Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
MSN dumps SiteMatch
The MSN facelift includes a complete elimination of Yahoo Paid Inclusion Results - increasing relevancy by up to 50% according to Microsoft.
New MSN Search enters beta stage
The long anticipated Microsoft powered web search finally goes public.
Paid inclusion losing charm
Chris Ulbrich at Wired looks at the Rise and Fall of Paid Inclusion at MSN and Ask
Google goes on the attack on code claim
Search engine reps have gone on the attack over a claim that it used code from Affinity Engines to build its social networking site. [The Inquirer]
Behind the Scenes at Yahoo Labs
Dr. Gary Flake is Principal Scientist & Head of Yahoo! Research Labs. In this wide-ranging interview, he talks about the daily work of researchers at Yahoo Labs, and what they're doing to make search better. [SearchEngineWatch.com]
Man charged over Google blackmail attempt
A California man who claimed to have software which automatically clicked on Google cost-per-click ads has been charged with extortion and wiretap fraud. [The Register]
Yahoo!'s Overture unveils local match
Yahoo! subsidiary Overture is expected to release its answer to Google's local targeting for paid search ads today, a product called Local Match. [ClickZ]
MSN search due July?
Bill Gates says Microsoft will revamp its Internet search site in July with a new search engine, using its dominant industry position to take market share from Google. [Reuters]
Google's IPO Becoming a Headache
Google's initial public stock offering has become a lot of work for relatively little return for Wall Street's brokerage houses. [The Ledger]
Telstra to unveil search engine
New youth focussed search engine from the stable of Yellow Pages
