Entries from May 2007

Gemme

SES Xiamen Impressions

May 28th, 2007 by Gemme | 2 Comments

There are 144 million or 150 million or .. Internet users in China (different sources, different stats). A couple of million more or less, on the whole it doesn’t matter too much. It’s a big number and it’s growing.
At the same time Chinese online marketers are getting ready to target these users.

I attended SES […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

Google Plus Box Patent and Potential Issues

May 27th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | No Comments

Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea wrote an interesting post about the Google patent application for their new “Plus Box” feature in the search results.
There are several valid concerns regarding what and how much content from another site should be shown by Google to still qualify as “fair use” and how much […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

How about a Link from the Yahoo! Homepage

May 27th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 3 Comments

Techcrunch reported on Saturday about an interesting test conducted by Yahoo!
Yahoo! linked to outside websites from their homepage, something that big portals like AOL, MSN at of course Yahoo! usually don’t do, with the exception of advertising.  The homepage of the portals was traditionally only linking to content within their own website or to other […]

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Raj Dash

Alternate Link Building Strategies: The Linkerati Effect

May 25th, 2007 by Raj Dash | 18 Comments

Several bloggers have suggested writing about the linkerati as way to draw editorial backlinks. This post is a sort of lens to some great articles elsewhere, plus a bit of value-added on my end.
Rand at SEOmoz identified the linkerati, and says that every site is linkbait and linkerati worthy. But that’s provided that you […]

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Arnold Zafra

Google Searches Increased by 42%

May 25th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | No Comments

Time for some trivial search engine statistics courtesy of Nielsen/NetRatings published by the Register. Based on the data released by Nielsen, Google searches increased by 42%  in April, with the total searches amounting to nearly 3.8 billion. Yahoo! Search follows with an accounted 1.3 billion searches and MSN live search getting a piece of the […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Find Cheap Gas Prices via Search Engines

May 25th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments

This week marks the beginning of the dog days of summer spikes in gas prices, as today is the official start of Memorial Day weekend, when Americans drop everything they’re doing for a 3 or 4 day weekend of drinking, driving, swimming and working on their sunburn.
Add the tensions in the Persian Gulf into the […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

300 Search Engines Reviewed

May 25th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

Inspired by the great Alternative Search Engines list from Read/Write Web, a new weblog dubbed “Two A Day” recently reviewed (listed) 300 search engines, starting with Google and ending with ZapMeta.
Lots of offbeat engines and directories on the list, so if you’re interested in hitting almost every searcher in the world who prefer obscure […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google Calendar on Mobile Phones

May 24th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

Google has just announced the rollout of Google Calendar for mobile devices. Great thing about this Google offering is that as long as you are logged into your Google Account on the mobile, there is no need for synching.
With all of the mobile offerings from Google and Yahoo (yes, Yahoo also offers Yahoo Calendar via […]

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Greg Sterling

Yahoo Real Estate Improves HomeValues : Zillow & Yahoo Answers

May 24th, 2007 by Greg Sterling | No Comments

Drawing partly on its relationship with Zillow, Yahoo! is launching an improved “HomeValues” section as part of Yahoo! Real Estate. It’s also integrating more community features (as Zillow and Trulia recently have) into the section:

Through an expanded partnership with Zillow.com, users can access additional home details, including tax assessments, sale history and neighborhood comparable sales, […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Tracking Google News : Most Popular Stories and Sources

May 24th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

Google News Report USA is a new service which tracks the sites which are featured on the homepage of Google News and then ranked by a popularity score.
If you have ever wondered which news sites get the most play on Google News and are ranked by the Google News algortihm as authority, this service breaks […]

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