One of the biggest search challenges has long been that the major search engines like Google cannot crawl material that can only be retrieved through the use of forms. Now Google is filling out those form to obtain the information previously hidden, the company has announced. Click to continue reading… More: continued here

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Yahoo has largely opted out of the mapping arms race between Microsoft and Google that has seen both invest millions in their mapping platforms. While it was the early pioneer of dynamic mapping and use of maps as a local search tool, the company decided to focus on more “practical” tools and functionality rather than [...]

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Honest. I wanted to write a big, in-depth blog post about X (pick whatever X you want), but then Emmy came and sat down beside the keyboard with a forlorn face. This is what she looked like:Emmy was just waiting patiently for me to get off the computer so that we could play or hang [...]

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Microsoft has added its input to that of a host of other stakeholders in the growing debate over consumer privacy, online ad targeting and potential US (and local) government regulation. (Here’s a related WSJ story on search engine effort to block a proposed anti-tracking law in the New York state legislature.) In a filing today [...]

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As expected Yahoo told me that you can expect some of your minimum bids to change as soon as early next week. So if you are running ad campaigns on Yahoo Search Marketing, and your quality is not up to Yahoo’s level, then your minimum bid may spike up. Yahoo informed us of this change [...]

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