Search Industry Report

August 30, 2006

New Google Adwords Email Alert Service
The My Client Center alerts feature makes it easy to stay on top of important issues that may affect your managed client accounts.

August 30, 2006

TrueLocal Launches Canadian Local Search
The site offers a localized search engine in English and French that consumers can use to track down more than 1.3 million Canadian brick-and-mortar businesses

August 29, 2006

Danny Sullivan Leaving Search Engine Watch
After ten years, Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch and almost certainly leaving the Search Engine Strategies conference series as well.

August 28, 2006

Google & Ebay Sign Click To Call Deal
The agreement consists of two primary components involving text-based advertising and "click-to-call" advertising functionality.

August 16, 2006

New Blog Market Exchange
A classifieds style marketplace for the professional blogging community. It's free for now, and you can create an exchange post here.

August 16, 2006

AdSense For Search Results On Your Site
Now Adsense can be integrated within a publisher's site design instead of being displayed within Google's layout.

August 15, 2006

Printable Online Coupons on Google
Google has announced printable online coupons on Google Maps. When searching for local information, discount coupons from businesses are now displayed on Google Maps search results and business listing pages.

August 10, 2006

Pointing Webmaster Queries to Site Explorer
A lot of webmasters use Yahoo! Search to get page and inlink data about their site, using 'site:', 'link:', 'linkdomain:' queries. Now Yahoo is redirecting all queries of this nature to the Site Explorer results pages, so that you can benefit from this tool's additional features.

August 10, 2006

User Generated Content Report From Nielsen [pdf]
Report shows user generated content sites, platforms for photo sharing, video sharing and blogging, comprised five of the top 10 fastest growing web brands in July 2006.

August 7, 2006

Advertisers to Use eBay to Buy TV Time
Nine advertisers have joined to create and test e-Media Exchange, an auction site created by eBay Inc., to buy advertising time on TV.

July 27, 2006

Google Radio Ads Now Playing in Detroit
Google powered ads are being played on at least one radio station in Detroit, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in an analyst conference call last week that the company's radio ad-business will be generally available within three months.