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Microsoft Trying to Patent RSS Feed Readers
Microsoft’s patent applications for RSS feed (and other feed format) readers & aggregators were made public yesterday, showing that the company filed for the patents...
Justin Timberlake & SNL Show YouTube.com & TV Now Inseparable
Some of you may have seen a couple of “off color” videos widely circulating on the Internet from the NBC TV show Saturday Night Live...
PageRank is dead and NOFOLLOW will NOT Save it!
It’s again time for a discussion about the use of the nofollow attribute for links at the English language Wikipedia. A lot of the Wikis...
del.icio.us Tagometer is Deliciously Refreshing!
Almost every blog and news publication on web includes a small “save to del.icio.us” link or little del.icio.us box next to posts which entice users...
Vote for the 2006 Search Blogs Awards!
Voting for the Search Engine Journal’s 2006 Search Blogs Awards are now open. Please take the time to rank and vote for your favorite search...
TrueLocal’s Jake Baillie Moving On
Jake Baillie has helped to build TrueLocal into a true success, rocked Chicago, and is now heading to the world of funding Internet start-ups and...
Google Checkout : Doing Better Than Expected
When Google introduced its payments system (and more) Checkout earlier this year my belief was that it had to break with its long-standing approach of...
Ebay China Sells Business to Tom Online
It has been hanging in the air for sometime now. Back in September 2006 the rumor circus already pointed at Tom online as the likely...
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me : Blog Tag
In the tradition of friendly blogosphere blogging, I’ve been blog tagged by Peter and Lee in the great search blogger meme of the five things...
Ask.com’s Ask X : Search Testing Ground
Lisa Barone, super search blogger, has the beef on Ask.com’s search interface & user experience testing ground, Ask X. Google has its SearchMash to test...
10 Reasons Why Digg Could Bury Google and Suggested Improvements
Todd Malicoat has jotted down his thoughts on why Digg is the new Google and why Digg is attracting the ‘geek mindshare’ that Google did...
9 7.5 Ways To Get Banned (or Penalized) by Search Engines
Putting together an SEO campaign and thinking that cloaking, link farming or regurgitating content will get your site high rankings? Think again. Chances are, your...
Google 2006 Top Searches : Very 2.0
Once Google filtered out all of the questionable, offensive and not-safe-for-work search terms, looks like the people Googling on Google were in fact searching for...
Benefits of CSS in Search Engine Optimization
Mikhail Tuknov, founder of Infatex.com, sent in this article on CSS and its importance in search engine optimization. I found it to be a basic...
Google Radio Ads Sell Out; Not Enough Airtime
Ben Charny at MarketWatch reports that Google Audio did not secure enough radio airtime “for would-be advertisers to thoroughly test out the initiative.”
Google Maps Multiple Destinations
Google has added a new feature to Google Maps which I first experienced when testing out Ask.com’s AskCity, multiple destination directions. Google Maps lets users...
PayPerPost Moves to Full Disclosure
PayPerPost has rolled out a new Terms of Service which, as effective today, requires bloggers to announce that specific Postvertising is indeed paid for.
MySpace.com on Cingular Cell Phones
Reuters reports the announcement coming today: Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones...
Yahoo : No Click Fraud, But Plenty of Goodwill
Nice play on words from the Yahoo Search Marketing team as PepperJam reports on the back and forth requests for credits due to apparent ‘click...
Google Cell Phone (GPhone) and Its Prospects
Om Malik has an interesting post and speculation about mobile carrier Orange, mobile device maker HTC and Google teaming up for a Google-branded phone. Here’s...
Google Defines Good Linking & Bad Linking
Google’s Stefanie Ulrike Dürr has laid down the defining lines in the battle of link building and the value of link popularity. In summary, the...
Want to learn for real how to increase conversion, sales and ROI?
Marketing Experiments is looking for quallified Research Partners for the year 2007 who will work together with MEC using their GrowthEngine technology and methodology on...
Last week in China – A Lot of Baidu and a bit of Microsoft and Google
Last week in China, a Lot of Baidu and a bit of Microsoft and Google There hardly goes a week by that Baidu is not...
Google & Expanding Beyond the PC
There’s a long article today by Kevin Delaney in the WSJ (sub req’d) about Google’s efforts to woo advertisers into its print and audio ads...
Google Domain Registration : $10 a year?
Google has entered into the domain registration game via a partnership with eNom and GoDaddy, wherein Google is only offering the registration of .com, .net,...
2006 Search Blogs Awards — Nominations Now Open
It’s December 2006 which means like last year, Search Engine Journal will be hosting and holding our annual Search Blogs Awards. Last year was our...
Yahoo! Answers : Survey Says Users ‘Get’ Social Q&A
Yahoo! Answers is celebrating its 1st birthday today with a party and the release of some interesting survey data which shows why Q&A type services...
MySpace.com The Biggest?
There’s no offical comScore release out yet, but several sources are reporting (this is the TechCrunch post) that MySpace has become “the biggest site on...
decipho : New Social Search Engine
Decipho, a new search engine built upon categorization, voting, ranking and social media measurement, has launched today with some most interesting features, one of my...
Yahoo! Answers Celebrates First Year
Yahoo! Answers, the leading Q&A site on the web, has just turned one years old and is celebrating its thriving community of users and their...