Google News is Cooking Up Something, it Better Be Good
The Google News Blog is reporting that something new is about to come up with Google News. The Google News Team is testing something and...
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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’s Four Web Serving Techniques for Webmasters
The Google Webmaster Central Blog is discussing a pretty advanced topic on webserving techniques. For the novice webmasters, this topic may be a bit on...
Google Ad for “MySpace Advertising” Shows Facebook Ads Results
Nothing fancy here really. Just a little observation which I find rather amusing. While I was trying to Google the keywords – “myspace advertising”, I...
IAC’s Citysearch Faces Click Fraud Lawsuit
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by law firm alleged that IAC’s directory site Citysearch has been defrauding its advertising customers by encouraging...
Google Intros Third Party Ad Serving on Content Network
Beginning today, Google content network will now accept display ads served from third-party vendors as per request of AdWords advertisers who are using third parties...
Microsoft Wants to Snag the Google-Yahoo Advertising Deal?
While Yahoo is facing a proxy battle against Icahn, here comes Microsoft trying to save the day for Yahoo. It issued a rather vague statement...
Yahoo is Testing Glue Page Search Result in Yahoo! India
Yahoo has just launched its search portal in India a couple of days ago. And to coincide with the launch, it is being reported that...
Yahoo and McAfee Offer a Safer Way to Search with SearchScan
Yahoo! Search has teamed up with McAfee to bring a safer way of doing search at Yahoo with a new security feature called, SearchScan. SearcScan...
Google Reader Gets More Social with New Sharing Features, and we love it
Google Reader has just rolled out some new features, which obviously is geared towards making Google’s RSS aggregator more social. So, here’s a run down...
Yahoo’s Take on the Open Web, A Search Monkey
Actually, I would have made the title of this post into something like, “Yahoo calls the people for help to save itself from getting eaten...
Google Sued for Fraudalent Ads Charging?
A federal class action lawsuit is being filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Carolina in San Jose, against...
Yahoo successfully tested Google ads on search results
It looks like Yahoo is all set to outsource its web search advertising to Google as announced last week. Citing Wall Street Journal, Reuters is...
Salesforce ties up with Google
As expected, Salesforce and Google have officially announced that they have linked to deliver an integrated solution for their Salesforce customers who are also users...
Yahoo Launches Shine, Site for and by Women
Yahoo has just launched a new site that goes by the moniker “Shine”. It a new site by and for women. Everything you’d always wanted...
Google Docs Becoming Web Version of Microsoft Word 2003
I don’t know if the Google Docs developers are intentionally doing it or is it really the way to develop Google Docs into a full-blown...
Mail Trends is a useful Gmail Trending Tool, if only it was easier to use
Mail Trends is a Phyton-based tool that lets you generate a visual representation of various statistics of your Gmail accounts. The code was developed by...
Yahoo Turns to Radio Ads to Attract Search Engine Users
Is the number radio-listening population in the U.S. that significant for Yahoo to consider running (or airing) ads on radio programs to promote its search...
Top Search Based Facebook Apps to Help You Find Anything
The intermixing of search and Facebook is minimal in terms of web search, as when I was browsing through the list of search oriented Facebook...
Google launches open source code browser
The Google Open Source blog is announcing about the new source code browser for Google code’s project hosting feature. The browser features easier navigation through...
Google to Launch Ad Manager Service
Google is launching a new service that aims to help web publishers, specifically those with small-to-medium size sales force, manage their direct ads serving. Ad...
Google Now Powering Opera Mini Mobile Search
Users of Opera Mini as the default browser of their mobile phones will be surprised to find out by March 1 that the mobile phone...
Yahoo Follows the Path of Digg and Others, Launches Yahoo! Buzz!
Yahoo finally opens up its much anticipated Digg-like content portal, Yahoo! Buzz. Yahoo! Buzz is an extension of Yahoo.com and is similar to top social...
Yahoo’s Yang Finally Breaks Silence on the Microsoft Takeover
It might really be difficult to be at the helm of a giant web company that is being touted for takeover by another giant company....
Google Search Results Page Will Display Video Ads Soon
Google introduced video ads in YouTube a couple of months ago. Its implementation in the YouTube community has been pretty quite since it was launched....
Google Search Goes to Millions of Nokia Handsets
What would you get if you combined two giant companies in their respective industries? Better services for customers and better income for both companies. I...
Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting Limit Becomes Unlimited
Who says Yahoo is on the brink of collapse and badly needs a saviour? Well, I don’t think financial woes is hitting Yahoo right now,...
Create Forms in Google Docs Spreadsheet
Google Docs spreadsheet is introducing a new feature in its otherwise useful functionalities. Google spreadsheet now lets users create web-based forms. This is useful for...
China’s Search Engine Baidu Under Fire for Music Piracy
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry representing major music companies, Universal, Sony BMG (Hong Kong) and Warner Music Hong Kong, has filed a court...
Yahoo 4th Quarter Revenues Went Up in 2007, But Overall Net Income Suffered
The reports and statistics are out, and as I was looking over Yahoo’s financial report for 2007, all I saw was increase in this, and...
Yahoo Launches Web-Based MP3 Player
Yahoo just release an update of its mp3 player that no matter how Yahoo wants to underplay it, still web analysts might see it as...