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Google Pushes Out Personalized Search
Google will now personalize ALL search results - whether you're signed in or not.
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FindWhat Sues Overture
FindWhat.com tries to get the USPTO to declare Overture's (formerly GoTo.com) pay per click patent (Patent '361) invalid.
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LookSmart Acquires WiseNut
LookSmart has always been more than just a web directory. They provide their search results to MSN Search. Today they announced that they're acquiring WiseNut, a newcomer in the search space.
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Overture Sues Google Over Paid Search Patent Violations
Overture is suing Google claiming that Google is violating Overture patents in its paid advertising program.
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Great NYT Article on Google
A must-read article on the history and current prospects for Google.
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The Yahoo Yodeler Settles His Lawsuit; Overture Expands; Google Copyright Issues
On a lighter note, Yahoo! has settled with the cowboy yodeler who we all recognize.
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Overture and Yahoo Extend Their Relationship, AOL Shaken
Ground shifts in the pay per click industry. Overture splitting with AOL? The future of LookSmart. Yahoo and Overture sign monumental deal.
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AOL Drops Overture, AOL Signs Up with Google, Overture Extends Deal with Yahoo!
Search engine news and articles covering AOL, Overture and Google. Today, AOL dropped Overture and saddled up with Google. Plus Yahoo! announced that it would extend its deal with Overture.
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Yahoo! and Google, AOL and Google, InfoSpace Launches Another Meta
Search engines news articles including speculation about the relationship between Yahoo and Google, AOL and Google, and news about InfoSpace.
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RealNames Closing, eBay and AOL Renegotiate, and LookSmart PR
Search engines news articles including news about eBay and AOL, LookSmart and InfoSpace, and the closing of RealNames.
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More on LookSmart Pay Per Click, AOL-Microsoft Battle
More coverage of LookSmart's recent move to paid search and a story about the browser wars.
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AltaVista and Overture Renew their Vows
AltaVista and Overture renew their agreement for an additional year. Details.
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More on LookSmart, Court Backs AOL
LookSmart's move to push their directory members into a pay per click relationship is facing serious roadblocks, including a lawsuit.
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FTC Instructs Search Engines to Make Paid Listings Clear and Conspicuous, ICANN Board of Directors Stops Elections, Microsoft and Overture Extend Agreement, the Teoma Toolbar, LookSmart Leadership Exodus, and a bit about Gator
News covering the recent FTC Report to the search engines, the change at ICANN, Microsoft and Overture agreement, LookSmart Board changes, and more.
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Search Engines Slow to Respond to FTC Warnings
The AP submitted a series of random querries to Alltheweb, AOL, AltaVista, AskJeeves, Google, Hotbot, Looksmart, Lycos, MSN, Overture, Netscape, and Yahoo! to determine whether or not they had made any changes to comply with the FTC warnings.
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Google Extends and Expands Relationship with Yahoo!
The speculation over whether or not Yahoo! and Google will renew their deal whereby Google provides search engine results to Yahoo! when an exact match for a phrase is not found in the Yahoo! directory will continue.
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AdAge Wades into FTC Story
AdAge has picked up the story about the FTC warnings to the major search engines.
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Yahoo!'s New Look, FTC Warnings to Search Engines
A follow-up to recent news about the FTC report to the search engines demanding that they separate paid from organic search results more obviously.
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Google Partners with Ask Jeeves and The FTC Goes After the Major Search Engines
Info about the new partnership between Google and Ask Jeeves, and follow-up information on the changes being made at the major search engines as a result of the FTC warnings.
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Microsoft Aims at the Search Engine Marketplace, Google Signs Up Amazon.com
Visse said that Microsoft was making significant investments in developing a better search engine, and specifically referred to Google as a competitor.
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Google Launches Content-Targeted Advertising
Through the new service, Google is feeding its Adwords Program ads to content-based websites instead of just in the Google search results.
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Disney Signs on with Google AdWords
Google announced via press release that they have made an agreement with Disney to syndicate the Google search results and Adwords listings on Disney's Go.com.
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Google Signing Up AdWords Vendors Right and Left
Google has begun signing up vendors for its AdWords program. First in are two ad networks, Burst Media and Fastclick.
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Sportsline.com Signs On with Google Adwords
SportsLine.com today announced that it has secured an agreement with Google, enabling Google to place AdWords on the SportsLine.com website.
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Yahoo! Acquiring Overture - And United States Patent 6,269,361
Yahoo! is acquiring Overture outright for cash and shares. The purchase will put the patent for pay per click advertising in Yahoo!'s pocket.
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Google Launches AdSense, Now Everyone Can Host AdWords Ads
Google has just launched a new Adsense program whereby practically any webmaster can put Google Ads on his or her site.
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Google Loses Trademark Suit, MSN and Overture Extend Agreement
Google was successfully sued in Nanterre, France for selling AdWords sponsored listings tied to a trademarked term. MSN and Overture have extended their relationship for a year and a half.
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Yahoo! Completes Purchase of Overture, Now Owns Patent for Pay Per Click Search
Yahoo! now owns Overture. Yahoo! completed its purchase of Overture Services, Inc. today for approximately 1.83 billion dollars in stock and cash.
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Microsoft Ends Agreement with LookSmart, The Market Reacts
Microsoft will end it's contractual relationship with LookSmart in mid-January (January 15) and will instead focus on building its own search tools. LookSmart gets almost 70 percent of it's quarterly revenue by licensing its search results to MSN, so end
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Man Threatens Google in News of the Wierd
Michael Anthony Bradley was arrested on Thursday in Ventura County. He allegedly created software that would automatically generate click-thoughs on Google AdSense and threatened to sell it if Google didn't pay him $100,000.00.
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Running PPC Campaigns Without Customized Landing Pages? You're Doing it Wrong.
Google Adwords putting more weight on relevance, and landing page quality.
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Google Continues World Domination
September 2011 ComScore results show that Google share of search rises to 65.3%
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Think You'll Ever "Duck Duck Go" Something?
Will any other search engine ever unseat Google?
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Latest Eye-Tracking Results on Google SERPs
The latest eye-tracking results from SEOmoz show some interesting dynamics on how people visually interact with Google SERPs.
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Handy Infographic Highlights Growing Importance of Local Search Marketing
We've been harnessing the power of local search for years. Now this Infographic highlights the growth of local search in pictures.
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Google & the HTTP Referrer: Split Personality Disorder?
Google moves to obfuscate referral data used by web masters and marketers, another salvo in the battle to push them to AdWords.
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Google is Working to Improve Your Flow
Google is rolling out paid search ad placements at the bottom of SERPs, instead of placement on the right side of the page.
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Google+ Pages Bribe Brands with Better Search Results
With the launch of Google+ Pages for business and Direct Connect, businesses have more search-based reasons to join up with the social media side of Google.
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Google Enhances Landing Pages Analytics
Google has upgraded reporting on landing pages in Google Analytics.
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An Interesting Infographic about Google
An interesting infographic containing a high level recap of Google's business dynamics.
