Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Search results lag expectations
Is all the money being spent on search marketing paying off? According to a new survey of search campaigns, there is ample room for improvement. [BtoBOnline]
AOL Expands Shopping Features
Comparison shopping Web sites like Yahoo Shopping, Google's Froogle and Shopping.com are about to face some new competition from an old online player. [The New York Times]
Jeeves takes a search break
Jeeves the searching butler is about to pack up his bags and leave the internet behind - but don't worry, he'll be back next week. [Webuser]
Yahoo! makes a Musicmatch
Internet portal and search engine Yahoo! said it will buy the music software company Musicmatch for $160 million. [CNN]
Search engine innovation
Findwhat.com today added a pay-per-call lead generation service, allowing companies without an online presence to take advantage of its performance-based search offering. [ClickZ]
Meta search engine Dogpile becomes WebFetch
The meta search engine Dogpile has changed its name to www.webfetch.com in the UK and Europe. [PC Pro]
Amazon's A9 search engine searches on
Amazon's search engine; powered and fed ads by Google, left its testing phase and shades of brown behind. The site re-launches with a new look and new features.
Baidu acquires Hao123
Baidu.com, the largest Chinese Internet search engine, today announced that it has acquired Hao123.com.
Your Trademark Sucks.com
Recent attention to the Eighth Circuit decision in Coca-Cola v. Purdy brings to mind the class of sometimes difficult cases involving the use of another's trademark as a domain name for criticism. [CircleID]
German Court Rejects Lawsuit Against Google Deutschland
A state court in Hamburg on Tuesday rejected a German company's lawsuit against Google Inc. [Dow Jones Newswire]
