Reasons Why You Should Try Gada.Be Chris Pirillo has written a lengthy manifesto presentation on why searchers should try Gada.be. He has divided it into Enthusiast, Mobile, Developer, Business, Casual, Researcher, Jobseeker, and Shopper; and given pertinent, compelling arguments for using Gada.be for each category: “(for the Internet Enthusiast)There’s no quick way to find the [...]

Google Green Travel Google has put together a rather nice looking map-based eco-friendly travel site. Most of the straight searches default to Google Maps/Local. But if you click on the featured cities on the left, you’ll see a very nice presentation of content on a map (including video [although it wasn't working for me]). See, [...]

Google Checkout – Answer to Yahoo Paypal? On the same day that Yahoo & eBay announced their PayPal and Yahoo Search Marketing oriented partnership, Google registered the domain GoogleCheckout.com, according to ZDNet’s Garett Rogers. Like any other Google domain registrations which make it to the top of the search engine blogs on a slow Memorial [...]

SEO & Search Engine SPAM Identifiers Sure, it’s tempting to put together a keyword seeded site, URL, and folder system to try to rank highly in some of the search engines which are now, or have a history of ranking such sites in their top results. But as a long term search and site identity [...]

Google & Dell: Pimp My Desktop The word “pimp” has come to mean elaborately adorn or customize, as in “pimp my ride” or the more funny yet obscure “pimp my burger” campaign from Burger King. An earlier meaning was a kind of agent for prostitution — the iconic 1970s pimp with the white fur coat, [...]

Role of Search in the Buying Cycle Yahoo! has done a bunch of pioneering work and research on how search and paid search influence consumer purchase behavior. I have for months intended to write more about this (and will I promise :) ). Now SEM firm 360i has done some extensive and interesting work on [...]

Technorati Tags Dominate Yahoo Search Results Rand Fishkin looks at how Technorati’s tag system has led to their pages dominating Yahoo Search results for such highly popular and well paying terms (for the Technorati search targeted text advertisements) such as photography, design, security and mp3. Ok, before you start registering your spam blogs and adding [...]