Search Engine News : 09-Dec-05





Ballmer 'keen' on Web advertising, mum on AOL

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday that the onlineadvertising business is of keen interest to the software giant but he refused to comment on any potential deal with Time Warners America Online unit Microsoft and Google have each submitted proposals to over the past few weeks in a bid to strike an Internetadvertising partnership according to sources familiar with the talks Ballmer fielding a question from the audience at a speech in Washington refused to comment on the deal but said online advertising offers great potential...

Google takes the bus | Tech News on ZDNet

Google has debuted a test version of a service that tries to map out the most direct route for publictransportation users Googles transit trip planner launched Wednesday is currently limited to Portland Ore but may eventually launch on a global scale according to its Web site Although Googles transit trip planner is not integrated into its localsearch feature it provides people with information that could dovetail into its localsearch efforts Google and competitors such as Yahoo and Microsofts are jumping into local search and mining the lucrative localadvertising market...

Microsoft offers a new angle on maps | Tech News on ZDNet

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a beta version of Windows Live Local which is based on its Virtual Earth aerial image application and integrates local search mapping driving directions and yellow pages with a birdseye view of major cities The service offers a 45degree birdseye view covering about onequarter of the countrys population Cities include New York Los Angeles San Francisco Boston Seattle and Las Vegas...

Back links & unsustainable PPC :: SearchGuild.com

Ive spent ages on these forums and spent endless hours getting reciprocal links yes Ive now heard they are all but useless but ive also linked to literally 100s of directories I hope some people have linked to me via quality who knows Im still 3 not that it means a lot google recognises about 56 many of which are my own site page 8 for my search term on google out of Competition isnt heavyweight tbh page 1 Yahoo page 1 page 1 Im currently having to pay over month to achieve a decent turnover through its just unsustainable...

Froogle ! how far will it go ? :: SearchGuild.com

Posted Thu Dec 01 555 pm Post subject Froogle and Ebay are different animals Froogle is little more than a product search and comparison facility you cant buy direct from it only from the merchant site Ebay has bulk listing tools so it is not as slow as it appears and you buy effectively from the Ebay page avoiding the referral to another site What I feel uncomfortable about is that Google seem to be trying to define their vision of the web and expecting the web to fall inline I recall a fellow called Gates trying this and taking a fall...

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