Week of May 22, 2006 SEO News Archives

May 25, 2006
Serving advertisements on Yahoo Auction search results
One year ago, it eliminated fees on its own auction platform and serves up its paid-search advertisements on Yahoo Auction search results. It must be jumping up and down at the thought of putting its ads on eBay.com. This is an incredibly lucrative deal for Yahoo.

May 24, 2006
Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt talk to reporters
Google's Eric Schmidt pointed out that advertising targeted for web searches only account for 0.5 per cent of the market. "Our category of advertising is showing 50 to 100 per cent growth. Other categories are not growing. Market share [for web search advertising] will never be 100 per cent, but I can imagine 5, 10, 15 or 20 per cent."

May 23, 2006
Microsoft pushing itself as a direct competitor to Google
I think Microsoft is absolutely pushing itself as a direct competitor to Google, and when they talk about search, I think they want it to be a zero-sum game," he said. "They want to see points taken away from Google and put into Microsoft, and that just isn't happening.

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