Finally we know what the bouncing balls were for. Google has changed the game for search in 2010 with Google Instant. Google Instant appears when you login with your Google account to Google.com. As you type your search query, search suggestions a......

UPDATE This morning i visited Google.de to be surprised by a new interactive doodle for (which I think) is Google's official 12th birthday. It consists of multiple, colored, bouncing but time-wasting spheres. It has also been seen on Google.co.uk ......

Adage.com has gotten hold of an internal Google search spending document which gives a partial overview of how much money the big brands are spending on Adwords. Depending on your view, there may be some surprises here, especially how much BP spen......

According to the Google Webmaster Blog, Google is now indexing .SVG, (Scalable Vector Graphics) presented as an alternative to Flash. But who besides wikipedia actually uses .SVG? In my view, .SVG is akin to Flash when used in content - what ......

Google today announced they are changing the rules on how their partner agencies are to be working with AdWords accounts/advertisers. In order to combat non-transparency in Google AdWords account management, Google will force agencies to report al......

Brussels, Tuesday 20 July 2010 - David Gillain, Agency Manager at Google Belgium launched today an appeal to all Belgian Search agencies looking for volunteers in the framework of the local Belgian Google Grants program managed by Olivier Z......

One of the latest happenings in the online hemisphere which is still causing lots of controversy is the recent change in the directive of the European Union’s Privacy & Telecommunications Law. This new European Law actually says th......

Today is the third time I have heard concrete stories of false & misleading pitches from a particular web agency in Belgium. The company promises prospects first position on Google with enhanced sponsored links through a commercial deal with G......

Here's a very GEEK post on a simple piece of information you will find nowhere on Google Help Pages. Yet, this is very useful for all SEA specialists out there. We have published this list of Google AdWords Shortcuts on Semetis Website a couple of......

The ever growing popularity of affiliate marketing makes it tougher and tougher to grow your affiliate business nowadays. Although there is still room in the affiliate marketing space, smaller affiliates who have the ambition to grow their bus......

Twitter and Google AdWords Google announced recently a new AdWords Beta. For the moment  it is possible to advertise on AdWords to acquire new followers on Twitter. This is a limited private Beta and Semetis is taking part. If it works......

An increasing number of marketers and, obviously, also search engine marketers are discovering the possibilities of online video. With YouTube videos showing up in Google’s search results and the increasing importance of social networks for ......

Following a couple of discussions with the publisher Jean-Paul De Clerck, I have decided to join the growing international community of Search Cowboys and exchange with you in the coming weeks and months ideas and opinions related to Search Market......

Obviously, the news of the day is the launch of Google’s new web indexing system, Caffeine. According to Google, the new index provides “50% fresher results for web searches”.On top of that the company claims that it’s the ......

Here is a first post by Gabriel Goldberg from Semetis. Gabriel will introduce himself to the readers later this week. At the beginning of April 2010, we published the numbers about mobile Internet in Belgium. By mobile Internet, we are talking ......

It's almost a month now since I proposed to become publisher ad interim of this blog. I got in touch with all the bloggers by email, we talked about what should change and what was required to get SearchCowboys back on tracks. Last week and this ......

Econsultancy just released its UK Search Engine Marketing Benchmarking Report 2010 in collaboration with Guava. The report found that UK companies “have ramped up their investment in paid search and SEO this year as the economy has emerged t......