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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.

A recent press release was published by comScore, a leading Internet marketing research company, with a breakdown of the U.S. search market share among the major search engines.
This report focuses on the market share for January and compares it to the previous month, and indicates that Google has lost some market share while Yahoo [...]

As announced in the Yahoo Search Marketing blog, Yahoo will be rolling out a new program that goes beyond simple text ads. “Rich Ads in Search” will allow advertisers to add videos, images, and custom search boxes to their advertisements, delivering a more effective sales experience.
Below is an example of a Pedigree ad that is [...]

Yesterday, the Gmail team updated the look of Gmail’s menu. In addition to making the menu look more “solid,” the team has also added useful drop-down “Move To” and “Labels” buttons.

The “Move To” button is a welcomed addition, as you no longer need to label an email and then click “Archive.”
Use the Move to drop-down [...]

A week ago, I began the process of moving my FeedBurner account to my Google account (had to be done by February or so), so I was unsure whether the (reported) drop in my RSS subscribers was due to this transition. Below is a screenshot of SEP’s latest feed stats for the past 30 days, [...]

While most Internet users of the world are accustomed to seeing paid search ads clearly labelled as “sponsored links” or some variation thereof, such has not been the case for users of China’s Baidu search engine. Pay-per-click advertisements are completely integrated… err… hidden… into the organic listings in the SERPs, making them indistinguishable from organic [...]