Google Acquires JotSpot Wiki Collaboration Software
Google has acquired Jotspot, which allows businesses and individuals to use wikis for collaboration. Google made the announcement today on the Google Blog, and gave...
Alibaba.com Invests in Koubei.com Chinese Classifieds
Alibaba.com, parent company of Yahoo China, made a ‘strategic investment’ in Koubei.com, which is one of China’s largest classified listing and community websites. According to...
5 Reasons Not To Use Flash
Despite the documented problems over the years, businesses and web development firms are continuing to use a flash base in site design, without regard of...
Leaked Google Documents Outline Internal Company Goals
Internal company papers from Google somehow found their way outside of the Googleplex and into the hands of Google Blogoscoped’s Philipp Lenssen. Philipp has not...
Who Will Acquire Digg.com .. Google?
Michael Arrington writes on Techcrunch that Digg has recently been in multiple acquisition discussions with a host of potential buyers, including News Corp.’s Fox Interactive....
Google Custom Search Engine Launches
Google is launching its Google Custom Search Engine tomorrow now, which will let users & publishers construct their own specialized Google search indexes made up...
Popular Searches in China
Popular Searches in China Google Zeitgeist published the popular Chinese searches in the month August. Google added China again to its monthly zeitgeist in March...
Google vs. Yahoo : Earnings Reports Comparison
Yahoo braced the world and its investors at a Goldman Sachs investment conference last month when Yahoo CEO Terry Semel told investors that a slowdown...
Pronet Advertising : One of My Favorite Blogs!
One of my responsibilities as a professional blogger in the search engine news world is to keep taps on the many search engine marketing and...
Domain Name Search 2.0 : PCNames
One of my favorite online marketing ‘hobbies’ is brainstorming domain names for sites, products, companies and blogs. Admittingly enough, I probably find myself spending about...
Google Attracting 25% of Online Ad Revenue
eMarketer just put out a release with some amazing research behind their prediction that Google will pocket 25% of all US Online Advertising Revenue –...
SEO & 404 Error Pages
We’ve covered how to optimize your 404 Error page for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes in the past, making sure all of those dead links...
Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Platform Goes Live
This afternoon Yahoo announced that it is finally going live with the rollout and transition to its new Yahoo Search Marketing platform, dubbed ‘Panama’. Yahoo...
Chris Pirillo Interview
Lee Odden has been busy blogging over the weekend and posted his follow up interview with Internet, Pectoral & Coffee guru Chris Pirillo which Lee...
Google Acquires YouTube for $1.65 Billion Stock Transaction
Google Acquires YouTube for $1.65 Billion Stock Transaction No longer Internet specultion, Google has confirmed that it will be acquiring YouTube in the forth quarter...
5 Reasons Why Google Will Buy YouTube
Update: Google did, in fact, purchase Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars in October of 2006. Sure, the internet, newspapers, and blogosphere have been buzzing all...
Google Blog Was Hacked : It’s Official
Google Blog Was Hacked : It’s Official For those of you who have been following the story of the rather odd message posted on the...
Google Blog Search Adds Ping Service
Google Blog Search Adds Ping Service Google has added a pinging service to its Blog Search offering. Dubbed Google Blog Search Pinging Service, now bloggers...
Google Code Search for Public Source Code
Google Code Search for Public Source Code Over the course of the evening Google Code Search went live as a search engine which has the...
Clusty.com Search Engine Adds Labs, Features and Redesign
Clusty.com Search Engine Adds Labs, Features and Redesign Vivisimo Search Technology has redesigned its two year old ‘clustering search engine’, Clusty.com, and has added new...
Google’s SearchMash : Google 2.0
Google’s SearchMash : Google 2.0 After acquiring several related domain names last week, Google has estinguished the rumor flames of their Search Mashup ambitions with...
SEO and Click Distance
SEO and Click Distance Click distance is the number of clicks it takes to get to a web page or document from the homepage of...
Google Buys Its Startup Garage
Google Buys Its Startup Garage No, Google has not purchased Guy Kawasaki’s Garage Technology Ventures. In the feel good story of the day, Google has...