Brian Quinton

MSN AdCenter Shows Search’s Targeted Future

| Brian Quinton

As usual, the recent Search Engine Strategies conference held earlier this month in Chicago went heavy on the new: new ways to integrate search with video, podcasts, and phone sales, new ways to use mapping in local search, and new applications for tagging and community-gene4rated content. But one of the best attended sessions offered to lay out the ways in which search advertisers can get some of the capabilities that many offline advertisers already have

Answers.com Offers Just the Facts

| Brian Quinton

In the latest nod to the power of the Web community, Yahoo! last week launched Yahoo! Answers, a service in which seekers can pose questions that are too complex for simple search engines and get their answers from actual human beings

Free Google Service Helps Watch Your Words

| Brian Quinton

There Google goes again, applying its special blend of category-disruptive dynamite to another part of the search marketing industry. This time the explosion has occurred in the Web analytics arena, with an announcement by the Mountain View CA-based engine that it will let Web advertisers and the Web publishers in its AdSense network access some basic Web tracking tools for free.

LookSmart’s 180 Degrees of Vertical Search

| Brian Quinton

LookSmart, the online media content and technology company that has been struggling for a place at the search table since losing its contract with MSN in 2003, has launched 161 new vertical search sites for content in 13