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Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
LookSmart Launches Express Submission Service LookSmart is currently testing a new submission service where by paying a fee, you can get a fast answer as to whether your site will be listed.   |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Free Listings Gone At LookSmart In mid-May, LookSmart ceased accepting free submissions to the US-edition of its directory. The company says that this is not yet a permanent move. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
Yahoo Changes Listings Significant changes to the look and functionality of Yahoo are few and far between, which can be a relief given how some other search engines can seem to be constantly altering themselves.... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Yahoo Partners With Google Yahoo has selected Google to take over from Inktomi in powering Yahoo's secondary results.... |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
European Search Engine News Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2000 |
About.com No Longer Poster Child For Yahoo Abuse Examines comments in March 2000 that Yahoo was actively keeping About.com sites out of its listings. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Overhauls Submission Process, Increases Prices The good news is that over the past month, LookSmart has given site owners greater flexibility than ever before to get listed with the service. The changes make getting listed more complicated, but are especially beneficial for those with non-commercial content... |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Growing Pains At Volunteer Directories The use of volunteers generates a different set of problems that webmasters may encounter during the submission process at the Open Directory and Go Guides. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Now Charging Annual Listing Fee Yahoo is now requiring that new sites seeking to be listed in its commercial areas pay an annual listing fee of $299, or $600 if they are adult sites. Previously, the fee had been a one-time charge. The change transforms Yahoo from being a web guide to a sort of online yellow pages... |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Ups Basic Submit Price The price of LookSmart's "Basic Submit" service has been increased from $79 to $99. Basic Submit guarantees that a site will be reviewed within eight weeks for possible inclusion into the directory... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Monetizing The Search Monetizing the search means making money in some way off the search results you present. More than ever, monetizing the search is a concern for the search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Bolsters Local Search Business Listings Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new content inclusion program. |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Iconocast Poll Sheds Light On Search Engine Optimization Issues In November, the respected Iconocast newsletter surveyed its readers on search engine optimization issues. Here's a summary of key findings, based on 404 responses... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changing To Cost-Per-Click Basis Next week, LookSmart plans a shift to a model where most new listings in the commercial portions of its directory will be sold a cost-per-click basis... |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Expands Paid Placement Listings Yahoo is now carrying paid placement listings on its search results pages, rather than just within its category pages, through a deal cut with Overture (the former GoTo) last month... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changes To Cost-Per-Click Listings Pay -- and keep paying -- or don't appear, LookSmart told existing and new listing customers last month, in a significant change to how the human-powered search engine lists web pages from commercial web sites... |
Search Engine Watch
April 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers Free Business Web Sites Yahoo is expanding its Yahoo Local search service by providing a free web site to business owners that will automatically be integrated into Yahoo Local listings. |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
August 30, 2010
Bas van den Beld |
Yahoo's Split Personality: Let's Help Them Out Senior VP Shashi Seth claims Yahoo will always be a search engine, even though CEO Carol Bartz told us that Yahoo has never been a search company. Can we help Yahoo find a cure for their identity crisis? |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser and searcher? Are there changes Yahoo should be making? The first in a series of articles looking at paid inclusion. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world. |
Search Engine Watch
November 15, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Personalizes Shopping, Adds Community Features Continuing its efforts to tap into personal and collective knowledge in search, Yahoo has enhanced its shopping service with a number of useful features, debuting what it calls the 'shoposphere.' |
InternetNews
October 28, 2010 |
Microsoft, Yahoo Complete Paid-Search Transition Microsoft's Bing search engine is now powering all paid searches on Yahoo's platform, in accordance with the scheduled timeframe. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: The Future of Yahoo! On the heels of its recent earnings, we ask what the future holds for Yahoo! Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Yahoo! Talks Tech The search giant's newest offering, Yahoo! Tech, lures gadget lovers. With Yahoo! earning most of its money from advertising, tech product companies are likely to get a lot of traction on the site. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2010 |
Bing's Share of Search Market Passes Yahoo Microsoft's Bing search engine jumped slightly ahead of Yahoo to gain second place in the U.S. for the first time. There was little change at the top spot however |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Wins Yahoo, What Will Happen With Google? Overture had a major win last month by extending its initial five-month deal to provide paid listings to Yahoo for an additional three years. In addition, Overture's being named Yahoo's exclusive paid listings provider may impact Google's editorial partnership with Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
October 5, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Introduces Personal Search Yahoo has enhanced its My Yahoo service with personalization features including search history, the ability to save pages to a 'personal web' and block URLs from appearing in search results. |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Amanda Kooser |
Local Time Discover the benefits of local online advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
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. |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors... AlltheWeb has added several multimedia databases from Fast Search and Transfer... AltaVista will add "Sponsored Listings" from GoTo... etc. |
InternetNews
March 15, 2006 |
Facelift For Yahoo's Home Page Yahoo is quietly launching a redesigned front page that makes its search features more prominent and puts all its various services front and center for users. |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Submission Data Was Left Vulnerable Information in LookSmart's submission queue has been left open to the public, giving access to the names, phone numbers and email addresses of those who have submitted sites to the service. Credit card data, however, was not exposed... |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Local Officially Launches After just two months in testing, Yahoo has pushed its local search out of beta and is giving the service prominent exposure on the Yahoo home page. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo Shopping Upgrades for the Holidays On Dasher! On Dancer! On Yahoo Shopping and ShopWiki.com! |
Search Engine Watch
June 22, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo to the Max Extreme searcher Ran Hock has published a new book, this time taking an in-depth look at the wide range of tools and services offered by Yahoo. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
