Entries from July 2007

Loren Baker, Editor

Google iPhone Search with AJAX

July 25th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

An AJAX driven Google search interface is available for the Apple iPhone which was developed by a third party using the Google AJAX Search API.

The Google iPhone Search is available for users who want to use it to search the web, blogs, news and images on their iPhones (or test it online).
Hattip Google Operating System

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google’s Asian Sites Optimized for Broadband

July 25th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

PCWorld has an overview of the testing Google is doing with its Hong Kong, Korean and Taiwan homepages, serving icons and animated graphics which fit well with the overall Google theme and market its Google Account tools outside of search.
At first glance, my reaction is “why not in the US?”, but in the US and […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Matt Cutts on Wordpress SEO for Google

July 24th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 14 Comments

Matt Cutts made an appearance at the Wordpress Wordcamp on Saturday and discussed SEO for Wordpress blogs.
Here are some of the highlights:

Matt recommends the SEO Title Plugin to swap the name of the blog title with the name of the post titles.
Use Alt attributes while blogging and with photos.
Google does not care about the number […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Take the Google AdWords Quality Score Survey

July 24th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

Joseph Kerschbaum of Hanapin Marketing sent in an email that his blog, PPC Hero is conducting a survey about Google’s AdWords Quality Score.
Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea recently wrote about three patents from Google that detail 44 aspects of the Quality Score. We translated these aspects from legal ease into layman’s terms […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Superpages.com Offers Local Video Advertising

July 24th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

Superpages.com has launched a beta trial of local video advertising which allows local small to medium-sized businesses to showcase their products and services via 30 or 60 second video within SuperPages.com search results.
Superpages.com Video is currently performing a trial run in the Seattle , Los Angeles , and San Francisco Bay areas. Additional cities […]

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Pablo Palatnik

YouTube Democratic Debate Correlates with Online Trends Strategies

July 24th, 2007 by Pablo Palatnik | 3 Comments

Watching the YouTube democratic debate last night I started wondering, “wow”, what a great idea… but why did they do it?
Just like anything else in the world of business, these debates are purely based on the marketing of all parties involved in monetizing from them (TV ratings, etc) to the candidates themselves. […]

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Arnold Zafra

Microsoft’s Answer to Google Analytics, Codename - Gatineau

July 24th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 4 Comments

A Computer World article reports that Microsoft is building its own web metrics tool that will compete against the highly successful Google Analytics. The Microsoft analytics tool which is coded - Gatineau was reportedly being set for release this summer. According to the report, Ian Thomas who works for Microsoft’s Digital Advertising Solution, was forced […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google Discontinues Google Maps Click to Call

July 23rd, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

Google has discontinued its Click-to-Call feature for Google Maps which the company says was a long running experiment.
This feature was a long-running experiment, and in the end it was decided to discontinue it.
There are however lots of other features we’re adding to maps in the hope of making it even more useful. And if you […]

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Arnold Zafra

Search Engines Take Privacy Issue Seriously

July 23rd, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 2 Comments

After Google’s announcement that it will anonymize search data logs on its servers after 18 months of inactivity and Ask.com will allow users to scrub off their data, it is now Microsoft and Yahoo’s turn to take on the user privacy issue hauled at them by both the users and government agencies.
Microsoft for its part […]

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Arnold Zafra

Social Search Engine iRazoo Launches

July 23rd, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 3 Comments

It’s good to know that there are still some entrepreneurs who are trying out their luck on the monopolized search engine industry. Take the case of iRazoo, a new social search engine that was developed by four entrepreneurs from Houston.
Frustrated of the search results they get from the current search engine giants, the four […]

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