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Google’s New “Search Within A Site” Could Hurt Publisher Revenues

Earlier this week Search Engine Land highlighted what appeared to be a test whereby, for certain search queries, a search box would be returned on the main results page allowing further searches to made of the content of the site in questions. Well now this test seems to have been rolled out as a general […]

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Want Mobile Search? Just Ask….

Further to my recent comments on Yahoo’s new mobile search offering, it seems like everyone is eager to get in on this particular niche. Search Engine Land reports that Ask is about to launch a mobile search service.
The thing that intrigues/interets me most about this, is the mention of the GPS functionality. Everything I see […]

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Don’t Let Other People Steal Your Marketing Budget

As it attempts to resurrect the success of its early years, Ask is running a billboard advertising campaign in the US, with ‘mysterious’ slogans such as:
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS, THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES & (in a clear dig at Google) THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA.
I’m sure that the marketing team at […]

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