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17 th Jan 2012

Google will overtake Yahoo to become king of display advertising in 2012

2011 has been a busy year for the Search industry with Google acquiring Invite Media and Teracent. As we head into 2012, Google is about to officially launch its DoubleClick Search V3 platform - DS3 - a bid management programme which will combine Yahoo and MSN into an AdWords type interface, and significantly invest in the Double Click platform, specifically Double Click for Advertisers (DFA) and the Exchange. As advertisers will we really need to invest elsewhere when Google could potentially provide it all?

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27 th Apr 2011

Search Alliance – A genuine competitor to Google in EMEA becoming more distant

The rumours of the past few weeks of a delay in the official rollout of the Search Alliance in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), have now been confirmed, meaning Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing will continue to operate as separate platforms for the foreseeable future, all of 2011 at least. But why the sudden change in strategy? Advertisers and Agencies were led to believe the Alliance would finally provide a credible alternative to Google, and sources had suggested the migration in the US, while not error free, was considered to be successful.

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03 rd Mar 2011

Search Alliance no threat to Google, just more of the same

The Yahoo! /MSN Search Alliance, which rolled out in the US late last year - and with mixed results, transitions in Europe imminently. As advertisers and agencies this side of the Atlantic await its arrival, Greenlight is sceptical it will finally deliver on being a serious Google competitor. Moreover, we have uncovered shortcomings when it comes to paid search with the Alliance and what it really offers the advertiser.

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09 th Feb 2010

Greenlight reveals its top 10 predictions for Natural and Paid Search in 2010

As we head into 2010 the big question is what will the year ahead deliver for search marketing. In its 'Year in Review Briefing', Greenlight, the UK's leading independent search marketing agency, provides a summary of developments in natural and paid search.

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10 th Jun 2009

Search wars - Round 2?

Is Microsoft's launch strategy for its new search engine 'Bing' going to allow it to encroach on Google's market share? That's the big question. Rumour has it that Microsoft has $100m for its marketing campaign, but Comscore stats for the last 6 months in the US, show market share as being larg...

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04 th Jun 2009

Farecast could be Bing's best point of leverage

I've always liked the Farecast interface. It gives that feeling of true flexibility of refining your choices without you having to keep going back and endlessly redo your searches.

It is one of those few great examples of professional and expert power, put in the hands of the consumer by new web ...

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15 th Oct 2008

Top Stories October 2008

Google U-turns on gambling policy by Hannah Kimuyu We have to confess we weren't all that surprised to hear today's leaked news that Google plans to reverse its gambling policy tomorrow (Friday 17 October, when the announcement will be officially made). In a complete about-turn, the sear...

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