In Google’s commentary about their ad deal with Yahoo! they wrote:
This does not let Google raise prices for advertisers. Google does not set the prices manually for ads; rather, advertisers themselves determine prices through an ongoing competitive auction. We have found over years of research that an auction is by far the most efficient way [...]

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Last week, the three major search enginescame together to say how they agree — and disagree — over the Robots Exclusion Protocol. It’s such an important standard, one every webmaster should understand. To help, Vanessa Fox has compiled an extensive and outstanding overview [...]

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The LiveSide Blog reports that Live Search is testing out a new feature that allows users to customize the skin or background of the Live.com home page.
The LiveSide Blog has a screen capture of one of the skins, a couple in a lake. If you look at the right-bottom corner of the [...]

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TechCrunch reports that Yahoo is testing out a new purple logo. The new logo, as shown in the picture from TechCrunch, shows Yahoo changed the font to a more curvy look and went from red to a purple color.
Danny and I wonder if the new logo, if it happens, might be part of Yahoo [...]

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Today’s Search Biz is a nearly all Google column. Barry wrote about departures at Yahoo and Ask, which were originally part of today’s roundup. So today’s column is mostly culled from a series of interviews in which Google CEO Eric Schmidt opines about a range of topics, from Android-iPhone competition to whether Google has become [...]

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