october

If companies as a whole have been slow to adopt search marketing, certain sectors may want to reconsider and reallocate their budgets. Health and Medical websites, for example, received 43.5% of their traffic last week from search engines, according to Hitwise.

By now, most of the online community has likely grown wise to the deliciously witty April fools joke, Google Romance.

According to inside sources, Microsoft will announce that its new MSN Keywords program will begin beta invitation-only testing in October with 500 advertisers and search engine marketers. Similar to Google's AdWords program, MSN Keywords will be based on a bidding system.