Google reveals a little more about how it uses human review panels to assess the quality of its search results. Not new news as such but some interest comments from Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig
Google talks about future ad plans
What is next for Google? Will it dominate offline as well as online advertising?
Google experiments with Digg-style voting on search results
Google tests voting in Google Labs. How will this impact on search engine rankings in the future?
‘I’m feeling lucky’ button costs Google $110m a year
Are you feeling lucky punk? Google takes the hit with its random lottery button.
Google’s search market share increases
Google increases its market share in the US. As the search engine giant increases its grip on search engine marketing, what can Yahoo, MSN and the remaining competition do?
Small businesses not investing in search
An interesting survey finds that business in the UK are reluctant to invest in search engine marketing, despite the fact that 76% of those that do see positive results on sales.
True Knowledge unveils its natural language search engine
True Knowledge launches natural language search engine to fanfares of ‘radical new approach to search engine technology’
Search engines vital for brand building and driving offline sales
How search engines are becoming increasingly important for offline consumer purchases. Search engines reach out far beyond their SERPs.
US web users experience ‘search engine fatigue’
US web users regularly experience ‘search engine fatigue’, according to a poll carried out by Kelton Research and commissioned by AutoByTel.
US search marketing spend to reach nearly £3.9bn in 2007
Forrester announces predicutions for the US search engine marketing industry. Search engine marketing set to continue rapid growth.
Google purges link directories from search results
Google clamps down on directories – what does this mean for link building strategies?
Search engine marketing growing by 39% globally
A look at the growth of search engine marketing in the US. MarketingSherpa releases the latest edition of its Search Engine Marketing Guide.