Using The Google site: Command
If you like using Google a lot (who doesn’t, really?), then you must know that there are various commands that you can use aside from simply entering keywords in the search box. These commands can help in narrowing down searches and getting more relevant results immediately. What might not be commonly known, however, [...] More: [...]
Google Takes Gold and Silver in Japan: NTT DoCoMo and KDDI
Soon 80 percent of the mobile phones in Japan will feature the Google search engine. That doesn’t necessarily mean Google will have an 80 percent share of all Japanese local mobile searches. Google partnerships with the #1 and #2 mobile carriers in Japan forces Yahoo and MSN to compete for the bronze. Here’s the math: [...]
Microsoft Launches New Ad Campaign for Live Search
In the spirit of its Ms. Dewey experiment, Microsoft has launched a new site, Left vs. Right, which pits opponents from two sides of the political spectrum. Left-leaning “Patrick O’Neil” and right-wing “Britt Hayes” trade barbs about each other’s hygiene, political views, and intelligence. As with Ms. Dewey, when a user does not type anything [...]
Rising In Google: iPhone, Webkinz, And TMZ
Apple’s hot gadget, the toy world’s must-have plush pets, and arguably AOL’s hottest web property represented the top three fastest-rising search terms at Google. Catapulting to the top of the hottest queries hitting Google’s index means grabbing the interest of thousands of visitors, all happily tapping away at their keyboards and looking for details on [...]
How I Made 11,000 Advantage Points In 15 MInutes!
If you use Search Big Daddy – and are an avid marketer on it – then you know that the more advantage points you earn – the more you can bid on PPC ads as well as keyword ads and other great things. I have been using this system for a long time now and [...]
Search Headlines & Links: November 1, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: GoogleClick Clears One Hurdle, Another LoomsGoogle’s planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick cleared another regulatory hurdle this week in Australia. [...]
Google Custom Search Overlay
The Google Custom Search blog just announced a new feature, the Custom Search Results Overlay. What it does is provide a way to have the results of a user’s search overlay itself on top of the screen containing the search box. You can see an example of this here. It’s an interesting idea. A bit [...]
ArticleSnatch and Yedda Partner Up!
We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Yedda to provide an easy to use question and answer interface at the bottom of every article. In addition to providing recent articles from the same category as the article you are viewing there will also be a box for users to ask questions about the [...]
Yahoo Gives An Assist To Search
Yahoo Search Assist expands on a person’s query to suggest additional relevant searches and concepts for the searches they perform.The search box on Yahoo has been offering search suggestions for the queries people make. Type a few letters and a box of suggestions appears, with clickable links to results for each suggestion. Tim Mayer announced [...]
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