Why Is Yahoo Gaining Search Share? Three Reasons

According to a Bloomberg article covering comScore numbers (cough cough), Yahoo has gained search share over the last month while Microsoft has dropped a bit. Yahoo now has a 20.2% search market share, up from 19.6%, with Microsoft dropping to 8.5%, down from 8.9%. Google also showed a small dip, dropping one tenth of a percentage point down to 62.9% from 63%. Why exactly, given Yahoo's troubles … [Read more...]

According to a Bloomberg article covering comScore numbers (cough cough), Yahoo has gained search share over the last month while Microsoft has dropped a bit. Yahoo now has a 20.2% search market share, up from 19.6%, with Microsoft dropping to 8.5%, down from 8.9%. Google also showed a small dip, dropping one tenth of a [...]

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PeopleJar – a New Concept of Social Connecting

While social networking is nothing new today: starting from the early age of Myspace people establish and maintain connections online. A new people search service PeopleJar offers a new (somewhat innovative) focus on social connecting versus social networking. The whole site is built with “Search and Be Found” concept in mind: from the robust search [...]

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Google Settles Score with Book Publishers and Authors

It took Google four years to settle a long-standing copyright lawsuit filed against its Book Search Project by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. Since its inception four years ago, Google stuggled to make a headway with the project, skipping most of the in-copyright books and published materials although not totally abandoning [...]

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Gmail Tests Calendar and Doc Gadgets

If Loren’s “not so good” experience with Gmail didn’t scare you away from using Gmail and continues to do so until now, you’ll be glad to know the Gmail Labs has just added to new features into its experiment. Gmail Labs was able to make the Calendar and Docs gadgets easily accesible since you can [...]

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5 Tools for On-page Image Usage Analysis

Image optimization is both vital for “search engine friendliness” and web accessibility. Let’s look at a few top tools that can help you analyze both the aspects of image proper usage: Juicy Studio Image Analyser is a handy online tool that will look at each image on a given page and evaluate the following parameters: [...]

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Search & Social Launches X-Browser SEO Tool

Search & Social announced the launch of the X-Browser SEO Tool last night. Co-Founder of Search & Social Jordan Kasteler and myself are very excited about this tool. X-Browser SEO Tool is a bookmarklet that can be utilized in either Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera, on both Windows and Mac operating systems, to find [...]

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Viewzi : Different Ways to View Your Search

There is a simple belief that sums up the effort behind viewzi, a search engine that takes many different ‘viewpoints’ on search (literally). A standard display of results does not suit every taste. So, provide them with different layouts on a slick interface specific to content or source. The different views available at Viewzi include: [...]

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Lisa Barone is Blogging Again at WeBuildPages.com Blog

We’ve all missed The Lisa’s blogging ever since she made her move back to the East Coast, but now our fix for Lisa Barone’s incredible conference coverage and wrap ups can be filled as she is now blogging at the brand spanking new WeBuildPages.com blog. One of Lisa’s first posts is the conference coverage of [...]

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Top Online Plagiarism Checkers – Protect Your Content

Plagiarism is an essential Internet problem hurting both your feelings and your site rankings. While both Google and webmasters are figuring out how to combat it, let’s have a look at web-based plagiarism checkers to help you find the thieves: Data source Registration Reliability Usability Copyscape.com Google’s Web APIs No (for free version) 90% high [...]

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Rhea Drysdale of WeBuildPages.com as She-Ra at ScarySEO

The ScarySEO mini-conference which was planned by Search and Social to be a somewhat Halloween themed search marketing event was held over the weekend at the wonderful Deerfield Beach Hilton, which is located near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. During her presentation on Online Reputation Management, Rhea Drysdale of WebBuildPages.com, was the only presenter who fulfilled their [...]

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