Dave Naylor has decided to either close or sell Zippy.co.uk, his meta search engine and webmaster tool site. He’s started an unofficial auction on his blog with bidding starting at £1. I just bid £300 (about $600) on the search engine, which has a lot of nice backlinks, including a brand new one from this [...]

Yesterday Yahoo announced that it has closed its acquisition of Right Media, buying 80% of the company for $650 million. Yahoo had already owned the other 20% of Right Media. Right Media’s CEO, Michael Walrath, will now serve as Senior Vice President of Yahoo under Yahoo President Susan Decker. Yahoo announced their intentions to acquire [...]

Google will be coming out with a new meta tag for webmasters which identifies pages that have a time restriction or are time sensitive. The ‘unavailable_after’ meta tag will soon be recognized by Google according to Dan Crow, Director of Crawl Systems at Google and Jill Whalen of High Rankings. Google is coming out with [...]

Ever wonder what Google results are served in different countries in both organic and paid search? Have an International or geotargeted Google AdWords campaign running and can’t see the ads? RedFly Marketing has just released the Google Global Firefox Extension which allows easy searching of Google search results in different countries without having to append [...]

The upcoming presidential election has become a media battle, which the Internet has been playing a huge role in. Video distribution via YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and other online channels has been a dominating factor and a key component for presidential candidates. Case in point, we’ll look at two videos of candidate Hillary Clinton which [...]

The Featured Homepage Discussion today on WebmasterWorld is about Google notifying advertisers that it will no longer run ads for Ephedra or Ephedrine products. Google sent me an e-mail today addressing me as an AdWords Advertiser, though they sent it to the e-mail account that I use for managing AdSense, for whatever that’s worth. The [...]

Looks like Yahoo Search has an interesting loophole or lack of communication between the quality control at the Search division and the Search Submit sales department at Yahoo Search Marketing. According to a discussion in Search Engine Watch Forums, a member had his site banned by Yahoo Search and was denied reinclusion into their search [...]

Ask.com will house a new Eco-Friendly data center in Moses Lake, located in Eastern Washington, the search company announced today. Ask.com says that the server facility “will enable Ask.com to support its growing query volume and provide additional computing power for processor-intensive search services, including the new Ask3D”. Ask3D is the new Ask.com which merges [...]