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Semel Out, Yang Up

Big changes at Yahoo.

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Google, Yahoo “Panama”, and Microsoft: Paid Search Market Share May 2007

We review May 2007 ad spend data for our agency. Google continues to dominate, with three fourths share. Google lost one point of share each to Yahoo and Microsoft. This small downward blip marks the first month in the last four in which Google did not gain share.

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Yahoo CEO Gets $80M in 2006 Compensation

AP reports Yahoo paid Semel $80m in ‘06.

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Interview: Yahoo’s Diane Rinaldo on Panama and Multichannel

Diane Rinaldo, Yahoo Search Marketing’s Senior Director for Retail, describes the Panama launch and describes upcoming improvements including targeting, new ad formats, and new distribution options. Diane also offers advice for multichannel marketers.

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Barron’s: Y! possibly more valuable as G affiliate? Ouch.

Eric Savitz over at Baron’s wrote a short provocative article yesterday. To whit: Y! could increase shareholder value by reverting to a Google affiliate.

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Yahoo Stock Slammed

Shares of Yahoo! closed down 11% after reporting third-quarter results would come in low.

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  • Lance: George - Thanks so much for the interview and the kind words. Jake - We have seen the gains from our tests hold up. But I am sensitive to...
  • Andrew@BloggingGuide: I liked what he said: our approach is to never be satisfied, and always seek incremental improvement. This is absolutely true...
  • Jake Minturn: Great interview! One thing I am curious about, and I’d love to get Lance’s take on this, is if these boosts in conversion...
  • Bob: Would your call center stop answering sales calls because they’ve reached their budgeted labor for the month? This is considered...
  • David: Great post George, nice to see technology story telling alive. Kept me gripped and v interesting.
  • Rex Dixon: @George - That is too bad to hear. I don’t believe we have any PPC test results on our site currently.
  • George Michie: Ken, You’re absolutely right if the CR difference between A and B is small (2 or 3%) the odds of A running the table...
  • Ken Truman: Shay - I definitely think the same logic applies to day of week analysis. George - That’s an extremely interesting way of...
  • George Michie: Hi Laurence, We think folks spend far too much time worrying about mythical penalties. The account QS is dominated by the QS on your...
  • Laurence: Hi George, Thank you for the enlightening post. You’ve sold me on how important the long tail is so over the past few weeks...
  • Billy Wolt: take-away: Make sure you are bidding on your brand, broad topic, and specific model keywords :)
  • George Michie: Thanks for the kind words Lance and Bryan. Andy, I feel your pain. I meant to include a section on why site exclusions didn’t...
  • Algernon: Yay for yahoo! Just in time for them to shut it all down and hand the keys to Microsoft. Sorry, as an advertiser who got hammered for...
  • Bryan: Excellent post, George! Now lets cross our fingers that the folks at Microsoft give us the ability to adjust bids by syndication partner...
  • Lance: Brilliant post, George. Here’s hoping things pan out this way and everyone wins.

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