The new “Google operating system”
As most of you know, the Windows operating system is the most popular and the most utilized personal computer operating platform in use today, and...
Why writing for the Web is different than in print
As you sit down and start thinking how you are going to write the content for your new website, or if you are contemplating a...
Expect strong earnings from Yahoo
Yahoo is expected to report a quarterly profit of 11 cents a share on $497.9 million in revenue for the period ending March 31, according...
Microsoft to build search site for blogs
Microsoft said MSN Blogbot will debut in the first half of the year, along with MSN Newsbot, a search site devoted to news.
IBM advancing on its search engine project
IBM would like to see its WebFountain supercomputing project become the next big thing in Web search. The Internet can be a treasure trove of...
The new Yahoo Web Rank™ Toolbar
In case you haven’t noticed yet, Yahoo has been hard at work lately. If you missed it, Yahoo now has its own toolbar. In a...
Quigo closes $ 5 Million round of financing
Quigo announced yesterday it closed a $5 million round of venture funding as the New York search startup prepares to take on Google in the...
Finding high tech companies and startups
A consulting firm called CHI Research makes finding high-tech companies and start-ups its business. Two years back, when I asked CHI to share its top...
Blogging for Busine$$
People are always asking me how to be a blogging bigshot, and/or what will be the Next Big Thing in blogging. I don’t claim to...
Google (or Gogole.com?) Page Rank
It’s no secret anymore that Google ranks as the number one defacto-standard in the field of major search engines. In 2003, Google accounts for more...
Online Search Engines Help Lift Cover of Privacy
Sitting at his laptop, Chris O’Ferrell types a few words into the Google search engine and up pops a link to what appears to be...
Online advertising drew lower direct response rates in Q4
Online advertising drew lower direct response rates in the fourth quarter because of the higher volume of ads and more advertisers using them for branding,...
The 5 steps to successfully building a good e-commerce Web site
Register a .com, a .biz, a .cc or a .ca domain name (.ca are reserved for Canadian companies only). Whether you’re looking to reserve domain...
Website Usability & Search Engine Optimization
Today, I will slightly steer away from the subject of search engine optimization and instead present what should be the most important considerations when designing...
Microsoft has opened up a beta version of its long awaited MSN search engine
Microsoft has opened up a beta version of its long awaited MSN search engine
Survey: Paid inclusion search to reach $6 billion
Innovation among companies hots up as ad pie swells. With experts projecting that the global market for paid Internet searches will reach more than US$6...
Web services management more & more popular
There is much confusion on the issue of Web services management, because the term “management” has often been used in the past to mean many...
IBM progressing on the development of its search engine technology
IBM would like to see its WebFountain supercomputing project become the next big thing in Web search.
Content Management Systems and their relation to SEO
A lot has been said about Content Management Systems (CMS) in the past. Since search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimisation (SEO) are now...
The latest on update Austin (Google’s January update)
Some of the websites that haven’t been hit too hard in Google’s Florida update (November 2003) got hit real hard on or around January 23....
Can you really place a website on the very first page of Google?
I often get emails and letters asking me if it’s really possible to get a site placed on top of the search engine results pages...
Protect your site against a potential penalty
With the Robots.txt protocol, a webmaster or web site owner can really protect himself if it is done correctly. Today, web domain names are certainly...
For 2004, online retail sales are expected at $ 65 billion
U.S. online retail sales are expected to reach $65 billion in 2004, and will continue to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 17...
Google having second thoughts about its IPO
Google is reported to be having second thoughts about its $16bn flotation in the spring because of concerns that market conditions are not yet right.
The 10 things you should do and should avoid in SEO
Here’s something that is fast to read and does the job! Rank for $ales is pleased to present “The 10 do’s and don’ts of SEO”....