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Bing Surges: Google buys TV ads

Bing came out of the gates hard in 2010!

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PPC Engine Loyalty Study

A new study on search engine loyalty from the RKG skunk-works

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Bing Cashback: Pitfalls for Paid Search Advertisers

Cashback is an attractive system: Bing pays users to shop at your website. But there are some things advertisers need to watch out for and some precautions they should take.

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Bing Cashback Basics

Bing Cashback pays users to make purchases using Bing. Here’s how it works.

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Bing Click Share Update

Is Bing gaining share?

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Bing Cashback: The Ad Campaign they Should Run

Microsoft is willing to buy share and Google may give them the opportunity.

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MSN and Yahoo: Together at Last

The deal is done. What does it mean for paid search?

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Bing Shopping & PPC Ads

A look at how Bing Shopping (formerly MSN Shopping) integrates with paid search advertising.

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Bing: A Closer Look at the Numbers

A more careful study yields a different perspective.

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Paid Search Market Share by Engine: Yahoo Resurgent?

We took a look at “Market Share” of the big three engines over time and saw some interesting trends.

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Challenges with Microsoft adCenter Normalization

MSN adCenter’s normalization and ad serving logic can cause some undesired effects.

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Stats: Online Shopping More-Or-Less Steady During Current US Financial Crisis

We do not observe broad weakness in online sales.

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Chrome: Strong Out Of The Gate

I’ve been using Google’s new browser for a day and a half now. I like it.

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July 2008 Search Engine Share: Google, Yahoo, MSN

The ad spend share situation by engine is essentially unchanged since last month.

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Search Engines From The Engineering Perspective: Notes on MSN’s migration from API v4 to v 5.1

Our thanks to the MSN engineers for the many calls and emails clarifying the V5.1 API docs. These are places we hit snags.

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June 2008 Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Paid Search Market Share

Looking at our agency’s client base in aggregate, last month Google received 79% of our clients’ ad dollars. Yahoo received 17%. Microsoft received 5%.

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May 08 Paid Search Share Steady, Google At 81%

May 2008 search engine share results aggregated across RKG clients: steady, no big change. Google at 81%.

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Money Can’t Buy You Love, Redux

Microsoft to pay HP to make Live the default search engine in IE on new HP machines. Meanwhile, Ffox adoption continues to grow.

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Jellyfish Ramblings

More thoughts on Microsoft Jellyfish CashBack.

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Money Can’t Buy Love: MSFT Live Search Cashback

Microsoft will offer cash back to users who make purchases after using Live search. IMHO, you can’t buy user loyalty.

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ComScore: Google Traffic Surpasses Yahoo, Oh My!

For the first time, Google nudges Yahoo out of the top spot as most popular US site.

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Paid Search Share Q1 ‘08: Google Up, Yahoo Down, Microsoft Steady

Looking at Q1 numbers for our client base, Google continues to gain paid search market share.

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March 2008 Google, Yahoo, Microsoft RKG Paid Search Market Share

March was another month where, in aggregate, Google took another tiny slice of the pie away from Yahoo.

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Google / DoubleClick Acquisition Final Today

Tim Armstrong on the DoubleClick deal: “We are focused on uniting search and display online metrics and on improving the measurement and execution of media campaigns.”

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Stay-At-Home Servers: Microsoft Gets Funny

Microsoft advertising, intended to be funny, which actually is funny.

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