Search Engine Journal

Nielson/NetRatings has put out a report on the top 10 social sites and blog sites. I think there are some interesting findings such as Myspace still being on top of the social space. “MySpace.com continues to sit comfortably atop the rankings of top US social-networking sites with 58.6 million unique visitors in September, according to […]

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StumbleUpon finally made its SearchReviews feature official with some enhancements to boot. Launched sometime ago in major search engines, SearchReviews displays StumbleUpon star icons on search results if users have installed the StumbleUpon toolbar on their browsers. These star icons shows how popular a site is within the StumbleUpon community of users. It helps users […]

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Before you see Adsense in Facebook application sometime soon, you might as well like to enjoy first Google News as a new Facebook application was created to make it possible for you and your friends to share Google News feeds within your Facebook profiles. 
The Google News Application for Facebook was officially announced last Friday, and […]

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Would you like to see Google AdSense in Facebook Apps? Google has recently loosened its AdSense Terms of Service so publishers can run other contextual targeted ads along with Google AdSense, but the change may be because Google wants to run their ads in publishing vehicles alongside other advertisements (like the ads running within Facebook).
Steve […]

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The Munich based company, Proximic has been the result of 5 years of research into a search methodology that is a set apart from the keyword and the meaning based approach used by other prominent search engines. Termed as “pattern proximity”, the core algorithm applies pattern matching across sets of characters and matches the […]

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Linkbait was a popular topic last week at SMX Social Media in New York City. While social media experts understand link bait inside and out, it is still a new concept for many Internet marketers.
To be clear, Link bait is any sort of content that you create with the intentions of making it virally […]

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Purchasing blog reviews is becoming a part of the overall Internet marketing mix, albeit a controversial one. There are many reasons buying reviews on blogs can be beneficial; such as building brand awareness, social media marketing and when trying to get an honest review from a blogger, testing to see how bloggers or target demographics […]

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Interesting story on the Bloomberg wires which follows up on the Yahoo Search & Display Advertising deals sealed last week with WebMD and Forbes.com.
Microsoft’s Senior Vice President Brian McAndrews says that too much emphasis is being put search marketing & search advertising, and predicts that more advertisers will make the switch to online display […]

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Yahoo and Flickr have signed Picnik to power its online Flickr photo editing in what may be the most transparent “next company Yahoo will acquire” deal since Right Media.
Picnik uses Flash based photo editing tools which will be made available via a Flickr photo editing page, with Picnik being served through an iFrame writes […]

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Google users who accessed the search engine from the San Francisco area yesterday were served an all black version of the Google Homepage. No, Google is not caving in to the ‘Blackle‘ energy saving movement, which insists that by switching over to a black homepage Google will contribute to energy conservation around the world; instead […]

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