What’s in a Domain Name? Your brand, your business! There are thousands of websites living on the internet that hold fringe domains for major brands. These sites take an internet user who types in the wrong domain in the address bar for a well known company name and send the traffic to other websites —…
Danny Sullivan Announces New Conference and Webcasts
Another day, another Danny announcement! After months of waiting and speculation, Danny Sullivan has come out blazing. First launching SearchEngineLand along with an all-star lineup of bloggers. This morning Danny announced the launch of two sister sites the Search Marketing Now webcast series and the Search Marketing Expo conference. As I was hoping for back…
While Baidu Prepares to Enter Japan, Google Lags
Google and Yahoo’s overseas competition is strengthening. Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine, plans on offering Japanese search services beginning in 2007 and will compete with Yahoo and Google. According to Robin Li, Baidu’s Chief Executive, the company has been studying the Japanese market for approximately six months. In an article with the Wall Street Journal,…
Improved City Search Offered by Ask.Com
What do you get when you integrate Ask’s maps service with CitySearch, Ticketmaster, Reserve America, ServiceMagic, TicketWeb, and TripAdvisor? You get AskCity, which was launched today. The easy-to-use interface is shown below: a search panel on the left, the results in the center, and a map view on the right. For now, the company intends…
The Matt Cutts Domain Question Answered
During the Interactive Site Reviews and SERP Quality Control Forum at PubCon, Google Engineer Matt Cutts uttered a now famous sentence “Let’s be frank, you and I, how many sites do you have?” He then proceeded to list off domain after domain that the owner of realestatelicense.com (who had volunteered to have their site reviewed) admitted…
Yahoo Looks to Condense its Community in Brand Websites
Community is what Yahoo appears to be best at. When Google surrendered its Answers product and announced its closure, Yahoo really scored in the community aspect. Maybe Google can be the leader in search. But Yahoo deserves to be good at something. Not long ago, Yahoo was under attack by such media giants as the…