The SEM blog is retiring

Posted June 30th, 2008

Dear readers: The Search Engine Marketing blog is retiring. I admit to feeling sentimental about it, because this blog was originally created for me by Jason Calacanis, in the early days of Weblogs, Inc, and although I ended up contributing to several blogs in our lineup, this is where it started for me. I’m grateful [...]

Yahoo! releases Slurp

Posted June 30th, 2008

Yahoo has released a new search crawler. Meet Slurp, a more efficient website visiting engine. Yahoo has estimated that website owners will see a 25% reduction in the number of requests coming from Yahoo servers, thus decreasing bandwidth.
Yahoo has said that some slight changes might occur with page shuffling, and ranking changes.
Yahoo does have [...]

Finding Search related Jobs

Posted June 30th, 2008

Jobs in Search is exactly what it says. Jobs in the search industry. If you are looking for a job at a Search Engine company, Search Engine Marketing firm, Search Engine Optimization company, New Media, Digital Media, and any company that provides services and products aimed at the search industry, this is a site to [...]

Matt Cutts Answers some questions on Google Video

Posted June 30th, 2008

Google’s Matt Cutts answered some questions recently on Google Video. Check these videos out if you are really into search, Matt has some good thoughts down.
Cutts went over the Qualities of a good site, SEO myths, and Optimizing for Search Engines or for Users.
The videos were freshly shot this weekend, and are the personal [...]

Community Powered Search

Posted June 30th, 2008

Eurekster is a different kind of search engine. It is based on community decisions on what the top results should be.
What you would have to do to get inclusion into Eurekster is to create your own swicki. It would be tailored to your particular interests. The swicki will then scan all of the updated [...]

Top Keyword Terms Companies are Buying

Posted June 30th, 2008

Nielson Netrating has done some homework and developed a list on the Top 25 Companies By Sponsored Link Impressions list.
Its a pretty interesting list that shows the top 3 keywords that are bought by some major companies.
Here is a sample of that list:

eBay - myspace, ebay, maps
NexTag.com - dell, airlines, ipod
Vonage - verizon+dsl, at&t, [...]

Become helps you search a little closer

Posted June 30th, 2008

Become.com’s search is now a little more tailored to your exact expectations when it comes to results. Their results are filtered by Product Reviews, Buying Guides, Discussion Forums, and Product Details.
Your first search results give you a look at all of the results together. However, Become has added in sub searches that categorize and filters [...]

Tracking a package through MSN Search

Posted June 30th, 2008

MSN has just announced that you can track packages through its MSN Search portal.
To track packages with MSN Search, simply head to search.msn.com, and enter your FedEx, DHL, UPS, or USPS tracking number.
MSN package tracker is one of the MSN Instant Answer search tools. Its great that search engines are providing all of [...]

Make Money by Domain Parking

Posted June 30th, 2008

GoDaddy has set up a new service whereby webmasters can earn a profit based on clicks to their parked domains.
The program is targeted at owners of small amounts of domains in their portfolio. GoDaddy serves ads that are based on the domain name, and the analysis of what people click on and search for in [...]

MSN Revenues Decline

Posted June 30th, 2008

Looks like Microsoft might be a little behind in earnings compared with last years revenues. ClickZ has reported that last year MSN hit 8 million, and this year at the same time they are at 0 million in revenue.
This is supposedly mostly due to to the large amounts MSN has been dumping into the Live.com [...]