Yahoo's New Site Explorer Design

A few weeks ago Yahoo published Yahoo! Site Explorer. With the new tool you can identify which:

• Sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo!


• Pages that link to that site or any page.


• are the most popular pages from any site.
  
• Submit and track feeds for your websites.


• subdomains of the site known to Yahoo!.


• Delete URLs that you don't want indexed

Google Chrome

Google later today will launch a free Web browser called Chrome. The new browser will challenge Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Firefox browser. Today Google officially released a test version of its Internet browser. A few days ago Microsoft launched the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.
The application can be available to download later tonight for free in more than 100 countries.

Microsoft welcomed the new application and according to Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team, “The browser landscape is highly competitive. But people will choose Internet Explorer for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to browse and, more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online.”
Microsoft holds 80% of the browser market, Firefox 13% percent, and Apple’s Safari 6%.

Google Adwords New Feature – Keyword and Placement Targeting

Last week Google announced that AdWords advertisers can now target both keywords and placements within the same campaign. This allows for the targeting of keywords on contextually relevant pages and at the same time the ability to use placements to set specific bids or restrict your targeting to specific sites.

Using this new facility, advertisers can place different bids on specific content network placements that they are targeting. They will also be able to make ads for specific groups of pages.

Advertisers will therefore be able to decide to show their ads only on contextually relevant pages, and set specific bids for the different sites. An advertiser can now set a higher bid for placement on a site that has driven traffic, and lower the bid on sites where the ad wasn’t bringing traffic to the business.

When creating new campaigns or modifying old campaigns, advertisers are given the option to start with placements or start by targeting keywords.

Google acquires Russian ad company ZAO Begun

Last Firiday Russian Rambler Media company and Google agreed to acquire, ZAO Begun. The Russian Ad company will be able to use Google's technology for search and advertisements and Rambler will use Google's AdSense for Search and AdSense for Content programs.
According to CNET news ‘Rambler currently owns 50.1 percent of Begun, but will buy the remaining 49.9 percent from Bannatyne and then sell the entirety to Google for $140 million in cash, the company said Friday. Of that total, $69.9 million will go to Bannatyne, the company said. Rambler expects to end up with about $50 million from the deal, which it will use for investments and potential acquisitions’. "This agreement illustrates our commitment to investing in Russia, where online advertising is currently experiencing rapid growth," Mohammad Gawdat, Google's managing director for emerging markets, said in a statement. "We are very excited about the opportunity to deliver more relevant search and ads to users and provide advertisers and publishers with better advertising technology to help them succeed in their own businesses."

Google - Yahoo New Advertising Agreement for Yahoo search results

Last Thursday Yahoo and Google announced an agreement under which Google ads would be displayed alongside Yahoo's search results and on some of its Web properties in the U.S. and Canada. According to the agreement Yahoo will be able to display paid search results from Google and its network. Yahoo keeps control and will be able to select the search term for which and the pages that will offer to Google paid search ads. According to Yahoo media press, “the first 12 months Yahoo expects the agreement to generate an estimated $250 million to $450 million in incremental operating cash flow”. The agreement allows both parties to terminate the agreement but it also requires Yahoo to pay a termination fee - if the agreement ends within 24 months - $250 million.

Even though both parties will like to start their non-exclusive agreement they will have to delay their plans for up to three for the U.S. Department of Justice to review and approve the arrangement