Entries from April 2007

Arnold Zafra

Google Desktop Now Available in 29 Languages

April 27th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 1 Comment

Google Desktop Blog announces that Google Desktop 5 is now available in 29 languages. Along with the new release are some improvement in the current features such as:

more useful results,
improved gadgets,
improved sidebar,
add gadgets inteface,

Also, the desktop now has better security features when clicking links. This security feature will prompt users when they click on a […]

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Gemme

MySpace China Is Open

April 26th, 2007 by Gemme | 5 Comments

Myspace China is live. It was already rumoured a couple of days ago that it would be launched soon.

From Shanghaiist:
Remember we told you MySpace China would come online yesterday? Well, we lied. Actually, Sohu IT lied — they got some bad info. Thankfully they weren’t too far off. As of now 1 am on April […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Yahoo News Search Serving Video Shortcuts

April 26th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

Yahoo News is serving shortcuts to Yahoo News Video footage at the top of their News Search results which is a smart move for the most popular online news search site and its video content providers.
Searches on Yahoo News for current events like the Boris Yeltsin Funeral, Attorney General Gonzales, and even Alec Baldwin are […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

SEO Class NYC : May 17th & 18th

April 26th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

SEO Class, an intimate SEO mini-conference / workshop headlined by Todd Malicoat, Greg Niland, Rae Hoffman, Michael Gray and Brad Geddes will be held at the New York Helmsley Hotel Midtown Manhattan for an ‘information packed’ 2 day seminar on May 17th and 18th.
Registration for this event is currently open at SEOClass.com/register.
More on SEO Class:
Learn […]

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Raj Dash

Search Engine News Review

April 26th, 2007 by Raj Dash | 1 Comment

Here’s some search engine news you may have missed recently.
Digg Behavior Analyzed
If you didn’t catch it already, New Scientist has a look at the popularity behavior of articles at news sites, including social ones such as Digg. What they found isn’t all that surprising: that interest in an article decays in an exponentially decreasing manner. […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Mobile Users Want to Search, and Search Locally

April 26th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

iCrossing recently released a study on the behavior of mobile Internet users. Surprisingly, according to the study only 30 percent of mobile users access the Internet on their mobile devices, 75 percent of those who do also conduct searches.
Key Findings of the Study:

Frequency distinguishes mobile Web access. 30% of mobile users access the Internet on […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Instant WordPress Theme Generator

April 26th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

File this in the coolness category! Yvo Schaap has created a real time instant Wordpress Theme Generator for those of us who do not have the time or CSS expertise to create our own.

The Wordpress Theme Generator lets users create their own custom themes and layouts for Body Size, Sidebars, Menu and overall presentation; then […]

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Raj Dash

What Hasn’t Google Bought?

April 26th, 2007 by Raj Dash | 4 Comments

In the 90s, some startups dreamed of being acquired by Microsoft. In the 00s, do they dream of being acquired by Google? I mean, what hasn’t Google bought lately?
In the recent past, Google has purchased web software companies to further their MS-Office-like suite of tools, a huge online advertising network, Doubleclick, (with attached SEO business, […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google AdSense : Running Other Publisher AdSense Code on Banned Site is OK

April 26th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 6 Comments

Cristian Mezei has made an interesting post at SeoPedia about Google letting and even encouraging webmasters who have been banned from Google AdSense to “rent out” the ad space to other AdSense account holders.
Cristian : Considering that I can’t create a new AdSense account, will you allow me to rent the space in my website, […]

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Arnold Zafra

Hackers Exploiting IE7 Flaw Through Google Sponsored Links

April 26th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 5 Comments

If you are using IE7 as your primary browser, better be sure that you update and maintain it properly with patches and updates or else you might get hacked by web phisers when you click on those ads that are displayed on Google search results.
Business hackers steals vital information from users of IE7 which were […]

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