Tools
Guides, reviews, and comparisons of must-have free and paid tools for search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, social media marketing, and content marketing.
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...
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More People Are Using Google to Navigate, Not Just Search [Data]
Google users know where they want to browse to, and use the search box to get the link to click.
Backlink Checkers that Actually Help
What do I usually want to see in a good tool? Contrary to what you might think, I never expect a tool to do part...
Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)
In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...
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...
How To Compare Results on Different Search Engines
While it remains unclear how many major search engines we will end up with, it is still wise to track and compare your (and your...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Spam for the Search Engines and a Smile for Matt Cutts
I wanted to call the post “Website Scraper, Trackback Spammer and Cloaking Bundle” at first, but then thought that the current one is a bit...
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...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I
It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs...
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 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....
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 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...
Picasa Web Albums Updates, New API Features
Google’s free web album, Picasa introduces some great new features which were the top requests of Picasa Web Album users. Google’s Data API blog enumerated...
Introducing Google Mapplets, A Mashup of Mashups on Google Maps
I know that’s a lot of “maps” there in the title. It’s a bit of an exaggeration actually but that’s how I see this new...
New Google Maps Drag and Drop Feature
Google added last Thursday a nice little video to their YouTube account without mentioning anything significant to their blogs as they usually do for announcements...
Trellian Keyword Database Change
The popular keyword research tool from Trellian, called Keyword Discovery, changes their database to rely on their tool bar users only (like Alexa) instead of...
Ranking Factors Simplified Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was...
Google Spreadsheets Launching Today
Google Spreadsheets Launching Today In what may be a nice break from all of the unusually boring, complicated and ‘over your head’ releases from Google...
Microsoft Business Desktop Search
Microsoft Business Desktop Search Google has Google Mini and Google Search Appliance products for business users looking for solutions to searching for content on their...
Search For Singles Hotties Using Google Maps
Search For Singles Hotties Using Google Maps Talk about using the Google Maps API for the good of mankind. San Francisco software firm Frozenbear has...
Yahoo Desktop Search Update Supports Mozilla Thunderbird Mail
Yahoo Desktop Search Update Supports Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Yahoo updated Yahoo! Desktop Search today to provide support for Thunderbird, the Mozilla open-source mail client. Thunderbird...
Instant Messenger Attacks on the Rise
Instant Messenger Attacks on the Rise A research study released by security firm IMLogic says that the hack attempts through the popular instant messengers is...