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Bidding On Trademarks in Search Advertising Continues to Heat Up

by Jeff Weisbein December 28, 2011

Here’s a hot topic: competitors or scammers bidding on your company’s trademark in search results to be at the top of the results in the sponsored links section. Is this illegal? The answer may surprise you: it’s not.

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Google Announces Instant Pages, Voice Search, and Image Search

by Jeff Weisbein June 14, 2011

Today, Google announced several new features in their quest to enrich people’s search for information on the Internet. At its Inside Search event in San Francisco, Google showed off Instant Pages, voice search (on the desktop), and a new kind of image search. All of which look very cool and innovative.

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Should Google Remove the “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button?

by Jeff Weisbein May 2, 2011

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past ten years chances are you have seen the iconic I’m Feeling Lucky button sitting on the front of Google’s home page. If you haven’t actually ever clicked the I’m Feeling Lucky button, it does actually have a function.

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SEO Not Affected By Google Instant

by Jeff Weisbein September 12, 2010

This past Friday Google stated that Internet marketers shouldn’t change their SEO strategies to account for partially-typed keywords while using Google Instant. Internet marketing firms were very concerned when the new feature launched earlier this week fearing that they would need to adjust their strategies to include partial word matches for search queries. The way [...]

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Battle for Relevance: Yahoo

by Jeff Weisbein July 16, 2010

When I asked Twitter the other day, “Who will become more irrelevant (or die) first – Microsoft or Yahoo?” I can’t say I was surprised by the overwhelming response answering Yahoo, or maybe it was more along the lines of “Yahoo is relevant?” I think you get the point. When Michael Arrington interviewed Yahoo CEO [...]

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Is Twitter Still Interesting?

by Jeff Weisbein July 13, 2010

Is Twitter still interesting? I think that is a legitimate question. I’m not asking if people are still using the service (because they are), what I am asking is if Twitter is up to anything interesting and what they are planning to do for the web. Twitter was always expected to blow our minds with [...]

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The Real Problem With Realtime Search

by Jeff Weisbein October 3, 2009

Realtime search is a huge topic of discussion today. By huge, I mean, literally huge. Various industry blogs discuss it all the time and even Google seems to be interested in the realtime arena. In the society we live in today where everything is instant and people love instant gratification it’s not a surprise realtime [...]

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YouTube Redesign Focuses On Search

by Jeff Weisbein August 13, 2009

Maybe you noticed (and you probably did) – YouTube redesigned the header of their website. It now focuses on search. Granted, YouTube is owned by Google this seems like a logical move. The YouTube search also now has advertisements and what YouTube is calling Featured Videos on the side of the results. Very similar to [...]

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SearchMe: The Search Engine That Never Was

by Jeff Weisbein July 25, 2009

SearchMe, the visual search engine which currently is redirecting to Google, due to lack of funds and no buyer insight is essentially the search engine that never was. Granted, there are a lot of search engines out there that really never take off, SearchMe is an interesting example to look at. As I talked about [...]

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