In my previous post on Search Engine Journal, I discussed how blogging was ideal for real estate marketing, boosting natural SEO and lead generation opportunities. Yet, real estate agents have a hard time starting a blog, even when shown evidence that showing up on Google’s top pages is tantamount to being the next generation full [...]

In an effort to boost profits, Myspace is considering allowing members post ads on their profiles and conduct transactions with one another. Besides profiting from Google Adsense which was a $900 million deal, Myspace also generates profits from digital music sales which hit $550 million turning into a $10 million dollar profit according to CNN.

Google Webmaster Central has announced that it is now supporting the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) movement which lets site owners secure domains which are not limited to the basic letters of the English Alphabet, numbers 0-9 or hyphens. The IDNA can support domains in Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and other languages which do not [...]

GigaBlast, the search engine has an interesting history. Matt Wells wrote the code for GigaBlast from scratch in C++ after quitting InfoSeek. Thus for a long while GigaBlast was managed by Matt alone and also quoted to have been running on “Eight Desktop PC’s” (more on the rants and raves here) while indexing billions of [...]

CNN.com and Google had reached an advertising agreement today where Google’s Adsense program will provide contextually relevant ads alongside CNN content. Under the said agreement Google will have the exclusive rights to the provision of auction-based text advertisements on CNN.com. CNN.com senior vice president and general manager  David Payne has this to say regarding the [...]

Acer computers announced today its plans to acquire Gateway for $710 million which would establish the company as the third largest computer vendor in the world. After the deal, the companies will form a multi-branded firm which ships 20 million PC’s a year. One question is, which search company will be the Acer partner of [...]