Google Mobile Search G-Force: Android Trojan Horse?
Google Android software stack: Google’s gift to the telcos. Or Trojan Horse? Adam Soroca, GM of Jumptap, sees dangers in mobile operators inviting Google inside their castle walls. With Sprint sprinting to join the Open Handset Alliance and T-mobile mobilizing to ride the Android wave, who will own the valuable search real estate on mobile [...]
SEMPO Running In-House Salary Survey
While the search marketing industry has done much growing in the last few years, it’s also lagging behind other industries in certain areas. One thing the industry lacks is credible information about salary and structure of in-house search marketing teams. Part of this is due to the esoteric nature of the job compared to other [...]
Led Zeppelin, iPhone Influence Search Traffic
The return of Led Zeppelin is a great thing, and it’s generated a lot of search traffic. In terms of the benefit to one company, though, an announcement related to the iPhone’s UK release did much more good. Why “one company” out of all the people who could be connected to either event? Simply put: [...]
New York Times Frees Its Content
Two years after dropping its columnists behind a subscription wall, the New York Times tore down the barrier to a valuable source of traffic: search engines.It isn’t as dramatic as the fall of the Berlin Wall years ago, but readers of the Times should be thrilled with the decision to put an end to Times [...]
ComScore qScore Tallies Well For Google
Search sites measured by comScore under their new qScore 2.0 methodology will benefit from the hosted and affiliated search traffic they send back to the main search engine. It’s a scenario that offers Google a heaping helping of share by comScore’s reckoning.A couple of significant changes by comScore will alter the landscape of how they [...]
Local.com Acquires PremierGuide
Local.com has picked up B2B local directory provider PremierGuide for a about $2 million. PremierGuide offers white-label business directories to local publishers, such as newspapers, radio and TV stations, and regional sites. Its network reportedly includes more than 350 regional media sites, including Community Newspaper Holdings, GateHouse Media, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. The business listings are [...]
Microsoft Gains Not Our Loss, Says Yahoo
By the raw numbers, comScore’s assessment of June’s search market share showed a 2.9 point rise for Microsoft, while Google, Yahoo, and Ask collectively lost 2.9 points. Yahoo said the reason for this isn’t a zero-sum calculation.To illustrate that point, Yahoo passed along more comScore figures. The May and June 2007 qSearch reports showed the [...]
Google Webmaster Blog Talks About Flash
Mark Berghausen of Google offered up a post last week on the Google Webmaster Central blog about the Best Uses of Flash. In it, Mark points out that Google can read the content of Flash files, but not all forms of Flash. The post provides some helpful suggestions about smart ways to use Flash as [...]
Blinkx to power Ask.com’s video search – interview with blinkx CEO
blinkx plc (“blinkxâ€), already the world’s largest video search engine, today expanded its reach with the announcment of its exclusive video partnership with Ask.com – a leading multi-platform search destination and one of the top-4 platforms in total search traffic along with Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.com. Click to read the rest of this post… More: [...]
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