If our readers recall, I had recently posted a part of the 'SEMPO 2007 State of the Market Survey', where I mentioned, that according to the survey, the search engine marketing industry was experiencing a major shift in the Online Advertisement Spend Trend. Now finally, the SEMPO 2007 State of the Market Survey is out and according to the data, the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) industry in North America has shown a steady and impressive growth for the year 2007.

All that happened in the world of search engines in the third week of June 2008. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy!

Yahoo! Loses 3 More Executives. Lu, Garlinghouse and Makhijani, Taking the Exit Route!:

According to Matt Cutts, small, medium as well as big websites should be very careful about XSS holes on their websites. These XSS holes can vary in forms, but one of the most common forms is the 'search boxes'. Clicking on these 'search boxes' is a big NO! NO!.

In the event, that you may notice a dip in your website's Google rankings, then you should initiate a few searches that would help you to find, if anyone has injected spammy or porn content on your website.

All that happened in the world of search engines in the second week of June 2008. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy!

Finally Yahoo! & Google Enter Non-Exclusive Search Partnership! Search Marketing Braces For Impact!

And now finally, the much speculated Yahoo!-Google deal has been materialized. Yahoo Inc and Google have announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement. Kindly follow the links to view different documentations and announcement, in regard to the Yahoo!-Google Deal.

Google Changes Definition for 'Doorway Pages':

Google has changed the way it defines 'Doorway Pages'. The new definition says, "Doorway pages are typically large sets of poor-quality pages where each page is optimized for a specific keyword or phrase. In many cases, doorway pages are written to rank for a particular phrase and then funnel users to a single destination.

Whether deployed across many domains or established within one domain, doorway pages tend to frustrate users, and are in violation of our Webmaster guidelines.

Here are all the news, launches, updates or any thing that happened in world of Search Engines. All in a nutshell for you all to enjoy.

Google Webmaster Tool Develops Glitch, Sitemaps Cannot be Deleted?

According to Search Engine Roundtable, Google Webmaster Tools has supposedly developed a glitch, due to which Webmasters aren't able to delete Sitemaps from their user profiles.

Here are all the news, launches, updates or any thing that happened in world of Search Engines. All in a nutshell for you all to enjoy.

Google Content Network Now Officially Open to Third-Party Advertisers- The People's Company!

Here are all the news, launches, updates or any thing that happened in world of Search Engines. All in a nutshell for you all to enjoy.

Yahoo.com Redirects its UK users to uk.yahoo.com!

Yahoo! is redirecting its UK users to uk.yahoo.com. It means that Yahoo! is automatically presenting the localized version of its homepage to all users from UK. We can only imagine that this change is global in nature as there are a few reports that even in Germany this change can be seen.

Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) conducted the SEMPO 2007 State of Market Survey, in which it found that about 80 % of the participating advertisers are more than willing to pay more for Behavioral Targeting. That in itself indicates towards a major shift in the Online Advertisement Spend Trend. The survey included the participation of 867 search engine advertisers and search engine marketing agencies

Here are all the news, launches, updates or any thing that happened in world of Search Engines. All in a nutshell for you to enjoy.

• Microsoft Applies Another Update to Live Product Search- MSN on the Fastrack!..

  Another critical update has been patched into its Live Search Products Service. the users would now be able to perform research and find suitable deals on the products displayed within Live Search. Microsoft's new update also gives the flexibility of refining products depending upon various factors such as user opinions, brand, prices and categories. The users will also be able to sort results by best user, expert ratings and prices.