Barry Schwartz, the hardest working man in SEO, has the scoop on the new Ask.com ‘Edison’ algorithm which was leaked by Apostolos Gerasoulis, co-founded Teoma Technologies, during a Social Search panel at SES NY. * The Edison algorithm will combine Teoma and Direct Hit, two search engine technologies that Ask.com * Tagging is going to [...]

Google’s online payment solution system, Google Checkout, has launched in the United Kingdom to compete with other online shopping systems such as their main competitor eBay’s Paypal. * Until now Google Checkout has only been available in the US * Google is not disclosing the timeline of further European expansion * Google will be offering [...]

My introduction to search engines came about in 1994. I’d been using the “world wide web” in email, ftp, and newsgroup form for several years by then. I was hired by a company to the write the user documentation for their search engine module.

In a bold and questionable move, Fox Interactive has banned the use of Photobucket videos within MySpace profiles. Photobucket images and slideshows are still available, but videos are not being served.

Amidst a lawsuit filed against YouTube for copyright infringement, VIACOM announced a multiyear ad deal with Google’s closest competitor, Yahoo to serve video ads on the former’s online video digital products which includes MTV and Comedy Central and VH1. Viacom is set to get 70 to 80 percent of the revenues generated by the ads [...]