Do you think it's only the sales and marketing guys who should be pushing your product?

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Have you listened to your customers lately?

Site visitors who can't find what they're looking for will go elsewhere.

Why not? Some of them seem to be putting their fingers into almost every other pie.

The company is giving away free ice cream!

Wow, can you believe the search engine is ten years old this week?!

Who says you can only do viral marketing on the Internet?

Now that it has been bought by Yahoo, what does this pioneering company plan to do next?

All the other big search engines seem to be getting this feature; AOL hopes it will stem the tide of those abandoning it for its competition.

It's the AutoLink feature that has people up in arms.

Google's book digitization project worries folks at France's national library. Will it lead to American domination of the idea marketplace? Haven't we heard the French complaining about this kind of thing before?

It's not quite invitation-only anymore. Are they finally getting ready to launch?

I guess Primedia thought it was About.time.

Now it performs all sorts of tricks.

The gonzo journalism of bloggers gives those who work in the older media cause to shake in their boots -- and in some cases, resign.

The little browser that could gets some respect from a big search engine.

He blogged about his job when he worked for Microsoft, and the software giant tolerated it. But Google didn't. What's wrong with this picture?

But will they get to bid for it online?

With the number of invites increasing, speculation runs rife that the search engine giant is (finally!) preparing Gmail for a full-fledged launch.

Would somebody please explain exactly how the selling of domain names relates to its mission to become the be-all and end-all of search?

The search engine featured no release on its site about it at press time -- but everybody is writing about it anyway.

The search engine wars continue to heat up.

That's right, it's not beta anymore.

What do CPAs and SEOs have in common?

Learn how to make the most of landing pages.

Norway's Supreme Court made this ruling in relation to a teenager who listed hyperlinks to stolen MP3s on his website. But it has interesting implications for Google and other search engines.

Maybe someday. It seems that Google organizes its information in ways that computers can use to learn the meaning of new concepts.

The idea behind this service is getting the information where you want it, when you want it.

It's Google vs. Yahoo again, this time on the battlefield of video and television content.

The online bookstore giant is taking digital pictures of storefronts all across the United States, presumably to help people see where they're planning to go. (I can guarantee that I'll still get lost).

What else can we conclude about the new Yahoo Media Group -- especially since the head of the unit used to be a TV executive?

Then Google Video, now in beta, may be what you're looking for.

One in six users of Internet search engines can't tell the difference between paid and unpaid search results. Those links are clearly marked as "sponsored results;" is there an epidemic of cluelessness out there?!

Le Meridien wins its dispute against the world's most popular search engine. Merde!

As goes Google, so go the search engines.

It's all about the advertising.

The search giant is introducing a tool that will let it downgrade the importance of certain kinds of links, in the hope of doing something about "blog clog."

That's what we'd all like to ask Google after seeing one of the company's most recent job listings.

Apple isn't the only one with a Mini on the market now.

Yahoo may not be the first one to the party -- but it brings a refinement or two.

It's not really racy...but the owners of more than 1000 Web cams must have been pretty surprised by this.

The search engine giant is itself searching for an executive director for the corporate foundation.

Increase sales by looking beyond the home page. Here's how.

“I’m tired of going it alone. How am I supposed to find a competent SEO firm that can help me achieve my goals without breaking my budget or banning my site?”

Google, Yahoo and Beta MSN appear to be in the midst of an extremely dramatic shift in algorithms. Keeping abreast of these changes and "experiments" is essential in the extremely competitive world of search engine referrals.

It takes the idea of the Internet as a library--and Google as the card catalog--one step further, and then some.

Is IBM harboring Google-like ambitions?

Guess who's testing a desktop search application?

Wulf's technology has nothing to do with search. What is Yahoo! thinking?

Maybe they couldn't get William Shatner?

About a quarter of us do, according to a recent survey.

We've known about this critical problem for a month, and Microsoft finally gets around to fixing it.

Saying that your dog would make a better President might be funny, but can you laugh all the way to the bank if you put it on a shirt? Also, the CAN-SPAM Act’s in action and the search engines are noticing more things than ever.

It's a new area for the search engines to fight to win users.

Yet another search tool...so how many more search ideas do you have, Google?

Microsoft's new beta search engine is now technically as good as Google's.

Coming soon to a cell phone near you...

The search engine now has a premium service for those searching for love.

MSN Search Beta went live yesterday. How did it do?

The company formerly known as Lindows catches the "let's build search into everything" wave.

Microsoft is taking aim at the heart of Google -- again. This time, the company is releasing a "long awaited" search technology -- again. I thought MSN Search WAS an Internet search engine. What's this, competition by erosion? How do SEO-loving readers feel this will affect the market?

Yahoo is looking to become the online cable network.

And the jockeying for position goes on: Yahoo! is working on desktop search.

Google is growing, but into what? Search, software, marketing... it's all there. Rule 1: Don't be evil. Rule 2: Evil is what Sergey says is evil.

Do you feel like half of your advertisement budget is wasted? If so, then it's time to test and track your ads for effectiveness.

Yahoo expanded its search empire to the mobile arena with the launch of some additional services.

"Google buys digital mapping company as expansion continues..."

Copernic Technologies Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has spun off its enterprise-search business into a separate company, and already the new company is eyeing Google.

tepping up the heated battle of online search and services, Yahoo Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have joined forces to tap each others' customers and put Web search features into Adobe's popular Acrobat Reader software.

Google Inc. locates almost anything on the Web within seconds, but finding the brainy engineers who program the company's lightning-quick search engine takes more time—and a quirky bit of ingenuity.

Search startup Vivisimo on Tuesday will unveil its latest foray into the enterprise search market, which combines clustering with meta-search and custom crawling.

Microsoft has set a firmer date for the release of its desktop search software, after Google launched a test version of its rival program for scouring a PC's hard drive.

"Google says it has patched one security hole in its search engine and will have fixed a second later this week." JavaScript fun for the whole family.

Rumors are abound regarding Google's possible desktop OS and web browser, but what if Google decided to buy out a domain name registrar (or become one), and/or an ISP? Are you ready for www.yoursite.goo?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been working hard on the Semantic Web, or Web 2.0. The problem is that his vision of "a single web of meaning, about everything and for everyone" is being stifled by people who are "thinking too small." Why SEOs aren't the first to push his agenda is beyond me.

"Rumors of Google's 'latest and greatest' secret plan come and go as often as the company is in the news for other accomplishments."

Not content to stay on the 'net, Google's just released a new desktop search tool. Great use of the GBrowser smoke-and-screen, eh?

Google founders Page and Brin have been seen in India, working on their karma and looking where to plop down a new research facility. Lots of talent already spoken for, but in a country of 1-Billion, I'm sure they can find a few good folks.

What do you get when you put top members of Ask Jeeves, A9, eBay, MSN, and Yahoo! together to talk about search? Comments like "If instruments had been invented 10 years ago, we'd all be playing one-stringed instruments right now."

After a 4 month lull, the Google PageRank finally seems to be picking up again. Can anyone confirm this?

Google recently launched a new search technology aimed at helping publishers sell books online. Browsers, news, book sales, desktop software, thin client OS, email... is Google stretching itself too thin?

In the real world, the webmaster doesn't live on the Internet alone, nor do potential website visitors. How can you advertise your website in new ways?

Advertising online isn't a big deal, but fitting it into an existing marketing budget sometimes is. How do you get around that hurdle?

LookSmart has acquired Furl.net. [Editor's Note: Looking to be a competition to Archive.org? Maybe, but they'd have to expand past the personal webspace. Still, both are pretty cool services.]

Is Google playing into the hands of the Chinese government? Sure looks like it. Separate reports have shown that news results deemed inappropriate are being filtered from Chinese computers searching for news. Is this just business or is Google pandering to dictators?

Using some of its IPO money, Google is putting together a team to build a browser. A music search which works like their image search feature is also in the works.

RSS feeds are at the center of a battle between MSDN and bloggers. The problem? Net congestion. The solution? Neglected portions of the good ol' HTTP. How is RSS affecting you? Does it kill your network bandwidth?

Yahoo Inc. is launching its first public beta of a travel search engine based on its recent acquisition of online travel company FareChase Inc.

Numerous companies are getting into the game of contextual marketing. (You know, those ads that say "Buy this boat" if you're looking at a page about boats?) The problem is that when it's done wrong it can make you -- and your client -- look like an idiot. Here's an example:

Fortune 100 companies not using Search Enginge Optimazation effectively or at all this new study says.

Geoffrey Y. Yang, a top Silicon Valley venture capitalist, can take solace in all those companies he has invested in that produced rich payouts, including Ask Jeeves, NetFlix and Excite.

Horn has invented an information management system that enables users to individually customize and cross-index files on the desktop by inserting a "collections" layer that gathers and cross-links all references to any topic specified by the user.

Google's IPO opened at $100.01 and edged up to $101.97 in early trading today, underscoring strong interest in the Internet's leading search engine. But the Dutch auction method didn't smooth out the opening as planned, and day traders appear to be feasting on the stock.

Got GOOG? Well, if you haven't, then you've missed out. The company started trading at about US$100, and quickly surged to $135. (Hey, isn't that what the Dutch auction had determined the price to be anyways?) Heck, the stock might even go higher. Maybe I can scrounge up enough for 1 share...

Why do people even bother competing with Google and Yahoo!? A few weeks ago it was IceRocket. Now it's AnooX, which souns like some sort of Eskimo god. On the bright side, they aim to "share our profit with you," which is a plus in my book.

Google announced early yesterday that it was slashing its IPO price from the $105-$135 range to a more affordable $85-$95. This as the SEC pours over Playboy like a college freshman in heat. Now that the prices are this "low", do you plan to buy?

The battle for high search engine rankings rages on! The engines themselves continually make changes which makes our jobs, as Web site owners, much more difficult. But, one thing has always remained the same... Keywords.

Search company acknowledges poor timing of controversial article, which could delay its IPO.

Online search engine leader Google Inc. will hand over more than $300 million of its stock to Yahoo Inc. in a settlement that removes a legal threat hanging over its IPO at the expense of enriching a nettlesome rival.

Even as commercial search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search grow more dominant, a new distributed search engine with the unglamorous name Grub is taking a different tack.

Google is delaying its IPO by a week because of logistical problems related to institutional investors registering to bid on the shares

What could be more fun than taking on Google in the search engine business?

Google has found some of its convenient tools being exploited to assist in credit card fraud.

Yahoo and Ask Jeeves to release new local-search products to audiences hunting for regional information.

Microsoft announced it was aiming to make search services customized for users so that results would be based on individual preferences and interests.

Google launched www.ipo.google.com, where you can now register for a bidder ID number for the upcoming offering. The amount of the $2.7 billion offering contains an inside joke for the math-minded.

Daum Communication Corp., Korea's largest Internet portal, announced they would acquire U.S. search portal Lycos. Why?

Microsoft upped the ante in its search-engine challenge to Google on Thursday by demonstrating new technology that allows a user to search both the Web and a PC's hard drive. Jesus christ, is this scary or what?

On Friday afternoon, search provider Google plugged in ipo.google.com, the site for potential investors to sign up to take part in its Dutch auction-style IPO.

Ordinarily I would never plug anything here, BUT these tools are AWESOME and free and will help you assess where your website(s) are in the search engines and even help you promote them. Read on.

Google's potential $3.3 billion IPO is based on the billions it rakes in from search engine advertising. But there's one huge risk factor: Overture Services, its fiercest rival, claims a patent covering paid search. Uh oh?

report released by Nielsen/NetRatings indicates that growing demand for search-engine advertising is outstripping the supply of available advertising space. This scarcity is pushing the cost of popular keywords upwards.

Search marketing does need an industry association. But who exactly needs SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organisation formed in August last year, asks Mike Grehan.

What are web site keywords and how do I go about finding keywords that will work for me? This question has been asked many times, read on to find out more...

As the price goes up, Google's value goes down, argues David Coursey. Plus the terms are so bad, buyers won't really end up with much of anything.

Software giant hopes to one-up its Internet search rival with a wide-ranging "Newsbot" site.

Internet search engine's unusual public offering has an unusually high price: up to $135!

Overture's software division is expected to launch Search Optimizer on Tuesday.

The Associated Press announced Monday that is taking steps on behalf of its member newspapers and broadcasters to explore the development of a tool that would more thoroughly search online news content, past and present. Whoopie.

No one denies that Google is a world-class brand. The search leader's impending IPO has juiced up Wall Street, while its recently released financials generated awe. Much has been made of the company's S-1 manifesto proclaiming that Google does not plan to become a conventional company.

Visitors to the search engine site receive server error messages Monday morning.

Ask Jeeves today announced that it has extended its relationship with Google as a provider of sponsored advertising links on Ask Jeeves' global search and portal brands through 2007.

No. 1 Web search provider will sell about 24.6 million shares at between $108 and $135 a share.

Attempting to take a chunk of business from biggies such as Google, an embryonic San Francisco-based company, Blinkx, has introduced a new search technology that looks up links before the user asks for them.

Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines.

In the biggest-ticket domain name sale in years, a small Austin marketing firm has paid $2.75 million for CreditCards.com. Despite the rocky history of high-priced domain sales, participants say it was a fair price, and the sale may signal a new gold rush for Internet address speculators.

The growth of Web search traffic will likely slow in the coming years, and more will be invested in paid search. This could [will] cause prices to increase.

Google's impending IPO has spurred concern for click fraud that could cost companies some serious cheese.

Have you seen July 16th's backlink update? Have you read any of the forum posts? Let me sum up what is going on by quoting a few forum posts and then outlining the theories. Don't you love these theories?

More than the typical clicking 'bots', people are coming up with very interesting ways to defraud cost-per-click SEM programs.

Microsoft's MSN division announced Thursday that it has acquired Lookout Software, a firm whose technology searches messages in the software giant's Outlook e-mail client.

Google this week acquired digital photo management company Picasa Inc. Google Inc.'s latest acquisition comes on the heels of the announcement in May of a partnership with Picasa to improve photo publishing on Google's Blogger service.

Google has quietly introduced a new feature to its popular browser toolbar that lead you to never type in a full URL again. Read on...

Google Adwords is a great tool! Careful use can lead to legions of highly targeted visitors breaching the moat around your site, and demanding to pillage your products! On the other hand...

Web search leader Google Inc., which has filed for a $2.7 billion initial public offering, has applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday.

It may get overshadowed by Google, Yahoo and MSN, but the company is ready for the search wars, top exec Steve Berkowitz says. And its Teoma engine and new Internet properties will help lead the charge.

The now historical "Nigritude Ultramarine" contest is over. The winner? A guy who asked readers of his blog to link the term to his site.

Googles, a children's website featuring seriously creepy looking aliens, seizure inducing animations, and over 175 colors per page, says that the search engine Google is infringing on its trademark name. This wouldn't have anything to do with a certain recent IPO announcement, would it?

Microsoft is coming after Google in a big way, announcing that it has spent in excess of over 100 million dollars (said in best Mini-me voice). Will it be enough?

Google has launched a new feature to its AdWords program which aims to improve the relevancy of their AdWords product. The new role out will begin testing on broad match ads which appear on Google.com today. Thoughts?

Overture Unveils Local Match to compete with Google's local targetting. Who will win?

I remember way back when SEO Chat was only a forum with a hundred or so members. Now this forum has around 6,000 members, a huge content site and now a brand new blog.

A California man was arraigned on Thursday on federal extortion and wire fraud charges arising from a software program he claimed could allow spammers to defraud Web search company Google Inc. of millions of dollars.