Search Engine Journal

Google Desktop Sidebar - Toolbar Meets Browser
I got an opportunity to preview Google’s version 2 of its desktop client (GD2) late last week. It’s very interesting and, in the few days I’ve been testing it out, pretty useful. It offers much improved desktop search, indexing an expanded range of documents. It also offers the ability […]

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Look into Google News Technology
Amit Agarwal put together a great overview of Google News Technology on his Digital Inspiration blog. Here are some snippets :
The first internal Google News demo appeared in Dec 2001. It used only 100 sources. Today, the Google News service scans 4,500 different websites real time, determines which news stories […]

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Google or Yahoo! to Buy Classifieds Publisher?
According to MediaPost; Google and Yahoo! are attempting to purchase Amsterdam-based Trader Classified Media, which publishes 578 print guides and runs 56 Web sites with classified ads in 22 countries, according to published reports in Reuters and the London Sunday Times.
A kind of “double hearsay,” but if true it […]

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Google Desktop Search Sidebar Shines Bright
Over the years, Google has introduced many interesting applications which up until now, had no real centralizing base. Google Gmail, Desktop Search, Google News, Stocks, Personalized Search and Google Web Clips were all introduced with fanfare - but the underlying critique was that the applications were orbiting an invisible core […]

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Yahoo Japan Offers Free Streaming Music to Market Downloads
Yahoo Japan, possibly feeling the heat from Apple’s iTunes Japan success, has started an online streaming audio service which lets Yahoo Japan users listen to entire songs for no cost. Users then have the option to purchase the songs via Yahoo Japan after listening. Yahoo Japan, Japan’s […]

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What Will Google Do with $4 Billion?
Google took investors by surprise in announcing that it would sell additional shares expected to generate US$4 billion. GOOG consequently took a bit of a hit. And now many in blogland are buzzing with speculation about what it means and why the company is doing it.
It’s pretty clear there […]

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Advertisers Switching from Google AdSense to Yahoo Publisher Network
In a WebmasterWorld thread named How is the Revenue with YPN compared to Adsense? members who have the privilege of being accepted into the YPN beta testing period are discussing how the revenue compares. What is interesting is that people are now reporting lower CPC earnings with […]

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Kowabunga (MYAP) Scores Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Affiliate Program
Can you increase the cost of affiliate software from $50 to $2000 per month and still get new customers to buy it? According to Jeff Molander you sure can! MYAP from Kowabunga, which I consider to be the top affiliate tracking software on the market just raised […]

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Search Engine Optimization and ECommerce
The purpose of any business website is to promote a product or service online. The purpose of an ecommerce website is to take it one step further and to allow your visitors to purchase your products or services directly from your website. This model has many great advantages over the non-ecommerce […]

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Google Selling $4.2 Billion of Stock One Year After IPO
Google is planning to sell 14.8 million more shares of its stock, an estimated $4.2 billion, a year after its initial IPO. Since their IPO last lear, Google’s stock share value has more than tripled and Google is now profit is up 500% from one year […]

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