Search Engine Map Wars Because “war” is the metaphor business journalists like to use for competition and almost everything else. . . welcome to “Map Wars.” (Cue John Williams’ music.) According to Battelle and SiliconValleyWatcher, Google is going to “A9“ its mapping but with laser-generated 3-D imagery. (I use “A9” as a verb to mean [...]

AOL SingingFish Video Search Adds CNN, MarketWatch and Other Partners AOL’s Singingfish video & multimedia search engine announced today it will begin featuring optimized video content feeds from more than 10 new partners including Atom-Films, Big-Boys.com, CBSNews.com, CNN, Hollywood.com, Like Television, ManiaTV.com, MarketWatch from Dow Jones & Company, The One Network, and ROO Media. The [...]

Increase Traffic to Your Blog from Search Engines – The Top 5 Tips Blogs already have optimized site architecture. Most are set up with a clear navigation, where every page is set up to link back to the other main pages. They also have the inherent potential to be well-linked. If you haven’t already submitted [...]

Yahoo Search Engine Index Out of Room? A thread at WebmasterWorld named What triggers Yahoo to fully index a site? discusses the issues many are having with having their sites fully or even partially indexed. For many who run large dynamic content sites, Yahoo! is having trouble capturing all those pages and its not necessarily [...]

Yahoo and Sprint Partner for Yahoo Mail Mobile Lookout RIM and Blackberry, Sprint and Yahoo are gearing up to bust some competitive action into the digital telecom industry with their partnership to launch the first downloadable Yahoo Mail client application that gives customers nationwide enhanced access on mobile devices. Sprint operates one of the largest [...]

Tribune Paper Drops Google AdSense for Quigo According to an article that appeared in Editor & Publisher, Tribune Co.’s Newsday has abandoned AdSense in favor of an “in-house” contextual product powered by Quigo: As more and more newspapers are embracing Google AdSense and other third-party context-based advertising, Newsday Monday announced its in-house answer. The Newsday [...]

Adware is Not Always Spyware What is the difference between Adware & Spyware? Adware is considered a legitmate alternative offered to consumers who do not wish to pay for software. Generally most or all features of the freeware are enabled but you will be viewing sponsored advertisements while the software is being used. The advertisements [...]

Comparing Yahoo and Google Interface Design Yahoo! and Google have almost similar offerings and now the interfaces are also getting closer. Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design by Luke. At a high level, Yahoo! has better integrated business goals with their product designs. For example, their comparison shopping site features multiple entry points that better match [...]

Yahoo Auctions Eliminates Listing and Selling Fees In an effort to grab some marketshare from Ebay, Yahoo has just announced that it is eliminating both listing and selling fees from it’s Yahoo! Auctions site. Yahoo! Auctions will switch to being totally ad-supported. Yahoo! Auctions has changed its pricing to create a model that is free [...]