Twitter Wants to Be A Discovery Engine
A couple of weeks ago Twitter has began rolling out some enhancements which consisted of an integrated search box and a Twitter zeitgeist sort of...
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Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
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Google to Axe AdSense for Video Units by End of April
Just over a year since it implemented AdSense for Video, Google announced that it will soon be stopping the said AdSense program by the end...
Google Says Goodbye to 200 Googlers
Despite being an almighty company, Google was not spared by the on-going economic crisis. And no matter how much Google tries to explain that the...
Live Search Rolls Out Instant and Active Answers
Live Search is rolling out to new features, or should I say two new way of giving users answers to the information that they are...
Google Enhances Search Results with Longer Snippets and Better Related Searches
Google is rolling out two enhancements to its search results pages. One is that search results are now given longer snippets and the other is...
Google Image Search Lets You Filter Results with Specific Color
The Google Operating Systems Blog is running a post on a little tweak to Google Image Search that lets you filter your results based on...
Craigslist More Popular Than MySpace : Sign of Economy Says Hitwise
Hitwise is running a report on the top search term in the United States for the week ending March 14, 2009, and interestingly the data...
Gmail Labs Rolls Out “Undo Send”
Just right after rolling out the email preview feature for YouTube videos, Flickr and Picasa photos and Yelp reviews, the Gmail Labs is introducing a...
Adobe Launches SEO Technology Center for RIAs
Sometime last year, we reported that Adobe has cooperated with both Google and Yahoo to make Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and active web contents searchable...
Yahoo Rolls Out New Ad Targeting Features
Yahoo’s search marketing arm is spicing up their service with the roll out of three new ad targeting features with the hopes giving its partner...
Kevin Rose Launches WeFollow Twitter Directory
Digg’s Kevin Rose has just launched a Twitter directory called WeFollow (smart branding if I may say so). WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users...
GrandCentral to Become Google’s Voice
By now, you’ve probably read about today’s biggest news – Google Voice, or what was previously known as GrandCentral which was acquired by Google in...
Privacy Groups Call Google’s Interest-Based Ads a Disaster
It didn’t take two online privacy groups that long to attack Google’s recent announced interest-based advertising. Electronic Privacy Information and Center for Digital Democracy have...
Gradual Roll Out of the New Facebook Home Page Starts
Update: I just checked out my Facebook profile and it’s now showing the new home page. My initial reaction is that the Highlights on the...
Google Launches Interest-Based Ads
Aiming to serve more relevant and useful ads to users, Google is testing out “interest-based” ads. This new ad serving technique will be initially tested...
Microsoft Still Open to Talks with Yahoo
Just when we all thought that the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal has already been put to rest, here comes Microsoft still hoping that previously failed talks...
Google Launches TipJar, a Yahoo Answer-Like Money Saving Tips Site
As a little way of helping people during these trying times, Google has launched the TipJar Site, a site listing money-saving tips submitted by, well...
Google Health Goes More Social with Sharing Feature
For those who have trusted Google enough with their health records and started using Google Health, here’s a new feature that you would certainly find...
Google Adsense Rolls Out Expandable Ads
Desperate times need desperate measures. Even a big time program such as Google Adsense suffers from the economic crunch that everyone is feeling right now....
Yahoo Teams Up with JS-Kit to Enhance Yahoo! Updates
With Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect struggling it out in the data portability niche, we certainly have one room for another player – and...
Oodle Builds a New Facebook Marketplace
After almost two years of existence, Facebook Marketplace is finally getting a much needed boost by way of Oodle, an online classifieds company which has...
Twitter Should Take Schmidt’s Critique Positively
After posting their first Tweet a couple of days ago, it is surprising that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt would have to hit Twitter’s lack of...
Microsoft Gives an Official Screenshot of the New Live Search
Finally, the Microsoft Live Search Team has officially issued a statement regarding the press coverage that their new Live Search interface is getting. While everyone...
Yahoo Opens Flickr Video Uploads to All
Yes folks, aside from YouTube and Google Video, there is also such as thing as Flickr Video. And for quite some time now, it has...
The Yahoo Management Shake Up Starts
Here you go, the much anticipated management re-structure which Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz was rumored to implement. Posting on Yodel Anecdotal, Ms. Bartz has...
Google AdWords Now On Google News
If you’re from the U.S. and you use Google News stream to get your daily news fix. More particularly if you’re using Google News’ search...
The Future of Search for Microsoft Live Search
At the TechFest 2009 happening in Microsoft’s Redmond office, Microsoft researchers will be showing off their latest projects and some of which pertains to some...
Google Toolbar 6 Rolls Out QSB and New Tab Page Feature
Google has rolled out two new features of its Google Toolbar for the IE browser. These include the Quick Search Box and New Tab Page....
Yahoo to Beef Up Online Ad Targeting
WSJ is reporting that Yahoo is set to unveil a new online ad targeting program that aims to help online marketers get better gains from...
iPhone GMail App Offers Offline GMail
Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra has demonstrated a new Gmail application that will run on iPhone, Google Android phone and other mobile platforms. The...