WeBuildPages Search Combination Tool WeBuildPages tool # 9,347. Actually thats not its real name, but Jim makes a lot of good tools and shares them. His newest tool is a search combination tool. Essentially it allows you to get the search results for various keyword combination searches. For example, I could look for “seo, search [...]

Mamma.com under formal SEC investigation An informal probe of Canadian search engine company Mamma.com, by the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has become a formal investigation according to a press release sent out earlier this week.The release stated, “The company believes that as part of its investigation, the SEC may consider matters related to trading [...]

Yahoo Local Search Listings – Free Sites for the 50% Without More than 10-million US businesses do not have websites. According to the Kelsey Group, this represents over 50% of all small businesses. Yahoo, or more specifically, the Local search division at Yahoo wants to make these business owners an offer they have no particular [...]

RIAA Suing Over 400 College Student Internet2 Users for Piracy The RIAA and MPAA have new targets in University students using the Internet2 network to download rights protected material such as music and videos. Internet2 is a non-profit group led by over 200 US universities and a number of corporate partners from the networking and [...]

RocketInfo Launches Desktop News Search Application Rocketinfo Inc. quietly released a desktop news search tool, the Rocket Desktop 1.1 yesterday which Rocket reports as being a first. The Rocket Desktop (available for BETA download from www.rocketnews.com) is a lightweight application that provides a convenient way to search for the latest news from the thousands of [...]

Google Video is Live – Commence Video Production Boom Google just launched its Video Upload program moments ago after creating some buzz around the video web world last week. “In the next few days, we’re actually going to start taking video submissions from people, and we’re not quite sure what we’re going to get, but [...]

Google Takes Local Mobile Earlier today Google publicly released Local for mobile devices. I’m on vacation, so I won’t do anything lengthy. Chris Sherman has a good overview. It basically reproduces Google Local rendered for a mobile device. You can also get maps and driving directions. If the phone permits it, telephone numbers appear as [...]

Yahoo Offers Free Sites to Small Businesses Yahoo offering free sites to SME’s is a potentially big deal, although there were many such free Web site offerings as recently as 2000-2001. To my knowledge, all of them failed. But none of them were Yahoo!, which can subsidize the service as something of a “loss leader.” [...]

Claria Targets Advertising with New Analytics Offering Claria (previously rebranded from Gator) today announced that it’s getting into the Web Analytics market with its Web Intelligence Center platform, a new offering for major advertisers and publishers that will provide insights and data on anonymous consumer behavior that have never before been available. The Web Intelligence [...]

Google Video Upload Program – Video Search or Blogging? Google just launched its Video Upload program moments ago after creating some buzz around the video web world last week and rumors about Google getting involved with Video Blogging. Google Video Upload is now in beta and is described by Google as a community where video [...]