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Search

  • Search Begins Early, Brands Come Late

    When it comes to search engine marketing, it’s not all about the brand. In fact, according to a new DoubleClick/comScore study, it’s only one-quarter to one-fifth about the brand.

  • Microsoft Takes Aim at Pay-Per-Click

    Google and Yahoo were put on notice last week that the paid advertising search is set to become a three-horse race. Microsoft hosted a meeting for advertisers at its Redmond, WA, headquarters to unveil its own proprietary platform for linking pay-per-click ads to search results and other Web pages. And although the launch announcement made all the right nods to peaceful coexistence and the importance of MSN

  • American Greetings’ House of E-Cards

    The Internet has done a lot to change both Americans

  • Lawyer’s Verdict on SEM: It Works

    Patrick Tighe is a lawyer with a secret, and he

  • SEM Beefs Up Online Sales for Omaha Steaks

    You might not think of a beef retailer as a hotbed of advanced technological thought. But Nebraska-based Omaha Steaks can lay claim to being at the forefront of a number of trends in both marketing and technology. As the Table Supply Meat Company, they began shipping their corn-fed beef to the nation’s restaurants by train in 1917. When freezer technology reached the required level of development following World War Two, the company—now Omaha Steaks International—switched from the rails to the mails and started marketing its products directly to home consumers.

  • New Omniture Tool Offers Bid Management with a View

    Web analytics provider Omniture announced in January that it will launch the second tool in its eight-year existence: a new hosted bid management service called Search Engine Manager. The new offering, which was made available to selected beta customers in January and will be generally available this month, is designed to interoperate with SiteCatalyst, the analysis platform from Omniture that operates on some of the largest, busiest Web sites on the Internet.

  • Gunning for Google

    Microsoft is gunning for Google and Yahoo! Unhappy that its MSN Search is only the third most popular search engine, Microsoft has feverishly been working

  • A Question of Timing for Answers.com.

    Back when the Web was new and finding information on the Internet was still an art, the mantra had it that

  • Everything Search Needs to Know About Blogs—For Now

    If blogging had gone to high school, it would now be looking forward eagerly to the next reunion. It’s been quite a year in the blogosphere.

  • Surveying the Search Landscape

    Search advertisers are becoming increasingly hungry for competitive intelligence. As paid search takes its place alongside more traditional marketing media, players feel the need for a comparative tool