Google Analytics Unloads 7 Powerful Features
In case you have not noticed from your Google Analytics account yet, Google has recently added 7 new features into the already useful site traffic...
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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.
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Google Adds Site Performance Feature to Webmaster Tools
Google’s fascination at making the web faster stretches on to the Webmaster Tools via Site Performance analytics feature. Site Performance which is currently under Webmaster...
Google Makes its Clean Search Portal Cleaner
While the Microsoft folks are peppering the Bing portal with all the bling-blings to make search enticing and attractive to users, Google is doing the...
Microsoft Announces Bing Maps, Mobile App, Toolbar and Visual Search
This could be Bing’s last hurrah for the year, as Microsoft launches Bing Maps in beta while at the same time announces a new Bing...
Yahoo to Connect with Facebook in 2010
Yahoo is about to do what others have been wanting to do for so long now – integrate Facebook in their online service. Just announced...
Google Releases its Zeitgeist 2009, MJ Tops again
Following Bing and Yahoo’s year-end search trend report, Google has also released its search Zeitgeist 2009. As expected, searches for the King of Pop, Michael...
MJ, Twilight Top Yahoo Overall Searches in 2009
After Bing, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to release their list of top searches for 2009. And guess what’s the most searched term in Yahoo this...
Black Friday Searches on Google Increased by 20%
Here’s some more Black Friday-related search statistics to digest. The Google Retail Advertising Blog (Yup, there is such a blog on Google) is reporting that...
Amazon is the Most Visited Website on Black Friday
Now that Black Friday is over and everyone is in the U.S. are probably busy finding the best Cyber Monday deals online, it’s interesting to...
Michael Jackson Tops Bing Searches in 2009
Although a little earlier than usually done by other search engines, Bing has released its top trending topics for 2009. “Michael Jackson” was the number...
Google Says Spamming Other Sites Can Lower Site Ranking
The Google Webmaster Blog has this short post explaining how abusing sites’ comment fields by putting up comment containing links to the poster’s site can...
Canadian, Australian Authorities Clear Microsoft/Yahoo Deal
Two down, two to go for the Microsoft-Yahoo search ads deal. Both the Canadian and Australiation anti-trust authorities have just cleared the controversial deal. In...
Yahoo Improves its Search Assist Feature
While Google was busy working with more search ads formats, Yahoo on the other hand is busy improving their Search Assist feature. So, today Yahoo...
Product Extensions for U.S. AdWords Advertisers
Google has just rolled out a new feature of AdWords – product extensions which shall be available for all U.S. AdWords advertisers. Product extensions are...
Google Product Search Prepares for the Holiday Shopping Season
By now everyone in the U.S. are probably busy looking out for the best consumer electronics deal that various stores, both online and brick and...
Google Acquires Display Ad Startup, Teracent
Black Friday sale is a few days away but Google went ahead on a shopping spree and acquired another company. This time it’s the startup...
Will Microsoft Force Google to Pay for News Content?
NewsCorp’s Rupert Murdoch’s crusade against Google is definitely starting to sizzle. Mr. Murdoch’s assault against Google started last week when he said that he might...
Twitter Turns On Opt-In GeoLocation Feature
Twitter has just activated its GeoLocation feature which will let you opt-in whether you want your tweets to be tagged with your current location. The...
Try Out Chrome OS on a Virtual Machine
So you’ve read all about it, seen all the video materials, the what’s not and what is – of the Chrome OS, that is. What’s...
Gmail Users Are More Social Network Friendly
There’s an interesting findings discovered by research company Rapleaf which made a study of around 120,000 webmail accounts from users of various webmail client including...
Google Updates News for Mobile
I just installed Google Mobile on my iPhone yesterday and was checking out the cool features that it offers. What’s good about this app is...
Google Chrome OS News Round-Up, What’s Your Take?
As soon as Google goes official with the Chrome OS, every tech people I know jumped into it. Each with his own comments, impressions and...
Google Releases the Chromium Open Source Project
For simple folks like me anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS any day now, sad to say you won’t get a taste of it...
Google Image Swirl Offers Fun Ways to Explore Images
After graduating the feature “Find Similar Images” in Google Labs, here’s a new experiment on finding and exploring images being offered by Google – Image...
Google Displays Site Hierarchies in Search Results
If you’re paying attention to the green URLs which Google appends at the bottom of each results, you may have noticed something different recently. Google...
Google Translate Gets New Look and Features
One of my favorite Google service – its online translation tool just got a newly streamlined layout. And along with the new site design are...
Google Analytics Now Tracks Feed Item Clicks
Google Analytics has just added AdSense for Feeds and Google Feedburner data to the items it monitors and analyzes. So, if you are using either...
Site Speed May Soon Affect Google Page Ranking
In a recent interview with Google Engineer Matt Cutts, Web Pro News is reporting that Matt may have hinted on the future of how Google...
Google to Release Chrome OS Next Week?
There’s no doubt that many are anticipating the release of Google’s Chrome OS. In fact, we’ve seen several “alleged” screenshots and what-have-you’s relating to the...
Google Movie Search Becomes More Useful
Google has introduced some improvements to its movie search vertical by adding more movie-related information to help users decide what movie to see and where’s...