Inside Google Firefox Extensions With the release of several Firefox extensions by Google – we can take a look at how Google officially implements PageRank queries. Firefox extensions are packaged files. Download the extension file and unzip it, you’ll notice there are several directories. The location of source files will vary from extension to extension, [...]

Yahoo! Adds Maps to Real Estate The folks at Yahoo! notified me yesterday that they had added the ability to map rental listings to their real estate site. Here’s an example for Oakland, CA. As we’ve written in the past, mapping is a highly valuable addition to real estate listings. In this case, there’s added [...]

SuperPages Upgrades Web Site Verizon SuperPages today announced the relaunch of its site. The new site is better integrated and more user-friendly than the previous version. SuperPages has been impressive in its willingness to embrance the Internet and performance-based marketing for SMEs in particular. (The company told us that it’s adding roughly 4,000 pay-per-click advertisers [...]

Is Google Site Search Professional? Google Site Search is a quick and easy way to provide a search feature for your Web visitors. I use it on this site but I tend to opt for the built in search feature. Why? Well, the built in feature tends to look more part of the site. It [...]

Flickr Testing Both Google AdSense and Yahoo Contextual Ads Yahoo is testing both Google AdSense ads and Yahoo Search Marketing Contextual Ads on Flickr to possibly determine and compare the revenue generated by each contextual advertising network as part of Yahoo Search Marketing’s plans to unveil their own Yahoo Publisher’s advertising. Rumors have been circulating [...]

Google Invests In Broadband Power Line Company Google, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Hearst Corp. are investing about $100 million in Current Communications Group which is a Maryland based company that offers broadband connections over electricity lines. Current Communications uses a technology that sends Internet signals over regular power lines. Broadband over Power Line (BPL) [...]

London Bomb Blast Heard Across Internet Today’s terror attacks on the London mass transit system were not only a sucker-punch to a city which was jumping with Olympic joy 12 hours ago and another stain brought upon the world by radical terrorists, but also an interesting study of the spreading of news via blogs, cellular [...]

Ask Jeeves Crawling Too Much Almost all Webmasters have experienced the Teoma Crawler that crawls too much. What I mean by too much, is that the bandwidth usage of Ask Jeeves sometimes can spike uncontrollably. There are threads all over the place about this. The most recent thread I found is at DigitalPoint forums and [...]