Google Clarifies Chrome’s TOS
A few days after Google released Chrome for public consumption, some users pointed out section 11 of said TOS which would give Google the right...
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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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ANA Opposes Google-Yahoo Search Deal
Google and Yahoo’s search deal which will commence sometime in October has received yet again, another opposition. This time it’s from the Association of National...
German Security Office Warning: Chrome is Bad for Surfing the Internet
This could perhaps be the most stern warning ever made against Google Chrome since it was released for public use last Sept. 4. The warning...
Google Silently Rolls Out Picasa 3.0 and New Features of Picasa Web Album
While everybody is recovering from the massive assault of its Chrome browser, Google silently launched Picasa 3.0, a new interface of its two-year old Picasa Web...
Microsoft Eyes Greenfield Online and its Ciao site
If there’s any indication that all seems to be well in the Microsoft camp after the failed Yahoo acquisition deal, it’s when the company continues...
Is Google Moving Towards Becoming a Social Search Engine
If the series of tests that Google engineers are doing on their search portal is any indication of what may soon become of the Google...
Google Ad Manager Now Available to all Adsense Publishers
For several months now, some selected Adsense publishers have been beta testing Google’s hosted ad serving manager which as we said before is a good...
Google Search Suggest Now Out of Beta
Google is officially rolling its Search Suggest feature which has been in Google labs for quite some time now. Google Search Suggest works similarly with...
Google Adwords Quality Score Gets a Revamp
Google is introducing some improvements on the way it gives Ad units a corresponding Quality Score. This improvements are follow-ups to the most recent changes...
Google Gains Search Share in July on Yahoo’s Expense
As expected Google once again is dominating the July search share data from comScore. Google got 61.9% of the total core search rankings for July...
Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a New Interface
Among the webmaster tools available for us to tweak our sites settings for SEO purposes, Yahoo’s Site Explorer is the most underated. It is not...
Google Tops Nielsen’s July Search Share Rankings
There’s a couple of interesting things to note in the July search share ranking released by Nielsen-Online. But first, yes as expected Google once again...
Google Webmaster Central Makes 404 More Useful
Google Webmaster Central has added a new feature that aims to make website visitors’ encounter with the perennial problem and most dreaded 404 “Not found”...
Google Tops Customer Satisfaction on Search and Portal Category
Latest report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index published by the University of Michigan shows Google topping the list of search and portal companies customer...
Google Launches FreeTheAirwaves Initiative
We’ve seen and heard Google advocates for the freeing up of the white spectrum. And today it has officially launched its campaign to unite the...
Google Rolls Out Adsense for Feeds
Some blog sites are reporting that Google has added the Adsense for feeds option in their Adsense accounts’ Setup menu. Checking out my Adsense account...
Live Search Webmaster Center Revs Up Its Backlinks Checker
It looks like Microsoft is revving up its Live Search Webmaster Center to put it back in shape after releasing the tool out of beta....
Yahoo Releases its Fire Eagle Geo-Location Service
Yahoo has released its Fire Eagle service out-of-beta which means that anyone who has an existing Yahoo account can now take their locations to various...
Google Gets 70.77% Share of July US Searches
New data from Hitwise showed that Google is still leading the major search engine pack gaining 2% increase in July’s share of US searches from...
Google-Yahoo Release Some Details of Their Search Ad Deal
Those who have been watching closely while Google and Yahoo iron out some kinks in their search ad deal would be glad to know that...
Microsoft Webmaster Tools Get Out of Beta with New Features
It maybe a bit late for Microsoft, but still for those who have been trying to master a work around into getting their sites to...
Google Rolls Out Insights for Search Tool
Fans of Google Trends who are also Adwords advertisers and marketers would be glad to know about Google’s new tool which is very similar to...
Google’s DoubleClick to Serve Video Ads on Microsoft’s Silverlight 2
Google owns DoubleClick, a digital marketing technology and services provider while Silverlight 2 is a Microsoft product. What would you call an agreement sealed by...
Stockholders Re-elect All of Yahoo!’s Nominees to the Board of Directors
So, there you go, amidst some tongue-lashing and verbal beating more particulary thrown at Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s nominees to the Board of Directors, all of...
Windows Live Search Gets an Interactive Interface, Sort of
If you think the Live Search Cashback was a silly program to promote its search engine, Microsoft might be doing unusual again with the redesign...
YouTube Gets a $799 Million Lawsuit
It’s been awhile since we last heard of a media company banging on YouTube’s doors for some copyright infringement violations. For the past couple of...
Another Shareholder Picks on Yahoo over Failed Microsoft Deal
Adding to the list of Yahoo shareholders who are “furious” about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens who has to sell...
Cuil Takes on Google and 5 Simple Reasons Why it Will Fail
Here comes another challenger who wants to take on Google search and the way it indexes and organizes the web. From some ex-Googlers come, Cuil...
Google Buries Digg Buy-Out Deal
A few days ago rumors abound that Google is close to acquiring Digg for a whooping sum of $200 million. This even prompted Loren to...
Yahoo Highlights Breaking News on SERPs
Yahoo has introduced a minor change in the way it treats its search engine results page. This change has something to do with queries relating...