Geary Interactive Acquires Fathom Online
Was just listening to the Daily Search Cast with Danny Sullivan (which I’ll be co-hosting on Wednesday, my first major podcast guest hosting gig!) and...
5 Useful Social Bookmarking FireFox Extensions
1. StumbleUpon toolbar (for registered SU users). Most useful features: review, vote for and tag any page you visit; search for pages submitted by your...
23andme : Social Networking Comes to Genomics
The trend today is about ‘socialnetworking-zing’ everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other...
Google Now Controls 69% of Online Advertising Market
Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick has turned the company into double the online advertising juggernaut that it once was, with a total advertising market share of...
Yahoo Launches Shine, Site for and by Women
Yahoo has just launched a new site that goes by the moniker “Shine”. It a new site by and for women. Everything you’d always wanted...
Google Goes Black in US and Abroad
Google Israel went black on Thursday to celebrate Earth Hour and today in the United States, Google has gone black here in a global effort...
Youtube Video Analytics : A Video Tutorial and Overview
On March 27th Youtube officially released its first version of video analytics. This release brings new depth and attention to the importance of video marketing....
Google Loses Another Top Exec to Facebook
In just one month, Google has lost two top executives to the wildly popular social networking site Facebook. First it was Sheryl Sandberg, a Google...
Google Brings Robot.txt generator to the Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools has a new tool that would certainly be useful to site owners in making their site Googlebot friendly – the Robots.txt generator....
Twitterfeed : Bringing RSS to Twitter for Every Blogger
I’d heard about this Twitter fad for a good year or so, but had never really gotten into it (or Twittered) until after the SMX...
Mobile Search : World of Opportunity
Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that...
Google AdWords Feature: AdSense for Domains Opt Out
Should you opt for the new AdSense for Domains opt out feature, quietly launched with the Google AdWords upgraded Site Exclusion tool? (Author’s Note: This...
Social Media Guide for Big Brand Corporate Businesses
The amount of activity and participation of people on sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, Del.icio.us and other so called social media sites...
2 Ways to Get Intimate with Blog Readers
Like we all know, blogging is not only (or even not at all) about a blogger talking to his readers; it is primarily about communicating...
Diigo : The End Of Bookmarks?
Diigo is perhaps one of the web’s premier research tools – this is widely accepted. Whether Web 2.0 actually ever existed is irrelevant, but the...
Google AdWords Slowing Again Says comScore
For the second month in a row, comScore says that Google AdWords spending is slowing down and its advertising growth is low, especially compared to...
Google Goes Black in Israel for the Day
Google in Israel has issued a black out for the day; not shutting down but serving a black screen with white letters instead of an...
Google Docs Becoming Web Version of Microsoft Word 2003
I don’t know if the Google Docs developers are intentionally doing it or is it really the way to develop Google Docs into a full-blown...
Mail Trends is a useful Gmail Trending Tool, if only it was easier to use
Mail Trends is a Phyton-based tool that lets you generate a visual representation of various statistics of your Gmail accounts. The code was developed by...
Yahoo joins Google, MySpace and others in the OpenSocial Movement
Yahoo just announced that it is finally joining the Google-led OpenSocial Movement. Likewise it is also joining a new non-profit organization spearheaded again by Google...
Google Android Phone to be Released By Summer?
Google first unveiled the Android mobile phone operating system in November 2007, and in recent months they’ve been showing the phone off to various media...
Yahoo HotJobs Launches New Search Algorithm
Yahoo issued a press release today announcing the launch of a new search ranking algorithm to be used with their HotJobs service. They’ve named the...
How to Analyze the Internal Power of Your Website
Obviously there are plenty of occasions where you would want to analyze your (or your competitor’s) internal pages strength. Most often these include: you want...
Do Links From Foreign Language Sites Have Value?
Usually, we do not cover forum threads, but from time to time, one does pop up which gathers my attention and is blog worthy. Today...
Searchme : A Refreshing Search Interface
Many have pointed out that the success of Google is as much its relevance algorithm as its simple clutter free approach to the user interface....
Will Apple’s Push of Safari with iTunes Cut into Mozilla’s Google Money?
When you update iTunes, Apple pushes their Safari browser to you. It’s not all that surprising that they’d want to do this, considering they now...
Microsoft & Yahoo Both Lose Ground to Google, Would Teaming Up Even Help?
Microsoft is still gunning for Yahoo in hopes that by acquiring the company they’d be able to take on and seriously compete with Google in...
Google AdWords Opens Demographic Bidding to All : Catches Up to adCenter & Yahoo
Google AdWords has opened up demographic targeting (or demographic bidding) to all AdWords advertisers according to the Inside AdWords blog. Demographic bidding lets Google AdWords...
Google Pulls Paid Ads from Search-within-Search Results Page?
When Google launched its search within search feature, there was not too much reaction about it. One of the harshest reactions was a guest post...
Learning About Locations through Wikinear
Wikinear is a simple application that lets users to locate Wikipedia entries for locations nearest to where a user is currently located. It was designed...