Ask.com was/is one of the most resourceful and innovative search engines on the market and has claimed a relatively significant chunk of online search market. Its Teoma technology (called ExpertRank later) uses subject specific popularity to rank the results and the Ask.com team has integrated authority content driven Smart Answers and blended search into their [...]

AOL has pulled off a major move in acquiring the social network Bebo for $850 million in cash from under the noses of Yahoo and other companies which had been rumored to be after the social community. Bebo is based out of the UK, San Francisco and Texas and has become the social network of [...]

I just cannot get enough of these search marketing rap videos from Mo Serious at Pop Labs. They’re smart, witty and entertaining … very clever and relevant lyrics and excellent hip hop style. I linked to the Link Building Rap in an earlier post, and here are the videos for the Paid Search Rap, Social [...]

Today has been a big linking day, between two posts here at Search Engine Journal on link building and blog comment links leading to some intense discussions. I was running down the Google blended search results for the term “link building” and came across this video which capped of the perfect day, it’s the Link [...]

Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior vice president of global sales & business development, has made a generous $3 million donation to his alma mater, San Jose State University’s College of Engineering.  His gift will establish an endowed chair to support faculty teaching in multidisciplinary programs at the college. In Forbes recent list of worldwide billionaires, Kordestani [...]

This week, Google announced that it will be holding a developers event in May that will cover  a variety of topics as related to “Web 2.0″ application development.  The event, known as “Google I/O” will span two days on May 28-29, 2008, and will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Google engineers [...]