Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Social search and online branding - pay the gatekeeper?
How to build a global brand through word of mouth marketing online. Or: optimise your peer pressure.
[Forever Geek]
Microsoft anti-trust a cliffhanger
It's been the court-case du jour for some time now, but it's all hanging in the balance and no-one wants to call the result.
[BBC]
Does Google profit from clumsy fingers?
We've all come across them, but Google advert-only pages lead back to a surprising source...
[Seattle Times]
How far can free get you?
It's getting more and more like the bad old days of the internet boom, with increasing numbers of websites looking like they'll never make a profit. How far can they go?
[C-Net]
Live Messenger beta from Microsoft is...live
Yes indeed, and Microsoft's VoIP service will cover 11 countries, ramping up the heat in the VoIP marketplace.
[The Register]
Time for the BBC to jazz things up for the younger generation
There's something 2.0 about the BBC's decision to update the online brand and appeal to the social search scene. Has social search hit the mainstream?
Amazon and MSN make for strange bedfellows
Microsoft gets one over on Google with the announcement that Amazon and Alexa, amongst others, are moving over to the software pioneer's search technology.
Google Video expands – is there no stopping the titan of search?
Hosting video not the limit for Google Video, just a necessity says Jennifer Feikin.
Yahoo! helps local businesses attract new customers through paid search
Yahoo! local featured listings present offline advertisers with an easy route to online advertising.
Clash of the search titans
What with one court case and another, Microsoft has been racking up its time in the European courts. Most recently the claimant has turned out to be...Google.
