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Poised To Announce Google Ads Deal; Ballmer Says Microsoft Could Go It Alone
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is ready to formally announce a deal to incorporate Google AdWords into its search results -- potentially within a week. The deal could be part of a larger "open" system in which Yahoo serves the most lucrative ad in search results from its... - Live
Twittering The UK's Microsoft Live Search Executive Symposium
I'm in London today for Live Search's Executive Symposium, designed to educate key thought leaders, company executives, and others about what Microsoft is doing in search and what's happing in search generally. I've twittered the morning sessions, which were interesting and full of stats. Below, the raw twitters. If time... - Indiana Jones
Search: Indy Meets Microsoft Live Search
For over a year, Microsoft has been experimenting with games to help build its search marketshare. Yesterday, I learned of one that certainly caught my eye: Indiana Jones Search.... - Microsoft
Releases "Renaissance" Version of Live Search QnA
The Live Search QnA Blog announced a new release of Live Search QnA. Live Search QnA is Microsoft's question and answer engine, similar to Yahoo Answers. This new release was coined the "Renaissance release," and includes the following enhancements.... - Microsoft Live
Search Adds More Images, Multimap, Find My Location, & Celebrity Rank
Live Search has informed us that they have made a few enhancements to the search engine. The enhancements include an expanded image search index, a new integrated mapping experience with Multimap, a location-based mobile search feature to "find me," and more content for the celebrities and books sections. Here are... - Google News
Comes To iPhone, Plus Goes Global With Interface
The Google News Blog announced that they have launched a special interface for the iPhone. To access it, all you need to do is go to Google.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch and navigate to the news section via the "more" link at the top right or you can... - Google TV Ads
Available To All US Advertisers
The Inside AdWords Google Blog announced that all US-based advertisers should now have the TV ads option in their account. In fact, you should see the option after logging in to your AdWords account at the bottom, where it says "Other Campaign Types." Here is a screen capture of that... - SEMPO
Institute Now Offering Agency Training Certification
The SEMPO Institute, a training division of SEMPO, is now offering agency training certification. The certification basically is a seal of satisfactory completion of their course work. SEMPO Institute is offering Gold Seal level certification and Platinum Seal level certification. Gold Level requires that 20% to 49% of their search... - Human
Hardware: You’re Looking, but are You Seeing?
So far in the Human Hardware series, we’ve dealt with working memory (a just released study confirms the limitations of this. See my note at the end of this column), differences between sexes and Dunbar’s number (Parts One and Two). Today, I want to explore how we can look...
