Yahoo Customer Satisfaction Beats Google’s

According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index Yahoo has edged out Google by 1% for customer satisfaction this year: Yahoo 79%, Google 78%. The rating system the ACSI uses is complex and listed here and their source for data is noted here. Essentially their...

Will Yahoo Offload to Google?

An interesting story currently highlighted at Techmeme discusses Yahoo’s shakeup over the past year and the potential that Yahoo’s new CEO Jerry Yang might make the tough decision to fork over some of its search monetization business to Google. The well...

VoiceStar Acquired by Marchex – BREAKING NEWS

BREAKING NEWS – According to an inside source VoiceStar, a leading phone-to-web marketing tracking and solutions provider has just been acquired by Marchex Search Marketing for an undisclosed sum. Congratulations Marchex! From my dealings with VoiceStar so far...

Yahoo Search Assist Aids Visibility

Yesterday Danny Sullivan posted an interesting walkthrough on a new technology that Yahoo is currently testing called Yahoo Search Assist. Throughout the following I will give a quick rundown and explain why Search Assist may help sites found in the bottom 5 of the...

Google Down and Microsoft Up in Online Searches

The latest figures from comScore are in and Microsoft is picking up speed. While long standing search leader Google continues to dominate by a large margin, comScore reports Google losing some ground in June, while MSN saw a noticeable increase. Latest figures for...

Yahoo Invests in Tyroo Media

According to InfoWorld, Yahoo announced Wednesday that it has purchased a 35 percent stake in Tyroo Media, an India based PPC internet advertising company which places ads on a network of around 1200 websites. “Yahoo India has bought more than 35 but less than...