Create Multiple Sites in Google Page Creator The Google Operating System blog (not associated with Google) has published some tips on creating up to five sites on Google Page Creator using one single Google Account. First, enable “experimental features” in Site Settings. Then go to the page manager and click on “Create a site with [...]

Google Losing Market Share in China Two research reports (Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou internet users were interviewed) have been released about the Search Engines Market in China and both come to the same conclusion. The only part they differ on is the percentage of loss. The China Internet Marketing Network Information Center (CNNIC) puts Google’s [...]

Google Outsourcing Copywriting to India? Looks like SEO practicioners, blog network owners, and general web publishers are not the only entrepreneurs taking advantage of the lower waged and well educated Indian content producers, as Google has also joined the information outsourcing advocacy. Philipp Lenssen covers on Google Blogoscoped : Google is looking for writers in [...]

Microsoft Expanding Live Search into China Under a deal with China Telecom, Microsoft will be serving a Chinese version of Live Search to China Telecom’s 25 million broadband customers. The People’s Daily Online reports: Microsoft has been looking for an opportunity to get into the search market since Baidu.com, Yahoo! and Google joined. The launch [...]

NYTimes.com Integrates Answers.com Content Answers Corporation and The New York Times Company have partnered for the integration of Answers.com reference content into NYTimes.com. The agreement includes direct access from NYTimes.com to Answers.com’s patented 1-Click Answers technology. Applying this feature, users can hold down the “Alt” key and click with the mouse on any word or [...]

Thai Coup D’etat Blog Coverage Today marked the first Thai coup d’etat in almost 20 years as the Thai military, with the permission of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, took over the government and will set up interim leadership until a new Prime Minister can be elected. While Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in New [...]

Google and its Acquisition of Transformic, Inc. Remember the Google acquisition of Transformic, Inc.? Well, neither did I, until today that is when I read a post from Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA in my feed reader. Bill digs into the Google acquisition of Transformic, Inc., the papers, patents and studies of Dr. [...]

Yahoo Publisher Network Simplifies Ads Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) has cleaned up the presentation of their contextually targeted link advertisements by dropping some descriptions, trimming back some titles, and has changed the number of link displays. Tom Furukawa, Director of Product Management, posts on the YPN Blog: We’ve been doing some tinkering under the bonnet [...]

Zillow and Home Owner Content Zillow.com; the real estate search, mapping and home value comparison engine, has taken user-generated content to the next level with Home ‘Owner-Generated’ content. Over at the Search Engine Watch blog, Greg points out that Zillow.com is letting home owners add their own customized information along with the Zillow.com generated ‘Zestimates.’ [...]

Writely Switching To Google Account Logins Writely, the online word processing system acquired by Google earlier this year, has taken one extra step into becoming a breathing member of the Google Borg by requiring that their userbase make the switch from their old Writely user login to that of Google Accounts. The Google Account program [...]