The search industry still has growth potential, particularly away from the top tier in the local arena and in specific verticals. But to take advantage of those opportunities, search players big and small will have to do something substantive to settle their click fraud and search privacy issues, and will also have to find a way to make search marketing easier for advertisers.
Imagine for a moment that you want to market 25 million different products online. Now imagine that many of those products are timely items strongly linked to events in the news. Finally, imagine that you have to add almost a million new products a week to your line
The online classified space has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks by a lot of companies taking a lot of different approaches. Oodle.com continues to grow with its business model of bringing buyers to existing ad-seller sites. Google Base is beta-testing its big brand name as a marketing site where users can post whatever content they wish, including retail goods for sale. Even eBay is in the classifieds business, and last week saw the launch of Vast.com, an online classified player that says it has 15 million listings scraped from 50,000 Web sites. Now into this fray steps Microsoft.
At a Search Engine Strategies session in New York earlier this month, Jonathan Mendez, e-marketing director for interactive agency DigitalGrit, started out by asking a packed room if anyone in the audience believed that brand advertising and search marketing couldn
Search is big these days, no doubt– big in ad dollars, big in the size of the segment players, and big in its influence as a doorway to the Web. But Blinkx hopes to make its mark on search by thinking small. To prove it, the San Francisco-based company recently rolled out a search engine that weighs only 1 megabyte but does the heavy lifting of bringing Web content to users without an explicit search.
A U.S. federal judge says he will probably give the Department of Justice some of the search data it has asked for from Google, now that government attorneys have greatly reduced the scope of their request.
Google announced last week that it has reached a settlement with plaintiffs in one class-action lawsuit charging that the search engine giant has not policed its pay-per-click ad programs well enough to eliminate substantial fraud. But so far, the prospect of a settlement hasn
Between news of a possible click-fraud resolution in Arkansas and a potential perp walk in San Jose, one ad-targeting advancement from the Googleplex got pretty much lost in the kerfuffle. So let
A reported 6,000 people attended last week