Search Engine Journal

On Tuesday, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Real were named in a lawsuit filed by some music publishing companies claiming that each of their online music stores - Zune, Yahoo Music, and Rhapsody - infringe upon their copyrights. If you’re shaking your head and wondering how that is possible, with all the royalties they pay out, you’re not alone.
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Yesterday Twitter sneakily unveiled a new user interface for both the “followers” and “following”.  While I personally believe that their efforts could have been better spent on stabilizing their servers and working out those infamous “overcapacity” issues, the change is a good one. 
First of all, let’s go over the changes that they made.  On your [...]

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On Tuesday Digg announced that they were finally rolling out some major updates to their duplicate detection technology, and let’s be honest - it’s about time!  The technology they had in place before was hardly reliable.
The way that it used to work is that you’d go ahead and insert your URL and all the details [...]

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Google Android applications are currently written in Java and run off Google’s Dalvik Java virtual machine, however, that will soon change.  Last week Google announced the Android Native Development Kit (v. 1.0) that will allow software to run natively on the Linux layer below.  Without getting into the nitty gritty details of software development, what [...]

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Google currently has more than 25,000 news sources that contribute content for Google News, and now they are inviting them to share professional news videos via YouTube.  After being approved as a YouTube Parnter, these news sources will be permitted to host videos for free on YouTube.  While that in itself probably isn’t enough to [...]

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And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad.  Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more than 9 million page views to an article published on The New York Times’ website during a period of just two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at [...]

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As a website owner myself, I have explored several different contextual ad platforms, and Google has always seemed to be ahead of their competitors in the ability to target ads.  Now they’re about to take that to a whole new level, getting much more personal with web visitors and the ads the target to them.  [...]

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With its web-based Google Apps suite of software, Google is trying go up against Microsoft to make some headway in the enterprise accounts area.  While they’re likely facing some resistance in a lot of companies who are ingrained in the Microsoft way of life, they are making some headway.  Washington D.C. is one such example, [...]

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With the exception of those sites that have created special iPhone-targeted sites, surfing the web on the iPhone allows you to view the web as it was intended -full-content, full-color, full everything.  Even Google AdSense ads on sites show up. 
But in meetings with advertising agencies recently, Google has begun presenting a new option for advertisers [...]

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Recently Hakia extended a call to librarians and information professionals to help them in their quest to bring credible search results to the web on all topics.  Previously Hakia offered credibility stamped health and medical searches.  Expanding beyond those topics to include all is obviously a very lofty goal, and one that most certainly cannot [...]

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