Search Engine Journal

As social networking sites continue to grow in popularity and their user base expands beyond savvy early adopters, such Web 2.0 offerings are becoming more and more the targets of scammers and phishing.
MySpace.com (Google partner and owned by Fox Interactive) has inherited the role of playing guinea pig in this arena, due to its checkered […]

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The big news last week was about eBay China deciding to give up on their own business by selling the majority to Tom Online.
Many articles have been published about this in the last couple of days, all mentioning the need to localize/partner when you want to do business in China.
More about that later. Let’s […]

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I was catching up with some of my podcast subscriptions and listened to the SEO Rockstars Episode from 12/19 with Greg “WebGuerrilla” Boser and Todd “Mad Oilman” Friesen. They talked about the post of Dave Pasternack at DMNews which I talked about on November 27 here at SEJ and also left a long comment at […]

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Amazon launched quitely with only some little “Teaser Ads” on their Website and via Email to existing customers their new Service AskVille.
I received only 3 days ago following email from Amazon.

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Tonight I noticed a flaw in MyBlogLog while tracking some of the comments I have made in blogs over the past two days.

MyBlogLog is a bloggers’ community where members can register their blog info, headshots, and other information so, on member blogs, readers and the blog owners can view the MyBlogLog members who visit […]

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Have our dreams just come true? YouTube on the television!
Red Kawa has developed a new application dubbed SofaTube, which apparently lets users watch YouTube and Revver on the big screen HDTV, and not on little computer screens:
SofaTube is a specially designed web application that lets you browse and watch videos from YouTube and Revver […]

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Microsoft’s patent applications for RSS feed (and other feed format) readers & aggregators were made public yesterday, showing that the company filed for the patents in June 2005.
Cnet’s Anne Broache adds:
That date, incidentally, is just three days prior to the company’s formal announcement that it planned to build support for RSS into the next version […]

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Some of you may have seen a couple of “off color” videos widely circulating on the Internet from the NBC TV show Saturday Night Live (SNL). Here’s the NY Times article (from today) describing the videos.
As you may recall the SNL “Lazy Sunday” videos were a viral phenomenon on YouTube and actually boosted SNL’s ratings. […]

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It’s again time for a discussion about the use of the nofollow attribute for links at the English language Wikipedia. A lot of the Wikis in other languages use the attribute and also the MediaWiki platform which is used by Wikipedia and thousands of other Wikis has the nofollow attribute ON by default for new […]

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Almost every blog and news publication on web includes a small “save to del.icio.us” link or little del.icio.us box next to posts which entice users to save the story as a del.icio.us bookmark and share with other web users.
But with the popular new fancy buttons coming out from companies like Digg which show the amount […]

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