Seo Home > SEJ SEO News Feedsblinkx and Movielink Partner for Movie Download Searchblinkx and Movielink Partner for Movie Download Searchblinkx, today announced a content distribution agreement with Movielink, the broadband movie download service. Under the agreement, blinkx.tv will provide a gateway for its cinema enthusiasts to easily find and download their favorite films from Movielink. blinkx.tv consumers will be able to ...
Tracking User Search Engine Behavior - Clicks and Eye Paths
Tracking User Search Engine Behavior - Clicks and Eye PathsFollowing the presentation by Dr. Bonny Brown on Customer Experience Rankings, Gord Hotchkins, President and CEO of Enquiro introduced some interesting research on how searchers read the search result page and how that leads to search engine click through behavior. Gord ...
MSN Search Eats At The Blogs Table
MSN Search Eats At The Blogs TableDuring the lunch break at Search Engine Strategies New York this year Danny Sullivan and JupiterMedia decided to turn lunch into an optional networking session with its Birds of a Feather Eat Together section. I picked up my ham sandwich lunchbox and noticed that ...
Search Behavior and Customer Experience Management
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Yahoo Celebrates Birthday With a Scoop of Ice Cream
Yahoo Celebrates Birthday With a Scoop of Ice CreamCelebrating its 10th birthday, Yahoo is inviting the entire United States to celebrate by offering a free scoop of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream. All people have to do is visit Yahoo.com on March 2nd to download a coupon which can be redeemed at ...
AOL Understands Search Engines
AOL Understands Search EnginesAOL understands web search, regardless of the absence of their own search engine. During his presentation on Search Convergence today at the Search Engine Strategies conference, Gerry Campbell, VP & GM of AOL Search & Navigation centered his oratory on the theory that users are taking ...
ValueClick Offers API for Management of Search123 and Simpli Search Advertising
ValueClick Offers API for Management of Search123 and Simpli Search AdvertisingValueClick, Inc.announced at Search Engine Strategies that its ValueClick Search division has released a free XML-based system that enables clients to use automated bid management platforms to manage pay-per-click campaigns on Search123 and Simpli.The Client Optimization Agent (COA) enables advertisers ...
Yahoo Matures Search Media On Its Tenth Anniversary
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William Hung Rocks The Ask Jeeves Party
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Overture Changing Its Name to Yahoo
Overture Changing Its Name to YahooBesides the Yahoo API announcement this morning, the amazing public relations team over at the Overture booth today filled me in on the death of the Overture brand name and its rebranding of a Yahoo service. The main reason for this rebranding seems to be ...
Yahoo Announces API Search Developer Network
Yahoo Announces API Search Developer NetworkThe big announcement today at the Search Engine Strategies Conference was Keynote Speaker Jerry Yang`s news that Yahoo is not launching a Yahoo! Search Developer Network which will allow developers the access to Yahoo Search and Overture API`s. Such API access allows developers to create ...
Searchfeed Proves Innovative in Paid Search
Searchfeed Proves Innovative in Paid SearchThe conference floor at Search Engine Strategies is fairly cluttered with "2nd tier search engines" this year and a boatload of paid search providers. One of the smaller paid search companies which has lately been making some waves in search innovation and strategic partnerships is ...
Forbes.com Picks IndustryBrains for Contextual Advertising
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Google GMail Expands Browser Support
Google GMail Expands Browser SupportGoogle was fairly criticized when GMail came into existence. The web based mailing service from the search engine giant was quite impressive though used advanced technologies to function, which limited the support for the browsers available around. GMail was still appreciated for the advancements in functionalities ...
Integrating Search into Other Marketing - From Search Engine Strategies
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Importance of Content in Search Engine Optimization
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Google AutoLink and The New Google Toolbar
Google AutoLink and The New Google ToolbarLast week, the world of search was somewhat shocked to learn that Google has included a feature on its newest toolbar, (Toolbar 3 Beta) that adds links to websites viewed when using the toolbar. Known as Auto-links, the tool will direct users to Google ...
JavaScript Kills Google Autolink On Your Site
JavaScript Kills Google Autolink On Your SiteThe fine folks over at Search Guild have posted a snippet of javascript code that breaks the Autolink feature in Google`s new toolbar, preventing it from making on-page alterations. The links that would have appeared on the page are still available if the user ...
Ask Jeeves Powering Lycos Search
Ask Jeeves Powering Lycos SearchAsk Jeeves and Lycos have announced a deal in which Lycos will begin displaying search results generated by the Ask database. Ask Jeeves results, which replace listings generated by Norway`s FAST Search and Transfer Company, began showing on Lycos early this morning. Both Ask and Lycos ...
TypePad and Friendster Team to Offer Friendster Blogs
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Yahoo Games Studio Goes Mobile
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Yahoo Sheds Overture Name and Opens Developer Network
Yahoo Sheds Overture Name and Opens Developer NetworkYahoo will be killing the Overture brand name early in the second quarter as it moves to merge all its search services under the same banner. Yahoo also announced the beta version of the Yahoo Developer Network, an Application Program Interface (API) allowing ...
News, RSS, and Blog Search - Feedster, Topix.net, and Yahoo
News, RSS, and Blog Search - Feedster, Topix.net, and YahooAfter returning from Search Engine Strategies today I realized their were a couple of sessions I noted, but forgot to publish. News Search, RSS Feeds, and Blog Search was one of them, I entered late so I hope that Mark Fletcher ...
Netscape 8.0 Beefs Up Mozilla Firefox
Netscape 8.0 Beefs Up Mozilla Firefox Based on Mozilla Firefox 1.0, this beta of Netscape`s newest browser offers support for both the Gecko and Internet Explorer rendering engines. A new Site Controls feature lets users enable and disable features like ActiveX, JavaScript and cookies on a site-by-site basis (the browser ...
Search Engines Open Up With Blogs
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SEO Inc Girls Heat Up Search Engine Strategies
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Yahoo to Invest in Blogs
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Google Adds Weather Forecast
Google Adds Weather ForecastGoogle noted on their blog yesterday that they have added a shortcut which allows users to search for weather forecasts in various areas by typing in "weather" and then their zip code. This is a simple, yet useful tool on Google as the search company makes more ...
Google Desktop Search - Live and Enhanced
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Internet News Readership Booms Among Americans
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Kanoodle Offers Local Targeted Contextual Advertising
Kanoodle Offers Local Targeted Contextual AdvertisingKanoodle today announced the launch of Kanoodle`s LocalTarget(tm), currently the only available sponsored links product built solely for local targeting on content pages. LocalTarget provides advertisers with the opportunity to more accurately target local customers via Kanoodle`s topic-matching approach to listings on market-specific Web ...
Search Engine Optimization for MSN Search
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Navango Search Engine Looking for Testers and Researchers
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Yahoo Directory Ranks Pages by Popularity
Yahoo Directory Ranks Pages by PopularityThe Yahoo! Directory has gone under some revisions. One such revision is that it now defaults the sorting of the directory listings by "popularity". What does "by popularity" mean? Well, in the Yahoo! Directory Help section it states as follows.By default, Directory site listings are ...
Google and GuruNet?s Answers.com Officially Partner
Google and GuruNet`s Answers.com Officially PartnerGoogle and Answers.com have been working together for a while, but today the two companies made it official. GuruNet Corporation (Answers.com;s parent company) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Google Inc. to include Google`s contextual AdSense advertising on its information pages, as ...
AOL Cuts AdWare From Advertising.com Partners
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Yahoo Rank Checker That Uses the API
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Google AdWords - Multiple Listings for Same Ad
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ESPN Hiring Search Engine Technicians
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Google Desktop Search 1.0 Searches More Files
Google Desktop Search 1.0 Searches More FilesGoogle Desktop Search is now available as a final 1.0 version, which is freely downloadable from the Google’s website. It had been under beta testing for quite some months now and it was about time that Google enhanced the tool to incorporate suggestions and ...
Apple iTunes Threatened by Sony, Napster and Yahoo
Apple iTunes Threatened by Sony, Napster and YahooToday Apple shares took a stumble on the stock market as news was released by two of Apple iTunes` biggest competitors, Sony and Napster, and rumors were spread that Yahoo is looking to get into the paid music download marketplace. Apple shares dropped ...
Google Bans Itself for Cloaking
Google Bans Itself for CloakingYesterday Ben (at SERoundtable) wrote an entry named Google Cloaking Its Own Pages! where he discribes the forums discussing the slip up on Google`s part. The thread at WebmasterWorld on the second page, message # 27 by GoogleGuy, we hear the official Google response.Those pages were ...
FactBites Search Engine Encyclopedia Hybrid
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Yahoo May Launch Version of Google AdSense
Yahoo May Launch Version of Google AdSenseDozens of well placed rumours lead back to a potential challenge to Google`s almost unfettered rule of the contextual advertising market. According to many, including the unofficial Yahoo Blog (which displays Google AdSense Ads), Yahoo is about to create an advertising distribution network to ...
VoIP Plans for AOL &Google
VoIP Plans for AOL & GoogleGoogle and AOL both made waves in the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) world today as AOL announced that they will be launching a VoIP offering across their AOL broadband network this month and rumors about Google management getting together and shopping for a VoIP ...
New Customization Features at Google News
New Customization Features at Google NewsLogged on this morning and saw that Google News is testing some new features dealing with personalization of how news stories are shown. Such features include the ability to add more news stories per topic, subtract some news topics from the Google News start ...
iPod Tax for Music and Video Downloads?
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Google Fights Viruses and Automated Query Tools
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My Yahoo Mobile RSS - It?s a Big Thing
My Yahoo Mobile RSS - It`s a Big ThingYesterday Yahoo! announced at the Yahoo! Search blog that they released My Yahoo! Mobile RSS. For some reason, I have not yet found any forum threads on it, not even at WebmasterWorld. In my opinion, this is a big deal and forums ...
Are Search Rankings at Yahoo &MSN Search Worthless?
Are Search Rankings at Yahoo & MSN Search Worthless?It seems I now do this rant every single year when traffic statistics are discussed in web industry news. Last week I posted to my Reality SEO blog that referred traffic numbers are the only statistic that webmasters should be concerned about ...
Search Engine Optimization Straight Talk
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What SEOs Expect From Their Clients
What SEOs Expect From Their ClientsI`ve seen a lot of articles around lately about how to pick and choose a search engine optimization company. That`s fine and dandy, but it often works the other way around in this industry. The most successful SEOs pick and choose their own clients. Good ...
VoIP Phone Service Advantages and Drawbacks
VoIP Phone Service Advantages and DrawbacksToday seems to be a slower day in Search Engine News so with rumors spreading this week about Google getting into VoIP phone service and with AOL, Yahoo, and MSN already in the running with testing VoIP services outside of the US and/or planning them ...
Yahoo and RIM Bring Yahoo Messenger to BlackBerry
Yahoo and RIM Bring Yahoo Messenger to BlackBerryYahoo and Research In Motion, a global wireless solutions firm, announced that they will be providing a service which will give BlackBerry users access to Yahoo Messenger. Under the partnership, Yahoo and Research In Motion will pre-install color Yahoo Messenger software on ...
BlackBerry Bringing AOL and Yahoo Instant Messaging
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Paid Search Landing Pages - Are You in for a Safe Landing?
Paid Search Landing Pages - Are You in for a Safe Landing?You`ve paid for your ticket and your ads are up on Google AdWords and Yahoo`s Overture, but have you set up a safe landing for your clients? Run a test landing. Do a search and find your Pay Per ...
The Brains Behind WalMart-Blows.com and other Corporate Hate Sites
The Brains Behind WalMart-Blows.com and other Corporate Hate SitesThis is not as search engine related as most of the news published today, but we found this list of the most popular corporate hate sites on Forbes.com tonight and it quickly reminded one of the Starbucks and Home Depot examples of ...
Microsoft MSN Search Advertising To Launch in March?
Microsoft MSN Search Advertising To Launch in March?Despite being a signed Overture paid search ad distribution partner until 2006 and rumors escalating earlier in the year that the current MSN paid search frmula would be intact until June of 2005, Bloomberg News reported today that MSN Search will be announcing ...
Vivisimo?s Clusty Government Search Engine
Vivisimo`s Clusty Government Search EngineVivisimo and its Clusty search client launched Gov.Clusty.com today, a service built to search and cluster political news, government information sites, such as FirstGov, think tanks and large, publicly released government documents, such as the 2006 Federal Budget and the 9/11 Report from a single site....
Firefox Extension from TurboScout Accesses 90 Search Engines
Firefox Extension from TurboScout Accesses 90 Search EnginesTurboScout.com launched a Firefox extension today which empowers over 27 million Firefox users to access original results from more than 90 search engines with just a click. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, majority of Internet searchers use multiple search engines to compare results from search ...
Before Launching Your Search Engine Optimization Campaign
Before Launching Your Search Engine Optimization CampaignOne of the most important aspects of a search engine optimization campaign is also one of the most overlooked – preparation! There are some important steps to take in advance of launching your campaign that will make sure it has a better chance ...
SearchFeed Sponsored Links Reach Over 500 Million Searches per Month
SearchFeed Sponsored Links Reach Over 500 Million Searches per MonthSearchfeed.com, a search advertising network, announced today its search advertising reach now exceeds a half a billion searches per month. This considerable increase marks a near doubling in search volume for the engine, growing from 360 million searches per month ...
RIM Shares Rise on BlackBerry Deals
RIM Shares Rise on BlackBerry DealsAfter a week of lowering search stocks, RIM stock prices have risen sharply after agreements were made between Research In Motion with Yahoo and AOL. RIM, which makes BlackBerry wireless devices, agreed with both web properties to support both instant messaging services on the BlackBerry. ...
Become.com Announces Affinity Index Ranking Algorithm
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Google Local Edit Business Listing Process
Google Local Edit Business Listing ProcessJohn Battelle reports that Google Local Adds Self Serve Business Listings. So I thought I give it a shot. They make you login, which is understandable and then they take you through a clear and easy step by step process to update your listing. Personally, ...
Google Adds Ad Links Tool to Google AdSense
Google Adds Ad Links Tool to Google AdSense Just as Microsoft starts to warm up online buzz about their own paid search offering and Yahoo contextual advertising network sightings arouse bloggers with the dream of a new revenue generating option on the horizon, Google throws the industry a curveball right ...
WebTrends Upgrades WebPosition 3.5 with SmartReports
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Yahoo! 360: Community Key to Ratings/Reviews
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Google X - for Mac OS X
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How to Create a Favicon for Your Web Site
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A9: Vertical-Horizontal Search Integration
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Greg Sterling of Kelsey Group Joins Search Engine Journal
Greg Sterling of Kelsey Group Joins Search Engine JournalToday the Search Engine Journal added another search engine guru and local search expert to our group of syndicated columnists. Greg Sterling, managing editor of The Kelsey Group who also heads the Interactive Local Media program joins the expert columnists at Search ...
Yahoo’s turn to enter Blogging and Social Networking
Yahoo’s turn to enter Blogging and Social NetworkingFrom a pastime for geeks and nerds to one of the biggest fad on the internet, Blogging has caught on BIG TIME. From corporate giants to the kid next door, everyone seems to have a Blog and they are popular. So popular that ...
GoFish and IceRocket Partner for Multimedia Search
GoFish and IceRocket Partner for Multimedia SearchGoFish and IceRocket search have partnered to deliver the largest single searchable universe of digital media downloads encompassing the categories of audio, video, mobile content, and games. By developing proprietary search algorithms, hosting regular updates, and offering partners access via an open API, GoFish ...
MSN adCenter Joins Yahoo and Google in Search Advertising
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Corporate Preparation for Search Engine Optimization
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MSN Search Paid Listing Program And Privacy Concerns
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Submit Your Site to Yahoo and DMOZ Directories
Submit Your Site to Yahoo and DMOZ DirectoriesUnlike submitting to search engines, submitting your site to directories and niche portals usually involves a lot more than simply typing in your URL. You often have to start by researching the various topic categories to find the most appropriate area to submit ...
Google X Cloned
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Domain Names: A Sneaky Attempt To Take My Name
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Firefox Browser Increasing Popularity at Expense of Microsoft IE
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Google News Sued by Agence France Presse
Google News Sued by Agence France PresseGoogle News, Google`s news aggregation service which recently added new personalization features, has been sued by Agence France Presse. Agence France Presse alleges that Google includes AFP`s photos, stories and news headlines on Google News without permission from Agence France Presse. AFP is seeking ...
Google - Internet Democracy?
Google - Internet Democracy?Is Google, as its creators (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) claim, `uniquely democratic`? Well, it is certainly unique, or at least it was when it was founded. However, its claim to be democratic is extremely questionable. If it is indeed a democracy, it is one comparable to ...
Flickr Photo Sharing Service Acquired by Yahoo
Flickr Photo Sharing Service Acquired by YahooWill it be Google, will it be Yahoo? Who will acquire Flickr? Well, this weekend not only was Ask Jeeves acquired by IAC in a groundshaking surprise move, but Yahoo also acquired Flickr, the photo sharing and flogging (foto blogging) community service. Duncan Riley ...
InterActiveCorp Buys Ask Jeeves for $1.9 Billion
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Future of Yahoo and Flickr
Future of Yahoo and FlickrFlickr announced yesterday that it has been acquired by Yahoo after months of rumors and speculation. Flickr is not just a photo sharing, photoblogging service, but a community of closely knit members - some fearing an end to the community as it may become aligned with ...
Ask Jeeves, IAC - More Deals on the Way?
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Pinpoint Travel: If It Works, They Win
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Google Messenger For Windows Virus
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Google Talks to Google X Clones
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Apple iTunes Fixes Digital Rights Management Hack
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Google News Removing Agence France Presse From Index
Google News Removing Agence France Presse From IndexOver the weekend the French news agency, Agence France Presse, sued Google News for including AFP’s photos, stories and news headlines on Google News without permission from Agence France Presse. AFP is seeking damages of around $17.5 million and an order barring Google ...
DVD Jon?s PyMusique Bypasses Apple iTunes Again
DVD Jon`s PyMusique Bypasses Apple iTunes AgainThat was fast. Almost too fast. But conspiracy theories aside, this fist fight back and forth between DVD hacker Jon Johansen and Apple is getting to be pretty exciting. Exactly 1 day after Jon posted app and source code for a way to get ...
Three News Publishers Acquire 75% of Topix.net
Three News Publishers Acquire 75% of Topix.netThree major news companies have bought 75% of Topix.net, acquiring an even stake for each publishing giant. Gannett Co., Inc., Knight-Ridder, Inc. and Tribune Company jointly have acquired a 75 percent stake in Topix.net. Ownership is split evenly, with each media company owning 25 ...
Yahoo Boosts Yahoo Mail to 1 GB Storage
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Real Estate Vertical Offers Simplified Search Marketing
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Quigo Serves Advertising for Automotive Partners
Quigo Serves Advertising for Automotive PartnersQuigo Technologies announced today that it signed agreements with several large automotive publishers to use AdSonar Exchange to place relevant text ads on their automotive web sites. AdSonar Exchange matches advertisers and publishers using contextual targeting technology in order to address the search relevancy issue. ...
Become.com?s AIR Out-Ranks Hilltop
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Digital Point?s Keyword Tracker Supports MSN and Yahoo
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FeedBeep Mobile Blog Monitoring Powered by PubSub
FeedBeep Mobile Blog Monitoring Powered by PubSubPubSub and Santa Cruz Tech today announced the launch of FeedBeep, an Internet-driven service providing real-time RSS alerts to Short Message Service (SMS)-enabled phones and mobile devices. FeedBeep utilizes PubSub’s prospective search technology to monitor RSS feeds and the blogosphere - using keyword search. ...
Gigablast Offering Related Pages
Gigablast Offering Related PagesGigablast has added a Related Pages feature to their search engine offering. “Related Pages are highly relevant search results which do not necessarily contain the searcher’s query terms. A lot of these related pages are never even returned by other search engines for that reason.,” said ...
Pay Per Call Search Becoming More Competitive
Pay Per Call Search Becoming More CompetitiveA raft of competitors using the label “pay per call” is about to enter the marketplace and compete for business in this up-and-coming arena. The first of these new would-be competitors for Ingenio making a public push is ZiffTalk. Another is Thinking Voice. Call ...
Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search Engine
Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search EngineYahoo has released a search service for searching the Creative Commons database of content which is available for reuse and redistribution. Most material on the Internet comes with a full copyright, Yahoo Creative Commons search helps developers and site owners find content published by authors ...
Yahoo to Limit Access to PPC API
Yahoo to Limit Access to PPC APIBased on a post over at Smart Keywords Blog, AussieWebmaster reports that Yahoo! is going to lock down the API for the PPC Program. He says, "Right now no new SEM/Analytics companies are being allowed in, or the "not no, not now" response."He adds, ...
Yahoo Joins Google in the 1GB Email Club
Yahoo Joins Google in the 1GB Email ClubOn April 1st of 2004 Google announced that they were planning to launch an email service that would come with 1 GB of storage capacity. Amazingly, a year ago it seemed like a fantasy to imagine a webmail inbox capable of storing so ...
Google News Stirring Up Controversy
Google News Stirring Up ControversyThe three months of 2005 is turning out to be a cursed quarter for the PR department at the Googleplex. This week, the public spotlight focused on Google News for two less-than -honourable mentions.First, Google News has been forced to remove materials from Agence France Presse ...
Google?s AdSense Soon To Have New Rival?
Google`s AdSense Soon To Have New Rival?A large part of Google`s multi-billion dollar annual turnover comes from its nifty AdSense advertising program. The software enables website owners to drop in a piece of code to their pages that then serves advertisements provided by Google.How Does Google AdSense Work? It all ...
Pinning Relevancy Versus Optimization
Pinning Relevancy Versus OptimizationThere is a thread over at Search Engine Watch forums named SE Relevancy vs. SE Optimization - Round 1 where a member named "relevancy" (yea i know), wanted to pin "Optimization" versus "Relevancy."As you can imagine, many other members had an issue as to "why these need ...
Yahoo Mail, Blogs, and Flickr Challenge Google
Yahoo Mail, Blogs, and Flickr Challenge GoogleYahoo has been on an upgrading spree recently with a major acquisition, two major upgrades and a beta-release of a new blogging tool. It`s no secret the execs and techs at Yahoo have been working overtime to re-brand and upgrade Yahoo`s various services. Yahoo ...
Question &Answer Search Engines : Ask Jeeves vs. Brain Boost
Question & Answer Search Engines : Ask Jeeves vs. Brain BoostA new thread is just getting started over at Cre8asite Forums named How to get answers to questions.In that thread, moderator, Barry Weldford, asks what search engines are out there to give you answers to specific questions? He brings up ...
FCC?s Naked DSL Decision : End of Broadband?
FCC`s Naked DSL Decision : End of Broadband?The FCC is considering suspending regulations which require DSL providers to offer broadband service separately from phone line service, which did encourage the spread of availability of what`s known as "naked" DSL. Broadband adoption is needed in order for tech based industries such ...
Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogs?
Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogs?Technorati reports that 30,000 - 40,000 new blogs are being created each day. According to David Sifry, part of the growth of new blogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs. What are spam blogs? They are fake blogs that ...
Google News Boots Partner of Agence France Presse?
Google News Boots Partner of Agence France Presse?Last week after a law suit was filed by the Agence France Presse against Google News for "illegally" indexing AFP`s images and content for distribution, Bob Hoffman has posted a rant on Search Engine Guide on how Google did not only delete AFP ...
RSS Use Increasing Says Slashdot
RSS Use Increasing Says SlashdotSlashdot commissioned a survey of readers of its RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) feed to determine just how its readers are using RSS technology now and detect future plans and platforms for accessing content via RSS. While most of the tech blog`s readers ...
Ask Jeeves Adult Content Filter Not So Good: Users Accept Fault
Ask Jeeves Adult Content Filter Not So Good: Users Accept FaultEric Scheske from Crux Magazine, a normal Internet searcher, wrote up an entry complaining about a particular search experience. Basically he searched on the question (Ask answers questions) What`s the name of the famous black transvestite? and arrived at the ...
File Swappers Go Beyond Downloading
File Swappers Go Beyond DownloadingFile swappers are developing new and innovative ways to trade songs and videos now that Napster has gone legit, Apple, Yahoo, and MSN are getting into the paid per download game, and record industry lawsuits are targeting users of peer to peer file sharing devices. According ...
Sony PSP : Convergence of Mobile Entertainment
Sony PSP : Convergence of Mobile Entertainment Sony PSP may be the "all in one" mobile web, gaming, music, movie, and communications technical device on the market, posing a direct competitor to Apple, Microsoft, and others expanding into the handheld market. Convergence seems to be the buzz word of 2005. ...
Yahoo Messenger Invaded by Phishing Scam
Yahoo Messenger Invaded by Phishing ScamYahoo Instant Messenger users have fallen target to a phishing attack where victims receive messages which appear to be from their Yahoo buddies. If the user clicks on the message then they are taken to a site which is cloned as a Yahoo site which ...
Firefox Security Upgraded - Time to Update
Firefox Security Upgraded - Time to UpdateMozilla Foundation released an updated version of their flagship browser Firefox today. It has now reached version no. 1.02 and is available as a free download. The foundation recommends all the existing users of the open source browser to upgrade to remain secure from ...
Mark Cuban Enters MGM vs. Grokster
Mark Cuban Enters MGM vs. GroksterMark Cuban, the man who created and sold Broadcast.com and most recently became a major backer of the IceRocket search engine, is now stepping into the court rooms on behalf of Grokster. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) apparently approached Mark about helping their cause, and ...
Search Engine Industry Expanding
Search Engine Industry ExpandingLast week was yet another week of tremendous change in the search sector. Several announcements competed for space with each other over the past seven days, each of which adds to the growing tapestry of services that comprise the search-marketing metaverse.The search engine marketing industry has evolved ...
Yahoo! (Overture) Continues to Add SEMs to API
Yahoo! (Overture) Continues to Add SEMs to APILast week, we covered a forum thread on the topic of Yahoo! to Limit Access to PPC API. It is important to note that an update has been made to that thread that denies this. An "OvertureRep" says as follows: It seems there ...
Google Withholding Taxes from AdSense Checks
Google Withholding Taxes from AdSense ChecksThere is a WebmasterWorld thread where a dozen members are reporting that Google has taken the liberty to withhold taxes from the AdSense checks they have sent to publishers. The thread starter said " I have a U.S. corporation with an EIN number registered with ...
Indeed Follows oodle Launch in Jobs Search Arena
Indeed Follows oodle Launch in Jobs Search ArenaIndeed.com formally launches on the same day as oodle, offering meta-search for Jobs. Here’s the announcement. Indeed is one of several new meta-search job sites. Indeed and oodle represent efforts to consolidate and integrate the consumer experience and away from silos or “verticalization.” ...
oodle: Google for Classifieds
oodle: Google for ClassifiedsCall it a search engine for classifieds. Started by a couple of the original folks at excite, oodle aims to be a comprehensive search engine for classifieds. That’s right: Craigslist, eBay, CareerBuilder, Cars.com, newspaper sites—everything. Right now, they’re launching (in beta of course) with three cities: Chicago, ...
MSN Search Pays $150 Million for 1.4 Percent of Market Share
MSN Search Pays $150 Million for 1.4 Percent of Market ShareAccording to data released by Nielsen//NetRatings, as reported in AdWeek, MSN’s new broad consumer marketing campaign has seemed to drive some usage growth. According to Nielsen, MSN’s search market share grew 1.4 percent from 12.8 percent to 14.2 percent in ...
Google Buys Urchin Web Analytics
Google Buys Urchin Web AnalyticsUrchin is really one of my best friends, I use it daily, laugh with it, cry with it, but more importantly, I depend on it. Ever since Urchin first came out with its first product, I have had a relationship with them (I believe in 97 ...
Google Urchin Buy a Response to MSN AdCenter?
Google Urchin Buy a Response to MSN AdCenter?No doubt Google’s acquisition of Urchin Software (rumoured by Battelle to be worth $30 million) was in the works for a while, but MSN’s AdCenter announcement (with its enhanced analytics) might have given the deal whatchya might call a “nudge.” Less noticed was ...
LookSmart Intros Vertical Search Engines
LookSmart Intros Vertical Search EnginesVertical Search, Vertical Search, how many times can you say Vertical Search? Perhaps not more than Danny Sullivan did at Search Engine Strategies in New York earlier this month. Vertical search seems to be where it`s at, as people get sick of sorting through traditional web ...
Yahoo 360 Invitations and Beta Testing
Yahoo 360 Invitations and Beta TestingToday I was invited to join the beta testing of Yahoo 360, Yahoo`s new blogging, photosharing, and social networking answer to Orkut, Friendster, LiveJournal and MySpace. Barry Schwartz over at SERoundtable was giving them out and I`ve already distributed about 15 invitations today - with ...
NetTracker Introduces Lite Web Analytics Solution
NetTracker Introduces Lite Web Analytics SolutionMark March 29th on your calendars as Web Analytics Day. To add to the news which has been surrounding the Google acquisition of Urchin and WebTrends fleeing NetIQ for the arms of Francisco Partners, NetTracker today announced the availability of NetTracker Lite (way to work ...
WebTrends Acquired By Francisco Partners for $94 Million
WebTrends Acquired By Francisco Partners for $94 MillionWebTrends was aquired by Francisco Partners from NetIQ Corporation. The transaction is being undertaken with the full participation and support of the WebTrends management team, members of which will be investing in the new business together with Francisco Partners. Greg Drew, currently general ...
FedEx, UPS and USPS Package Tracking Added to Bloglines
FedEx, UPS and USPS Package Tracking Added to BloglinesThis morning I revieved a press release from Ask Jeeves named "Bloglines is First to Go Beyond the Blog With Unique-to-Me Info Updates" with a subtitle "New FedEx, UPS and U.S. Postal Service Package Tracking Lands in the Bloglines Universal Inbox." Keeps ...
Grokster and the Supreme Court - Dangers of P2P File Sharing
Grokster and the Supreme Court - Dangers of P2P File SharingThis week the Supreme Court heard arguments from MGM, StreamCast Networks and Grokster about file sharing software and the illegal trading of copyrighted material along with its effects on the music and film industries. We`ve covered P2P file sharing before ...
Google GMail Now Offers Rich Text
Google GMail Now Offers Rich Text Google GMail now supports fonts, bullets, highlighting, indenting and much more. Colors and few fonts are also available to be implemented on the text content. Impressively, forwarding HTML mails work fine as well. This was one area where Yahoo! had an advantage over Google ...
Google Sandbox Explained - Information retrieval based on historical data
Google Sandbox Explained - Information retrieval based on historical dataMsgraph at Search Engine Watch Forums does it again, he posted a thread named Google`s look into document scoring by historical data. In that thread, he points to a patent issued by Google on December 31, 2003 on the topic ...
MSN Video Download Service Launched by Microsoft
MSN Video Download Service Launched by MicrosoftSoon owners of Portable Media Centers, smart phones and pocket computers will be able to download daily programs and other video content from MSNBC.com, Food Network, Fox Sports, IFilm and other content providers, Microsoft said. SA Computer Mag reports that The company had announced ...
Copernic Upgrades Desktop Search
Copernic Upgrades Desktop SearchCopernic released its upgraded desktop search product, Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) version 1.5., today This production release, launched after five weeks of extensive beta testing, contains major enhancements to the company`s flagship product.Critically-acclaimed since its introduction, previous versions of CDS have collected prestigious awards such as CNET ...
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