Search Engine Journal

Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that accrue from the imperfection of search engines. Firstly, there is this new skill that one gets to hone in identifying and getting to the answers one seeks from a whole […]

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Google’s Street View is growing substantially with 13 new cities, both large and small, from around the United States, and Yellowstone National Park!
The new areas are :

Albuquerque, NM
Anchorage, AK
Austin, TX
Cleveland, OH
Fairbanks, AK
Little Rock, AR
Madison, WI
Nashville, TN
Rockford, IL
Richmond, VA
Spokane, WA
St. Petersburg, FL
Tampa, FL
Yosemite National […]

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Should you opt for the new AdSense for Domains opt out feature, quietly launched with the Google AdWords upgraded Site Exclusion tool?
(Author’s Note: This is a long overdue followup to Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?)
The site exclusion tool applies to the content network. However, notice what happens if you click on […]

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The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites and social networks that make up what we call the new Web or Web 2.0, did not go unnoticed by the big business out there.
The possibilities to do something good […]

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Like we all know, blogging is not only (or even not at all) about a blogger talking to his readers; it is primarily about communicating with the blog audience. This interaction is much more active if you keep your readers updated on your activities outside your blog: what are you interested in? what do you […]

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Diigo is perhaps one of the web’s premier research tools - this is widely accepted. Whether Web 2.0 actually ever existed is irrelevant, but the innovation brought to us these last two years is undeniable. The big question for me has been:
“Does the innovation actually do anything for us?” I think I have tested […]

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For the second month in a row, comScore says that Google AdWords spending is slowing down and its advertising growth is low, especially compared to a year ago.
Clicks on Google’s sponsored links — four-line ads that mostly run alongside search results — rose 3 percent to 515 million in February from a year […]

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Google in Israel has issued a black out for the day; not shutting down but serving a black screen with white letters instead of an all white screen with black letters. The results pages however, are still in classic Google white.

The Google Israel blackout is in honor of Earth Hour, a global movement to […]

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YouTube has just launched its new Insight analytics tools. Available for YouTube users, partners and advertisers, YouTube Insight displays statistical figures about videos uploaded into YouTube. Just think of it as the Google Analytics of Video.
YouTube Insight gives users two categories of video usage data – page views and popularity. Page views for videos can […]

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I don’t know if the Google Docs developers are intentionally doing it or is it really the way to develop Google Docs into a full-blown web based desktop applciation? Google Operating System has spotted  new changes in the Google Docs interface that would somehow  remind you of the old Microsoft Word 2003 interface.
More particularly, […]

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