Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
Google has finally rolled a nifty Gmail feature, something which I assume all of us Gmail users have been waiting for so long - the ability to download Gmail attachments just by drag-and-drop method. It's a pretty simple feature and yet could be useful for many of us. You'd know that this feature is activated in your Gmail account if you try to hover on an attachment icon and a tooltip appears telling you that...
Google has just rolled the new search history feature for US Google users. Nothing big here, just a small enhancement but could be pretty useful as it will allow you to quickly get back to sites you've been to as well as see items you have starred from your Android phone, iPhone or desktop searches on Google.com. To view your search history, just tap the history link located at the bottom of Google.com. You...
In a surprising development, Yahoo Japan just announced that it would be switching to Google as its search technology and paid search provider. Now, before we all think and ask how could this be possible especially since Yahoo and Microsoft have been starting to work on their search ad integration deal recently. The answer lies in the fact that Yahoo Japan is not entirely own by Yahoo. Hence it has no full control of...
Microsoft has just launched a newly updated Bing Webmaster Tools which according to the Bing Community Blog is a huge improvement to the old Microsoft Webmaster Tools. The update was being carried out after Bing has reached out to the webmaster and SEO communities who are in unison in wanting to have more transparency on how Bing crawls and indexes websites, more control of their website contents in the Bing index as well as...
Google is set to revamp the overall interface of its Image Search vertical. According a post on the Official Google blog, the new Google Image Search will soon feature more images on the search results page. In fact, if you take a look at the sample screenshot of the new image search results page, you won't see any text anymore aside from the navigation panel on the left side of the page. The new...
This has long been overdue, but Yahoo is nonetheless starting to integrate both organic and paid search listings from Microsoft for up to 25 percent of Yahoo Search traffic in the U.S. This means that these search listings is now coming from Microsoft Ad networks. Some U.S. users would have started seeing this integrated Microsoft search ads on Yahoo Search if they were selected by Yahoo. The Yahoo Search Blog explains this integration via...
Comscore's latest search engine rankings report covering the month of June is showing that Google lost around 1.1% market share. This is almost equal to the combined search market share earnings of Yahoo and Microsoft Bing. But no cause of alarm for Google though, since comScore was quick to point out that the increase in Bing and Yahoo's market share was due to the continued utilization of contextual search approaches that tie content and...
Google is rolling out several updates to its News homepage to make it easier to navigate through relevant news, highlight interesting stories that would otherwise get buried into the streams of news influx that gets into the homepage as well as an easier news sharing feature.The updated Google News homepage, which will be rolled initially to U.S. users now include a major section in the homepage called "News for you." This is a...
Just in time for the roll out of iPhone iOS4, Microsoft has updated its Bing iPhone app to include two new useful features - enhanced social integration with Twitter and Facebook and Visual Scanning.The enhanced social feature of Bing iPhone app now lets you connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts and see combined updates from your friends right inside the Bing app. That means your phone will no longer open up a new...
Google has just released Maps 4.3 for Android phone and based on the new features given out by the Google Mobile Blog, it seems like the app is being geared towards becoming more like FourSquare and other location-aware social media apps. According to Google, the new features of Google Maps 4.3 would help you quickly choose the right place to grab dinner, catch the next train and find friends to add on your Google...
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