Search Engine Journal

Just a week after introducing the over hyped universal search whereby the different Google data sets are culled to come up with a unified search results, Google adds up another feature into its web search. This time eliminating a great barrier to information dissemination and utilization - language. Google translate which launches today […]

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Google appears to be about to take on Skype and other VoIP services with the addition of a dialpad to Google Talk.
Members of the Google Blogoscoped forums found this image and some basic information on the new application from an internal Google apps resources overview [which has now been taken down].

The new addition […]

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According to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, the rumors have been confirmed and Google is purchasing FeedBurner for $100 Million.
The deal is apparently in the closing stages and according to Michael’s source, the buyout is all cash and the founders of FeedBurner will be staying with the company for the next couple of years.
The information we have […]

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The following is a guide of web directories put together by the Search Engine Journal which we feel are useful to your directory and link building campaigns. Some of these directories are from large names, such as Yahoo! and Business.com, but you’ll find that others are also quite valuable.

Yahoo! Directory : The most popular, valuable […]

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Sometimes it’s quite easy to hail any new product or experiment launched by Google, even if the idea behind it is years old and has been practiced by their competitors for a long time.
Take Google’s Hot Trends for example, which was launched yesterday and has thousands of bloggers covering and critiquing the new service […]

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Gmail now lets users attach files which reach up to a maximum size of 20 MB, double the previous maximum of 10 MB.
Sure, that’s a massive file size allowance, but is it practical?
Ionut Alex writes :
Of course, few mail providers will accept a such a big message, so it’s safe to send messages bigger […]

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With the rise of blogging and low cost content management systems also comes the rise of news publications and the need for content syndication. Yahoo News is by far the most popular online news aggregator and search engine in terms of daily usage.
The main stories on the Yahoo News front page are powered by content […]

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Digg has been sending out messages which explain the banning of user accounts which Digg has red flagged as possible spammers or just non-quality Diggers. Digg is however asking those banned users to imporve their Digging behavior and clean up their act, then Digg will open the accounts again:
Your account was banned for the rate […]

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Inside Adsense announced the pilot testing of streaming video ads on online video content. Adsense for video is different from previously announced video advertising program of Adsense, Click-to-play video ads and Video distribution and authorship. The new video advertising campaign will allow publishers full control on where in their videos the ads will appear and […]

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Mubin Ahmed has an interesting post with his opinion on the usage of Text Link Ads, Text Link Brokers, and similar link advertising services on niche websites, and how such services can pull in much more than AdSense does for web publishers.
Ahmed’s views on Google AdSense :
Made for Adsense is dead because if you have […]

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