Ask Mobile : Ask.com On The Road Ask.com has launched its new mobile search application, Ask Mobile, which is available for use at http://mobile.ask.com. Ask Mobile is designed to be somewhat of a mobile adaptation of the Ask.com user experience; with fewer keystrokes (or thumbstrokes), Smart Answers, Bloglines and other Ask.com tools. “Mobile is an [...]

Helium.com : About, Yahoo Answers & Wikipedia All Rolled Into One An alternative to the Q&A services and social media projects at Google Answers, Yahoo Answers, Live QnA & Answerbus.com, Helium hopes to be a knowledge oriented community which is not full of just hot air. Adding a dash of About.com and Consumer Reports to [...]

YellowPages.com & SuperPages Top IYP’s in Local Search YellowPages.com and SuperPages put out dueling press releases yesterday about their success and innovations. Here’s YellowPages.com’s release and Here’s SuperPages‘. Here’s comScore’s recent breakdown of IYP marketshare: Total Yellow Pages Searches 100.0% Yahoo! Sites — 23.9% Verizon SuperPages — 20.1% Google Sites –12.5% Yellowpages.com –12.0% Time Warner [...]

Rank Your Blog with Blog Juice Text Link Ads has put together another fun ranking and popularity tool, this time for bloggers, which ranks the value of a blog, or its Blog Juice, based upon RSS subscriptions, Alexa popularity, Technorati Ranking, and Technorati Blog Links. Simply enough, it seems to be an accurate tool and [...]

Yahoo Beams Social Media Into Space Yahoo is pulling off one impressive publicity campaign centered around its social media offerings of blogging, photo uploading & sharing, and video upload with the first ever electronic anthropology archive, or Yahoo Time Capsule. Yahoo is asking its global users to contribute personal photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, prayers, [...]

Yahoo’s Tim Mayer Addresses Directory Tag Support Search Engine Roundtable’s Podcast, Search Pulse [mp3 file], featured Yahoo’s Tim Mayer this week and remarked on the need to add a “No Open Directory Title” tag to Yahoo Search. Basically, a NoODP tag will tell Yahoo Search to use the Title and Description from a website in [...]

Google Docs & Spreadsheets : An Online Office Over the course of the evening Google opened Google Docs & Spreadsheets for beta testing by Google Account holders. Google Docs & Spreadsheets is one platform or office-style service which houses both the Writely based word processing application and Google Spreadsheets, both web based alternatives to Microsoft’s [...]

Google Blog for Mac Users Google launched their official blog targeting the Apple Mac user base. They plan to post about their latest products for the Mac platform on this blog. Google also reiterated their statement of making the world’s information universally accessible. The first blog post said: “We’re pretty serious about that mission, including [...]

Google vs. MySpace.com : YouTube Fallout Sure, the plans to acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Google stock (sound familiar?) has sent ripples around the Internet, with some raving about the genius of Google to acquire this amazing video sharing company, and others blasting it as a trainwreck waiting to happen. In my opinion, Google [...]

Smalltown : Local Search with Flash Smalltown, a new local-search destination with a snappy, flash-based interface announced that it had received $3 million in funding from Formative Ventures. The site also formally launched in Burlingame and San Mateo, CA, two communities south of San Francisco. Smalltown has licensed one of the major databases to jump [...]