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.
Yahoo continues its regional expansion program with several regional initiatives aimed at establishing its mobile presence in various Asian countries. These initiatives include search partnership...
Google and web hosting provider GoDaddy has just reached an agreement on integrating Google’s Webmaster Tools on Godaddy customer’s accounts. GoDaddy is offering its millions...
Don’t look now, but it seems Microsoft is off to something with its announcement of intention to buy Musiwave, a mobile music entertainment service company....
Yahoo’s take on open source is totally different from what Google previously launched. Instead of focusing on an opensocial movement focused on the alliance of...
AOL Goes on Early Christmas Shopping, Buys Yedda For AOL, Christmas shopping starts as early as November. Exactly six days after acquiring Quigo, an advertising...
Google Adwords has tweaked its site targeting feature a bit to allow advertiser to run their campaigns not only on the main pages of individual...
Adding to today’s announcement of MySpace SelfServe Ads and AOL’s acquisition of Quigo, Facebook just released the news about its much anticipated and overly hyped...
Finally, the days of generating new Adsense and then getting inside blog/site’s code whenever you want to change something in your Adsense units, is over....
Sometime in July, MySpace rolled out a new sitewide advertising program called HyperTargeting by MySpace. From the words of Michael Barrett, Chief Revenue Officer for...
Yahoo’s social network for college graduates called Kickstart is going live today. What’s Kickstart? Here’s the official statement from the Yahoo Kickstart site: Yahoo! Kickstart...
The much talked about OpenSocial APIs which Google is spearheading is officially announced jointly by Google and MySpace. Touted as collaborative tool that would spark...
Semantic search engine Hakia has added a social component to its meaning-based search engine called Meet Others. The idea behind Meet Others is to connect...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg must be laughing right now as he reads the latest buzz on the web about OpenSocial, a group of “other” social networks headed...
AOL takes a giant step towards its expansion goal with the launch of a local language version of its web search portal in India. Coming...
Video search engine Truveo which was founded sometime in 2004 and was acquired by AOL in 2006, is expanding its operations with the launch of...
Microsoft’s Pay-Per-Click advertising program, adCenter introduced three new features to aid advertisers better manage their ad placements on Microsoft’s search advertising program.
For awhile I thought AdBrite had already folded up until I read from News.com that it is opening advertising opportunities for Facebook Apps developer and...
Microsoft is really serious on gaining a good ground in the web search arena. New features after new features are being slowly carried out by...
For those who have stopped using Yahoo Messenger for instant messaging purpose and have shifted to GTalk this post may not interest you. But for...
Maybe Microsoft Live Search ought to rename its search engine into “Smart Live Search”. After introducing auto-spell Correction and search stemming, Live Search is introducing...
Seems like there’s no stopping Microsoft Live Search from improving on its search features. After last week’s announcement on the final round of improvements on...
Google and NielsenMedia are set to announce a multi-year agreement which will give Google access to NielsenMedia’s TV demographics data. Google will be using these...
StumbleUpon finally made its SearchReviews feature official with some enhancements to boot. Launched sometime ago in major search engines, SearchReviews displays StumbleUpon star icons on...
Before you see Adsense in Facebook application sometime soon, you might as well like to enjoy first Google News as a new Facebook application was...
Google’s Webmaster Tools’ top search queries just got better with the expansion of its time coverage, top query percentage and search data upload via CSV...
Google announced three new features of its web analytics service, site search reporting, event tracking and an updated version of the almost forgotten Urchin software....
Microsoft releases the final updates of its Live Search service, for this period and also announces the availability of Live Search 411 service, a toll...
In response to clamor for a tighter policy on video piracy proliferating on its video portal, YouTube has launched its video identification tool. The video...
Popular video search engine Blinkx seems to be on a roll. After signing a deal with meta search engine Ixquick last week, it now has...
You might be noticing a decrease in your Adsense referral earnings lately, well that’s because Google Adsense has placed a restriction on referral earnings while...
