New comScore Search Engine Rankings

April 16, 2008

comScore released the lastest round of search engine rankings with few surprises. Of note: Google reached a new high, while Yahoo and Microsoft found new lows in overall market share. Both Yahoo and Microsoft saw upticks in total searches from February to March, however this trend was echoed across all engines.

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Google and Performics

March 17, 2008

With Google’s recently approved purchase of DoubleClick, they have also acquired the SEO company Performics. Google owning a company that sells services that help companies rank well on their engine is a clear conflict of interest, but there’s even more to the story. Check out the open letter to Google that appeared on SearchEngineLand.com the [...]

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MIVA and Lycos Sued for Click Fraud

February 26, 2008

I received an email today about yet another class action suit involving pay per click search engines. This time, a slew of plaintiffs have alleged that MIVA and Lycos have not done enough to mitigate click fraud. I couldn’t agree more. MIVA has long been so overrun with click fraud that it’s not worth using [...]

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