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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...   |
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. |
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? |
Information Today
July 8, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
FTC Warns Search Engine Companies Responding to a 2001 accusation by a consumer watchdog group that search engine companies engaged in deceptive advertising by failing to clearly label favorable links on hit lists, the Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to seven companies suggesting that they alter their behavior. |
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
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
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
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
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. |
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
December 18, 2003
Grant Crowell |
The "Secret System" of Search Engine Advertising Search engines have become one of the fastest growing venues in the advertising market. While ad revenue increases for the search engines, so do the concerns for some long-time search advertisers who have invested a huge stake in the industry. |
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
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
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... |
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
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Terra Lycos To Launch Paid Placement Network Terra Lycos is set to enter the paid placement game alongside players such as Overture and Google, when the company opens its "InSite AdBuyer" program to advertisers in the coming weeks. |
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
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
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
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Adds Paid Listings Option For Small Businesses A new program from LookSmart has made it possible for small businesses and others with low publicity budgets to get listed within the paid placement area of its search results... |
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
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Increases Prices, Appears At iWon The days of 1 cent clicks at GoTo's US service are gone, made extinct by a price increase put into place on March 1, which raised the minimum bid to 5 cents. GoTo advertisers learned of the changes in an email sent to them on the day the price changes took effect... |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Goes To Overture The death of the old Excite search engine happened in December, when new owners InfoSpace dropped results from the Excite crawler in favor of a page heavily dominated by paid listings from Overture... |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
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
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Up Close With Google AdWords Forget the hype about what the new cost-per-click AdWords program means for Google, in terms of competing with Overture. What's in the program for advertisers, and how does the cost per click pricing fit in with the existing cost per impression ads? Let's take a look... |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Saturating Your Message in Search Marketing Tips to ensure your business controls as many spaces as possible on a search results page. |
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
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lawsuit Over Paid Placements To Define Search Engines A new chapter in search engine law was opened last week, when Mark Nutritionals filed lawsuits seeking $440 million in damages for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition against AltaVista, FindWhat, Kanoodle and Overture... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Lets More Advertisers Buy Direct Ask Jeeves unveiled a new automated paid listings service today, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings, that will allow anyone to purchase ads directly on the Ask Jeeves network. |
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. |
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
March 18, 2004
Shari Thurow |
Kanoodle Joins Contextual Advertising Fray Kanoodle has joined the competition between Overture and Google for distributed search marketing dollars, launching a content-targeted sponsored links program. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Search Engines' Sordid Side As useful as search engines can be, a recent study reveals they also come with major risks. For the most part search-engine listings remain an untamed frontier. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Catherine Seda |
Taken Out of Context? You might be part of a contextual ad program without even knowing it. Visit the search engines' sites to learn more about contextual advertising and how to manage it. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2006
Catherine Seda |
Keyword to the Wise Pay-per-click advertising can bring a stampede of shoppers to your site, but make sure your keyword performance is profitable. |
Entrepreneur
March 2004
Catherine Seda |
Clicking Away Pay-per-click fraud may be taking the bang out of your advertising buck. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Ousts Overture At Earthlink, Begins Ad Distribution Google has begun serving up search results to users of the Earthlink web site, taking over a partnership previously held by Overture and marking the first move to distribute its paid AdWords listings outside the Google web site... |
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 23, 2003
Shari Thurow |
Search Engine Contextual Ads Gain Momentum A relatively new form of search engine advertising has nothing to do with search engine results. Instead, 'contextual ads' are displayed on other sites' Web pages, based on the content of pages people are viewing. |
Search Engine Watch
March 25, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
New Look In July, New Search Engine Later, Says MSN MSN announced a redesign for its MSN Search service last week, a cosmetic change that better delineates paid placement listings. But the July release will not coincide with the launch of new underlying technology. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Success With Search Engines What if you had a Web site and no one came? |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2005
Rich Duprey |
AOL Adds Pay-Per-Call Online giant adds local search advertising model that holds promise for small business. |
Fast Company
August 2004
Alison Overholt |
Search For Tomorrow In an advertising environment that has steadily weakened over the past three years, search marketing has breathed new life into online advertising. |
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
October 23, 2003
Anne Kennedy |
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Listings Do you really need both 'organic' or 'natural' listings, generated by search engine optimization (SEO), and paid placement, aka pay-per-click advertising (PPC), to be successful on search engines? |
InternetNews
February 5, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
SuperPages.com's PPC Play Verizon's revamp of the Internet yellow pages site adds a cleaner interface and a new advertising model, utilizing pay-per-click ads with technology from FindWhat.com. |
