Topic

Search

  • Ads and the Blogosphere

    THE BLOGOSPHERE IS getting to be quite a crowded spot. At press time, Nielsen BuzzMetrics BlogPulse had identified about 32.9 million blogs on the global

  • Web Works Wonders for Hair-Care Firm

    Dr. Miracle’s is using direct response print, television, the Web and unconventional advertising wisdom to make a name for itself. And it seems to be

  • Google Gets It on (with) eBay

    A couple of months ago, eBay and Google were the Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie of e-commerce, supposed enemies thanks to fears that Google was poaching on eBay’s auction turf with Google Base and on PayPal’s online payment model with one of its own. And eBay seemed to make a point of looking elsewhere than to Google for search-ad services for its U.S. Web pages, considering Microsoft before finally settling on Yahoo!’s offering in May. But if they were indeed at odds, Google and eBay made up big time this week.

  • Letting the Black Dog Sell

    Islands are known for fostering a pretty relaxed definition of efficiency. Maybe it

  • Listen to the Data: Using Search to Understand Your Market

    Too often, marketers think of search engine marketing as a one-way street, believing that merchandising and overall marketing strategy should direct search efforts…period.

  • Yahoo! Gets Moving on Mobile Ads

    It’s no newsflash that search marketing is reaching out to intersect other forms of advertising and promotion: Just think of Google’s announcement last week that it will start offering coupons in its local search results. Yahoo! too is growing beyond the PC query. Late last week the company announced that it has partnered with go2 to offer search ads in go2’s mobile directory services

  • CRM Providers Add Search Management to Toolkits

    A pair of customer relationship solutions providers announced yesterday that they will now integrate Google search ads into their relationship tracking services, allowing merchants to follow the conversions and leads generated by their pay-per-click Google campaigns.