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Arnold Zafra

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 CEO Hopes That Apple’s iAd Will Help Google with AdMob Deal

Well it looks like this is the first time that Google was glad that a would-be rival launched its product.  According to Reuters, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is hoping that Apple's mobile ad platform, iAd which was announced last would boosts Google's  argument into convincing government regulators to approve its acquisition of AdMob.U.S. antitrust regulators are arguing that Google's acquisition of AdMob could potentially affect small-time apps developers who do not really earn that...

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Paid Internet Search Inventor Applies the Same Model to Twitter

From Idealab, the same team who invented the paid search model back in 1998 with Goto.com, comes a new startup called Tweetup. TweetUp hopes to make Twitter more relevant for everyone and finally put a stop to the notion that Twitter is all about noise. It's the fastest and easiest way to find the best tweets and tweeters as well as a reliable way of finding targetted Twitter followers.Basically, what TweetUp does is...

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Google Made its First UK Acquisition, Plink Mobile Visual Search

For the longest time that Google has been into acquisition of startups, interestingly this is the first time that it acquires a UK-based startup. Google just bought mobile visual search startup - Plink. The acquisition is of course part of Google's aim of acquiring at least one company monthly.Plink, a mobile visual search engine was founded by PhD students Mark Cummins and James Philbin.  It's first product was called PlinkArt, a visual recognition tool...

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Google Officially Counts Site Speed for Web Search Ranking

Google has just officially announced that website speed is now a new signal when it considers web search ranking. Although not too much weight is given to site speed, still Google encourages website owners to consider implementing site speed booster to make their websites rank higher on Google search. This however applies only to Google.com. And site speed is defined by Google as the speed by which websites responde to web requests. Google also gave...

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Universal Search Feature Added to Google Suggest for Mobile

Google just announced a new simple, and yet very useful feature of its mobile search service. The new feature is actually a spinoff of the universal search features in Google Suggest that helps you fill up your search query with Google's keyword suggestions.With universal search feature added to Google Suggest for mobile, you can now get answers to your queries faster while you are on the go, using of course your mobile...

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Google Outs Nested Labels, Email Preview in Gmail Labs

Here's something worth checking out on Gmail Labs - nested labels and email sneak preview.  The nested labels feature allow you to organize your labels hierarchically. While the email sneak preview feature lets you sneak into the contents of email items in your inbox. What's good about nested lables is that you can add as many layers as you want on a particular lable. And since they are labels, the color coding schemes...

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Microsoft Gives Bing Shopping a New Look

Microsoft has just updated Bing Shopping,  putting in some enhancements to product categories and navigation. Specifically, Bing Shopping now has a list of product categories on the left side of the homepage. This will enable you to drill down to specific items under the specific product categories. It will also help get started searching for products you want to buy. It's like giving you a window shopping experience, only this time its done online.

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Twitter’s Global Growth by the Official Numbers

The Twitter blog is running a post today announcing some numbers related to Twitter's overall growth not only in the U.S. but internationally as well. According to the post, more than 60% of Twitter users are from outside the U.S. This is definitely a huge leap from Twitter's early days were users were primarily employees and their friends. Now, Twitter users have become a group with diverse identities. Some specific proofs of...

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Apple Challenges Google’s Mobile Ad Platform with iAd

Apple is officially entering the mobile ads arena, and perhaps taking revenge at Google for snatching its plan of acquiring AdMob. Apple's battleplan?  the iAd mobile ad platform.Apple's iAd is a pretty straightforward mobile ad platform utilizing of course Apple's main products - iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad. These three devices are host to the thousands of mobile apps which Apple is providing with an advertising platform.The revenue-sharing scheme is simple as well....

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Add Images to Your Google Sitemaps Extension

We all know how important site images our when trying to optimize our websites for search engine indexing, right?  When highlighting important website content on our site, we use sitemaps. But sitemaps often preclude images we used on our site - leaving search engine not to notice or find them.This is particularly true for images that are only accessible via JavaScript forms, or for pages that contain many images but only some of which are...

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