Topic: Pricing strategy

Wolfram iPhone App Improves Upon Site Experience

There’s a way in which the just-released iPhone version of Wolfram Alpha makes more sense than the web version. The web version suggests a Google-like general search engine, which it is not; it’s a “computational” or “fact engine” with a more limited range of use cases. It does what it does well — offer a range of […]

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Yahoo Search Ad Pricing Changes Coming Soon

I just received an email from the Yahoo Search Marketing team that discusses how they will be changing the pricing model for search ads run through them. It is not 100% clear to me exactly how this will work, so I will cut and paste the email below and follow up with Yahoo to find […]

Google Pay-Per-Action Beta Goes Global

Google launched Pay Per Action ads to a very limited user base on March 20. Now, Google is launching this beta product globally. Google Pay Per Action is a new pricing model available to advertisers to specify a dollar amount they would like to offer publishers for successful conversions. Advertisers will only pay upon a […]

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Yahoo Search Marketing Begins Quality-Based Pricing

The next phase of Yahoo’s new search marketing platform, aka Panama, has been announced today with quality-based pricing. The new quality-based pricing will impact both the search network and the content network. Now, an advertiser’s cost may be discounted based on several factors, including “publisher conversion rates, traffic source and implementation type,” Yahoo told me. […]