WebTrends Updates Search Product

WebTrends updated its WebPosition Gold product, a combination of several tools to optimize their search engine optimization process. Included are the WebPosition Gold 3, a page optimization helper; WordTracker, a package for researching keywords; and On Demand, a conversions and... continue reading »

Viacom Buys Out Rest of SportsLine.com

Viacom announced it will buy the remainder of SportsLine.com that it doesn't already own. It will pay about $46 million for the additional 62 percent. This makes efforts to integrate Viacom and CBS properties, such as NFL games, PGA events,... continue reading »

Live from SES San Jose

Content is nitty gritty here at Jupiter Media's Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose. A popular new session track is Business & Finance, popular with all those SEM firms hopeful that Google's IPO will pave the way for... continue reading »

Lycos Bought by South Korean Firm

South Korean Internet portal Daum Communications, as rumored, purchased Lycos for $95 million in cash and an additional $10 million in real estate leasing guarantees. The deal didn't include Terra Networks USA, nor Lycos Europe. Spanish company Terra had purchased... continue reading »

iProspect Launches Bid Management Tool

Prospect, the firm that just filed a patent on bid management technology, launched its bid management tool along with those of tens of others bowing their new wares at the Search Engine Strategies Conference taking place in San Jose. iProspect... continue reading »

Chinese Search Engine Launched

China's pre-announced new search engine by Sohu.com (Chinese for "search fox") launched, complete with a complete Chinese language portal at the address www.sogou.com ("search dog"). The homegrown effort hopes to compete with foreign firms Google, which partnered with domestic firm... continue reading »

SEM'ers: Don't Mix Search and Contextual Placements

Despite the best hopes of Yahoo and Google, it's quickly becoming a unanimous opinion in the search engine marketing industry that search inventory and contextual placements shouldn't be lumped together, as both Google and Yahoo do with their paid placements... continue reading »

Advertisers Outspent by Consumers on Media

With the increase of subscription content in newer media, such as pay cable, new print vehicles and the Internet, consumers in 2003 started paying more for media than advertisers did. The center of gravity of the media business model moved... continue reading »

Yahoo, Ask Jeeves to Bow New Local Search Sites

ahoo launched its Yahoo Local beta that combines maps, yellow pages information and even reviews of local businesses. The new site seems to sign an abandonment of its relationship with CitySearch for similar services. At the same time, Ask Jeeves... continue reading »

Ask Jeeves VP Search Interviewed

ClickZ's Zachary Rogers interviewed Ask Jeeve's Scott Garell, vice president of search. Sticking closely to the Ask Jeeves message, Garell notes that the firm has one of only three core search engines and is extremely hungry to grow its current... continue reading »

Subservient President Creator Speaks

"Cut taxes" response Steve Anderson, a research faculty member at the USC School of Cinema-Television and a teacher at the Annenberg Center, and - most recently - the creator of the Subservient President site, spoke to MarketingVOX this morning to answer... continue reading »

Online Retail Sales Figures Disappoint

Coming off a week when online commerce figures barely registered a rise from the year before, the week ending July 18th registered a gain of ten percent from the prior year, according to comScore. But in some ways this was... continue reading »