that with Yahoo! Search transitioning certain back-end functions to Microsoft, we are no longer a "search engine." I find these comments amusing, but a little irresponsible. What it comes down to is that the search industry is not widely understood, so I'd like to take this opportunity to draw a few comparisons with other industries. When groundbreaking new technologies are ...

to last weeks Search Alliance announcement about how the transition would soon begin where Bing would start to power the English language organic search results...( read more ...

Search & Social News: 08/24/2010 Hello and welcome to the latest -' 7 Days of Search and Social ' . It was a fairly busy week out in the trenches with plenty to get into' other than new patents. Ok, sure, you prolly don't care, but for me that's some sad news. sigh. I took a bit of a departure with the 'top story' but hey, it's my party and ...

new website in the search space. The Bing Webmaster blog gives some sound pieces of advice to keep your website running like a well oiled machine and keep you rankings climbing. "Check to see if your site employs a robots.txt file. If so, confirm that the directives block only what you want blocked. If one or more sets of custom directives exist for specific bots, be sure they ...

7 Days of Search and Social ' . Well, the summer is definately drawing to a close here. August if almost over, bloggers are springing back to life and the conference/seminar world is springing to life. There was some interesting news bits as well and I was torn between Google's Realtime search and the Blekko beta. There really is a TON of good reading in every section ...

making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experience. Today we are introducing an enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist, providing suggestions geographically closer to you as you type your query. Sitting here in our Yahoo! headquarters at Sunnyvale, if I type "santa" from Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, I get "santa ...

Search Marketing isn't all that different than traditional marketing. And, just like the physical market, you have a plethora of vehicles from which to choose. Optimizing your efforts can get a little confusing, so look to the traditional Marketing Mix to help a bit. P Number 1: Product The end-result. In the Internet world, we'll call this the user's ...

good graces. Search engines like Google use two key factors when creating rankings for searched sites: content and backlinks. Since Tumblr makes it so easy to copy content found on other blogs, it takes a lot more effort of on the part of a Tumblelogger to achieve a high ranking in results ' because reblogging can easily become a duplicate content nightmare. Now if you are ...

year a newer, more search -friendly version was released that is turning the app-search world on its head. With the new Chomp application you not only get personalized recommendations based on prior downloads (not unlike what you with Apple) and what other people add to your social graph, but can also perform topic related searches. With all these new improvements, Chomp's main ...

SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Places Removes Yelp Reviews From Search ...