Google AdWords has integrated Google Audio Ads into their advertiser interface and Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Rountable has published a collection of Google Audio Ads screenshots.

Yahoo announced yesterday that it has expanded its mobile phone search offering, Yahoo oneSearch, into the Asian markets of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. According to CNet Asia however, the Asian versions of oneSearch will only be offered in English, limiting its widespread use to the English proficient Filipino, Malay, Singapore [...]

Ok, Google is so high profile that everything they do wrong is scrutinied under the spotlight, but pointing out their flaws is sometimes fun. Seems that Google’s automated search spell checker is a bit sexist when it comes to correcting terms like “she invented” / “she created” / “she discovered” to “he invented” / “he [...]

Amit Agarwal has found an interesting URL variable which when added to the Google Search URL string blocks AdWords ads from showing. If you append the parameter “output=googleabout” to Google Web Search URL, the search results page will not carry any AdSense ads that are otherwise seen on the top and right sections of the [...]

Over the years, the engines have developed algorithms to make search as relevant as possible to the user. In the early 90’s, optimizing your website didn’t take the time and work as it does now. It also wasn’t that long ago at all where you can bid for almost any keyword and show up in [...]

To cut back on US taxpayer generated payroll being sunk into Defense Department employee time-wasting surfing sites like MySpace and YouTube, the Pentagon has banned (.pdf) 13 sites from being reached from its network, all but citing such ‘recreational traffic’ as a National security threat : “[Recreational Internet usage] impacts our official DoD network and [...]

Yahoo acquired the blogging analytics program and social network MyBlogLog in January which was a smart and exciting move on their behalf. But what are they doing with MyBlogLog now? History of MyBlogLog As a quick recap of MyBlogLog, the analytics program was grouped with a simple Social Networking offering which lets members upload their [...]

Trulia has always been an impressive site to me and it continues to become more feature rich. Today the company relaunched its site with more user-friendly and powerful property filters and community (Trulia Voices). Here’s an example from San Francisco. In many site environments community has a kind of perfunctory or obligatory feel. But in [...]