Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Pay-per-sale a killer app for Google services?
Google has always denied that they are in competition with eBay, but the implications of Google Base become more important as figures show the popularity gap for the services.
600 Chinese agencies sue search engines
More than 600 Chinese Internet marketing agencies have accused the big-name search engines like Google and Baidu of breach of contract, which may put them out of business.
[Xinhua]
Yahoo! has a rethink over paid search advertising
Yahoo! has entered testing for a new approach to its search engine advertising system for paid search and commentators say it appears to be a lot like a certain other search engine market leader.
[Forbes]
Wi-Fi is coming to town (in fact: to San Francisco)
Last Wednesday saw the confirmation that San Francisco's proposed municipal wireless network will be implemented by Google. While not a great surprise, it will be interesting to see how the search engine approaches this pioneering effort.
[SF Gov]
A NY Times Exclusive reveals search engine secrets
Its time for search engine optimisation to hit the mainstream as headlines get optimised and copywriters are advised to go back to school.
AOL change their official brand name from America Online to…yes: AOL
Having finally come round to people's common abbreviation of their name America Online makes AOL official.
Lowdown on Google Toolbar 2.0 for Firefox
Bigmouthmedia gets down and dirty with the latest offering from Google and throws up some interesting takes on the new features.
Google tests the water stateside with new search result options
If you're in the market for a new home and you've Googled the possibilities lately, oh, and you happen to live in America, then you might have come across an interesting new tool from Google.
Panning for gold - the .eu rush
The floodgates were opened on the new .eu domain last week as public access was granted for new registrations. The result? Read on...
Revolutionary search algorithm bought by Google
Google's acquisition of the search tool 'Orion' and the student who created it hit the headlines last week. Bigmouthmedia looks at the facts.
