A couple of search engine marketers noticed that a Microsoft bot program has been exhibiting some odd behavior, perhaps indicating that Microsoft has copied parts of Google's index in order to catch up in its own indexing efforts. The bot...
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Apple is making more rumblings about its Spotlight desktop search feature, slated to come out in its next major operating system release. The feature set sounds an awfully lot like that of Google's Desktop Search product, but Mac users will...
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Adware firm WhenU will stop presenting to viewers pop-up ads that look like notification messages from the computer's operating system. CEO Bill Day said the shift had less to do with legal concerns and more to do with an ongoing...
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Tacoda announced it hired former Real Media co-founder Mark Pinney as CFO and chief privacy officer. Tacoda's CEO Dave Morgan partnered with Pinney back in 1995 to found Real Media....
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BlogSquirrel launched to monitor block article traffic, measuring and linking posts to more than 100,000 blogs. Marketers can subscribe to a service that searches all new material for key phrases, like brands and names. It ranks the importance of blogs...
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Kimberly-Clark is launching a new online campaign for its Kotex brand of tampons and pantiliners, running ads on evite.com, VH2.com and other sites that skew toward young women. The creative integrates creative elements from its television campaign, which shows a...
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SearchEngineLowdown notes the new features of Microsoft's new version of its search beta, now available, that adds customization options and now includes about five billion pages - the largest index on the web, but for Google's last-minute pre-emption where it...
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Google bowed a program for search engine marketing professionals, countering Overture's Ambassador program that targeted interactive agencies. The Google program gives tools and training to people doing search marketing for several or more clients. The program acts as a certification...
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Google just about doubled the pages in its index to 8 billion. Search engine marketers have been antsy in the past few months, seeing Google bots running about the web hoovering up information. They feared that this could portend a...
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Third quarter spending on major TV networks rocketed upward by almost a third versus the same period last year. Due in part to the election marketing and the Olympics, spending grew 32.61 percent, a gain of almost $700 million. For...
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BusinessWeek rolls out the old Gold Rush metaphor of people getting rich not finding gold, but rather selling services to the equivalent of 49'ers, comparing the buzz about blogs to the mad rush to profit from the discovery of gold...
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