SEO In-house Spotlight: Baron Ginnetti with Pronto.com
This week’s in-house spotlight is on Baron Ginnetti, the new Director of SEO & Content Distribution at Pronto.com. Baron’s legacy comes from his SEO efforts...
Google Confirms Intentions to Bid on Wireless Spectrum
After months of speculation and whispers, Google confirmed on Friday their plans to submit a bid for wireless spectrum to be auctioned by the Federal...
Facebook Users Flip on Beacon: Lesson in Social Community Ethics
So, you’re the largest growing social media site and you think you can do whatever you want and users won’t care? Think again Facebook. When...
Google Adds Form for Reporting Malware in Results
This week we saw a vicious attack on Google, Yahoo and MSN search results by malware and spyware operators hit the big news after months...
News Publishers Seeking More Control Over Search Engines Propose Automated Content Access Protocol
News publishers meeting today have unveiled a new proposal that would give them a greater amount of control over the way that search engines index...
Google Reader’s Two New Features Made Possible by Two Google Interns
Google Reader quietly introduced two nifty features aimed at finding more not so well known and yet interesting blogs and a better way of organizing...
Student Using Human Brain Mapping to Power Image Search Engine
There are some exciting new innovations in search coming up on the horizon, and one of those is a project currently being worked on by...
Google Removes Malware Sites, But Doesn’t Admit There Was a Problem
Following up on yesterday’s story about a massive malware attack on the “big three” search engines, which saw the manipulation of the search engines to...
Google Test Lets Users Vote, Add and Delete Sites in SERPS
Google Experimental is testing the ability to actually change the ranking of results or delete sites listed in personalized search results, in a Digg style...
Yahoo to Serve Ads on Adobe PDF Documents
Yahoo’s latest move towards expanding the reach of its advertisement program is in the form of Adobe’s popular document reading format, Adobe PDF. Dubbed as...
Gmail Becomes More Like Yahoo IM, Adds Group Chat and Rich Emoticons
The Official Gmail Blog just announced the addition of group chat and rich emoticons into Gmail’s chat facility. The Gmail Group Chat allows multiple chat...
AOL and CBS Radio Team Up to Bring Online Videos to Local Radio Station Websites
AOL and CBS Radio has reached an agreement whereby video contents from AOL’s Truveo will be made available on CBS Radio’s websites. Under the said...
Big Three Search Engines Target of Massive Malware Attack
According to a security research firm report issued on Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search are currently under a large-scale organized attack campaign designed...
Linkbait 101: How To Create Linkable Content and Get Others to Link to It
Creating linkbait, or getting website to link to you on their own, and with Google starting to devalue paid links, it couldn’t be a better...
Google Maps Offers New Views & Collaboration Features
Working in a library where I am subjected to the random, erratic questions of library patrons, I’m a pretty avid user of Google Maps. From...
Ask.com Parent Company IAC Gunning For China
China, with its population of over 1.3 billion people, is an emerging force in the business world. Just think of all the tainted product recalls...
Google Launches Highly Open Participation Contest
Google wants to mobilize pre-university students into its open source development projects. And Google is doing this through the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, whereby...
IBM-Yahoo Updates OmniFind Yahoo Edition
IBM and Yahoo have released a new version of their enterprise search tool with enhancements on customization and personalization of searches. Launched December last year,...
Yahoo Stores Crash on Cyber Monday : Merchants Outraged
One of the largest online shopping days of the year, Cyber Monday brought in over an estimated $700 million in online sales yesterday, but not...
Is the GDrive Finally Coming Out?
Like I always say, if a long-standing rumor has landed the pages of the Wall Street Journal, that rumor must be finally coming true. This...
Cyber Monday : Shop.org Holiday Turns into Online Shopping Phenomena
After a long extended weekend of football, overeating and hitting the malls, Cyber Monday has descended upon us as another way to get excellent discounts...
Google’s Treatment of Underscores vs Hyphens – The Confusion
Back in July, Matt Cutts made the announcement at the WordPress Wordcamp that underscores are now treated as spaces in Google. Blogs, webmaster communities, and...
Google Dominates U.S. Searches for October
As expected Google once again dominated U.S. search engine rankings for October based on the recent ComScore report. The almighty Google search engine even managed...
Google Says Selling Links Can Harm Site Ranking in Search Results
Earlier in the month Google began its unofficial crackdown on pages which openly sell links in an effort to capitalize on their Google PageRank. Google’s...
Black Friday : Sales, Search & Online Shopping
Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Cowboys whooped the Jets, and like most Americans, I woke up this morning feeling like I’m carrying...
Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until...
Does Image Search Traffic Convert?
Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they...
Paglo: The World’s First Search Engine for IT
Paglo which just launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google of IT. A free and on-demand service for IT professionals, Paglo allows searching...
How to Get The Most Link Juice for Your Articles
Distributing articles for the purpose of building links to a site or for that site’s SEO can be a great way to link build and...
Yahoo Expands Newspaper Consortium With 17 Papers : Including New York Times
The Yahoo Newspaper Consortium has expanded to include 16 regional newspapers owned by the New York Times as well as The Columbus Dispatch. The latest...