The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Google looks for new ideas as much as profits
This is a nice article that recaps the history of Google. It’s a good story.
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Google looks for new ideas as much as profits
This is a nice article that recaps the history of Google. It’s a good story.
ValueClick will pay privately held Search123 $3.3 million in cash and another $1.7 million to cover transaction costs and certain liabilities.
We recently wrote about Search123 here.
Here are a couple neat tools put out by Marketleap - all around nice guys!
Search Engine Saturation Check - Marketleap Search Engine Marketing Tools
This lets you quickly see how many pages are indexed in a variety of engines.
Search Engine Placement Check - Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool
Here you can quickly check a particular phrase on multiple engines to see if it is appearing in the top three pages of results.
Creating Your Own Favicon.ico Icon For IE5 - The Web Developer’s Journal
Have you seen a little image next to some of your listings in your favorites? This is a Favicon. It can really make your site stand out. And each time it is downloaded and detected in your server statistics you know that someone has bookmarked your site.
AdWords Power Posting Tool
It use to be that if you wanted the maximum bid for one phrase higher than other phrases, you would have to set up a new campaign. Power Posting makes that process a lot simpler.
While I’m discussing Google, check out this FAQ on “keyword matching”. It discusses some very important features that many people do not know about Google Adwords: Broad matches, Phrase matches, Exact matches, and Negative matches.
Google wins over SearchKing in PageRank case
“PageRanks are opinions — opinions of the significance of particular Web sites as they correspond to a search query,” the decision says.
NetIQ Rolls Out WebTrends Search Tool
NetIQ will now include a tool in both its software and hosted WebTrends Reporting Series that allows companies to sort out how customers are using search to arrive at their site, including whether it is through paid search listings or through regular search results.
Things are just getting better and better for the end user. This tool is a case of that fact.
You can read WebTrends press release here.