Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Yahoo advertising on Google
Yahoo started its own AdWords campaign on Google, advertising on the keyword "RSS" with a link that leads to an RSS resource page on its site. [Marketing Vox]
Transit Venus Google
For the first time in 122 years Venus crossed in front of the sun. A user wrote to Google to say that it would be rather funky if there was a special Google doodle logo to mark the occasion. Google, being Google, agreed.
Google mulls RSS support
Google is considering renewing support for the popular RSS Web publishing format in some of its services. [CNet]
Ask Jeeves purchases Tukaroo
Ask Jeeves, a leading provider of information retrieval technologies, brands and Internet advertising services, today announced it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Tukaroo, a San Jose-based desktop search technology company.
Google loses to Yahoo
Google's efforts in the Australian market have taken a body blow as News Interactive became the third major online publisher to sign a search marketing distribution agreement with Yahoo's subsidiary Overture. [Australian IT]
Domain names reach a record 63 million
Sometimes it seems like everyone's got a web site. That's almost true. The latest Domain Report says there are 63 million registered web-site domain names, one for every 100 people in the world and the highest ever. [Internet Retailer]
MSN Search claims to freeze out web spam
Microsoft is incorporating a new filtering technology into its forthcoming MSN Search technology, aiming to offer results clear of web spam. [PCMag]
As Easy as 3 x 7 = 21
Yahoo's China ambitions are riding on the smarts of a scrappy entrepreneur. [Forbes]
Confused UK users do more searching than finding
It seems UK users are either plain lazy or just don't know where to start when going online. Either that, or UK sites are relying too heavily on search engines to garner traffic from confused users. [netImperative]
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! hit by hack attack
A major Denial-of-Service attack on Akamai Technologies disabled many top line sites - including search engines - for nearly two hours today.
