The latest version of the Google Toolbar replaces the custom 404 “Page Not Found” on the website you’re at with a Google version, which has many webmasters concerned that this change may direct users away from the website they’re browsing. Conveniently, Google’s 404 page contains a Google search box, and if a user decides to [...]

Yesterday Eric brought up the NoFollow attribute and his theory about it setting off red flags at search engines for them to look deeper into a site’s SEO practices, theory being if someone is savvy enough to use NoFollow to harness the flow of linkjuice through their site by ‘nofollowing’ links to internal pages, what [...]

The top internet players’ battle for supremacy moves on and towards the mobile industry as the Mobile World Congress 2008 kicks off in Barcelona, Spain. While Google has reached a mobile search agreement with Nokia and Microsoft announcing a buyout deal for mobile service provider Danger, Inc., Yahoo is not to be outdone just like [...]

What would you get if you combined two giant companies in their respective industries? Better services for customers and better income for both companies. I guess this must be what Google and Nokia folks are thinking right now, when both companies reached a deal whereby Google search will be integrated into Nokia’s mobile handsets. At [...]

Until this post, I have not shared my view on the “nofollow” attribute. It is my belief that using the nofollow with the purpose of controlling the flow of links or link juice is a gigantic red flag in the eyes of the engines. Who Knows About nofollow? Let’s start here with the audience who [...]

Pixsy, a media search platform that was once named in the Top 50 coolest websites of 2006 by Time magazine, uses innovative visually focussed search processes to extract images from RSS feeds and blogs so that contextually relevant up to date pictures obtained. The engine has been focussed on a licensing model where web sites [...]

Fresh from a buyout rejection bid from Yahoo, Microsoft enters into another buyout agreement. This time around, Microsoft wants to beef up its mobile services by entering into an agreement to acquire mobile software-as-a-service company, Danger, Inc. Danger is a SaaS software that provides mobile operators with an integrated end-to-end solution to  deliver mobile data [...]

And so as expected, Yahoo issued an announcement rejecting Microsoft’s undervalued bid and even contemplated on renewing merger talks with AOL. Pundits are saying that it was Yahoo’s way of getting out of Microsoft’s acquisition intent, but I would like to think it was its way of slowly getting into Google’s lair. How did Microsoft [...]