“Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year for U.S. brick-and-mortar retailers. But, for each Monday after Black Friday, consumer searches spike up on the internet and online retail websites enjoy their highest traffic and associated sales of the year. Search engine use is directly impacting businesses during this […]
After literally years of anticipation, rumor, and increasingly aggressive speculation about a Google Phone, Google has formally announced that the Gphone cometh — sort of. Today, the company has gone public with news of an open source mobile operating system called "Android," named after the company Google acquired in 2005. Backing Android is the Open […]
Hakia, a natural language search engine, has just added a new spin to search: social networking. Their new Meet Others feature lets you connect with others who are searching for the same things you are. Since Hakia processes queries differently than old school search engines such as Google, you aren’t just matched up with people […]
StumbleUpon Expands Social Search Across the Web from TechCrunch reports StumbleUpon has expanded their toolbar from enhancing Google, Yahoo, or Windows Live search results to now also include AOL, Ask.com, Google News, Yahoo News, Flickr, Wikipedia, and YouTube. That means, if you use the StumbleUpon and search at YouTube, you will see “SearchReviews” with a […]
While lunching with Danny, Vanessa, and gang (and discussing kosher vampires [Michael Gray: “Do kosher vampires only eat Jewish people?”]) at SMX Social Media, I was asked to live blog the Micro Communities session this afternoon. My first Search Engine Land post will thus consist of me recapping my boss’s presentation. Hooray. Anyway, the Micro […]
The closing session for the first day of SMX Social Media is a keynote conversation with Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us & Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon. We’re going to learn more about the landscape and future of social networking. More coverage at Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Journal.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
This Associated Press article chronicles how Google has been able to build a multi-billion dollar consumer brand largely without advertising. That’s the part everybody knows. But the article also compares the annual ad spending of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and eBay. It points out that when Google does buy any advertising, it’s typically to recruit employees.
comScore has released new figures looking at the most popular search engines worldwide. Google tops the list, with nearly five times as many searches as nearest competitor Yahoo. But the worldwide list does focus attention on some non-US based search players like Baidu and NHN, which owns Korea’s Naver. It also shows Asia-Pacific as the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
As readers of my personal blog know, I’ve been building a tree house over the summer for my kids. It’s about to come out of beta, with me needing to add some climbing holds to one of the outer walls to largely finish it off. That means ordering some, and when I started searching today, […]
This afternoon Yahoo announced that it was buying US-based ad network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. Founded in 2004, the company has 10 offices globally and claims more unique US visitors than Google, MSN, AOL and eBay. It also claims to be the fifth largest US ad network and the second largest in the […]
Over the years, we’ve seen a number of lawsuits filed against search engines or between companies regarding ads that are linked to trademark terms. Below, a rundown on some of the more notable cases. Before the recap, a little background. To those not familiar with trademark law, the cases can seem like guaranteed victories for […]
I’m having a bad day. Aside from my desktop crashing, we get another spate of “let’s blame SEO” to start my morning off. Robert Scoble uses that theme as a launching pad for a series of videos on how Facebook potentially could be a killer search engine — regardless of the fact he seems to […]
The analytics firm comScore is expanding its core search metrics product, qSearch, in a number of ways that the company says will make the measurement of search volumes and market share more accurate than it was previously. According to James Lamberti, SVP Search and Media at comScore, the expansion of the company’s methodology and measurement […]
Yahoo released its Q2 earnings a little while ago. What they show is low double-digit growth in certain revenue categories, but also decreases in selected areas (e.g., operating income, free cash flow). Revenue and operating cash flow described as consistent with the “midpoint of guidance.” Here’s the earnings release (PDF file). Below are some additional […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Readers will recall Google recently backing down from eBay in pushing Google Checkout against eBay’s PayPal. Google, eBay battle it out over online payments from Bloomberg is a good article shedding fresh light on how important PayPal is to eBay, to the degree that it would pull its ads from Google to protect something that […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
According to the Newspaper Association of America, U.S. print newspaper classified advertising was worth about $17 billion in 2006. The category has been under pressure for years from top online verticals, some of which are owned by newspapers, eBay, Craigslist and, now, new aggregators and destinations such as Oodle , LiveDeal and Edgeio, among others. […]
eBay Launches Yahoo Co-Branded Toolbar from AuctionBytes reports that eBay has partnered with Yahoo to co-brand a toolbar. The eBay Toolbar not only allows you to search the complete web, but also enables you to search eBay properties such as eBay, eBay Express and Half.com. You can also easily access your Yahoo Mail and My […]
Can She Turn Yahoo Into, Well, Google? from the New York Times takes a deep look at Yahoo’s new president, Susan Decker, and her capabilities of turning things around for the company. I’ll bulletpoint some of the reasons why people feel she may or may not accomplish big changes for Yahoo:
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from June 2007:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
EBay to resume ads on Google, but rely on rivals from Reuters reports that eBay has resumed advertising through AdWords on Google but on a more limited basis than in the past.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Remember the fracas between Google and eBay, where Google was going to have a party for Google Checkout at last week’s eBay Live event? It scored some collateral damage when two employees of MyStoreSpace.com found themselves interrogated for wearing Google shirts, though talking up Google Checkout as they did probably didn’t help. Blogs MyStoreSpace’s founder, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
As part of today’s Google International Press Day, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is doing Q&A with journalists. Here’s a live blogging highlight of what was said, which covered a range of issues from privacy, censorship, whether Google is too big and scary and more.
The “experiment” continues. It appears that eBay ads on Google are still nowhere to be found, consistent with what eBay spokespeople said last week — that the company would continue its AdWords fast for an indefinite period. As one example, the quintessential eBay search for “collectibles” reveals a top organic link but no paid eBay […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
This week, eBay Live is happening in Boston, but the event is likely to be overshadowed by a fascinating and fast-developing controversy between the auction giant and Google. Rumors from ComparisonEngines.com and other sources last night and earlier today reported that eBay had pulled its ads off Google to protest a planned party (now cancelled) […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. But before the news, a request! When Online Marketing Blog had a poll for best search podcast recently, I was one of the few that did NOT beg, plead or cajole listeners to vote for […]
It’s a bad privacy day for Google, with Privacy International first accusing the company of having the worst privacy performance of any internet service company in a study it has just released and then accusing Google of conducting a smear campaign against it. But if you actually read the report, Privacy International itself comes off […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google announced they have completed their audio ad test and is now in the process of rolling out audio ads to all US advertisers. In fact, I reported on May 15th, that many advertisers began seeing the audio ads option within their AdWords console. Today, EBay to Broker Radio Ad Time from the Wall Street […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Ask.com has appointed Mark Stockford as the new senior vice president of operations today. Stockford will be responsible for the planning and operations of technology and engineering departments at Ask.com as well as all of Ask.com’s data center operations. Stockford previously held employment at eBay, PayPal and Excite@Home. Chuck Geiger, executive cp of technology and […]