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A new search engine with the name www.Cuil.com launched yesterday. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge and it is pronounced “cool”. Could Cuil be the new Google killer that so many companies tried to build?
What’s special about Cuil?
During the past few years, many search engines have tried to be the next Google. None [...] Read more »

Google has over 75% of US search ad market
Google maintained its 77.4% share of US search marketing dollars, while Yahoo captured 17.8% of spending and Microsoft Live Search maintained its 4.8% share.
Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo Search still have good ROI in comparison to Google, which makes them essential marketplaces for advertisers that need [...] Read more »

Yahoo lets you build your own search service
BOSS is a new, open platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API. BOSS allows developers to take advantage of Yahoo!’s production search infrastructure and technology, combine that with their own unique assets, and create their own search experiences.” 
Google blog: Introduction to [...] Read more »

Google might consider country blocking as cloaking
Google’s John Mueller writes in an online discussion that blocking users based on IP addresses might be considered cloaking:
“Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines.”
A few comments later, John [...] Read more »

Search Engine Fact Of The Week
Does your CTR influence your Google rankings
Google uses the click through rate to rank the paid search results. The more clicks an ad gets, the higher it will be ranked in the search results. Does Google also use this method for the regular search results?
Why does it make sense to [...] Read more »

Articles of the week
            Google’s Matt Cutts interviewed by Eric Enge
“Matt wrote SafeSearch, which is Google’s family filter. [...] Matt currently heads up the Webspam team for Google. Matt talks about webmaster-related issues. [...]
Google continues its policy on paid links in general, so just yesterday we put out a new call for any paid [...] Read more »

Articles of the week

We’re all guinea pigs in Google’s search experiment
Google found that when the results increased to 30 per page, people searched 20 percent less overall, Mayer said. After much analysis of server logs, the company found it was because it took about twice as long to display the longer results list for the [...] Read more »

Search engine news of the week

April search market share: Yahoo! up… a little

“Yahoo! query volumes increased roughly 1.3% to push market share up to 14.8%. Maybe that Microhoo press got a lot of people yodeling after all.
Yahoo! gains did not come at the expense of Google. Google moved up a little over a point to [...] Read more »

Search engine news of the week

Google receives nearly 68 percent of U.S. searches in April 2008
“Google accounted for 67.90 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending April 26, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.28, 6.26 and 4.17 percent respectively. [...]
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users [...] Read more »

Ok the third marketing technique for e-bay affiliate marketing that you can use is something that most people lack and that is traffic sources that don’t seem too powerful but they really are and also help you increase your link popularity and at the same time bring more visitors to your website.
 
I am talking about [...] Read more »

Yahoo releases glue result pages
Yahoo India released the new “glue” result pages. These pages combine classic search results on the left hand column with more visual information in the middle and right section of the page.
For example, take a look at the search result for football. This might be a test that Yahoo will extend [...] Read more »