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03.03.04

Site Match Officially Launched

Ever since whispers about Overture’s new paid inclusion product were leaked at last week’s WebmasterWorld PubConference, e-Business professionals have been wondering when the service would be officially released.

Dan BobergOverture’s Director of Strategic Alliances Dan Boberg announced the wait is over with the official launch of Site Match late last night.

Yahoo, which owns Overture, introduced Site Match as part of its new Yahoo! Search technology. Yahoo strives to discover all online content for free but the company has launched a content acquisition program (CAP) in an effort to bring in commercial and non-commercial data. Yahoo is also in the process of becoming more transparent so its users can better control their index listings on the search engine. This is something that its leading competitor Google has been highly criticized for not doing.
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Yahoo! Charges into Personalized Search

During last week’s WebmasterWorld PubConference VI, Yahoo! representative Tim Mayer gave a highly informative speech and provided some useful facts and tidbits.

WebMasterWorldI think it was WebmasterWorld’s Brett Tabke who said we’re experiencing an exciting time in the search industry right now because the first serious search engine competition in three years is starting to emerge. This is a very significant time with Yahoo! charging strongly onto the field.

The Yahoo! Network. Yahoo! currently powers half of all web searches and has 260 million users worldwide, with 100 million of these users registered. Yahoo! runs more than twelve algorithm tests per day to improve search quality and 99% of its index is free crawled. In the future, users can expect the Yahoo! toolbar to become more focused on search.
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Business Eye for the Marketing Guy

Business Eye for the Marketing Guy: How the Fab Five Have Changed Marketing. At last week’s WebmasterWorld PubConference VI, Andy Borland gave an interesting and humorous keynote on new business models. The presentation was greatly welcomed by the audience due to its mainstream nature.

Boldly going where few have gone before, Borland made the speech memorable by noting the marketing potential of an unlikely show.

"'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' was a message from God for me," he said, confessing that on New Years Day he watched a marathon of the popular reality show instead of college football.
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Google Changes The Affiliate Industry

“Google AdSense has changed the affiliate industry.”

WebmasterWorld PubConferenceThis statement was made at last week’s WebmasterWorld PubConference during an informative affiliate session directed towards both affiliates and merchants.

Adwords and the Affiliate Game. If you are a merchant should you allow your affliliates to buy AdWords? Speaker Adam Jewell attempted to answer this question.

First, he discussed affiliates and questioned whether they should use AdWords themselves. For starters, a candidate would need two important things: time and money.
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