It just doesn't seem to stop in Europe when it comes to publishers fighting Google. Germany is probably the most reluctant towards the search giant, but also France, Italy and in a less 'heavy' battle the UK have stood up to Google. Now its Spains......

This Tuesday we (Bas and Roy) in the Searchcowboys Radioshow were joined by no other than Author, President of Web Analytics Association, founder of eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and analytics expert Jim Sterne. Jim is speaking at SES Lon......

It probably hasn't escaped to your attention that Google yesterday launched "Google Buzz". In an attempt to get grip on social media they launched what is said to be a 'twitter killer' or a 'facebook rival'. If that really becomes true remains to ......

Tonight at 8PM in Europe (7PM in the UK) there is a new Searchcowboys radioshow. This week Bas and Roy will be joined by no other than Jim Sterne. Sterne is one of the veterans in the industry. He's been working in the industry since 1994 and has ......

Only last week Steve Jobs announced the iPad. He then fired his gun at Google saying that their "no evil" - policy was bullshit and that Google was aiming on competing with them on mobile. Do you think he then knew that Google was making the next ......

Russian search giant Yandex this week reports that 2009 has been a good year for them. Their earnings show a 14% rise in revenues.The revenues are up to a total of 8.7 billion rubles (about 205 million euros). The number of advertisers grew 55%. M......

A little over a week ago Microsoft made a very important step when it comes to user privacy regarding Bing. The second largest search engine agreed on cooperation with the European Commission by reducing the amount time it retains Bing search data......

Some much for the friendly way Google and Apple have worked side by side over the past years. When Eric Schmidt was still part of the Apple board you wouldn't hear a single harsh word coming out of either company towards the other. Ever since Goog......

Its the final guestpost of this series. It has been a wonderful series again, a very big thank you to all the guestposters is the least I can do. The last post is reserved for Richard Zwicky. I always meet Richard at conferences all over Europe. ......

Google Streetview keeps keeping Europeans busy. Where France, Germany, Switzerland, UK and Greece were in the news before because of objections towards Streetview. This time its Denmarks turn. According to Mikkel deMibs blog Google Streetview migh......

His blog "thenextcorner" seems to be just around the corner. In fact Dennis is far away from here, he is Search specialist at E-Bay and therefore is resided in San Jose. I was lucky enough to visit the E-Bay campus there once and talk to him there......

If you visit conferences world wide you are bound to be seeing one of Erica Schmidt's presentations. As an international expert of iProspect she can be found on many panels. And she always has something to say which will make you think. In this p......

The fact that the Google Toolbar is used to track data on what you're doing online is not new. It's well known that if you activate the "Enhanced Features" Google will track all the pages you visit. That on itself is reason for many to question th......

With a Dutch roots Ruud is someone us Europeans can be proud of, he has made it "on the other side of the Ocean". He is a very well respected writer and publisher and a post from Ruud is always a pleasure to read. In his guestpost he talks about ......

At the end of 2009 we selected ten of the best posts on Searchcowboys. The posts were chosen based on personal choices from the Chief Editor of this website, but after that we asked the readers of Searchcowboys to vote for the post they liked best......

This week Efficient Frontier presented their newest Search Engine Performance Reports on both the US and the UK. The reports look at trends in the market and give predictions on what the search market will bring us. Efficient Frontier sees a lot ......

Equally proud as on Motoko Hunt's presence I am on the presence of her husband Bill Hunt. He is one of the other columnists of the multinational columns on Searchengineland. In Berlin he had a very interesting talk into the future of search. I am ......

Real time search engine Oneriot has been around for a while now, even long before Google decided to step into the real time business. It's therefore not surprising that Oneriot is one of the first to take the next step: realtime ads.Last week OneR......