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Breakin’ the Law, Breakin’ the Law: Part 1

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What are some of the biggest legal issues search marketers face in PPC advertising? Early on, using someone else’s trademark in your meta tags was considered trademark infringement. Fortunately, standardized policies have been created to help eliminate the “he said, she said” battles. But we still have PPC click fraud, copyright infringement and trademark usage in PPC advertising to contend …

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Yahoo Upgrades its Search Engine – We Look for a Halo 3 Trailer

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Today, Yahoo announced upgrades to its search engine designed to “…make it more helpful and engaging…” These improvements mark the most significant change to Yahoo’s search engine in the last 3 1/2 years. (Remember when Yahoo search was powered by Google?) These improvements are aimed more at helping searchers find what they are looking for by improving the interface rather …

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Alert the Internet! Google dominates % of all U.S. searches in August

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According to Hitwise, Google accounted for 64% of all searches in the U.S. for the month of August.  While this, initially, might not be very shocking, Google’s dominance did increase almost 4% compared to last year.  So it seems that Google’s popularity & search dominance is only getting stronger and stronger. While Google keeps on obtaining more and more of …

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Nielsen Reveals Audiences Use 2 or 3 Engines for Search

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The competition is getting fierce among search engines. Last week Nielsen//NetRatings revealed how the top engines performed in two key areas for the months of June & July 2007: Overall increased visitor retention Visitors are using 2 and 3 engines to perform searches in three major categories: search, career development & multi-category travel Google ranked #1 over Yahoo and MSN …

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Google Can’t Get No …. (Customer) Satisfaction (This Year)

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For the first time ever, Yahoo has beat out Google in the University of Michigan’s annual American Customer Satisfaction Index report by a whopping 1% margin. Google’s customer satisfaction score was 78 / 100 which marked it’s second consecutive yearly decline. Yahoo propelled ahead and scored a 79 / 100; just enough to eek out a small victory. Ask.com had …

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