June 30, 2006
Yahoo! Search Marketing No Longer on MSN Search
Yahoo! sent out a newsletter this month notifying customers that U.S. Sponsored Search Listings No Longer on MSN. And I quote,
MSN's U.S. search distribution agreement with Yahoo! Search Marketing ends this month, and Yahoo! Sponsored Search listings will no longer appear in MSN's U.S. search results. Although we regret the loss of MSN as a distribution partner, it was not unexpected, and we do not anticipate a significant change in the total amount of traffic to our advertisers as a result.We expect that MSN will continue to display Yahoo! Search Marketing Content Match listings in the U.S., and Sponsored Search listings in non-U.S. markets, beyond June 2006.
As you know, MSN has been powering the sponsored search side of MSN Search and Windows Live Search with Microsoft adCenter. So, is this the official end of the Yahoo! & MSN relationship. Looks that way.
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rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Marketing at June 30, 2006 7:19 AM
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Here is a Great Experiment - Print out Searches from the Inventory.overture.com
Keyword suggestion tool - and compare the before and after amount of Searches for the same terms
It will be a GREAT way to see how much traffic goes to Msn versus Yahoo in the USA
Now most traffic displayed in the tool comes from Yahoo and MSN in the USA - the differences in the amount of Search Requests will not only show how much of a share MSN has in the USA
for example - here is the May 2006 results for Search Engine Optimization
Searches done in May 2006
Count Search Term
89153 search engine optimization
Posted by Search Engines WEB at June 30, 2006 18:05