Search Engine Journal

Web Browser Hijack Worm in Yahoo Instant Messenger
This from eWeek:
“Security researchers have identified a new worm spreading across Yahoo’s instant messaging network that has been cloaked under the guise of a “safety” browser in an attempt to dupe users.
First discovered by anti-malware researchers at FaceTime Communications, the worm, labeled as yhoo32.explr, is forwarding itself throughout […]

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Google Gains Search Share, MySpace Making Waves
comScore Networks just released their monthly “State of the Search Engine Marketing Share” rankings which showed that in April Google continued to gain in its American search engine usage over its competition. Google gained in search market share for the ninth consecutive month and maintained its status as market […]

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Google Fixing Site Command Search Bugs
Google is fixing some issues which have been raised recently among webmasters about the site: search function which lets users see how many pages of their site are listed in the Google index.
Vanessa Fox, Google Engineering, outlines the bugs on the Google Sitemaps blog:
In this case, we found a […]

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MySpace Losing Its Cool?
Last week at Yahoo! Analyst Day, the company touted its social search and social media strategies as giving it an edge over competitors Google and Microsoft. Yet here’s an article in which MySpace is favorably compared to Yahoo! as being far ahead of the Internet portal in developing and monetizing online community:
Yahoo […]

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Pearl Jam on Google Video
Remember back in the mid 1990’s to 2002 when Pearl Jam did not make videos and then shocked the world with the Todd McFarland animated Do The Evolution video which made up for all of those lost years when fans actually had to use their imagination to give vision to the […]

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Yahoo Publisher Network Direct Deposit : Quick Payments
Yahoo Publisher Network has added the option for publishers of their contextual targeted ’search’ advertising system to receive payment via direct deposit. By selecting the direct deposit option, publishers will receive their Yahoo earnings 10 to 15 days faster than before with deposits to bank accounts occurring on […]

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Local SEO & Links for Maryland Businesses
I’ve been working on numerous projects recently behind the scenes and would like bring one out in the open today. Given the direction of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com’s focus on local search, its difficult not to argue that the adaptation of search engines as a tool for finding […]

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Google Search Popularity & Niche Vertical Channel Shares
Hitwise’s Bill Tancer has published a study of the popularity of the major Google services on the Hitwise blog. A chart published by Hitwise shows the 20 most popular Google channels, from normal Google Web Search to Google Local and Google Labs.
While traditional search oriented channels such […]

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Google Reader for Mobile Phones
Google Reader, Google’s RSS Aggregator, is now available for mobile phones for those of us who cannot fight the tendency to check the latest news from our favorite blogs while in the train, the theatre, or driving.
Google Blogoscoped points to the working version of Google Reader Mobile, simplified for most basic […]

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SEO & Linking for Yahoo, MSN or Google?
This week some SEO sites have revisited the old argument of whether or not to target all search engines with a site, or focus the SEO techniques for one specific search engine. Although when representing a business entity, white gloves optimization which should attract respectable rankings among all […]

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