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Google Street View Sued for Trespassing and Privacy Invasion
The Google Street View project has the goal to photograph the streets of America and beyond, and the views from those streets, which sometimes results...
SponsoredReviews.com Offers Paid Blog Review Bid Filtering
Buying reviews on blogs has become a fairly legitimate practice in the online marketing mix, with companies like SponsoredReviews.com and ReviewMe offering blog review market...
Google Algorithm Exposed : SearchToons
The Google Algorithmic manner of ranking and serving relevant online and indexed documents to specific Google queries has been a mystery to many over the...
Google & the Government: How Close Are They?
Ever since Google became the dominant leader in the search sector, there have been rumblings about alleged connections with the U.S. government and the whole...
23andme : Social Networking Comes to Genomics
The trend today is about ‘socialnetworking-zing’ everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other...
Google Goes Black in US and Abroad
Google Israel went black on Thursday to celebrate Earth Hour and today in the United States, Google has gone black here in a global effort...
Twitterfeed : Bringing RSS to Twitter for Every Blogger
I’d heard about this Twitter fad for a good year or so, but had never really gotten into it (or Twittered) until after the SMX...
Google AdWords Feature: AdSense for Domains Opt Out
Should you opt for the new AdSense for Domains opt out feature, quietly launched with the Google AdWords upgraded Site Exclusion tool? (Author’s Note: This...
Diigo : The End Of Bookmarks?
Diigo is perhaps one of the web’s premier research tools – this is widely accepted. Whether Web 2.0 actually ever existed is irrelevant, but the...
Google Goes Black in Israel for the Day
Google in Israel has issued a black out for the day; not shutting down but serving a black screen with white letters instead of an...
Do Links From Foreign Language Sites Have Value?
Usually, we do not cover forum threads, but from time to time, one does pop up which gathers my attention and is blog worthy. Today...
Successful Networking Tips for LinkedIn and Facebook
This week was an interesting one at Search Engine Strategies New York as for the first time, I effectively used online networking tools to connect...
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...
Gigablast Better than Google or Ask.com : According to Study
Gigablast, a personal favorite and privately owned and operated search engine, just released the findings of their search “taste test” where the majority of study...
Hakia Licensing its Ontological Semantics Search Technology : OntoSem
Hakia.com, the semantics oriented meaning-based search engine, is now licensing its Ontological Semantic technology; hakia OntoSem. hakia OntoSem is a modular, extensible, and adaptable toolset...
How to Organize Your Keyword Modifiers to Create Long Tail Strategy
What is a keyword modifier? A modifier is a word that in combination with your core keyword creates your long tail strategy (definition by Dan...
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...
How to Build Links with Email Marketing
Quality links to your website remain one of the strongest contributors to high organic rankings in search engines. Plus, a link from a popular website...
12 Search Engines Which Can Replace Ask.com
Ask.com was/is one of the most resourceful and innovative search engines on the market and has claimed a relatively significant chunk of online search market....
AOL Acquires Bebo for $850 Million
AOL has pulled off a major move in acquiring the social network Bebo for $850 million in cash from under the noses of Yahoo and...
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...
Get Paid to Click on Ads: Unethical Web Marketing
I was answering some questions on the Digital Point forum when I came across a thread about getting paid to click on ads, instantly, a...
FyberSearch Search Engine
FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a...
Commission Disfunction and FraudClick : A Peppered Rant
OK, I dont know exactly where Im going with the title (tried to come up with a good one for Valueclick but really couldnt.) For...
Compete Acquired for $75 Million
Compete has been acquired by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres plc) for $75 million, adding the Compete analytics and web traffic tracking suite to its current...
Why Mahalo will Fail and the Problems with General Search
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web...
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...
Google to Invest in Undersea Cable
Google, along with five other telcom companies, is investing $300 million into the construction of an 10,000 km undersea cable to carry data to and...
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...
10 Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
I love the Internet! But, at times it can be tough love, not because of the Internet itself, but because of human roadblocks and obstacles...