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Facts For Webmasters & Advertisers: Yahoo Out Of Search, Bing Takes Over

It is official, Yahoo and Microsoft have approval to move forward with their search deal and they are not wasting any time with that. You can read many of the stories on Techmeme to catch up, but let me quote the official press release, at least a snippet: SUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT – News) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO – News)...

Facebook Sent More Traffic to Yahoo & MSN Than Google: Is It Bad SEO?

Compete released statistics, which I do not see published on their site yet, saying that Facebook is now sending more traffic to major portals such as Yahoo and MSN, than Google sends to those portals. You can read about this at SFGate.com but here is a quote: According to Web measurement firm Compete Inc., Facebook has passed search-engine giant Google to become the top source for traffic to major...

President’s Day Gets Overshadowed By Olympics: No Google Logo

Today is President’s day, you wouldn’t believe the number of US based businesses that are closed today, including the post offices, banks and courts. But like every year, Google does not show a logo for the day. Just like 2009’s President’s Day and 2008’s President’s Day, Google and Yahoo do not have special logos. This year, they have an excuse, it is the 2010...

2010 Happy Valentine’s Day from Google, Yahoo & Ask.com But Not Bing

Today is Valentine’s Day but it is also the 2010 Winter Olympics. Google & Bing decided to stick with changing their Olympics logos, while Yahoo and Ask.com placed special Valentine’s Day logos up today. I am constantly updating our Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos, which is now up to thirteen logos from various search engines and forums – so make sure to check them out. Meanwhile,...

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others

The 2010 Winter Olympics kick off tonight in Vancouver and some of the search engines are already sporting their special logos for the event. Google, Yahoo, Bing and others have their logos up. We will post what is live now below and continue to add to them as other search engines create their logos. Google: It may be the widest Google logo in their history at 760 pixels wide. Yahoo: Bing: I...

Condolences To Bing’s Brett Yount

This site has always been about the community. I try to share educational insights, news details, plus have fun when appropriate. I also have shared sad events that impact significant people in our industry, because – we are one large community that is impacted by the people around us. Recently, I asked where did the Bing webmaster representative, Brett Yount, go? He basically went off the...

Old Time Forum Personality, MakeMeTop, Acquired Partially

Possibly the first “Barry” in the SEO industry, Barry Lloyd, aka MakeMeTop, has sold the MakeMeTop brand, software and analytics business to Unica. Barry Lloyd has been in the industry for a really long time and he has been somewhat quiet recently, but has given so much to the industry over the years. He joined the WebmasterWorld forums back in 2000. It is over there where he used the...

Groundhog Day: Bing Theme But Nothing From Google, Yahoo, AOL & Others

Today is Groundhog Day and in the past we have seen special logos from AOL, DogPile, Bing and others. But we never get a theme or logo from Google and Yahoo for the day. In any event, here is Bing’s theme for Groundhog day: We also have a theme up, here is how it looks: Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor =...

Search Continues to Grow: Showing 46% Growth YoY, comScore

comScore released their search growth report and it showed searches have grown 46% worldwide. The U.S. grew 22% from December 2008 to December 2009, with 22.7 billion searches. China followed with 13.3 billion searches, but only grew 13% year over year. Google took account of 66.8% of those searches, with 87.8 billion searches worldwide, and a growth rate overall of 58%. That is not too bad,...

SEO ≠ Search Engine Optimization, Rather Strategically Elevating Optimization

Yesterday, the HuoMah blog uncovered a new person trying to trademark the term SEO. Yes, this was not the first person, see here for the other. I then wrote about it, with Danny Sullivan, at Search Engine Land. It turns out that this guy is not looking to trademark the term SEO as Search Engine Optimization. Even though this guy’s company is under the DBA of “Search Engine Partner.”...

Martin Luther King, Jr Logo from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Dogpile & Othersin 2010

Every year, the search engines post special logos for Martin Luther King, Jr. This year is no different, we have logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, Dogpile and others. MLK, Martin Luther Kind, Jr needs no explanation. It is a legal US holiday today and a day celebrated by many around the world. Here are the logos: Google’s MLK Logo: Yahoo’s Flash MLK logo: Bing’s MLK Theme: Ask.com’s...

Should Search Engines Be Immune to Copyright Infringement?

A new bill in the UK Parliament named the Digital Economy Bill [HL] 2009-10 is proposing to give search engines, such as Google, a form of immunity against being sued over copyright infringement. It is a bit more complex than that but overall, if you want your content out of the search engines, block them – otherwise, you can’t sue them over copyright law. A Sphinn thread is pretty heated...

Jill Whalen Takes a Look at 10 Past Years of SEO

I love it when you have the old geezers (in the SEO world, that means 10 years old), take a look in the past at how the industry has evolved. Danny Sullivan has done it and so have others. I personally have only been covering search for over six years, but I have been involved in the web development since I was 16, which was in 1996 (yea, I turn 30 this year). In any event, Jill Whalen posted her...

2010 New Year Logos from Search Engines: Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com & Google (Coming Soon)

Typically, I compile the New Years logos from the various search engines and search industry on New Years Day, but most of the search engines, with the exception of Google, have the logos out already. So here are the 2010 New Years logos. If any of them update and when Google adds there logo, I will update this post. Google: [Coming Soon] Yahoo (Animated): Yahoo (Static): Bing: Ask.com: DogPile: Baidu: Clicker: Sogou: Cre8asite...

2010 New Year Logos from Search Engines: Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com & Google

Typically, I compile the New Years logos from the various search engines and search industry on New Years Day, but most of the search engines, with the exception of Google, have the logos out already. So here are the 2010 New Years logos. If any of them update and when Google adds there logo, I will update this post. Google: Yahoo (Animated): Yahoo (Static): Bing: AOL: Ask.com: DogPile: Baidu: Clicker: Sogou: Zuula: Cre8asite...