Archive for March, 2007

Weekly Rap-up of Search Engine Industry News – 2/16 – 3/2

A summary of search related news items that occurred this week including comScore January results show Google continuing to lead in search market share as well as searches conducted increased by 2% over December, Google will finally reveal URLs of publisher sites to AdWords advertisers participating in their contextual network, Microsoft files a patent that explores the possibility of removing organic search listings when there’s also a paid listing pointing to the same page, Jason Lee Miller of WebProNews breaks down study on the behavior of searchers with the intent to buy versus searchers with the intent to find information, Google releases click fraud figures claiming that less than 0.02% of all clicks are actually fraudulent, and finally The Online Marketing Guy gives us 20 reasons why newbie SEOs should stop taking on clients.