Google Docs Presentation Adds Embed Feature
This article was updated in 11/2016 to reflect changes in the industry. When Google Docs Presentation was launched in September, it was a much-awaited tool...
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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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Introducing SearchSalad: A Healthy Way to Search
Every once in awhile its good to see other metasearch engine come out of the web. While the top five major search engines battle it...
Google Introduces Video Sitemaps
If you want to get your video contents searchable via Google Video Search, you better start creating sitemaps for these videos. With the Google video...
Is Google Building a Social Network Around Its Portal?
A lot can be deduced about the recent developments in Google’s online empire that past couple of months. New product launches, new features of current...
3 Top Search Engines’ Webmaster Tools: Which Gives the Better Site Data?
Webmaster tools are used by site owners and developers to determine how search engines see their sites in terms of inbound and outbound links and...
Microsoft’s Way of Making its Presence Felt in the SEO/SEM Field
Microsoft today announced three new features for its adCenter program and Live Search. Actually the one for Live Search is already old news, the Webmaster...
Paglo: The World’s First Search Engine for IT
Paglo which just launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google of IT. A free and on-demand service for IT professionals, Paglo allows searching...
Reducing Accidental Clicks on Google Adsense Units
Earlier this week, Google Blogscoped reported the change on clickable areas on Adsense units, and it is only now that the Google Adsense Blog posted...
Searchboth.com Combines Search Results of Search Engines
Searchboth.com, a search engine that previously displays search results for both Google and Yahoo search side by side on a split screen has expanded its...
Microsoft to Acquire Musiwave
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....
Google and MySpace Officially Announce OpenSocial, How Open is OpenSocial?
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...
Hakia Adds Social Networking to Search Engine
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...
AOL Launches Indian Language Portal
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...
Top Search Queries in Google Webmaster Tools
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Search Engine Marketing Firm’s Study Says Offline Channels Drive More Searches
The recent study on offline channel influence on online behavior study by search engine marketing firm iProspect yields some interesting findings about how offline channels...
Garage Sale Gets Inside Facebook
Buy.com is hoping to get a share of Ebay’s customer base by launching Garage Sale inside the Facebook network. Unlike Ebay and other auction sites,...
Online Dating Site Match.com Goes Mobile
There’s really no stopping the transition of web services into the mobile web. Now, even online dating sites, such as Match.com gets their own mobile...