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Search Engine Watch
October 17, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
Making the Most of Your Local Search Marketing Dollars Clients often ask where they should spend their marketing dollars: online or offline, search or display? The problem with these questions: they assume there's one or only a few sources for all local sales leads. The question isn't "either/or," it's about how much of each.   |
Search Engine Watch
October 16, 2009
Gregg Stewart |
Consumers Head Online for Local Business Information A study identifies how consumers use mobile, Google Maps, ratings, reviews, and Internet yellow pages to obtain information about local businesses. |
Search Engine Watch
February 24, 2004
Greg Sterling |
Local Search Growing, but Small Biz Advertisers Cautious Local search is a hot topic, but both Internet search engine providers and small business owners face significant challenges before location based finding services gain broad acceptance. |
Search Engine Watch
April 26, 2005
Andrew Goodman |
Viewing the Search Landscape Which search engine appeals most to U.S. searchers? Which service is the most popular elsewhere in the world? It depends on who you ask, and how they're measuring. |
Search Engine Watch
January 8, 2004
Greg Sterling |
Local Search: The Hybrid Future Last year at this time there was really no such thing as "local search." Fast forward twelve months and local is one of the hottest topics in search. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
Search Engine Watch
November 13, 2003
Dick Larkin |
Local Search Part 4: Major Search Engines On Yellow Pages Local search is the current hot topic in the industry, but has it really arrived? Executives from Yahoo!, AOL, LookSmart, Terra Lycos and Muller Medien debate the hype vs. reality of local search. |
Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Local Search for Little Biz Luckily for small business owners, there are steps they can take to influence many of the factors that positively affect local search rankings. |
Search Engine Watch
May 21, 2008
Kevin Ryan |
Yellow Pages and Search Yellow pages directories and search engines are hopelessly intertwined as directories feed search queries and search queries feed directories. A new spin on the old book might just connect the dots. |
Search Engine Watch
June 20, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Who's Who in Local Search There are lots of opportunities for search marketers use to highly targeted services to reach users looking for local products and services. |
Search Engine Watch
November 2, 2004
Greg Sterling |
Local Search: Missing Pieces Falling into Place Some pundits claim that the paid search market has peaked, but new research tells a different story, suggesting that local search is emerging as an important and powerful driver for the paid search market. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2006
Greg Sterling |
Study: Search Driving Offline Conversions for Local Service Businesses New research suggests that internet users are increasingly relying on search to find local service businesses, potentially taking mind-share away from traditional print yellow pages and classified advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
June 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google Gains in Popularity, But Will It Last? Over the past year, Google took significant market share from Yahoo and MSN, according to a new report from industry analyst Hitwise. But the increasing popularity of vertical search sites poses a big threat to all of the major search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
January 31, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists, Part 2 Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
Go Local Need to drive more business to your door? Use our practical guide to rev up your local web strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2006
Greg Jarboe |
Targeting Search Ads By Demographics & Behavior The days of targeting searchers via keywords alone are coming to an end. Now search engines are offering the ability to target searchers by age, gender and other demographics. |
Search Engine Watch
September 25, 2007
Michael Boland |
Whither the Yellow Pages Industry? At the Kelsey Group's DDC Conference last week, speakers and attendees pondered the future of the Yellow Pages industry, and where it fits into local search. In case you're wondering, it's not even close to dead yet. |
CIO
January 15, 2006
Juan Carlos Perez |
Who Uses Google Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and others, according to a new study. |
Search Engine Watch
January 23, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing Predictions for 2008 We've collected the 2008 predictions of several search engine marketers, sharing their best guesses about the direction of the industry in the coming year. |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Where's The ROI? Would you divert your offline marketing dollars to marketing that can be measured; where you can know how, where, and how much money you made from each ad buy? Even the most negative and non-Internet-savvy business owners can't argue with numbers that lead to bigger bank accounts. |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
Search Engine Watch
January 30, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Budgets to See Double-Digit Growth A significant number of advertisers plan to increase both their search ad spend and SEO budgets next year, according to a MarketingSherpa report. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A Search for Google's Success Turns Up Two Words: Trust and Technology With a combination of top-quality search service and high credibility among users, Google offers some valuable business lessons - not just for search engines but for other types of Internet services as well... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
InternetNews
January 9, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Yahoo Leads in Toolbar Searches Though it continues to fall behind Google in other categories, Yahoo currently holds the lead for the most toolbar searches, but only by the thinnest of margins. |
Search Engine Watch
May 5, 2005
Anne Kennedy |
What Clicks with Web Searchers How do searchers find what they want online? Not the way most people might think, studies show. For example, more than 92 percent of searchers never use brand names as search terms. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Frank Rose |
Microsoft's Bid for Yahoo Is All About Big-Budget Brand Advertising If the Yahoo purchase goes through, a company like Microsoft needs more than reach. It also needs the technology to deliver the right ads to the right eyeballs at the right time and come back with a precise measurement of the results. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
October 31, 2007
Steve Haar |
Search Quality Depends on Intention From a marketing perspective, we should try to keep in touch with the environments in which our ads and SEO efforts are seen by the users. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Industry Gains Clout Search engines are now recognized as full-fledged media companies and search engine marketing is no longer a cottage industry. |
Search Engine Watch
July 15, 2008
Kevin Heisler |
Bernstein Research Predicts the Future of Paid Search In a full-blown recession, what's the future of paid search? Sanford C Bernstein's research arm just published a study that's a virtual crystal ball into Google and search engine marketing. |
Entrepreneur
February 2005
Catherine Seda |
Close to Home Geographic-targeting features get your online message to customers right around the corner. examples: Community websites, Internet Yellow Pages, and search engine advertising. |
PC Magazine
January 10, 2007
John C. Dvorak |
A Threat to Web Search Google, along with the rest of us, worries about Net neutrality. |
Entrepreneur
October 2006
Amanda C. Kooser |
Latest Search Engine Releases Search engines are big business. Here are some of the latest developments from the leaders to make your search life a little easier. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops In Search Hours Ratings What's the most popular search engine? There's a new metric available for determining this, the total number of search hours users spend at a site, a figure that sees Google leading by far over other search engines |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 12, 2008
Benjamin G. Edelman |
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising A proposed advertising deal between Internet competitors Google and Yahoo would reduce competitiveness in the Internet advertising market, likely resulting in higher advertising rates. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
Entrepreneur
July 2004
Mike Hogan |
Release the Hounds With search engine competition on the rise, entrepreneurs stand to benefit, as both users and advertisers. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2007
Tom Taulli |
comScore's Cash Call Firms purchasing advertising space on the Web need accurate ways to measure traffic and online behavior. That's the service provided by comScore, whose stock price has spiked 90% since its IPO in late June. Investors, take note. |
PC World
August 2004
Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Down, Down Under Australians try to tame the giant. Advertising under trademarked keywords -- such as a rival company's name -- has been a thorn in Google's side before. The practice has been upheld domestically, but tighter laws in other countries do not offer that kind of sponsorship flexibility. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2007
Mac Greer |
Can Yahoo Catch Google? Can a new and improved Yahoo! catch a tried-and-true Google? Here is an interview about Yahoo! and other search-related business with Pulitzer prize-winning reporter David Vise, author of the Google Story. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
Search Engine Watch
January 5, 2009
William Flaiz |
Search Shifts and Predictions for 2009 2009 will see search engines focusing less on new product innovations and more on new revenue streams during our economic crisis. |
Searcher
March 2001
Richard Wiggins |
Behind the Screen: Google, Disintermediation, and the Palm Beach Ballot When art meets design, the question always arises of whether form follows function. But good designers care a great deal about whether a given design --- for a ballot, or the radio controls in a Lexus RX-300, or a Web form --- misleads users... |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods.... |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Google Comes Knocking Add local pitches to the search king's quiver. This move won't do much to hurt Yahoo! But classic Yellow Pages? That's another story. |
