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Entries from July 2007

Arnold Zafra

Picasa Web Albums Updates, New API Features

July 21st, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 3 Comments

Google’s free web album, Picasa introduces some great new features which were the top requests of Picasa Web Album users. Google’s Data API blog enumerated the new API features as follows:

Community Search: Use the q query parameter to search through the photos of all public, searchable albums. Example: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=penguin will find all penguin […]

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Arnold Zafra

Google Acquires ImageAmerica

July 21st, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 3 Comments

Just before the close of the business week, Google announces via its Lat Long Blog that it has acquired ImageAmerica, a camera maker which specializes in hi-resolution aerial imagery. ImageAmerica is the same company which featured high resolution black-and-white imagery when Katrina wreak havoc on New Orleans.
Google Earth and Maps will soon be rolling out […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

Old Scams Come In New Disguises. Link-Ponzi Web 2.0

July 21st, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 11 Comments

A fellow affiliate marketer and blogger with the name Andrew Wee from WhoIsAndrewWee.com was writing an interesting post while I was heading to Affiliate Summit East in Miami two weeks ago.
I liked the post, because it had two nice paragraphs about what I am doing as well as a link to my site. I would […]

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Arun Radhakrishnan

Lexxe : Search Engine that Answers Exact Queries

July 20th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | No Comments

Lexxe, the natural language processing search engine also adds the power of clustering to provide results with subset cluster. Drill down into clusters lets the engine further select the links relevant with the context mentioned by the cluster.
The makers designed Lexxe with the aim to answer short queries by collecting content from the unstructured text […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

StumbleUpon Serving Google AdSense Ads

July 20th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

This may not be a new occurrence, but for the first time my eyes have seen third party advertising within StumbleUpon in the form of Google AdSense.
StumbleUpon uses the pay per stumble advertising model for companies which wish to draw more eyes to their web properties. However, it now seems that StumbleUpon, a bookmarking […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Facebook Buys Parakey, Brings on Firefox Developers

July 20th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

Under the spotlight of acquisition rumor talks, Facebook has started its own agenda of purchasing Internet start-ups with the buying of Parakey, a web to desktop application company which is run by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, two of the founders of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Under the deal, Ross & Hewitt will also be helping […]

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Jessica Bowman

Search Marketing In-house Spotlight: Shane Vaughan with Balihoo

July 20th, 2007 by Jessica Bowman | No Comments

Today’s in-house spotlight is on Shane Vaughan with Balihoo, a startup search engine for the media planning and buying industry. Shane began his search marketing career at Hewlett-Packard and left to join Balihoo in January, 2007. Shane went from a customer acquisition side of marketing to search engine marketing and now leads all […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

SEO Question : Using Articles for Link Building?

July 20th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 11 Comments

This Friday’s SEO Q&A question comes from a website owner who is looking to build backlinks to his site via article distribution. SEO Q&A is a new series in Search Engine Journal where we pose a reader’s question to our blog readers, and ask you readers to contribute your thoughts on the matter in our […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Yahoo Search Updating Algorithm & Rankings

July 20th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

Yahoo Search is performing another update which will freshen up the result data and has resulted in extra crawling by Yahoo Slurp. The update will also bring a change to the Yahoo Search algorithm according to Priyank Garg of Yahoo Search.
Garg says that the update should be completed over the weekend and throughout the process […]

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Arnold Zafra

Ask.com Will Give Users Control of Privacy Information

July 20th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | No Comments

So while Google is reducing the retention of cookie information it gets from users who use its search engine, Ask.com is giving their users more control of those private information by letting them erase the information after they use the Ask search engines. In a press release issued by Ask.com today, it was announced that […]

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