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Gear Up for Google Apps Offline
After conquering the web search engine niche, the big G is now gearing up to conquer its users’ lives even when they are offline. Introducing...
In-house Spotlight : AllRecipes.com’s SEO Dustin Woodard
This week’s spotlight is on Dustin Woodard, a veteran in-house SEO at Allrecipes.com. Dustin made an interesting choice when joining AllRecipes.com, he joined a company...
Yahoo Publisher Network Offering PayPal Payments
The Yahoo Publisher Network has taken a major step in building its appeal amongst US based webmasters and publishers with the addition of PayPal transfers...
Google Using Image Recognition Filtering in Results
Google Image Search has finally implemented some of the technology that Google acquired with its purchase of Neven Vision last August. Now searchers on Google...
Google Privacy Policy Questions by European Union
The European Union has launched an investigation into Google and whether the search & media company is confirming to the EU’s privacy rules and questions...
Who’ll Take On Google?
Robert X. Cringely, in his I, Cringely, blog at PBS writes about the final days of Google. This is sort of what I’ve been saying:...
SES Xiamen – Chinese SEO Lessons
The 2 day SES conference in Xiamen 2007 was full of information for the participants. There were panels on buying search engine advertising, marketing research,...
The SEO State of Chinese Websites
The star Chinese speaker on SES Xiamen 2007 in my eyes was Stone Chen, from Dunsh.org. In one of the session he delved into the...
SES Xiamen Impressions
There are 144 million or 150 million or .. Internet users in China (different sources, different stats). A couple of million more or less, on...
Google Plus Box Patent and Potential Issues
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea wrote an interesting post about the Google patent application for their new “Plus Box” feature in the...
How about a Link from the Yahoo! Homepage
Techcrunch reported on Saturday about an interesting test conducted by Yahoo! Yahoo! linked to outside websites from their homepage, something that big portals like AOL,...
Alternate Link Building Strategies: The Linkerati Effect
Several bloggers have suggested writing about the linkerati as way to draw editorial backlinks. This post is a sort of lens to some great articles...
Google Searches Increased by 42%
Time for some trivial search engine statistics courtesy of Nielsen/NetRatings published by the Register. Based on the data released by Nielsen, Google searches increased by...
Find Cheap Gas Prices via Search Engines
This week marks the beginning of the dog days of summer spikes in gas prices, as today is the official start of Memorial Day weekend,...
300 Search Engines Reviewed
Inspired by the great Alternative Search Engines list from Read/Write Web, a new weblog dubbed “Two A Day” recently reviewed (listed) 300 search engines, starting...
Yahoo Real Estate Improves HomeValues : Zillow & Yahoo Answers
Drawing partly on its relationship with Zillow, Yahoo! is launching an improved “HomeValues” section as part of Yahoo! Real Estate. It’s also integrating more community...
Tracking Google News : Most Popular Stories and Sources
Google News Report USA is a new service which tracks the sites which are featured on the homepage of Google News and then ranked by...
Google Talk Dialpad PC to Phone VOIP to Challenge SkypeOut?
Google appears to be about to take on Skype and other VoIP services with the addition of a dialpad to Google Talk. Members of the...
Yahoo Buzz Index vs. Google Hot Trends
Sometimes it’s quite easy to hail any new product or experiment launched by Google, even if the idea behind it is years old and has...
Google GMail Doubles Attachment Max Size to 20 MB
Gmail now lets users attach files which reach up to a maximum size of 20 MB, double the previous maximum of 10 MB. Sure, that’s...
How to Submit your Site to Yahoo News
With the rise of blogging and low cost content management systems also comes the rise of news publications and the need for content syndication. Yahoo...
Digg Bans Users Who Digg Too Often
Digg has been sending out messages which explain the banning of user accounts which Digg has red flagged as possible spammers or just non-quality Diggers....
Xing Marketplace Beta
I received yesterday an email for Xing, the openBC (open Business Club). Xing.com is a business networking service like LinkedIn. I wrote during the last...
Google Bans Term Paper & Essay Writing Ads
In a move to lessen if not prevent plagiarism among university students, Google is banning advertisements by essay writing companies and services from its advertising...
Search & Social Networks Will Challenge Television for Advertising Dollars
Given Yahoo’s rumored offer of $1 Billion to buy the Bebo social network (and the previous reports of Yahoo wanting to buy Facebook), the success...
SEO Clinic : Free SEO from Industry Experts
Search Engine Journal’s SEO Clinic will be back in action next week after a month or so off and we are looking for more sites,...
Fooooo! Japan’s Video Search to Make International Splash?
Japanese video search engine Fooooo.com has expanded into the International scene with new video search versions in English, Russian, Chinese and French. According to Motoko...
Google Trends Adds Hot Trends
Google Trends has added a new featured dubbed ‘Hot Trends’ which allows Google Trends users to see some of the most Trended terms on a...
Google Neighborhood Search
Trulia has it, Yelp has it, Ask.com has it (there may be others) and now Google has it: neighborhood search capability. The benefits and rationale...
Google Targeting AdSense Arbitrage Accounts?
The rumors were heating up over the weekend that Google may be taking steps to curb or shut down the amount of arbitrage which is...