Microsoft Live Launches Online Event Management Service
Microsoft Live adds an event management service to its suite of free web services. Though Live Events is not new on the web anymore, the...
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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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Windows Live SkyDrive Soars Higher with New Features
Microsoft Windows online storage facility, Live SkyDrive (previously Live Drive) gets some useful improvements. Registered users of the Skydrive can now upload files of up...
Microsoft Live Search Product Results Gets Better
Microsoft continues to bring in more features to its Live Search tool. The most recent of these features has something to do with product searches,...
Google Scores 60% of Total August Searches Worldwide
Numbers from the comScore data on worldwide searches for August shows Google again getting the most number of searches, with 60% of the 61 million...
Blinkx Gives Another Option for Blog/Site Monetization
Following on the heels of Google’s recent announcement of the Adsense video units, video search engine Blinkx announced that it will also reward blog/site owners...
AskPoodle Simplies and Personalize Local Search
AskPoodle.com is a fairly new kid on the block of local search engines aiming to provide users with the best result for the most specific...
Google Adsense Rolls Out Video Units
Google Adsense has launched video units, a new advertising unit that can be embedded on Adsense publishers’ sites/blogs. These video units are relevant video contents...
IBM and Google Team Up to Develop Cloud Computing in Universities
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google and IBM are spending between $20-$25 million on hardware, software and services on various college campuses for the...
AvotMedia: Mobile Video Search’s New Playmate
AvotMedia is the mobile web’s latest video solution provider promising major mobile video functions that enhance everyone’s mobile video viewing experience; searching, watching and myFavs,...
Video Search Blinkx Meets Meta-Search Engine Ixquick
Powerful meta-search engine Ixquick announced today that it has partnered with top video search engine blinkx. Under the agreement agreed upon by both companies, Ixquick...
Microsoft Unveils HealthVault, Online Health Info Storage
Looks like Microsoft has taken one step ahead of Google this time, when it officially unveiled the company’s latest online offering, the Microsoft HealthVault. The...
Google Goes Shopping Again, Buys Zingku
The Google Operating Systems Blog got the scoop today that Google has acquired mobile social networking site, Zingku. Zingku’s site has a small note informing...
Google Book Search Gets New Features
Browsing and searching for books at Google Book Search becomes even more better with the introduction of a few nifty features aimed at organizing and...
Google Adds Video Email Alerts
With videos becoming more popular as a source of information and entertainment, it becomes very hard to keep track of new videos that get uploaded...
AOL Gears Up for the Mobile Web, Again
AOL wants to reclaim its lost glory for being one of the major players in the wireless industry. The BusinessWeek is reporting the AOL is...
Microsoft to Serve Local Video Ads on Online Video Network
Microsoft announces that it will be delivering video ads solution to the Online Video Networks of the Associated Press. Using its MSN Video product, Microsoft...
Google Tops All US Searches for August
Here’s another round of statistical analysis on the search market for August. Hitwise just released the US search market data for August. The Hitwise numbers...
Digg Rolls Out New User Profiles
Digg rolled out a new feature for its user profiles which is clinging towards transforming the social news site into a social networking site. Think...
After Adsense for Mobile, Here Comes Google Gadget Ads
After bringing Adsense units into the mobile web, Google Adwords is now launching a new interactive ad format for its Adwords advertisers, this time via...
Google Reminds Advertisers of Landing Page Quality
Google Adwords is reminding its advertisers about the landing page quality guidelines. The guidelines stressed the importance of directing users to good quality landing pages...
Google Adsense Goes to the Mobile Web
Google announces the availability of Adsense to mobile website content. Adsense for mobile will give advertisers more read for their ad campaigns and for publishers...
Google Presently Launches : Google’s Online Collaborative Apps is Now Complete
The much awaited application that would complete Google’s online collaborative suite is finally here as Google has launched Google presentation, an online tool for creating,...
Powerset Natural Language Search Gears up for the Mainstream
Powerset is gearing for major launch sooner than Google, Yahoo and MSN live search can think of. Backing on a natural search language technology and...
Should You Rush into BlogRush?
The buzz about BlogRush has rushed into the blogging world. Some bloggers joined the craze, immediately signed up and installed the Blogrush widget into their...
Yahoo to Launch HackDays’ MapMixer
Yahoo is launching a new feature of its Local Maps which lets users interpolate a non-Yahoo maps into an existing Yahoo Maps to come out...
Yahoo to Serve Ads on Bebo
Yahoo and Bebo, UK’s number one social networking site, reached an advertising agreement that would let Yahoo serve advertisements on Bebo’s sites in both UK...
Microsoft Dominates Domain Ratings, Google Tops Brand Ratings
Nielsen/Netratings released its Topline U.S. Data for August 2007 covering Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. Before going into the findings of the...
Yahoo Acquires BlueLithium Ad Network
Yahoo acquires BlueLithium, U.S. fifth and U.K.’s second largest advertising network with 145 million unique visitors every month. The acquisition deal was closed with an...
Google Declares Victory Over Trademark Lawsuit
The long running trial of a lawsuit filed by the American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. against Google finally came to an end with both...
Hulu.com : Fox and NBC’s Answer to YouTube
After months of speculation, News Corp. and NBC’s online video partnership has surfaced to the face of the web. Simply named Hulu, the online video...