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Google now offers an enhanced level of customer support for some of its top AdWords advertisers and are now testing a new support option that allows its Customers to contact an AdWords Specialist by phone with just the click of a button. Google pays for the call and even do the dialing — all you need to do is pick up the phone and talk.

This option is available in the ‘Help Center’ via the ‘Contact Us’ link within the Adwords account. After clicking ‘Contact Us,’ follow the prompts to identify your concern. You’ll then be offered the option to speak directly to an AdWords Specialist by entering your contact phone number and clicking ‘Call.’ When your phone rings, answer it; you’ll hear ringing on the line as they connect you directly to the AdWords support team.

This service is completely free to users; as Google pays all local and long distance charges. AdWords Specialists are available by phone Monday - Thursday, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. PST (U.S.), or on Friday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST (U.S.).

comScore, Inc. , the leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in September 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with more than 5.3 billion core searches conducted, representing a 57 percent share of the search market. Along with Google, both Yahoo! Sites and Ask Network posted share gains during the month.

Share of Searches (%)
Google Sites 57.0%
Yahoo! Sites 23.7%
Microsoft Sites 10.3%
Ask Network 4.7%
Time Warner Network 4.3%
Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches.

From AGLOCO Newsletter

Our first data points are in with our AGLOCO/Ask search system.  Average net revenue for AGLOCO per click is already over US$0.20 – the average Member click through rate on ads on the Ask search page - 20% to 25% of the time the ad is clicked on (one ad click for every 4 to 5 searches).

If every AGLOCO Member did 4 to 5 Ask searches a day and they clicked on average just one ad, the revenue generated for the AGLOCO community would be US$6.00 per month per Member.  This would be a great start to building revenue for Member distributions.

AGLOCO’s challenge is to get every Member to have the Viewbar open all the time and to use the Ask search box to make their searches.

If you haven’t used the Viewbar to do an Ask search. We implore you to do it now. Member feedback on the Ask search results has been extremely favorable (most Members reporting they rate Ask results as good as Google’s or better.).

It seems quiet evident that AGLOCO wants users to use Ask search and also click on the ads…

Website owners will be given chance to share in revenue from ads that run alongside YouTube videos

Google now offers site owners who embed video clips from YouTube into their own sites the chance to make money through advertising. In an expansion of its AdSense platform, Google will allow web publishers to place YouTube videos that carry advertising on their sites. The website publisher will take a share of revenue when a visitor watches a clip and any associated ads.

The service would initially only be available to US-based sites that already use AdSense. Read more about it here…

Please read about SearchCamp here

A few photos…

The Founders of UptrendHits, Ren & Ezhil

Myself with the Search Twins from Bangalore

HOT Panel Discussion on Deliverables & Expectations

A view from the stage…

I’ve been so busy throughout the day, and couldn’t blog anything about SearchCamp. However, you can access about it here, Thanks a lot to Chetan

Around 200 participants attended the event to make this as the largest gathering in India for an event related to Search. I would like to thank Durga Smitha and Praveen of Sulekha.com for burning the midnight oil and making this event a grand success.

Looking forward to Day2

The last Toolbar PageRank Export happened on Apr 30 2006, and the link buying/selling world has been waiting too long for the next update, and it seems that there is no full PageRank update for at least a few more weeks, and possibly longer.

Rumor has it that Google may be getting rid of the elusive, but very important PageRank — that friendly green status bar on the Google Toolbar that website owners try to build up. PageRank is what made Google’s search results as good as they are and it is one of the many factors that help the search engine determine how to rank results.