Microsoft is now soliciting beta testers for its AdCenter Desktop application. Launched sometime in June the Microsoft AdCenter Desktop enables advertisers and agencies to manage their AdCenter accounts from a desktop application. They can then upload what they have done on their PCs to their AdCenter account online.

An interesting discussion over at SearchEngineWatch Forum covers the way(s) of treating out-of-stock product pages that cannot be of any use to a visitor but still carry a lot of weight (in the form of inlinks, rankings and traffic). So what can be done to make them worthwhile for a human visitor and at the [...]

Finally Microsoft issued a formal statement regarding the Google-Yahoo search ad deal. Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp. senior vice president and general counsel, questioned the legality of the deal before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommitte on Antitrust and the House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force. Mr. Smith also emphasized on the damage that the said deal [...]

Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that their proposal last Friday, which Yahoo rejected on Saturday, did not include a change of Yahoo governance. Interestingly, Microsoft also said that their proposal was “solicited” by Yahoo’s Roy Bostock due to Carl Icahn’s attempts to engage Microsoft and Yahoo on a search transaction that will be favorable to [...]

One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. The points behind this question include: well-established sites have old domain names, so by reverse logics, an old domain should mean that the site is well established; spammers register and drop domains quickly, thus [...]

Sometime in 2005, Google has launched the Code Search, a vertical search property that indexes and parses published source code on the web giving users (more particularly, code developers and programmers) a flexible search engine to find what source codes are already available.

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Robots.txt has become a widely used method of controlling your site crawling. Thus it has become one of the first things I check when diagnosing on-site issues. While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics, some things still cause misunderstandings

Last year tech sites were abuzz with rumors of the mythical Gphone – a mobile phone created by Google. Nothing came of it, and Google eventually squashed the rumors by instead announcing their involvement in the Open Handset Alliance and Android, their open-source mobile phone operating system. But now, comments made by the Google co-founders [...]