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Search Engine Watch September 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Redevelops, Reaches Out In addition to rolling out major changes to its site, GoTo has also been establishing new deals to distribute its results through other sites. The moves are designed to take GoTo from being only a paid placement search engine to a source of paid listings that powers other search engines. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Latest To Carry GoTo Paid Listings AltaVista has become the latest in a string of search engines to carry paid listings provided by GoTo.com... |
Search Engine Watch March 9, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Go.com Becomes GoTo The Go.com web site has switched over to providing search results from paid listings service GoTo.com... |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Marketing Finally Getting Respect To some degree, search engine marketing has been like the Rodney Dangerfield of online advertising -- it's gotten no respect. The positive financial performance of GoTo is making people take notice, though all the signs have been there for ages... |
Search Engine Watch October 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Expands To AOL, Netscape Paid listings from GoTo are now appearing at Netscape and will soon appear at AOL Search. |
Search Engine Watch September 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Speaks Out On FTC Complaint At last month's Online Advertising Forum, GoTo's CEO Ted Meisel fired back at the complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission over paid listings on some search engines. His comments were both right and wrong on many points... |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Live At AOL, Enters The UK, To Appear At Lycos & HotBot It's been a busy month for GoTo, with its AOL partnership now live, new in-roads to bring its listings to the United Kingdom, and a deal to provide paid links to Lycos and HotBot just approved... |
Entrepreneur November 2001 Melissa Campanelli |
Guaranteed Results Entrepreneurs are buying prime locations in search-engine results. Should you? |
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 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? |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Excite Gets Search Refinement Feature, Paid Listings Coming Excite's new "Zoom In" search refinement feature debuted on the site last month, and the service will be gaining paid listings later this month... |
Search Engine Watch May 23, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
Search Engine Watch June 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
iWon, Canada.com Go Paid Placement Two more portals -- iWon and Canada.com -- have switched over to using paid placement listings, following a similar move that Go.com made in March... |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Makes Overture To New Name Goodbye GoTo; Hello Overture. That's to be the new name for GoTo, come October 8... |
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 July 15, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Google Simplifies & Loosens Requirements for AdWords Google is making changes to its AdWords program intended to provide advertisers with more control over campaigns while potentially improving relevance for users. |
Wired October 2001 Chip Bayers |
I'm Feeling Lucky Google's built a no-nonsense path to profitability by treating advertising just like search. The secret? Three words, ranked by relevance: Results. Results. Results... |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
NBCi Switches To GoTo Search results at NBCi now come from that favorite of the failing portals, GoTo... |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2010 Jason Tabeling |
Why You Should Combine Your PPC & SEO Strategies Here's how advertisers can develop a search strategy that effectively coordinates paid and organic listings. |
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 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 June 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
AOL Search Redesigns AOL Search is sporting a new look designed to improve how its users interact with the service... |
Search Engine Watch February 29, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Can You Find Your Candidate? If search engines could vote in the upcoming US Presidential elections, it would be a race between Democrat Bill Bradley and Republican John McCain, rather than frontrunners Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush. After all, a survey of 18 major search engines shows that you are far more likely to find the official candidate web sites of Bradley and McCain than those of Gore and Bush. |
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
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 November 25, 2003 Catherine Seda |
Dayparts & Other Search Engine Paid Listings Evolutions When it comes to gaining the most bang for the buck from paid search engine listings, micro-managing is a good thing, says our panel of experts. |
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 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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
You May Owe More Money Soon Watch out -- credit card minimum payments are on the rise. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
iWon Expands Search Offerings Over the past three months, iWon has been adding new search resources to its site. |
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 July 7, 2009 Michelle Megna |
Google Puts Real Estate Listings on the Map Google is expanding its real estate listings and search functionality by allowing searchers to find property listings on Google Maps. |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Launches New Search Site AltaVista has launched a search-only site today which follows on improvements the company made to its core database of web pages about a week ago. Called Raging Search, the new site delivers fast and uncluttered listings. |
Search Engine Watch May 29, 2009 Gregg Stewart |
Ranking in Local Listings Why are local listings important? It's all about consumer usage. With so many consumers seeking local listing information, it's vital that advertisers with local entities proactively manage and improve their listings' accuracy |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
Search Engine Watch December 22, 2010 Jeff Beard |
12 Days of Business Listings For Holidays and the New Year How is your local business identity performing online? Twelve tips to help consumers find you this holiday season and in the New Year. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Surplus Of Search Engine Marketing Reports Three different publications released recently cover the issues of selecting a search engine marketing firm, which search engine marketing strategies seem to work and a review of how the web sites of Fortune 100 companies rate in terms of search engine friendliness... |
Search Engine Watch May 25, 2004 Sullivan & Sherman |
Search Engine User Attitudes With so much interest in search, it's amazing how relatively little research has been done into how people interact with search engines, especially from a search marketing perspective. That's finally changing. |
ONLINE July 2001 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista continues to make changes to its site... Google has added automatic translation capability... Google Groups has expanded its advanced search capabilities and the depth of its Usenet archive... iLor has received much press lately for its innovative addition of features to Google... etc. |
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 December 8, 2008 William Flaiz |
Universal Search Should Be a Plus Variety in the search results gives online marketers multiple opportunities to rank and gain new listing visibility. But how does the user feel? As new listing types begin appearing in results, we often lose sight of whether these listings are really helpful to the user. |