Search Engine Journal

The Yahoo Publisher Network has taken a major step in building its appeal amongst US based webmasters and publishers with the addition of PayPal transfers as a payment option.
The move may also be a clue that YPN will be opening more and more accounts for smaller publishers as the minimum payout for PayPal transfer is […]

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Google’s mapping software gets a new feature with Street Views, a new feature of Google Maps which lets users take a closer look at the different streets of the U.S. with a 360 degree level imagery. Street Views is currently available for San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami.
I know this […]

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Google Image Search has finally implemented some of the technology that Google acquired with its purchase of Neven Vision last August.
Now searchers on Google can block the images of certain people or locations in Google Image search using Google’s image recognition technology.
Case in point, try a search on Google Images for “Paris”. There is a […]

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MSN Live Search is testing its 3D map facility called Virtual Earth 3D. Obviously a spin off of Google’s 3D mapping service, Google Earth. From the Microsoft Press Pass:
Microsoft® Live Search Maps will today begin offering three-dimensional, photo-realistic views of New York City buildings and landscapes, with perspectives that few people — apart from […]

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The European Union has launched an investigation into Google and whether the search & media company is confirming to the EU’s privacy rules and questions the reasons why Google stores user search and behavior information for up to two years.

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Search Engine Journal’s Gemme van Hasselt attended Search Engine Strategies China in Xiamen over the weekend and covered some of the sessions along with overall views on the show.
In case you missed his coverage yesterday, here is a rundown of his posts:

SES Xiamen Impressions
The SEO State of Chinese Websites
SES Xiamen - Chinese SEO Lessons

As of […]

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The popular keyword research tool from Trellian, called Keyword Discovery, changes their database to rely on their tool bar users only (like Alexa) instead of the tool bar usage in combination with search-logs of 200 and more search engines and other sources.
Keyword Discovery, the premium keyword-research service by Trellian (similar to WordTracker) recently changed their […]

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Robert X. Cringely, in his I, Cringely, blog at PBS writes about the final days of Google. This is sort of what I’ve been saying: that the company who’ll take on Google hasn’t come into existence yet, or at least haven’t revealed themselves. I figure we will know in the next 4 years, that they’ll […]

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The 2 day SES conference in Xiamen 2007 was full of information for the participants. There were panels on buying search engine advertising, marketing research, link building, case studies, domain strategies and lessons from spamming.
I wasn’t able to go to all of them but there are certain points that I picked up that can […]

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The star Chinese speaker on SES Xiamen 2007 in my eyes was Stone Chen, from Dunsh.org. In one of the session he delved into the current state of Chinese (corporate) websites and their issues. It was a good lesson on what needs to be improved, but as it not only applies to Chinese websites I […]

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