Sharing the Sights and Sounds of Europe through YouTube
The European Commission in cooperation with YouTube has launched EUTube, a video portal showcasting the works of the European Union. The EC hopes to disseminate...
SEO & Blogging Success Story : Diabetes Blog Earns $40K per Year
There’s an old golden rule in terms of choosing a career or venture which still applies today, even to blogging; love your work. Being passionate...
Yahoo! Search Marketing (Panama) Adds Tools For Advertisers
The YSMBlog announced yesterday the addition of a few new tools in order to effectively help advertisers build out campaigns. While these changes seem to...
Adsense Referral 2.0 Gets Out of Beta, Now Available for All Publishers (?)
Inside Adsense announces that the recently launched (for beta testing) referral scheme for Adwords advertisers’ products will soon be available to all Adsense publishers in...
Enter the World Wide Wiki
As the world of Web 2.0 has brought many new components to the user, aside from social communities which keep emerging and showing growth, the...
How to Protect Your Site from Canonical Triggers
What happens when search engine spiders get lost? They cannot figure out what way to go on your site. They sometimes get confused or other...
Yahoo’s Patrick Crane Joins LinkedIn as Vice President of Marketing
The business networking social media company LinkedIn has announced that they have hired Patrick Crane as their new VP of Marketing. Prior to LinkedIn, Patrick...
Google Introduces Google Gadget Ventures
Ever wanted to develop your own useful and fully functional Google gadget but could not push through with your ideas due to time and financial...
Google Enterprise Search Teams Up with Ingram Micro
Google is expanding the usage of its enterprise search solutions by teaming up with Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest technology products distributors. Google...
Yahoo! Blocked in China
Guess what… Yahoo.com is available again:) Would love to know what the cause was of their unavailability. I’ll keep monitoring to see if things change....
Social Media & User Generated Content In The Spanish Space
At a panel yesterday at Ad:Tech Miami, Social Media and UGC were discussed. The panel consisted of Emily Riley from Jupiter Research as the moderator,...
Kosmix.com : Search Start-up Looking for “Meaning” in Search Queries
What do Stanford grads Anand and Venky have in common with Google founders, Larry and Sergie? One, they were batch mates. And two, they are...
Google Earth Goes Socially Relevant, Reaches Out to Non-Profit Organizations
Showing that it is not only a profit-oriented company, Google launches its own socially relevant program called Google Earth Outreach. Utilizing the power of its...
Science of Relevancy : Lifeblood of Search & Contextual Advertising
Relevancy is the key to contextual advertising, and online contextual advertising is big business. That’s a no-brainer, as all web and software heavyweights are vying...
Chris Tolles Named New Topix CEO
Topix, the community driven local news search experience, has a new CEO with a familiar face. Chris Tolles, the long time VP of Marketing for...
Google Further Explains Why It Is Buying DoubleClick
Today in Google’s Public Policy Blog, Alex Kinnear, Group Product Manager traces the history why Google decided on buying out ad serving company, Double Click....
New Kosmix Topical Search & Social Networking Project Focuses on Health & Medical Information
Kosmix, the topical and categorical search engine, is powering the search application on RevolutionHealth.com, the health and medical website that marries expert health content and...
LinkedIn API Announced
The major business networking sites LinkedIn and Xing are quick in providing one feature after another to out-do each other in the struggle for increasing...
Plaxo 3 Beta Review
Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform...
Practical Guide to Vertical Search Advertising
Vertical search engines (VSEs), or specialized search engines, are becoming increasingly popular, and e-marketing reporters and search engine industry analysts have deemed vertical the “hottest...
Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search
Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query...
Google Now a Phone Company : Acquiring GrandCentral
TechCrunch is reporting a rumor — and it’s often correct in these — that the telephony “management” startup GrandCentral has been acquired by Google for...
Domain Names Market Remains Hot…A Bubble Waiting To Burst?
In April, I wrote a blog post, “Domain Names Have Become True Commodities”. It’s now June and the market for Domain names is still rising...
WordPress Plugin Hurting Google Rankings?
The Red Cardinal blog tells the tale of a WordPress Plugin killing the rankings of a site in Google as the Mobile WordPress Plugin is...
Yahoo Merges Search Marketing & Display Advertising Sales Divisions
Yahoo has taken the step to combine both its search marketing & display advertising groups under one unified advertising sales division which will be headed...
Last week in China – Chinese Eye Tracking Research and more
A recent eye tracking research from Enquiro looked into Chinese user behavior regarding search results in Baidu and Google. Gord Hotchkiss wrote about this on...
How To Find Wikipedia Links
Although all external Wikipedia links are using the nofollow attribute since January of this year, links from the encyclopedia are still important because of other...
Yahoo & Bebo Partner for Search & Sponsored Listings
Yahoo Search is now powering the search results within the Bebo social network. According to Pete Cashmore at Mashable, Bebo users can now use Yahoo...
Business.com For Sale : $300 – $400 Million
Business.com, the B2B search engine & directory, is up for sale and according to the Wall Street Journal, the web destination hopes to attract valuation...
Yahoo Buys Rivals, But Who’s Buying Yahoo?
Buying Yahoo Kevin Kelleher at GigaOm points out five groups OF potential suitors for purchasing Yahoo, and handicaps each of them. Not too surprisingly, Microsoft...