Now that Yahoo and Microsoft are beginning to migrate Yahoo advertiser to adCenter, there are some concerns that the prices of a click will increase when all is set and done. A WebmasterWorld thread points to a press release where…

During the so called “Search Engine War,” many experts suggested the best search engine should have a “human component.” Well, those premonitions fairly well died with Jimmy Wale’s Wikia Search .  What has come of the “human” element where other Web mechanisms operate?

It is just about a year since we posted our poll on the Google Sandbox existing or not. The results back then had a lot of people saying it still existed on some level. Some said it no longer existed…

The Microsoft adCenter blog announced they are adding budgeting improvements to their search ad tools. Tina Kelleher from the Microsoft team explained that in the upcoming “days” advertisers will be able to track their ad spend in “near real time.” Tina went as far to say that there will be “almost no time *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Last week we reported the Google site performance reports weren’t updating. Google said this morning they have fixed the reports. Googler, Asaph Zemach said: We had a slight delay in some of our processing pipelines

It has always been hard for SEO people to get across the importance of ranking high for a keyword and all the good it does for a business. Many people don’t realize that a large part of SEO is optimizing the site, not only to rank well, but also to achieve the best chance of converting those visits into paying customers. Nor do they understand that the core of SEO is understanding your customer base so that you can advertise on the keywords they are using

I found an unusual but yet interesting thread at the Google Maps Help forum. Two individuals came in to the forum asking if they can get the faces on a specific Google Maps Street View image un-blurred.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and on the social web, that flattery goes one step further, often in the form of a mash-up.

Numbers can actually help you to market your product if you understand how important they are — especially to significant far eastern markets such as China. Universally understood, numbers may well have wider applications for your international search marketing campaigns than you, at first, expect. *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Do a search for politics on Bing Social Search, and its new “who to follow on Twitter” feature offer exactly one person: Sarah Palin.