Search Engine Journal

Google Video Gets Real
John Battelle has an interesting discussion regarding the impending launch of genuine video on Google, what it might mean for third parties, and how it might integrate with Google’s new payments system.
Google has been inviting people/organizations to submit video for some time. We said before that this might be the Sundance Film […]

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Microsoft Integrating RSS into Longhorn
Microsoft announced Friday that they will be integrating several new RSS features in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. The Longhorn Browsing and RSS team also announced a new RSS extension, to be released into Creative Commons, called Simple List Extensions.
The extension will allow users to publish a lists […]

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In-Browser Video Player by Google
The day before tax day, April 14th, 2005 I posted an entry named Google Wants Your Videos, where we discussed how Google is allowing people to upload video that will be hosted for free at Google. John Battelle today posted News: Google To Launch Online Video Playback This Monday, which is […]

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Blogger Adds Picture Uploads - The WSJ Effect
Blogger was the last choice for The Wall Street Journal when it came to comparing Blogger vs MSN Spaces vs Yahoo 360. Seems like Google was quick to react to the WSJ report. Atleast to some part of the report.
Now you can post pictures in Blogger too! […]

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Google’s Patent Implications
You may have already heard or read about Google’s latest patent application regarding “information retrieval based on historical data“, but if you’re like me, you probably didn’t bother to read it all. Patents are not easy to read, that’s for sure! I had skimmed it and glanced at a few forum posts and […]

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Microsoft Building Lifestyle Blog Network
Microsoft is advertising for paid bloggers to write and edit proposed blogs on five topics: fashion/food/style, music, sports, technology, and television for a new network of lifestyle blogs as part of MSN.
Salary details were not available however successful applicants are expected to contribute around 15 hours per week on the blogs, […]

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Anatomy Of An Internet Search Engine
For some unfortunate souls SEO is simply the learning of tricks and techniques that, according to their understanding, should propel their site into the top rankings on the major search engines. This understanding of the way SEO works can be effective for a time however it contains one basic flaw […]

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Google Planning Pay-Per-Sale Advertising Model?
Here’s what I think Google is building - A pay-per-sale advertising model. CEO Eric Schmidt has already spoken out and specifically said that Google is not building a PayPal killer, “We do not intend to offer a person-to-person, stored-value payments system…The payment services we are working on are a natural evolution […]

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eBay ProStores to Build Sites for SMEs
One of the announcements coming out of eBay Live, which I’m merely reading about rather than attending, is that eBay is launching a Web site initiative for SMEs : ProStores.
It will allow SMEs to build sites (with e-commerce capability) that are separate from the eBay universe. Of course they […]

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Microsoft Getting Serious About RSS
After visiting the Microsoft Internet Explorer team and their RSS group, Dave Winer was surprised that Microsoft was thinking bigger than using RSS for lists and bookmark aggregation and management. Winer, the Godfather of Really Simple Syndication, writes “I found out, when I visited Microsoft in April, that while this is […]

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