Fastsubmit.org is about to release a 'closed directory' project that is expected to take the web industry by storm: the new directory project is the first of its kind, the company's CEO told SEO/SEM Journal, in that it is based on a business's 'real' existence.

GuruNet Corporation, creators of Answers.com, the answer-based search engine, announced today that it has hired Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer to its Content Development team.

Working with MSN Virtual Earth, MSNBC.com has devised 'Katrina Flyover,' a collection of one-of-a-kind before and after images of coastal and inland areas damaged by the hurricane, including New Orleans, La., and Biloxi, Miss.

Nanocasting, a model for commercial podcasting based on established media and direct marketing principles, differs from early podcasting by beginning with a clear definition of the target audience, the business model, the revenue model and use of a system specifically developed for tar...

Truveo, a start-up company emerging from stealth mode, launched a new video search engine that delivers higher quality and more up-to-the-minute results than traditional search engines. Based on a unique technology for indexing video using the visual characteristics of web pages, the T...

In 2005, US Internet advertising spending will surpass $10 billion for the first time, shooting past that mark to $12.9 billion, according to eMarketer projections. That number more than doubles 2002's $6.0 billion figure.

In a move to help advertisers and agencies better manage their digital marketing campaigns, Fathom Online, a leading Search Engine Marketing firm, announced the formation of a new data solutions business unit. Fathom Data Solutions (FDS) has developed an automated data platform that en...

Google, which has been active in Israel since 2002, is planning to open their Tel Aviv office as part of its global physical expansion program. Google Israel plans to focus on its improving directed advertisements in its search engine, and on selling services to the Israel advertising ...

WebTrends has launched WebPosition 4, which now offers all of the insight necessary to optimize a web site's relevancy with search engines and achieve higher organic search positions, the company says, to drive greater numbers of qualified visitors and better return on investment for a...

MSN is letting outside developers and Web publishers connect to its services and applications via application programming interfaces (APIs) for MSN Search, Messenger and Virtual Earth. MSN Search APIs will be open for non-commercial use.

For the past four months Zabang.com has been spidering websites and their bots have been crawling the net, indexing millions of websites for their database, according to the spokesperson of the company.

Lycos yesterday announced details from The Lycos 50, the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending Sept. 3, 2005. 'Hurricane Katrina' is the most-searched news event since September 11 attacks. No other hurricane, says Lycos, with the exception of Hurricane Floyd, whi...

360i Search, the Search Marketing Division of 360i LLC, announced that 22 of its employees have received certification as Google Advertising Professionals. The 360i Search team met multiple requirements and passed the rigorous Google Advertising Professional Exam in order to achieve Go...

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. President and CEO Koichi Kondo presented the company's Premier Partner Award to Intrapromote, LLC of Cleveland, Ohio for excellence in search engine optimization (SEO) for American Honda's family of Web sites. Intrapromote has worked with Honda since 200...

Lycos today announced details from The Lycos 50, the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending Sept. 3, 2005. 'Hurricane Katrina' is the most-searched news event since September 11 attacks. No other hurricane, says Lycos, with the exception of Hurricane Floyd, which h...

Farlex, Inc., publisher of the world's largest online database of reference information, unveiled a redesigned Web site featuring improved functionality aimed at streamlining the search process for reference information.

The rising stars of online marketing are no longer just professionals with post-graduate degrees, but programmers and webmasters with the knowledge and know-how to optimize a site's ranking on key-word search engines. It's with this in mind that the renowned www.BeTheDealer.com has lau...

Caphyon has announced the release of Advanced Link Manager 1.0, a tool that helps manage your web site incoming links. Advanced Link Manager runs on Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP, and Linux.

A new generation of reciprocal link exchange software named LinkAssistant is aimed to oust famous ARELIS, which is considered to be the most popular link exchange tool nowadays.

Universal Engine's Toolbar includes multilingual chat communication, which enables users to chat in over 65 language-to-language options, using the 11 most used European and Asian languages, via their native tongue by simply selecting a language they would like to speak.

Bnet Software announced that its SEO Catalog Generator will generate an optimized HTML catalog of a reatiler's items from a database. That catalog can be used in conjunction with Google Sitemaps to get indexed more effectively by the Google search engine, a goal of SEO professionals an...

'Today's Microsoft announcement stating that the company's Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar is the first such technology to be integrated into a Web search toolbar is incorrect,' says Kevin Brand, vice president, product management, EarthLink: EarthLink launched its ScamBl...

'These latest add-ins provide people with the opportunity to add value to their MSN Search Toolbar for one of the most popular online activities - online games - while protecting their browsing experience,' said Dane Glasgow, product unit manager for MSN, as MSN today unveiled two new ...

RapidSolution Software today releasedPodSpider, new software for Microsoft Windows that provides intuitiveaccess to the world's largest directory of US and international podcasts.The software is available via free download at http://www.podspider.com.

Webmasters and Search Engine Marketing experts will gather to discuss the latest news issues, challenges, technologies and developments in an informal networking environment. Such events are high productivity networking sessions for webmasters and for businesses seeking practical In...

icrossing, the largest independent search engine marketing firm, has recently expanded the number of internal thought leaders to address key issues within the search space on www.reversedirectmarketing.com. This expansion is in conjunction with an updated look and feel to complement i...

Topseo.org, a self-inspired group of Indian SEO Experts and Internet Marketers today announced the official launch of the Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing Forum: Top SEO Guru.

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, and IntelliReach Corporation, the email lifecycle management company, today announced an OEM partnership to enhance the search capabilities of IntelliReach?s next-generation m...

If this goes ahead, it will make Yahoo! the first major tech company to move into San Francisco since Microsoft set up there five years ago - it will also make Yahoo! the city's biggest tech resident.

Answers.com, the answer-based search engine, has announced a concerted, multi-pronged marketing effort aimed at sharing the numerous benefits of its free service with students, educators and parents.

Gofish.com enables the searching of audio files including music tracks, albums and play lists. This also includes lyrics, mobile ringtones and games.

This application provides you with a step-by-step assistance in optimizing your web pages for Top-10 positions in major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Using this tool, you can analyze the relevance of all important ranking elements of a web page, update any of the elemen...

A non-profit IT testing and training facility dedicated to helping Ohio technology businesses,is hosting an all-day search engine marketing seminar presented by leading search engine marketing experts Matt Bailey and Jennifer Laycock. Bailey and Laycock are requested speakers at search...

Getting your company's news and announcements in front of the millions of people who read search engines' news results every day is the goal of a new service offered by Oneupweb, the trusted leader in search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM). The new online marketing servic...

The Online Broadcast Network, today announced that it is providing video content to search engines via RSS feeds. Top search engines including AOL Search (http://search.aol.com/aolcom/videohome), Microsoft's WindowsMedia Search (www.windowsmedia.com), SingingFish (www.singingfish.com) ...

SEO firms can charge an arm and a leg for a year's search engine submission. Micrositez.com think they have the answer. They now offer one years free search engine submission with every website they sell! That's 12 separate monthly submissions to all of the internet's biggest and best ...

To help the hoteliers and hotel marketers better understand and to create an effective Internet marketing strategy, Lodging Interactive has produced an Internet search engine marketing primer.

A new study of 350 U.S. health care sites found that most of these companies fail to properly use basic natural search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that can help produce online sales leads.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2-million grant to researchers in the Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the University of Kansas to enhance and improve the CiteSeer academic search engine which receives more than 1 million hits a day an...

Search Engine Marketing is gaining importance. It is the hot topic de jour, with figures from the Advertising Association suggesting a 30% increase in online advertising spend this year.