From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Yahoo Analytics Now Available To Yahoo Advertisers

by Matt McGee on April 30, 2009

Yahoo’s slow rollout of Yahoo Web Analytics continues with news today that its now available for free to certain Yahoo search and display advertisers. Here’s how Yahoo explains some of the benefits of its analytics tool in today’s announcement: “Yahoo! Web Analytics offers user insight that you’re not likely to find in other free analytics tools, including [...]

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Twitter Search (Finally) Available To All Users

by Matt McGee on April 30, 2009

Much to the delight of users far and wide (such as our own @dannysullivan), Twitter has announced that Twitter Search is now available on all user account home pages. Not only that, but Twitter has also added a “Save This Search” feature that may prove popular, too. When logged in to your Twitter account, all users [...]

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San Diego Spectacular

by Mike on April 30, 2009

Hey guys, just got back in town after a little trip to San Diego, where a few of us were lucky enough to be invited to hang out at Frank Kern’s secret headquarters after his Mass Control workshop. Check out who was all there!


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Overall, it was a great trip. The weather was beautiful and the workshop was spectacular, both in terms of the content presented and the people who came out. Anyway, we’ve got a lot of exciting things in the works here in New York, so I better get going. Talk to you soon!

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Searchme Launches Multimedia Visual Search

by Chris Sherman on April 30, 2009

Searchme has rolled out what it calls “true” blended search results, combining web, video, images, music and Twitter results organized by their relevance and playable inside the search results page. Searchme displays results as small versions of entire web pages, in a format that looks just like the “cover flow” display in iTunes. I love Searchme [...]

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Google, Give Me My $30,000 Back!

by Barry Schwartz on April 30, 2009

I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that one new AdWords advertiser found a $30,000 surprise from Google in her AdWords account. The advertiser said in a Google AdWords thread that she set up a test ad one night and when she returned the next morning to see how the ad was doing, she [...]

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