Study Shows Search Engine Variety

A study of search results displayed at the four major search engines shows that each engine is increasingly producing results that differ from the other engines. In other words, searchers can be reasonably confident that Google, Yahoo, MSN or Ask Jeeves will, more often than not, return results unique to the engine being used.

The Art of the Pay-per-Click Start

Starting an ultimately effective pay-per-click campaign is difficult. Although the paid search engines like Google Adwords and Overture (now re-branded as Yahoo Search Marketing Solutions) want you to believe otherwise. A goal of “getting website traffic” is logically appealing since marketers tend to directly associate website traffic to producing website actions like sales, […]

Jupitermedia sells Search Engine Watch, SES and ClickZ Magazine

Search marketers were surprised yesterday by the announcement that three of the most influential publications in the search marketing sector had quietly been sold to new owners.

Yahoo Publisher Network to Compete with AdSense

For the past four years, Google has been the undisputed leader in search. Its rivals, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask Jeeves have spent the past few years working to narrow the vast technological and popularity gap between them and the great Google. It has been a long and hard fought series of skirmishes and battles but […]