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New Year’s Resolutions from Search Engine Journal
As I woke up this morning to greet the last day of 2007, I started thinking to myself the things I want to change for...
Google Knol – Looking at Wikipedia’s Rival
There’s a new kid on the online block named Knol and even this early in the development stage, some people are already predicting that it...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part II
This is the second part of my series about bugs and usability issues with various Google services. My previous post was about Google Picasa and...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I
It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs...
Introducing SearchSalad: A Healthy Way to Search
Every once in awhile its good to see other metasearch engine come out of the web. While the top five major search engines battle it...
Vote for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007
The nominations for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007 have been compiled and we’re ready to have you vote for your favorite Search Blogs, Communities...
Otavo : The Intention Search Engine
Launched about a year and a half ago, Otavo is famous as the intention engine. Headquartered at Canada, the engine is loosely coupled around search...
Google Adds U.S. Elections Coverage on News Portal
Doug Caverly of WebProNews is reporting that Google News has added coverage of the U.S. 2008 elections. The Official Google News Blog has announcement about...
Google Reader Sharing Feature Raises Privacy Concerns
Google announced a small change to Google Reader back on December 14 which seemed innocent enough, and in line with their goals of making all...
Google Partners with DoCoMo : Japanese Search Market Prepares for iPhone
Google is making a push to expand its reach in the Yahoo owned Japanese market via targeting where the majority of Japanese users spend their...
Sam’s Club Search Marketing : Good or Bad for the Industry?
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart owned mega store which is a godsend to small businesses looking to stock locally breaking dependency on wholesale distributors, is now...
Google’s AutoLink Browser Tool in Court on Patent Infringement Charges
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that Google’s AdSense program did not infringe on any patents as alleged by Hyperphrase Technologies. However the...
Google Bans AdWords Ads for Being Too Sexy
Google has blocked the serving of AdWords contextual (or AdSense) display ads in the European market of US lingerie company Pampered Passions because the company...
Like.com : Revisiting Visual Search as It Should Be
Riya launched Like.com, a visual search engine in the year 2006. Image search in its true spirit should be about the image only. Most image...
Empire Today : How to Optimize a Badly Branded Google Results Page
Last week was a trying week for me as on top of the normal day to day responsibilities of managing a search blog and a...
Meta Search Engines : Why Use Them? Still Important?
Engines which work on top of search engines has been a growing area ever since Web Search went mainstream. Most meta-search engines use content from...
Google Won’t Just Step Down the Search Rankings, Tops comScore’s November Report
Looks like Google is out to dominate the search engine battle this year. It has consistently topped search engine rankings from various web analytics reports...
WikiaSearch Launches in Private Beta
Michael Arrington is reporting that WikiaSearch, Jimmy Wales’ much anticipated open-source search engine has actually launched, today. The closed announcement (mailed through the WikiaSearch mailing...
Kayak.com Travel Search Engine Merges With SideStep Inc.
Kayak.com announced today the completion of a $196 financing round, which they will use to complete a merger with SideStep Inc. and to pursue a...
Google Granted DoubleClick Acquisition, Big Week for Big Media
In a pro-Big Media trend by government regulatory agencies, Google was just handed a huge Christmas present by the FTC, which voted 4 to 1...
Yahoo Inks Deal with Latin America’s Top Mobile Operator, America Movil
Not to be outdone with the recent news buzz about rivals Microsoft and Google, Yahoo does it end-of-the-year bang with its share of the web...
Will Google Finally Get the FTC Clearance to Buy DoubleClick
The Google-DoubleClick deal has been going for too long now, that it is already tiring to follow on how the development of the transactions has...
The $500 Million Microsoft-Viacom Deal
The press release lead says: Companies sign landmark multiyear deal to collaborate on content distribution, advertising, event promotions and gaming; Microsoft’s Atlas to become exclusive...
Digg.com for Sale : $300 Million
Digg.com is officially in the market for sale with a price tag of $300 million dollars. One of the most popular social media sites on...
FCC Approves Google’s Application to Bid on Wireless Spectrum
Google’s application to bid in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction next month has been accepted by the Federal Communications Comission (FCC). However, some of...
Buried Link Treasure: The Acquisition of Quality Backlinks
As we all know, link building has become a bit more difficult these days. Google has recently come out with a new campaign to filter...
Natural Language Search Not a Priority for Google
Some segments of the search engine world, such as Ask and Powerset, are gambling on the idea that the future of search is in natural...
MS AdCenter Affiliate Program Launch and Some Historic Affiliate Marketing Insights
Despite the not so perfect reputation that affiliate marketing has are companies like Microsoft and even Google using this advertising and marketing channel with thousands...
Google Rolls Out Centralized Profiles Via New Google Profiles
Over the weekend, Google quietly began rolling out a new, centralized profile system that will supply personalized information to each of the Google products that...
The Upcoming Face-Off Between Microsoft vs. Google : Battle on the Horizon
The New York Times had an interesting piece in the paper over the weekend, which talked about an upcoming battle between Microsoft and Google. The...