Ten years ago today, I created Search Engine Watch. Now I’m here at Search Engine Land, but since I ran SEW for 95 percent of its existence, I thought it would be nice to look back and cover how it evolved and changed over the years. So here’s a stroll down memory lane. Some of […]
Elisabeth Osmeloski, editor of Search Engine Watch, is leaving to become director of online media for the Zonder.com Vacation Rentals site. Her last day will be this Friday, and she has a departure announcement here. Elisabeth and I worked together to get the Search Engine Watch Forums launched nearly three years ago, then she became […]
Last weekend was apparently a big weekend when it came to weddings and search. Both big names in search got hitched — Gary Price and Sergey Brin. No, not to each other (not that there would be anything wrong with that, of course!). ResourceShelf editor and Ask.com search evangelist Gary Price tied the knot near […]
EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio from the Wall Street Journal brings back the rumors that eBay will be purchasing StumbleUpon. The Wall Street Journal reports that the potential asking price is $75 million. However, when Chris Sherman interviewed Garrett Camp, one of the founders of StumbleUpon, he said these were “just rumors.” An […]
Greg Jarboe reports Yahoo has added images and videos to the top of some of the Yahoo News search results. For example a search on apple options returns both image news results and video news results at the top of the news search page.
As John Battelle notes, the embargo on AOL’s deal to white label Google’s AdWords system and sell ads direct on its own has been broken. It’s no surprise this was coming. A white label deal was announced back in December 2005 when AOL renewed with Google:
I gave SEO Book’s Aaron Wall a big mention for his piece on trust earlier this week, but he’s got another post out now that deserves as much attention: Google as the Invisible Hand of the Online Economy. In it, he covers things such as how by being everywhere, Google reinforces things for Google itself. […]
Search has changed. Online consumer information retrieval has reached another inflexion point – a shift from pure algorithmic search to social search. Searchers have become increasingly sophisticated, and basic algorithmic web results are getting diluted out of most mainstream search experiences such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask. Search is not solved. At their […]
Another webcast alert for SearchCap newsletter readers and anyone who visits Search Engine Land. In just over a week, the Reaping Return From Alternative Pay-Per-Click Search Engines webcast from our sister site Search Marketing Now will be taking place with Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman. The webcast happens Tuesday, March 27 at 1pm […]
A quick alert for our SearchCap newsletter readers and anyone who visits Search Engine Land. Next week, the Paid vs. Free Listings: Optimizing the Mix webcast from our sister site Search Marketing Now will be taking place with Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman. The webcast happens Thursday, March 15 at 1pm Eastern (6pm […]
Pandia is offering a free custom search called the Search Engine Detective, a meta search engine which lets you do specialized searches for anything search engine related. Search Engine Detective give you two options: “All the best sites about search engines” searches a wide variety of sites and blogs on search engine optimization and the […]
Got some time on your hands? Want to get out and meet people, talk search marketing or improve your search marketing skills? There are plenty of upcoming events if you’re wanting to get out and learn more. Below, a rundown on some of the conferences and training events happening in the next two months.
A quick heads-up for our SearchCap newsletter readers and also to anyone who visits Search Engine Land. Next week the Maximizing the Impact of Paid Search Listings webcast from our sister site Search Marketing Now will be taking place with Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman. The webcast happens Thursday, March 8 at 1pm […]
A Keynote Conversation with Google’s Matt Cutts from Search Engine Roundtable provides live blogging of Google’s Matt Cutts talking to Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman during the keynote at SES London today. Matt covers: Eloping, a nice Valentine’s Day topic His typical day fighting spam Google search algorithm evolution Debunking myths How SEOs […]
Google Operating Systems reports that Google has changed the way they handle warning searchers of sites that may contain malware on them. It notes that a search on beautiful free screensaver currently brings up a result from elitesavers.com that has a message from Google reading: “This site may harm your computer.” That message links directly […]
Yahoo launched their new ad-ranking algorithm “Panama” this past Monday. Since then, I have collected feedback from the search community on the release. Here is a collection of blog posts, forum posts and opinion on Yahoo’s new quality score factor:
A quick heads-up for our SearchCap newsletter readers and also to anyone who visiting Search Engine Land. Next week the Social Search: New Marketing Opportunities webcast from our sister site Search Marketing Now will be taking place with Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman. The webcast happens Thursday, January 25 at 1pm Eastern. Chris […]
One of my resolutions in starting Search Engine Land was to spend more time doing Q&As with people. There’s no better way to ensure I do that than to start a column. So I’m happy to announce that Q&A Land becomes the second column offered by Search Engine Land. Unlike Link Week, which started this […]
Reminder! Our sister site Search Marketing Now is holding its first free webinar today. How to Find the Right Search Marketing Partner is led by Chris Sherman and starts at 1pm Eastern time. The webcast is free to attend. You’ll find more information and registration info here.
Just a quick reminder that the first webinar from our sister site Search Marketing Now happens next week. It’s called How to Find the Right Search Marketing Partner, led by Chris Sherman and happening on Tuesday, December 19 at 1pm Eastern time. The webcast is free to attend. You’ll find more information and registration info […]