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Search Engine Watch
March 16, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Launch Its Own Paid Listings Program MSN has announced it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo and Google.   |
Search Engine Watch
May 30, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Disclosure Ratings In June 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission issued guidelines to US-based search engines about how they should disclose paid content to searchers. Periodically, Search Engine Watch assesses how well it believes search engines are meeting these guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch
October 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Drop LookSmart LookSmart has announced that its deal to provide Microsoft with listings for its MSN Search service is not being renewed, leaving the company without its most important partner. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Sponsored Listings To Take On Google & Overture LookSmart has relaunched its Sponsored Listings program using a new bid-for-placement model, a move it hopes will let the company win distribution partners from rivals Overture and Google, as well as increase its advertising revenues. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Report Shows Confusion Over Paid Listings Expect to see the issue of how well, or poorly, search engine disclose paid content to come up this month. Reason? Consumer WebWatch will be issuing an "anthropological" report later this month showing confusion about disclosure of paid listings based on a study of 17 web surfers. |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Gets New Look; Microsoft Gets New Search Engine Microsoft released a public preview of its long-awaited web search technology today. The company also gave a facelift to its popular MSN Search site that remains powered by Yahoo's search technology and dropped paid inclusion listings there. |
Search Engine Watch
June 17, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Going Beyond FTC Paid Inclusion Disclosure Guidelines A look at how Yahoo might go beyond FTC guidelines about paid inclusion as a means of rebuilding faith in the impact of paid inclusion on relevancy and its listings in general. |
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
February 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Officially Switches To Its Own Technology Nearly two years after announcing it would develop its own search technology, MSN Search began feeding the general public results found through its own internally developed search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
November 24, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Rating Search Engine Disclosure Practices Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion practices? Which ones are failing to do so? A new report offers some surprising insights. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Takes First Step Toward Native Ad Platform MSN's adCenter online advertising platform could eliminate revenue share with archrival Yahoo. |
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. |
PC World
February 28, 2002
Tom Spring |
Are Search Results For Sale? Analysis: Search engines walk a tightrope, seeking profit while helping you find what you want... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Takes On Overture With Pay Per Click Ads Google introduced a new pay-per-click payment option for its "AdWords" program that will make Google more attractive to some advertisers -- as well as establishing the company as serious competitor with Overture... |
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... |
InternetNews
October 7, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Opens U.S. adCenter Pilot MSN's new pay-per-click ad platform is designed to let advertisers take advantage of the audience information MSN gleans from its users across the network in order to better target keyword ads. |
InternetNews
September 26, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN Puts Paid Search on Trial Microsoft entered the lucrative paid search advertising field to compete with the likes of Google and Yahoo by launching today its own native ad platform in France and Singapore. |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
Ben Elgin |
Web Searches: The Fix Is In How much exposure can you buy? Plenty, concludes a BusinessWeek probe. Controversy over paid inclusion is driving a wedge through the search industry. At the heart of the issue is whether the industry's content will be swayed by advertisers. |
InternetNews
January 13, 2006 |
SuperPages.com Ads Appear on MSN Verizon SuperPages.com ads began appearing this week on MSN's local search engine pages, the result of a partnership signed with Microsoft in November. |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
Search Engine Watch
July 17, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Consumer Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads Is it deceptive advertising to include paid listings in your search results and not clearly label them as ads? A group backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes so, and it's asking the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against seven major search companies... |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
Search Engine Watch
June 28, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Launches Local Match Listings Program Overture launched a new Local Match program today to allow its advertisers in the United States to more easily target listings toward those with a local interest. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched Microsoft's MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2004
Janis Mara |
MSN's New Appeal to Users and Advertisers In its latest version, the ISP goes for user experience, but it's giving advertisers new goodies, too. |
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
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine In April, news emerged that Microsoft intended to make a huge new investment in web search. Now signs of that investment are appearing. |
PC Magazine
November 19, 2003 |
MSN Goes Hollywood Want to catch a movie? MSN, Microsoft's online service, is offering a beta version of MSN Video -- its free, high-resolution broadband video service -- to a small group of MSN users for testing. The final version is due this winter. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2003
Zachary Rodgers |
Ah-ha.com Adopts New Moniker The paid search listings provider changed its name to Enhance Interactive. The name change was motivated foremost by a gradual change in ah-ha.com's business model. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Versus Search in Silicon Valley The Search Engine Strategies conference focuses on optimizing Web pages so they'll rank higher in search results. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos Both MSN Search and Lycos are now featuring Direct Hit results, and the company itself has just received $26 million in financing from a variety of venture firms. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
Information Today
July 23, 2001
Chris Sherman |
Consumer Watchdog Files Complaint Against Eight Search Engines for 'Crass Commercialism' Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against eight Web search engines "for placing ads in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads"... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2006
Elgin & Greene |
The Counterattack On Google How Yahoo and MSN are scrambling to slow its search-ad juggernaut. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2010 |
Microsoft Gives MSN Home Page a Major Overhaul Microsoft has been previewing a radical redesign of its MSN home page since last fall, but now it's time to start pushing it out to MSN's 100 million U.S. users. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Improved MSN Search Launches Microsoft officially launched its new version of MSN Search in late September, and the improvements leapfrog the service forward into being a compelling choice for those searching the web. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Still Searching Today, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to its MSN search capabilities, as well as a preview of search functions to come. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Can Portals Resist The Dark Side? The battle now raging over profits in the search space may not be as dramatic as Star Wars, but there's definitely an element of the Dark Side as two more search engines -- iWon and Canada.com -- have shifted over to using paid placement listings. Will other search engines follow? |
InternetNews
April 30, 2004
Robyn Greenspan |
Searching for Balance Not all search campaigns are created equal, as Internet users reveal which engines provide the most relevant organic and paid results. |
Entrepreneur
November 2001
Melissa Campanelli |
Guaranteed Results Entrepreneurs are buying prime locations in search-engine results. Should you? |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2010
Jason Tabeling |
Get Your Search Campaigns Ready for the Yahoo/MSN Merger Tips on MSN search, blocking referrers, choosing your network, and a look at some promising Yahoo betas. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 2010
Greg Habermann |
How to Transition your Yahoo PPC Account to MSN adCenter A simple walk-through guide for PPC advertisers transitioning from Yahoo Search Marketing to Microsoft adCenter. |
