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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 :)....
Microsoft’s Live Search Virtual Earth 3D Goes Live
Today Microsoft went live with Virtual Earth 3D, an online mapping system which is part of the Live Search experience which serves local search mapped...
Click Forensics & Focus on Affiliate Click Fraud
Click Forensics updated its enterprise-class click fraud detection service, Click Forensics 4.5 for Enterprise, which includes new features that allow advertisers for the first time...
Yahoo! Shopping : New Features Abound
Yahoo! Shopping has added a whole lot of goodies to its service, just in time for the holiday shopping season. New additional services include integration...
Google Testing Ads in 50 Print Newspapers
Google is launching what it is calling an “alpha” program in which 100 advertisers, both large and small, will have an opportunity to buy ads...
Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues
Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues China is in the news for many reasons but when it comes to the Internet one...
Amazon.com’s Clickriver Pay-Per-Click Search Advertising
Amazon.com’s A9 Search division has finally launched a service which is sure to catch the eyes of the search engine marketing world, Clickriver. Clickriver is...
Yahoo Food : Munchies 2.0
Yesterday, Yahoo! launched its “Green Center” for Autos. Today: Yahoo! Food. Among others, this is an Epicurious competitor. Food looks like a pretty rich (no...
GMail Mobile : Java Powered
Steve Bryant at eWeek’s Google Watch notes that today Google is unveiling a new java powered Gmail for mobile devices. The new Gmail mobile should...
Cracking the Digg.com Algorithm
Yesterday we looked at the new changes to the Digg.com algorithm which makes it more difficult for stories to make it to the Digg front...
Utube.com Suing YouTube.com
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, which has its web site hosted at Utube.com, is suing Google’s YouTube over domain name similarity and the harm which...
Ask.com Providing Search & Advertising to Lycos Network
Ask.com has partnered with the LYCOS Network to provide the search results and sponsored listings on Lycos properties. Under the agreement, Ask.com will provide branded...
Yahoo Autos ‘Green Center’
Getting out in front of the increasing market for “green” products and services, Yahoo! Autos has launched a “Green Center.” The site profiles and rates/ranks...
Digg Changes Its Algorithm : Harder to Get on Homepage
Have you noticed a decrease in the amount of stories hitting the front page of Digg.com over the past 24 hours and the increase in...
Google Acquires JotSpot Wiki Collaboration Software
Google has acquired Jotspot, which allows businesses and individuals to use wikis for collaboration. Google made the announcement today on the Google Blog, and gave...
Petr Mitrichev of Russia Wins Google’s Global Code Jam
Petr Mitrichev of Russia won Google’s Global Code Jam competition and was awarded with a $10,000 first prize. Mitrichev topped a field of over 21,000...
Kudzu.com Local Search Growing Outside of Atlanta
Ever take a drive down to Atlanta, Georgia? If you have, you probably had the chance to experience Kudzu. Kudzu is the Japanese weed which...
Search Marketing : Most Cost Efficient Customer Acquisition Tool
Internet Retailer reported on a Piper Jaffray study, which finds that search is the most cost-efficient customer acquisition tool. Print yellow pages ranked second. Here’s...
Daily Show & Colbert Report Zapped from YouTube
On Friday, the majority of uploaded YouTube clips containing the Comedy Central produced Daily Show, Colbery Report and South Park shows were deleted from YouTube....
Alibaba.com Invests in Koubei.com Chinese Classifieds
Alibaba.com, parent company of Yahoo China, made a ‘strategic investment’ in Koubei.com, which is one of China’s largest classified listing and community websites. According to...
Yahoo AOL Rumors
More than likely speculation, yesterday FORTUNE published a piece on rumors that Yahoo is in the hunt to purchase AOL from under Google’s feet. *...
5 Reasons Not To Use Flash
Despite the documented problems over the years, businesses and web development firms are continuing to use a flash base in site design, without regard of...
Flickr Interestingness Rankings & Yahoo Search
I’m a sporadic Flickr user, posting an image or screen capture from time to time, and have not really gotten as into the Flickr experience...
Server Outages Lead to Drop in Search Engine Rankings
A recent post on DigitalPoint proves the importance of forking over the cash for a dependable web hosting company as one member notes that after...