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Google Ad Placements for AdSense
Google AdSense is giving publishers the option of assigning and labeling certain AdSense placements within their site as primary real estate for Google AdWords advertisers...
Webshots Adds Video Sharing
Webshots, which is one of the preferred photo storage and sharing destinations for millions of bloggers and MySpace members, has just gone video. While I...
Pronto.com Out of Beta, Adds Aggregated Product Reviews
Pronto.com, part of the IAC family which includes Ask.com, is out of beta and the shopping comparison engine is ready for the holiday season. Pronto.com...
Microsoft’s Live.com Banning Sites for Link Exchanges
Live.com is banning sites that take part in spammy and irrelevant link exchanges which are designed to corrupt and mislead search engines into ranking such...
Yahoo & Newspapers Form Major Partnership
Proving they can spread their peanut butter and eat it too, Yahoo has sealed a major alliance with the nation’s newspapers which include 176 daily...
Yahoo! Hotjobs Newspaper Deal Coming Soon
Rumored for some time, Yahoo! is apparently close to closing a deal with six newspaper groups. According the WSJ: Yahoo Inc. is close to a...
Europe’s Xing.com – The LinkedIn.com Killer?!
It was not too long ago when the European Business-Networking Service OpenBC.com announced their planned name change to Xing.com. OpenBC.com is no longer and all...
Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto : Cut Workforce by 20%, Build Focus
An internal Yahoo memo written last week by Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse has been leaked to the press and urges a major organizational shake...
Technology Top 100 Awards – South Africa
Congratulations to Vinny Lingham and his team over at IncuBeta for winning South Africa’s Technology Top 100 Award again this year. I am sure that...
Yahoo to acquire MyBlogLog
Techcrunch and Valleywag report that Yahoo! has agreed to acquire MyBlogLog for an estimated $10 million. That takes the number of Yahoo acquisitions we’ve heard...
Google Maps Adds Click-to-Call Ads
Google Maps has added Click-to-Call (my apologies for the short post, today will not be a heavy blogging day for me). From the Google Blog:...
Microsoft Live Search & Firefox Snooping on Search Queries
Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA looks at Microsoft Live Search and the Firefox Browser and how these companies are harnessing their web browsing...
Yahoo Maps Adds New Features
Deciding to avoid the arms race that Google and MSFT are engaged in around dynamic and 3-D mapping, Yahoo! has taken a more pragmatic approach:...
Expedited Upgrade For Yahoo!’s Panama Available Per Request
I blogged about a month ago about the long awaited launch of Yahoo!’s Panama Update of their Pay-Per-Click System. Yahoo! announced that accounts will be...
Snap Preview Everywhere: Distributing Search Boxes by Enabling Site Previews
WOW! I love creative ideas for distributing search! We have Eurekster (and now Google) that provide customizable search experiences for website owners. We have search...
Google’s Early Efforts to Monetize Video
Video. I can’t stop thinking about it. Neither can Google. A recent tour of the Google plex by Beet.tv yielded some news (to me) on...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Team for Sitemaps.org Search Engine Indexing Initiative
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined forces to support Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their...
Loki : Local Meta Search
Loki is a toolbar/technology from Skyhook Wireless that, once downloaded, uses WiFi triangulation to determine user location and saves the step of having to enter...
How To Obtain Techmeme Blog Coverage
Techmeme usually sends thousands of unique users per month to Search Engine Journal, dependent upon our percentage of breaking news stories and coverage. Like other...
Yahoo Publisher Network & Vice President Shakeup
I’m a little late to the punch here due to a couple days of International travel, but wanted to cover the recent executive shakeup at...
Google Local Events Search Added to Google Calendar
Google has added a “search public events” button to Google Calendar. Here’s more from Philipp Lenssen and the Official Google Blog. Here’s an example of...
A True 2nd Tier PPC Click Fraud Story
It happened actually last month and I wanted to blog about it earlier, but I did unfortunately not get around to it until now. I...
Google’s Vision for Free Cell Phones + How Newspapers and Marketers Can Prepare
How much do newspapers spend on paper, printing and printing infrastructure per subscriber? Would it make more sense for them to make their content fit...
Google Local Search & Libraries
Bill Slawski looks at patents behind Local Search ranking systems and their dependency on local business directories. All fine & dandy for the local restaurants...
Google AdWords Landing Page Quality Ranking Initiated
The new Google AdWords Quality Algorithm kicked into gear today which will change the way advertisers bid and are ranked in sponsored Google AdWords results....
ReviewMe Launches : New Blog Advertising Network
Looking for a new way to monetize your blog or build links, awareness and buzz about your service or product? ReviewMe, the new service which...
Baidu and eBay China Partner Up
Baidu and eBay China Partner Up EachNet, the Chinese auction website of eBay, has expanded their partnership with Baidu, the leading search engine in China....
MySpace.com Rules Social Networking
Social networking is hot and apparently, Hitwise confirms that MySpace is burning up the competition. For every 20 times a person in the US visited...
Google Checkout Offers Free Transactions for Merchants
In an effort to accelerate merchant adoption of the Google Checkout payment system, especially at the peak of the holiday shopping season, Google is offering...
Like.com : Celebrity Look a Like Search and Commerce
Like.com formerly known as Riya.com launched today. A new concept that makes a lot of affiliates (including myself) just watch in awe and envy :)....