Entries from December 2007

Loren Baker, Editor

New Year’s Resolutions from Search Engine Journal

December 31st, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 15 Comments

As I woke up this morning to greet the last day of 2007, I started thinking to myself the things I want to change for next year.
2007 was an interesting and successful year for me and for Search Engine Journal, as I grew as a person and Search Engine Journal grew as a search […]

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Mikhail Tuknov

Google Knol - Looking at Wikipedia’s Rival

December 31st, 2007 by Mikhail Tuknov | 6 Comments

There’s a new kid on the online block named Knol and even this early in the development stage, some people are already predicting that it could bring about yet another significant change to the way we share information on the Internet.
Knol is a new Web service being developed by Google that is meant to […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part II

December 30th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 4 Comments

This is the second part of my series about bugs and usability issues with various Google services. My previous post was about Google Picasa and Google Checkout and also included some general comments to Google Storage, which is a paid service provided by Google to increase the amount of data you can have in your […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I

December 30th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 5 Comments

It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs I found in the various Google services, free and paid ones as well. Some are fresh and triggered this post and some others are older where I already send a […]

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Arnold Zafra

Introducing SearchSalad: A Healthy Way to Search

December 29th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 5 Comments

Every once in awhile its good to see other metasearch engine come out of the web. While the top five major search engines battle it out, day in and day out in outclassing each other introducing new features here and there, answering privacy concerns of users, its a breather that something like SearchSalad came out […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

How Has Google AdSense Changed Your Life?

December 28th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 12 Comments

One of my long time blogging friends, Amit Agarwal, produced this video on how Google AdSense helped him become the first independent blogger in India, after the advertising system gave him the chance to move back home and become his own boss.
The video was selected by Google to become featured on the Google AdSense blog.

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Loren Baker, Editor

Vote for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007

December 28th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 67 Comments

The nominations for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007 have been compiled and we’re ready to have you vote for your favorite Search Blogs, Communities and other search related categories for 2007.
This year, we have 19 voting categories and had to condense a few due to the new blogs and themes which have become common […]

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Arun Radhakrishnan

Otavo : The Intention Search Engine

December 28th, 2007 by Arun Radhakrishnan | 1 Comment

Launched about a year and a half ago, Otavo is famous as the intention engine. Headquartered at Canada, the engine is loosely coupled around search results and result seekers. Founder Amanuel Tewold named it after “Organizing Text, Audio and Video” which is what Otavo seeks to do of course, but with a social twist.
The basic […]

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Arnold Zafra

Google Adds U.S. Elections Coverage on News Portal

December 28th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 2 Comments

Doug Caverly of WebProNews is reporting that Google News has added coverage of the U.S. 2008 elections. The Official Google News Blog has announcement about this new feature last week.
To provide direct access to extensive coverage of the candidates, the campaigns, and the issues, Google News has launched a new Elections section on our […]

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Julie Kent

Google Reader Sharing Feature Raises Privacy Concerns

December 27th, 2007 by Julie Kent | No Comments

Google announced a small change to Google Reader back on December 14 which seemed innocent enough, and in line with their goals of making all the world’s content searchable. Nevertheless, users of the service have been none too pleased with the change, citing serious privacy concerns and raising hell over the holidays.
The update to […]

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