Yahoo Expands Free Mail to 100 MB
Yahoo has beefed up its free e-mail service with 25 times more storage following its rival Google’s plans to offer 1,000 megabytes (1 GB) of...
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Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and runs Foundation Digital, a digital marketing strategy & development agency.
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“Personalized” Weblog Reader Debuts: Blogory
ResourceShelf has mentioned and linked to Findory, a “personalized” and “adaptive” (it learns from you) news resource (a couple thousand mainstream news sources) several times...
Online Behavioral Targeting and Search
Is online advertising undergoing a “rebirth”? Some might argue it is, first spurred on by paid search advertising then by contextual and adware placements. Now...
Search Engine Results & PDF Files
Many major search engines now have the capability to index PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat and return them in search results. If you are...
Fundamental flaw with Link Popularity
Mike Lauher at Junk Drawer sent me an email about this earlier, seems like an interesting problem with Google’s Link Popularity. How can a Real...
Ask Jeeves Goes Desktop Search with Tukaroo
Ask Jeeves has followed up search engine acquisitions and the issuing of $400 million in stock offerings with the new aquisition of a desktop search...
Yahoo Testing Homepage Redesign
Yahoo is testing a new home page design which simplifies its personal, shopping, directory and news offerings while also putting more of an emphasis on...
Overstock.com Sets Affiliate PPC Guidelines
Overstock.com is taking measures that will prevent its affiliates from bidding on Overstock.com trademarks. Search Engine Lowdown reports that an email was sent out today...
Landing Page Optimization Techniques Lower Acquisition Costs
Any marketer that has been involved in search engine marketing and search engine optimization understands the never-ending quest to attract customers at a reasonable cost....
Google May See Challenges As It Expands
Google dominates the minds and desktops of Internet users, with Yahoo a distant second, according to a nationwide consumer survey on search engines whose results...
Maximize Your Search Engine Promotion Productiveness
An important element to being productive in search engine promotion is to continually stay focused on the goals of your web site campaigns. When I...
Interview with Gary Flake of Yahoo Labs
20 Questions with Gary Flake, Head of Yahoo Research Labs An interview in the ROTW space this time around. Dr. Gary Flake, Principal Scientist &...
Google acquires Neotonic Software
After Pyra Labs (The maker of Blogger), and advertisement companies like Applied Semantics and Sprinks, it’s the turn of an email software company Neotonic Software....
Yahoo! Toolbar BETA with Anti-Spy plays favorite with Adwares
The recently launched Yahoo! Toolbar BETA with Anti-Spy is in the news for the wrong reasons. Apparently, the beta toolbar does not select the option...
Yahoo Search Delivers Cheap Gas Prices
Finding the prices at the gas stations too much to handle this summer travel season? Yahoo is offering a new search engine shortcut to help...
Google Search Going Intranet
Google is sharpening the search tools that it sells to companies, schools and government agencies, hoping to mine new revenue sources as it strives to...
Online Retailers Showing Increased Sales & Profits
Online sales sped past the $100-billion-mark in 2003, surpassing all industry expectations. According to The State of Retailing Online 7.0, an annual Shop.org study conducted...
Google Losing IT’s Cool?
Since November 2003, the good folk at Google have found themselves on a public relations roller coaster. As the biggest and most popular search tool...
Microsoft’s MSN Gets Serious About Search
Microsoft and MSN is pumping up the volume on search, and not just a web search engine. Yusuf Mehdi, MSN’s top executive, announced the company...
Yahoo Goes After Spyware with New Companion Toolbar
Yahoo has released a beta version of its downloadable toolbar in the US that will detect and remove unwanted software (AKA spyware) installed on user...
500 Google Domain Names Registered in Last Month
On May 3rd ResourceShelf’s GaryPrice posted a list of domain names that were registered in April and included the word Google. Many of our readers...
What’s next for Google? Here are some ideas!
Google has had a meteoric rise to stardom. I remember an article I saw in PC World Indian Edition in the year 1999 which mentioned...
Yahoo Releases Yahoo Messenger 6.0
Yahoo just officially launched their new Yahoo Messenger 6 upgrade after weeks of beta testing by Yahoo users (Search Engine Journal editors included). The upgrade...
Will Google be the next Netscape?
To draw a parallel between Netscape & Google in their fight against Microsoft, it is necessary to examine the various similarities between the two situations...
Dogpile Toolbar: Yet another search toolbar or something more?
Every other search engine now has its own toolbar. Even individual sites have started offering their own toolbars! In fact, if you are a web...
All About Seruku Search Web Tool
This week we have another example of innovative and useful work coming from a small company in the search and info retrieval space. Say hello...
Google vs Googol – Family Wants In On IPO
Google may be taken to court over a “googol” by the family of Professor Edward Kasner. Kasner, who invented the word “googol” in the 1930s...
Google Proposes AdWare & Spyware Guidelines
Google today proposed guidelines for Internet download software such as advertising ware, browser helpers, or search toolbars. Google states that they have become “alarmed by...
Google Confirms GMail Bug Issued 1,000 Gigabytes of Email Storage
Some Google GMail users were surprised to log in this week and see their abnormal 1 gigabyte of free email storage space transformed into a...
Reciprocal Linking: A Disturbing Trend in Search Engine Marketing
In the world of Internet Marketing, and Web site promotion, nothing changes faster than the parameters that rule good Search Engine rankings and placement. This...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
Forbes
January 11, 2022
If you manage e-commerce digital marketing campaigns, these strategies can save you time and help grow your traffic, sales and your bottom line. See More
Eight Ways Businesses Are Adopting Innovative Streaming During Social Distancing
Forbes
May 20, 2020
Streaming video technology is more important than ever. See More