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PeopleJar – a New Concept of Social Connecting
While social networking is nothing new today: starting from the early age of Myspace people establish and maintain connections online. A new people search service...
Google Settles Score with Book Publishers and Authors
It took Google four years to settle a long-standing copyright lawsuit filed against its Book Search Project by the Association of American Publishers and the...
5 Tools for On-page Image Usage Analysis
Image optimization is both vital for “search engine friendliness” and web accessibility. Let’s look at a few top tools that can help you analyze both...
Viewzi : Different Ways to View Your Search
There is a simple belief that sums up the effort behind viewzi, a search engine that takes many different ‘viewpoints’ on search (literally). A standard...
Lisa Barone is Blogging Again at WeBuildPages.com Blog
We’ve all missed The Lisa’s blogging ever since she made her move back to the East Coast, but now our fix for Lisa Barone’s incredible...
Silobreaker : News search with Thorough Aggregation
Keeping users abreast with the latest trends in the news is what news aggregators are all about. Silobreaker, a UK based search and news engine...
IMBroadcast.com : Video Sharing for Internet Marketers
People learn in different ways. Our industry offers a plethora of learning and sharing communities based around linguistic learning styles including blogs, forums, Sphinn, and...
Myths and Truths About Google GrayBar PR
Toolbar PR is something many webmasters have no more trust in. The common opinions are: PR (change) often seems to have nothing to do with...
Scary SEO Conference is on Friday
Friday will mark the first Scary SEO event, a mini-conference which will be held at Deerfield Beach / Boca Raton, Florida and focus on an...
Yahoo to Fire 1,500 Workers (Updated)
Yahoo’s financial report for the Q3 is out and despite reporting a not so bad financial conditions contrary to what was being predicted the past...
Yotify : Scouring the Web for Notifications That Matter to You
A new web service that started in September takes an interesting approach towards the information overload problem on the web. Yotify takes an approach that...
Yahoo Ads Geo-Targeting for Search Ad Campaigns
Yahoo has just added a geo-targeting system for its search ad placement. This new tool will enable search ad campaign managers to fine tune their...
CloudTuner : Start-up Takes Fresh Look at Query Refinement
CloudTuner, an Israeli start-up is working on technology that applies a new perspective to the importance of keywords in search. Users are provided with a...
Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my Google & GMail Accounts?
UPDATE : Since writing this and contacting some Googlers, my Google account was unblocked at 2 am last night, EST. Thank you Google for the...
How to Find SEO Competitor Keywords, Social Media & Backlinks
In the past I did quite a few posts on competitive research: How to evaluate your keyword competition; Tools for spying on competitors search marketing...
Google Profiles Now Indexable in Search Engines
Call them Google versions of business cards, Geocities 2.0 or call them what you will, I consider Google Profiles to be the building block to...
Google Says: We’re Ok and We’re Definitely Fine
Amidst the ongoing economic and financial turmoil and beating industry analysts’ predictions and forecasts, “miraculously” Google still managed to pose some considerable growth as reported...
Google UK Opens AdWords to Gambling Ads
After Yahoo UK opened itself up to UK licensed gambling ads about a month ago, and MSN UK doing the same, Google UK has felt...
How Define: Operator Works and How To Get Included in Google Definitions
Google define:keyword (no space) advanced operator is a very handy (yet not very widely used) way to quickly find the word meaning. However the algorithm...
Google Webmaster Tools’ Crawl Error Feature Becomes More Useful
Recently, Google Webmaster Tools has introduced its Crawl Error feature which provides details about the site URLS which Google tried to crawl but could not...
Google Loses Copyright Battle Against German Image Owner
This case may just be one of the many copyright lawsuits filed against Google, but its implications maybe too big in the long run for...
Link Building for E-Commerce Site : It’s Not All About Paid Links
Last week e-Commerce link building was discussed at WebmasterWorld Forums (also reviewed by SEroundtable). Why is it actually more difficult to build links to an...
Google News Testing New Vertical Format
Google News is testing a new vertical format which seems to be reminiscent of Yahoo One Search and more of a mobile device driven format...
Here They Go Again, Yahoo Investors Ask Microsoft for $22 a Share
Just when you thought this buyout deal between Yahoo and Microsoft was over, here comes some small group of Yahoo investors making some noise again. ...
How Google Might Differentiate Between Trust and Authority
A very insightful thread at WebmasterWorld discusses how Google might distinguish trust and authority notions and how they might influence the algorithm. In a very...
Hakia Serves Credible Results in New Search Interface
Recently Hakia extended a call to librarians and information professionals to help them in their quest to bring credible search results to the web on...
Google Rolls Out Adsense for Games, Long Live Gamers!
Blame it on comScore for publishing that 25% of Internet users play online games every week, totalling to over 200 million users worldwide. This may...
Facebook Integrates and Endorses Microsoft Live Search, Officially
Although this partnership has been announced as early as July this year, it is only now that Facebook is officially introducing or in a more...
How To Diagnose Your Site with Google Advanced Search
While John Mueller did a great job explaining how to analyze your website with Google Webmaster Tools, I thought I could outline a few tips...
7 Myths and Educated Theories Behind Sitewide Links
Like with many other burning SEO questions, there is no definitive answer as to whether sitewide links are good or bad. If we for just...