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Search engine industry news from SearchEnginePanel.com (Toronto, Canada). The latest news and information that affects the world of search marketing and Internet marketing.

As was expected today, Google’s new user interface “Jazz” can now be seen across Google for all users. A select few were able to view this interface beginning last November, but now it is available to the public at large.
And since we all like pictures, here are some screenshots.
First up is the homepage:

Next we have [...]

The end of the year is drawing closer and here are some of the top search queries for 2009 across multiple search engines. Last year, names like Britney Spears, Barack Obama, and Miley Cyrus were hot (especially on Yahoo). What thoughts were on the minds of searchers this year?
Yahoo Top 10 Overall Searches
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The full deployment of Microsoft’s new search… I mean, decision engine called “Bing” is to be completed today via Bing.com. While Microsoft’s Live Search never really caught on due to poor marketing and, more significantly, poor search results, the company hopes to gain market share with the rebranded and reworked Bing search engine. Live.com’s HTTP [...]

It’s a well-known fact that Google tracks click-throughs from its search engine result pages (SERPs) to the webpages listed there, and it seems that they have recently changed the way they track these clicks. Until recently, listings in the SERPs would use the simple URL redirects of “google.com/url?q=referral” to determine where traffic is coming from, [...]

Last week, the experts in click fraud at Click Forensics disclosed of their newest version of the Click Forensics traffic quality management platform. This system is intended to detect instances of click fraud such that advertisers and publishers alike can improve on converting quality traffic to sales.
How do they do it?
Well, CF monitors [...]