Search Engine Journal

Yahoo Jazzes Up Mobile Search
Google SMS started serving search results to mobile users in the US just a few days back. Now Yahoo! follows it with even more comprehensive feature set. Google SMS is currently text based for the results; Yahoo! jazzes them up with maps, website icons, as well as local searching. Website icons […]

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Blogs Are Great for Search Engine Ranking
Blogs have had a profound effect on communications and marketing since their development and early adoption but are still a mystery to many. According to Google Definitions (enter: define:Blog into Google search window), Blogs can be several things to different people but the simplest definition of the word is […]

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Google and Microsoft Getting Close
Microsoft partnering with Google? Well sort of, an article released yesterday details the relationship between the two, and the use of Google Deskbar in Microsoft’s Partner Pack for Windows, “a collection of Microsoft and third-party products released last week that Microsoft describes on its Web site as “the ultimate application package” […]

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Google Acquires Satellite Mapping Firm Keyhole
After a tip from Andy Beal, I checked out Keyhole Satellite Image mapping and local search tool and absolutely loved it. Basically, with Keyhole you get a satellite image of the world and can view streets in the major cities, political hotspots, and towns (mostly US based towns) while even […]

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Apple Opens EU iTunes, Unveils iPod Photo
Apple is still leading the pack in taking a bite out of online music shopping search with the news that they have launched a European iTunes online music store. Shortly before Apple’s special music event on Tuesday featuring Bono and The Edge from U2, the iTunes Music Store was […]

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Google Market Value Tops Yahoo
Google market value surges past $50B, tops Yahoo so now they’re worth more in dollar value than Yahoo. That goes right in line with being worth more in search value and relevance. I’ve written before that Yahoo has their fingers in so many pies that they don’t have the necessary attention […]

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Copernic Spins Off Coveo Enterprise Search
Copernic Technologies Inc. today announced the creation of a new separate company, Coveo Solutions Inc. The company will focus exclusively on providing easy-to-use, powerful and secure enterprise search software to businesses, organizations and government entities.
The creation of Coveo is in response to overwhelming market demand for its flagship product, Coveo […]

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Google Spyware? Bad Guys & Spies Using Google Desktop Search
I suppose I was naive when I cheered the new Google Desktop Search tool thinking it was ONLY a great way to help ease my computer info-glut and help organize my hundreds of hard-drive stored documents, emails and files. It seems that now I have to […]

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Google Flaws and Fixes
There have been many criticisms recently of Google and it’s page rank algorithm. First, to the criticisms of Google itself. Has anyone noticed that Google currently indexes 4 billion odd web pages? Very few of us had the time to trod through Google’s white paper, but those who did, noticed that 4 […]

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Majority of Home Computers Infected with Spyware
Don’t ever let anybody tell you otherwise, the Internet is not a safe place to take your computer systems without adequate protection. It wasn’t too long ago that anti-virus and firewall software could provide your systems with more than enough security to safely cruise the Internet. Unfortunately, the Internet […]

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