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12.18.07



U.S. Marketers Need To Adapt Siti Web Per Mercati Mondiali: Despite efforts to educate U.S. marketing executives at brick-and-mortar companies about adapting Web site content and search terms to target consumers in international markets, few have gotten the message.
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12.16.07



Shoppers go online for help with gifts: iProspect President, Rob Murray, is quoted.
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12.13.07


Brand Strategies for Search Marketing — Part 3: Exploring the intricacies of the ongoing maintenance and optimization of your brand terms. iProspect President, Rob Murray, is quoted.
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12.3.07


10 Things You Need to Know About Consumers: Sometimes they can be surly, but where would you be without them?
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10.18.07


Google dominance driving up the rates: iProspect Worldwide Chief Operating Officer, John Tawadros, is quoted.
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10.3.07

Search Firm iProspect Opens Australian Office: Making its first foray into the Asia-Pacific region, iProspect has opened a new office in Australia as it continues its expansion plan for a seamless global search engine marketing solution.
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9.19.07



Why Your Business Needs On and Offline Ads to Survive: A recent study by iProspect and JupiterResearch that looks at the influence of offline channels on online search behavior had some very interesting findings that helped confirm what I suspected — that offline media channels are having a major impact on online searches and online purchase behavior.
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9.12.07

Mix of tactics improves printer’s search results: iProspect client, 48HourPrint.com — a Paid Search Case Study.
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9.11.07



Search no longer an add-on consideration for marketers: A study by JupiterResearch on behalf of iProspect spotlights the relationship between online and offline media in driving consumer behavior.
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9.05.07


Study: 39% of Offline-Influence Online Searchers Make Purchase: iProspect commissioned the study, "Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior," to gain a better understanding of online search users and how exposure to offline channels influences their search and purchase behavior.
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9.04.07

Offline Influence on Online Search Yields 39% Conversion: According to the "iProspect Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior Study," conducted by JupiterResearch, 67% of the online search population is driven to search by offline channels.
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9.04.07

Rethinking search’s efficiency: iProspect President, Rob Murray, is quoted.
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9.03.07



TV, Print Ads Trigger Online Searches: A new iProspect survey shows that television ads drive more than 40 percent of the searches conducted by people who use search engines such as Google every day.
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8.29.07



Offline Marketing Drives Online Results: Do you integrate your online and your offline marketing campaigns? If not, you might want to take a look at this report describing the results of a JupiterResearch survey of 2,300 Web users (The survey was commissioned by search marketing firm iProspect.).
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8.28.07



Social Media Marketing and the Hotel Industry: According to an iProspect study, “social networking sites are visited at least on a monthly basis by about 25% of the U.S. adult online population.”
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8.27.07


Search and Offline Marketing Converge at SES San Jose: A study by Jupiter Research and search marketing agency iProspect, announced at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose this week, found two-thirds of search users are led to query a given keyword as a result of offline marketing.
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8.27.07


Social Media Marketing and the Hotel Industry: a recent iProspect study, “social networking sites are visited at least on a monthly basis by about 25% of the U.S. adult online population.”
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8.23.07



The Positives of Keeping That Negative Attitude: Sometimes your keywords call out to searchers who have very little to do with your product, service or content. That’s too bad, according to Ben Perry, paid search manager for SEM firm iProspect, because negative matching carries a couple of strong positives.
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8.23.07


Offline channels the starting point for most online search, study shows: The study commissioned by search marketing firm iProspect also found that 39% of online searchers influenced by offline channels ultimately made a purchase from the company they searched.
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8.23.07


Offline Channels Drive Majority of User to Search, Reveals iProspect Study: Search engine marketing firm iProspect has released the iProspect Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior Study.
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8.23.07

Offline media motivates consumers to search: Across all ranges of age, income and daily time spent online, 57 percent of survey respondents participating in iProspect’s “Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior Study” reported that conducting search engine queries has become more important to people’s use of the Internet over the last year.
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8.23.07



Offline Ads Drive Web Searches: Thirty seven percent of the 2,322 people surveyed said they have conducted an online search as the result of a television ad, and 30% said they have done so as the result of a magazine or newspaper ad, according to the study conducted by JupiterResearch on behalf of search engine marketing firm iProspect.
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8.23.07



Offline ads drive online search: According to a new study by Jupiter Research and search marketing agency iProspect, a surprising two-thirds of searchers are led to search on a given keyword as a result of offline marketing.
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8.23.07



Online or Offline Media?: A recent study featured in Ad Age, from Jupiter Research and iProspect, makes the interdependency of both online and offline mediums even more apparent.
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8.23.07



Key Factors that Drive Online Searches: What factors truly influence online searches? That question was answered in a new study sponsored by search engine marketing firm, iProspect.
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8.22.07



Online And Offline Messages Need To Work Together: Yesterday on Marketing Pilgrim, Paul Bennett described iProspect's Online Search Behavior Study that found that 67% of searchers were driven by offline channels, and 39% of those will go on to make a purchase
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8.21.07



Online and Offline Come Full Circle: iProspect has released interesting figures that show conversely how offline factors affect online search activity. More specifically, the data show how advertising in various offline media affect search engine use.
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8.21.07



TV, WOM Drive Users to Search - and Then Purchase: Some 67 percent of the online search population have been driven to search by offline channels - and 39 percent of online searchers who are influenced by offline channels ultimately have ultimately made a purchase - according to a new study conducted by JupiterResearch and sponsored by iProspect, MarketingCharts reports.
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8.21.07



Offline Ads Influence Bulk Of Search: Recently, JupiterResearch reported results from a study sponsored by iProspect that correlated the offline advertising influence on online search.
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8.21.07



How Search Benefits From Offline Media: Search may be hailed as the most effective intent-driven marketing channel, but it turns out it owes much of the credit to the messages marketers run in offline media. More than two-thirds of the online search population is driven to search by offline channels, according to a study released today from Jupiter Research and iProspect.
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8.21.07

Offline Marketing Drives Search: What is an often-overlooked yet crucial part of any search marketing campaign? Offline marketing, according to a study from search firm iProspect and JupiterResearch.
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8.21.07

Offline drives online search: A whopping 67 percent of the online search population is heavily influenced by ads and slogans disseminated via offline channels, according to a JupiterResearch study sponsored by iProspect. Robert Murray, iProspect president, is quoted.
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8.21.07



How Traditional, Off Line Advertising Drives Online Search: According to a study from search marketing firm iProspect and JupiterResearch, offline marketing is a crucial and overlooked part of any search marketing campaign.
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8.21.07


Offline Channels Drive Users to Search — and Then Purchase: Some 67 percent of the online search population have been driven to search by offline channels — and 39 percent of online searchers who are influenced by offline channels have ultimately made a purchase — according to a new study conducted by JupiterResearch and sponsored by iProspect, MarketingCharts reports.
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8.21.07


Search marketers may benefit from including offline channels: A new study from iProspect sheds light on how important offline channels are to online marketers. According to the study, roughly 67% of searches were driven by offline channels — television, newspaper or radio.
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8.20.07


Search Engine Marketing Firm’s Study Says Offline Channels Drive More Searches: The recent study on offline channel influence on online behavior study by search engine marketing firm iProspect yields some interesting findings about how offline channels influence online searches.
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8.20.07



Offline Influences on Internet Searches & Shopping — A Study: iProspect and JupiterResearch have just published the results of a study that looked at offline influences on Internet searches.
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8.20.07



TV and mags drive search: iProspect's search survey finds that 37% of searches are inspired by TV, 30% by print ads, and 36% by word of mouth.
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8.20.07

What Influences Online Searches?: iProspect conducted a study called the "Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior Study." In short, what influences a user to conduct an online search? View Article


8.20.07


Offline Ads Surprisingly Influential to Searchers: According to a new study by Jupiter Research and iProspect, a surprising two-thirds of searchers are led to search on a given keyword as a result of offline marketing.
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8.20.07

Report: Offline Ads Are Heavy Drivers of Search: While many search marketers understand that there is a connection between online and offline marketing, some may not understand its full extent. According to a new study by Jupiter Research and search marketing firm iProspect, a surprising two-thirds of searchers are led to search on a given keyword as a result of offline marketing.
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8.20.07



Offline Channels Drive Users to Search, Who Then Buy: Some 67% of the online search population have been driven to search by offline channels — and 39% of online searchers who are influenced by offline channels ultimately have ultimately made a purchase — according to a new study conducted by JupiterResearch and sponsored by iProspect.
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8.20.07

What influences searches online: It is a well known fact, that a number of factors aid the route to search, including a number of offline factors. iProspect has released the "Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior Study," covering just that, what influences users to search online?
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8.20.07

67 Percent of Searchers Driven by Offline Channels: And 39 percent of offline-influenced searchers will go on to make a purchase. Both of these fascinating figures have been uncovered by an Online Search Behavior Study commissioned and released by Search Marketing firm, iProspect.
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8.10.07

Crisis control: PPC can save the day and your brand: When a nationwide pet food recall was hastily put into place after contaminated products were found to be poisoning pets, it became clear that pay-per-click advertising can be used for more than just customer acquisition. iProspect President, Rob Murray, is quoted.
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8.8.07



Facebook Faces Up: As the social networking behemoth meets new challenges, three startup college networks are waiting in the wings. Research done this April by iProspect shows that among the younger age group, the top social networks have overlapping user-bases.
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7.24.07

E-tailer gets 35% sales lift: OfficeFurniture.com has reported a 35 percent increase in sales from natural search in the past year and credits its relationship with search marketing vendor iProspect for the boost.
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6.11.07


ROI measurement on the rise among search marketers: iProspect’s Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study, conducted by JupiterResearch, has revealed a 9 percent rise in the number of search marketers measuring ROI.
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6.9.07

Search marketers, organizations becoming more sophisticated: study. Eighty eight percent of search marketers measure the ROI of their campaigns, 9 percent more than in 2005, according to search engine marketing firm iProspect’s Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study.
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6.8.07


Search Marketers Measured by ROI: Nearly nine in 10 US search marketers now measure campaign ROI, according to iProspect's Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study, conducted by JupiterResearch in March 2007.
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6.8.07

iProspect Releases Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study. Key points are illustrated.
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6.8.07


Search Marketing Measurement: Close to nine in 10 U.S. search marketers now measure campaign return on investment (ROI), according to iProspect's Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study, done by JupiterResearch.
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6.7.07


Measuring Search Marketers' Job Performance: A new study from iProspect and Jupiter Research finds that more search marketers are able to measure ROI than they could two years ago, and more search marketers' jobs are being measured against both search metrics and overall business results.
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6.7.07

Managing search more challenging — and rewarding — than ever: Tom Tweedie, director of consumer direct marketing at online retailer, Day-Timers Inc., shares insights about their decision to select iProspect as their search marketing partner as well as details of their search marketing campaign.
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6.5.07

More marketers see value in measuring their paid search ROI: The iProspect Search Marketer Measurement and Performance Study has found that the number of search marketers measuring return on investment on their paid campaigns has grown to 88% since 2005.
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6.4.07

It’s only natural: In addition to using paid search, retailers are hunting for customers naturally. iProspect client, Eric Nebbia of Officefurniture.com, is quoted.
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6.1.07



More Search Marketers Keeping an Eye on ROI: iProspect study shows that almost nine in ten search marketers monitor return on investment from their campaigns.
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5.30.07


Google’s New Search: Universal, and Far from Remote: Google’s made a major change in the way it displays its general search results. iProspect President, Rob Murray, is quoted.
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5.19.07

iProspect Survey: 48% of Search Marketers Place Content on Social Networking Sites. iProspect has announced the results of the iProspect Search Marketer Social Networking Survey, sponsored by iProspect and conducted by JupiterResearch.
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5.18.07


Search Marketers Seed Social Networks: Getting YouTube viewers to start searching. Nearly half of search marketers placed content on social networking websites in February 2007, according to the iProspect Search Marketer Social Networking Survey sponsored by iProspect and conducted by JupiterResearch.
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5.18.07


Which Social Network Is Right for Your Marketing? You should select the right social network for your marketing based on what outcome you're looking for in a campaign. eMarketer can help with the results of the iProspect Search Marketer Social Networking Survey conducted by JupiterResearch.
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5.18.07


Search Marketers Seed Social Networks: Nearly half of search marketers placed content on social networking websites in February 2007, according to the iProspect Search Marketer Social Networking Survey sponsored by iProspect and conducted by JupiterResearch.
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5.18.07


Social Networking Sites – Venues for the Brand Ambassadors of the Future? Social Computing Magazine talks to iProspect president, Rob Murray, about iProspect's latest research paper, the iProspect Search Marketer Social Networking Survey.
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5.16.07

Industry buzzes over Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo!: Microsoft Corp. is reportedly again pursuing the purchase of Internet giant Yahoo! to better position itself against main rival and search leader Google. iProspect president, Rob Murray, comments.
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5.15.07

iProspect study finds 48% of search marketers place content on social networking sites.
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5.14.07

Orbitz's Away.com Leverages Social Commerce with Ask & Answer: Online Media daily references iProspect's recent social networking research study.
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5.8.07

Officefurniture.com lifts sales from natural search by 35%: An iProspect client talks about broadening their online marketing focus beyond pay per click and comparison shopping engine venues to include natural search engine optimization.
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5.7.07


Research Study: Web Research Nets In-Store Sales. Brandweek talks to iProspect president, Rob Murray, about the growth of shopping comparison engines.
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5.5.07

Using social networking sites to monetize search campaigns: DM News talks to iProspect president, Rob Murray, about social networking.
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5.4.07

iProspect grows with new Scandinavia offices: Search engine marketing company iProspect has opened offices in Norway and Denmark, making it the largest search-marketing network in Scandinavia.
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4.30.07


ad:tech Awards Industry Achievers: Members of the ad and marketing industries gathered for the ad:tech Awards in San Francisco Wednesday evening, when a number of campaigns were honored for excellence.
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4.27.07

Web 2.0: A Marketer's Dream. A partnership between iProspect and JupiterResearch produced a January 2007 study entitled "Prospect Social Networking User Behavior Study."
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4.18.07


Yahoo's quarterly earnings fall 11%: Much-hailed Panama ad system may have set expectations too high. The LA Times talks to iProspect paid search director, Ben Perry.
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4.13.07

Speculation on DoubleClick deal continues. DM News talks to iProspect president, Rob Murray, about the rumors.
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4.10.07

Social networking sites influence one third of online buyers, according to a new study sponsored by search marketing firm iProspect and conducted by JupiterResearch.
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4.10.07

Marketing to Social Networking Sites, Targeted: One in four adult Internet users in the U.S. regularly visits popular social networking sites, according to the iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study.
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4.10.07


Why Are Search Marketers Getting Social? Search Engine Watch talks to iProspect president, Rob Murray, about social media and its relation to search marketing.
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4.10.07


Online users turning to social networking sites for help with buying decisions: Social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube have become target Internet destinations for a growing number of adults looking for help in making for purchasing decisions, according to a new iProspect study.
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4.10.07

Social Networking: Examining User Behavior: Results from a recent iProspect study outline the specific behaviors of users visiting the most popular social networking sites.
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4.9.07


Survey Gives Good Reviews to Online Product Reviews: When it comes to influencing online purchases, positive reviews in Amazon may trump online ads, per a new iProspect study.
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4.4.07

Google Readies for Action: In the beginning, there was cost per impression: You, the online marketer, paid for the audience of a Web page. And it was good for the publishers, but only okay for the advertisers, because you couldn’t be sure those people were actively interested in your ad. iProspect president, Rob Murray, is quoted.
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4.2.07



Search Star Making Global Venture Click: Q&A: 10 Years Removed from 'Special Hell,' Marckini Plots a Multinational Search Model. iProspect founder, Fredrick Marckini, is interviewed.
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3.13.07

How Search Engine Rules Cause Sites to Go Missing: Some entrepreneurs have built thriving businesses largely by getting search engines such as Google's to direct customers to their websites. But what happens when the search engines suddenly start pointing consumers somewhere else?
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3.12.07



Marketers Rush to Crack Local Search: iProspect founder, Fredrick Marckini, is quoted.
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2.28.07

A Gaggle of Google Updates: Those marketers who are up for a good algorithm chase should lace up their Adidas: Google’s on the move again. iProspect COO, John Tawadros, is quoted.
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2.26.07


Firms Promise To Put You in Google's Good Graces: iProspect COO, John Tawadros, is quoted.
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2.21.07

Google Gets Personal: Should You Care? What if you had to optimize your Web site to suit not one Google search algorithm but 100 million subtly different ones? iProspect COO, John Tawadros, is quoted.
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2.9.07

New Search Ad Management Tools Launched: Two new search ad management platforms launched this week. iProspect's takes channels that were previously optimized in isolation and now manages them as a whole.
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2.5.07


News Analysis: Search Marketers Finding New Homes On Client Side. Does your company have a VP of Search Marketing? Maybe it should. iProspect founder, Fredrick Marckini, is quoted.
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1.31.07

Search Marketers Broaden their Horizon: Retailers can optimize search marketing results by including in their search strategies content that they have overlooked. iProspect president, Rob Murray, is quoted.
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1.10.07

The Next Frontier: Search. Vertical Search Stands Up to Be Counted. iProspect founder, Fredrick Marckini, is quoted.
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