Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Red Nose Day storms onto the search engines
'Red nose day' makes it into the top 10 UK searches
Search engine referrals nearly double
Referrals from search engine worldwide doubled in the last 12 months
Global search engine referral percentages double in a year
Cyberatlas reports on the latest figures from StatMarket
Overture shares fall after rumors of Yahoo! eSpotting buyout
Overture's shares dropped 12% late last week after the New York Post ran a story reporting that Yahoo! will buy eSpotting
Search engines - a growth report from Business Week
Mixing ads in with search results is paying off, and the big players are jostling to gain from the surge
Yahoo! Unveils Premium Content Service
In a bid to bolster revenue in the current advertising slump, Yahoo! has unveiled its premium content service Yahoo! Platinum with exclusive entertainment news, sports information and more.
Done deal
Yahoo! closes the Inktomi deal
Google penetrates further into Korea
Google said on Wednesday that it has licensed its search technology to Daum Communications, the operator of one of the largest South Korean Web sites (From Business Week)
War leads to increase in web traffic
The air strike against Iraq has led to a jump in traffic on the Internet, which is expected to become the major source of information on the conflict for many people. (from The Washington Post)
Blogs and searching
Infoworld takes a look at the new crop of weblog search properties
