sued by shareholders . They ‘feel that Yahoo hasn’t responded in good […]
Yahoo Changes Minimum Bids
Yahoo! recently made an update to their sponsored search advertising. The minimum bids are no longer fixed at $.10. Your minimum bids are now based on a number of things such as the quality of your ads and the value of the keywords. So, it can be higher or lower than $.10. Why are they […]
The Search Engine World is Heating Up
Call us big geeks but we have been enjoying the public but rather courteous skirmish between Microsoft and Yahoo! If you aren’t aware of what is going on I’ll give you a run down on things so far; January 31 2008 Microsoft bids 44.6 billion($31/share) in a cash and stock bid to acquire Yahoo! Yahoo! […]