Search Engine Journal

Microsoft is now following in the successful footsteps of Google Webmaster Central & Yahoo Site Explorer with the limited beta testing of a new Live Search Webmaster Portal.
The new portal will feature SEO oriented tools (like possibly the Xenu Link Sleuth style LiveSearch link checker and other SEO tools Microsoft acquired from aQuantive), webmaster […]

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As you may know, Google AdWords offers two main types of payment options: Pre-Pay and Post-Pay. There are some pros and cons to each method, it’s important to select the right payment option from account inception as it cannot be switched later. For instance, a pre-pay account cannot later be changed to a post-pay account.
While […]

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Finally, after more than a year of being in beta stage, NY Times opens the doors of its start page personalization portal, My Times to the public. My Times is a web portal that lets NYT readers organize not only NYT articles but articles from all over the internet.
My Times is like your other social […]

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Despite establishing itself as a contender into the social networking arena, Facebook up to know is still uncertain on how to put in more revenues into its bank accounts. Facebook has been struggling on the financial side especially since owner, Mark Zuckerberg has consistently turned down buyout proposal from several giant companies. […]

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Nokia and Microsoft are teaming up to bring the Windows  Live Suite into several Nokia mobile handsets in the S60 series. Under the partnership, Microsoft Live applications such as Spaces, Hotmail, Messenger, Contacts and web browsing will be accessible on various Nokia handsets such as N73, N80, N95, N76, and the N93i.
The application can be […]

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Accoona, the AI powered search engine has not received much popularity. The engine touts a powerful AI based algorithm that uses techniques that go beyond keyword search to retrieve relevant results. With a Chinese company having majority stake in the engine, it has received certain negative publicity.
The review from WebProNews suggests that there are some […]

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Yahoo has made some changes to its index and crawler behavior with some updates to their ranking algorithm and crawler frequency.
Priyank Garg posts on the Yahoo Search Blog :
We’re reducing our crawling machines by a significant amount with this update, so you might have observed a significant reduction in crawl load from us along with […]

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Google is extending the scope of its highly successful Google Earth satellite mapping technology into space with the launch of Google Sky. Google Sky, which is embedded into newes version of Google Earth. Sky provides Google Earth users a facility to explore the stars and galaxies sans the use of a telescope.
Google Sky delivers a […]

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When it comes time to run your marketing more efficiently, tuning up your paid search efforts is paramount. To help get you started, here are ten tips that I have found to be helpful, in no particular order…
Tip #1 — Update Your Keywords
In every market, current events will shift how people are searching for […]

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It has been some time since my last overview of the latest “What happened in China”. I just blame it on buying an apartment in Shanghai:).
There has happened a lot and I will highlight the most significant. Baidu is yet again offering more services, Google revives Answers, Yahoo resumes real name service and Alibaba starts […]

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