The End is Here: Yahoo Closes Geocities

This past summer I wrote about how Yahoo was going to finally shut down Geocities this fall.  That day is finally here, and the internet will never be the same.  Life will go on, of course, but early web adopters will no longer be able to amuse themselves by looking back at their earliest web creations. After 15 years (it was launched in 1994), GeoCities had long been irrelevant and … [Read more...]

This past summer I wrote about how Yahoo was going to finally shut down Geocities this fall.  That day is finally here, and the internet will never be the same.  Life will go on, of course, but early web adopters will no longer be able to amuse themselves by looking back at their earliest web [...]

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The Data Liberation Front Frees Your Google Content

Has Google taken over your life?  Have you eagerly signed up for every new Google service as they’ve been announced and now have tons of online data just “stuck” on their servers?  Would you like to ditch Blogger for WordPress, but think it’s impossible to move all your content?  If giving up Google, either entirely [...]

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7 Days of Search and Social; more news than you can handle!

Hello my weary web warriors and welcome to another week of news for the search obsessed. It was an interesting week that had some big announcements, app updates, more Super Heroes and the usual collection of gratuitous goodiness that is the world of search. I hope things are going well for you…. Let’s get on [...]

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Gazopa Similar Image Search Enters Open Beta

Imagine conducting an image search whereby the search engine uses features from an image to retrieve similar images. If you thought to yourself “That’s already something Google offers”, you’d be right. However, they aren’t the only ones tinkering with similar image search technology. Last year during TechCrunch 50, Gazopa launched in private beta, meaning 99% [...]

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3+ Awesome Ways to Make Sense of FireFox Tabs

If you are an active Internet user (which I bet you are), you probably always have numerous open tabs in your FireFox at the same time. Trying to make sense of them and find the one you need often takes time and frustrates. So in this SEO productivity post I am sharing a few tips [...]

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Google Voice Now Lets You Use Your Existing Number

If the reason why you won’t use Google Voice is because you need to a new number to use it’s features, that changes right now. Google is now allowing users to get Google Voice either with a new Google number or with their existing number.

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Google Custom Search Turns 3, Rolls Out 3 New Features

With it its 3 years of existence, Google Custom Search now has more than a million users serving many tens of millions of search queries daily. Google  Custom Search is also now among the top two widgets available online, used by not only small business entities but some big content network as well. And to [...]

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Google Rolls Out Social Option in Search Results

Google has just rolled out a new experiment in Google Labs that brings a new option in search results -Social. This new Social results option brings in relevant blog posts and items that were posted by your friends and contacts.

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October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments | Read Story

4 Reasons Why Including Social Networking Results is Smart

Just when you think that everything that could be done to ramp up a search engine’s search capabilities has already been done, they come up with another idea.  Let’s face it, in some cases the innovations are dumb and do nothing more for the company than get them another press release and a few hundred [...]

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Track Keywords & Brand Names in Comments: BackType Alerts

Backtype, the web comment tracking service (where you’d better register to claim your comments and report fake comments) has a really nice feature that allows to monitor any keyword in a comment: Comment Alerts. Basically, it sends you an email alert listing the comments where your phrase has been mentioned. Here’s how it can be [...]

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