Google shares dropped by up to 14% today (Tuesday) after CFO George Reyes warned of slowing growth from search and said that the company would need other sources of revenue to continue to meet market expectations. "Clearly our growth rates...
I don't consider myself that out of touch with the youth of today, but I just sat through three interviews with prospective employees, all currently degree students, 2 of which claimed AltaVista was their favourite search engine.
After months of waiting, today Overture in the UK has finally become Yahoo! Search Marketing. As members of the exclusive Overture Accreditation scheme we are still waiting to see how they update the Ambassador programme for the UK market.
It looks like Yahoo! and MSN Search have realised their main hurdle in the serch engine war is getting users to actually adopt their search engines as primary choice, and they just can't wait to throw money at us in...
We're mostly interested in the UK marketplace so this WebSideStory survey that has been linked from down below in MyWeb 2.0 for most of today should be taken with a pinch of salt. It does however highlight what we know...
Great coverage on BBC Radio 4, "Business update" with Greg Wood this morning. Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Cisco, all got a really solid going over. You can get hear the broadcast via the BBC Radio 4 website .
I see Yahoo! are playing with a new design and layout, check it out here . Yahoo! design dudes if you read this what I really, really want is a one click option to permanently turn your homepage into a...
After the online equivalent of being placed in the stocks for a few days, and after removing the offending content, BMW.de and also RICOH.de have been allowed back into the index. I appreciate BMW’s quick response on removing JavaScript-redirecting pages...
British Broadcasting at its best. After swift note from Martin and I the BBC have graciously updated their BMW.de article to correctly reflect that search engine optimisation is not in fact banned by Google. I take on board your comments...
Why, why, why PART 2. Yesterday when I blogged that BMW.de had been penalised in Google it was in the mindset of O'h well there's another big brand that either got convinced by another search marketer or talked themselves into...
BMW Germany demonstrates why an enterprise approach to corporate optimisation (SEO) is the only one that makes any sense. I wont even go into the details, Matt Cutts just says it all too well. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ramping-up-on-international-webspam/ If you want to know...
The most graphic example of the impact of the much debated Google.cn filtering that I've seen. Search Tiananmen from Google images and you get; http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen Perform the same search from Google.cn and spot the difference; http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
OK. It's no great revelation Paris Hilton, came out top in the Lycos 50 for 2005 but at least it's a good excuse to put a picture of her on the website (although I did have trouble finding one where...
Those Meta Search Engines are still going strong, and Media group TEAMtalk has signed a deal with Search, Directory and Mobile Company InfoSpace to use their search engine across its 14 sports Websites. "With InfoSpace, TEAMtalk Media can offer their...
Good piece over on the Register about old media wanting a new deal with search engines. Quote: The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has formed a task force to look at ways to "improve the relationships between content creators/producers and...
