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FirstGov Relaunches with Vivisimo and MSN Powered Search
FirstGov Relaunches with Vivisimo and MSN Powered Search FirstGov.gov has relaunched using Vivísimo’s (the clustering search technology) Velocity web search platform. The redesigned portal, which...
Google China Censorship Controversy Roundup
Google China Censorship Controversy Roundup Google choosing to censor the search results of its Google China search engine has led to a lot of industry...
Giving Away Free or Discount SEO
Giving Away Free or Discount SEO Lee Odden at TopRank gives some excellent advice to SEO practicioners who find themselves on the other end of...
Google Cache Ruled Legal Fair Use
Google Cache Ruled Legal Fair Use A Nevada district court has ruled in favor of Google, declaring that the Google Cache is legal and in...
Microsoft’s Live Labs
Microsoft’s Live Labs It appears that everyone is the world of search is opening new labs. Google has been announcing new research labs here and...
Yahoo Buying Digg?
Yahoo Buying Digg? There are some big names in the Web 2.0 and blogging world saying that Yahoo is close to buying Digg for somewheres...
Google China Kowtows to Censorship Laws
Google China Kowtows to Censorship Laws Google has done the inevitable in their bid to expand the reach of their search engine, services and advertising...
Link Baiting Case Study from Search Engine Journal
Link Baiting Case Study from Search Engine Journal Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the emerging art of building a useful tool, writing an interesting article,...
Google, Sun & Harvard vs. Spyware & AdWare
Google, Sun & Harvard vs. Spyware & AdWare Google is collaborating with Sun Microsystems to launch a new initiative against spyware and malicious applications, which...
Google: Improved Local Imagery
Google: Improved Local Imagery Seeking to match some of the very impressive high-resolution “bird’s-eye” photography now available through Windows Live Local, Google has improved the...
Opera Mini Brings Browser to Mobile Phones
Opera Mini Brings Browser to Mobile Phones The makers of popular web browser application Opera have now officially launched the scaled down version of their...
Link Baiting Contest : Win $1,000
Link Baiting Contest : Win $1,000 Speaking of link baiting, Andy Hagans of Performancing and Text Link Ads fame has announced a new SEO oriented...
Yahoo! Helping Splogs and Google Earn Money?
Yahoo! Helping Splogs and Google Earn Money? Marcia posted a thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Plagiarism, Splogs and Search Engine Spam where she...
Yahoo! Search Not ‘Giving Up’
Yahoo! Search Not ‘Giving Up’ Here’s the Yahoo! Search response to the “controversy” created yesterday by the Bloomberg article in which Yahoo! CFO Susan Decker...
Patrick Gavin on Domain Names, Blogs & Linking
Patrick Gavin on Domain Names, Blogs & Linking As the rest of the search world is concentrating on Google China Censorship, Yahoo Search Schizophrenia, and...
Yahoo’s Goals Beyond Search
Yahoo’s Goals Beyond Search There’s is a lot of negative press going on about Yahoo CFO Susan Decker’s statement to Jonathan Thaw of Bloomberg News...
Spelling Errors: Advanced SEO Techniques
Spelling Errors: Advanced SEO Techniques With certain sites in certain industries it can cut into your credibility to have lots of misspellings. Although I hate...
Yahoo! Content to Be No. 2 in Search?
Yahoo! Content to Be No. 2 in Search? This is a very interesting piece from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoting Yahoo!’s CFO Susan Decker on the...
Yahoo Publisher Network Expanding This Spring
Yahoo Publisher Network Expanding This Spring Yahoo is preparing its answer to Google AdSense, the Yahoo Publisher Network, and has been going about the launch...
Ask Jeeves Launches New Image Search Engine
Ask Jeeves Launches New Image Search Engine Ask Jeeves is expanding its internal search offerings by launching its first proprietary image search technology, available on...
Yahoo Answers & Yahoo Publisher Network To Pay Users?
Yahoo Answers & Yahoo Publisher Network To Pay Users? Let’s see, the future of Yahoo is Social Media. Social Media is interactive user generated content...
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Leading Yahoo Labs in Chile & Spain
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Leading Yahoo Labs in Chile & Spain Yahoo is expanding its research operations into Europe and Latin America with the opening of...
Google Stock and Department of Justice
Google Stock and Department of Justice Jim Hedger feels that the Department of Justice suit against Google for not handing over search info has little...
ReachLocal Delivers Local Search to FTD Florists
ReachLocal Delivers Local Search to FTD Florists ReachLocal and FTD Florists are working together on a customized local search campaign in which 20,000 FTD merchants...
Yahoo & Social Media : Tagging, Blogs, Reviews
Yahoo & Social Media : Tagging, Blogs, Reviews There’s a nice article worth reading in Business Week today which is comparable to Business 2.0’s Flickrization...
AOL & IBM Connect Instant Messenger Users
AOL & IBM Connect Instant Messenger Users AOL and IBM are now working together to connect their instant messaging communities. Under the agreement, IBM Lotus...
Search Engine Marketers Paying Too Much?
Search Engine Marketers Paying Too Much? This article made the rounds on Friday (ClickZ). The thrust of this Kevin Newcomb piece is that the paid...
Google News Adds Most Popular & Recommended Sections
Google News Adds Most Popular & Recommended Sections Google News has added two new sections to its news syndication and reading service, one of which...
Fallout from Google Privacy Subpoena
Fallout from Google Privacy Subpoena News of Google telling the US Government ‘No’ to a Department of Justice Subpoena this week has led to an...
Google, Yahoo Stocks Fall Amid Privacy Concerns
Google, Yahoo Stocks Fall Amid Privacy Concerns Google shares fell 8.5% today as a recent dip search search stocks has affected the GOOG empire. The...