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Google &Baidu Dominate China Search Market
Google & Baidu Dominate China Search MarketGoogle and Baidu are the two dominant search engines in the Chinese market with a combined 90% market share between the two companies says a recent study by iResearch.Baidu is the most used search engine in the Chinese market, with a 56.8% share of searches while Google chimes in [...]

del.icio.us Browser Bookmarks Import Tool
del.icio.us Browser Bookmarks Import Tooldel.icio.us introduced a new import tool for transferring your existing browser bookmarks from Firefox, IE, Safari or Opera into live tagged del.icio.us bookmarks.The del.icio.us bookmark import function seems quite painless. Just go to del.icio.us and select Settings. You’ll see the import link in the settings box on the right side of [...]

April?s Fools via the Search Engines
April’s Fools Jokes via the Search EnginesBeyond the Google Aliens and Google Romance Contextual Dating April Fools hoaxes, there were also a number of search engine related prank announcements. With the help of Wikipedia, Google Blogoscoped and some other publications, here is the basic search engine list of April Fools jokes:Yahoo Buys Web 2.0 :“So [...]

Google Romance BETA Launches with Contextual Dating
Google Romance BETA Launches with Contextual DatingSaturday was April Fools day and Google stuck to the tradition of their previous April Fools pranks of Google Gulp and GMail (ok, GMail wasn’t really a prank) and other hoaxes like Google Pigeon Rank. Yesterday Google made two announcements which added to the seasonal fun, Google Aliens and [...]

Local.com?s Local Search &Pay Per Call Partnerships
Local.com’s Local Search & Pay Per Call Partnerships[I’ve had some readers email me and mention that the original version of this post, Local.com Building Strong Local Search Partnerships, was serving an error message. I’m not receiving an error message on the original post, but if anyone else is could you please leave a comment. [...]

Claria opens up PersonalWeb
Claria opens up PersonalWebFrom CNet:“Claria on Monday released the beta version of PersonalWeb, an Internet tracking service that delivers content to subscribers’ personalized home pages. Each feed is based on the subscriber’s online habits and includes links to frequently used Web-based e-mail, search engines, news sources and Web sites. The subscriber’s PersonalWeb home page also [...]

Hollywood To Offer Video Downloads via MovieLink &CinemaNow
Hollywood To Offer Video Downloads via MovieLink & CinemaNowThe effects of iPod, Google Video, Mark Cuban, YouTube and other video search and download on demand style schools of thought have rocked the boat enough in Hollywood for the major studios to join together and announce that they will begin selling their films via online video [...]

AOL Shrinks Sites Down to Mobile Browser Size
AOL Shrinks Sites Down to Mobile Browser SizeAOL has announced the launch of a new mobile web browsing service which automatically adapts web sites to smaller mobile device screens. The new service is part of a group of AOL mobile offerings which include mobile search, shopping search and MapQuest powered maps.From AOL : AOL’s new [...]

Google Related Links Launches For Publishers
Google Related Links Launches For PublishersGoogle has a new publisher oriented offering in Google Related Links, which is a text box that can be added to your site and suggests similar searches & news to the content on your web page. The Google Related Links tool (which does not appear to be in BETA) is [...]

Yahoo Finance Message Boards Beta Goes Social
Yahoo Finance Message Boards Beta Goes SocialWe touched a bit upon the addition of User Ratings to the Yahoo Finance Message Boards earlier today but now had a chance to check out all of the features which have been added to Message Boards Beta - especially RSS feeds of the goings on in the forums.Here’s [...]

Yahoo, Spyware &Clickless Click Fraud
Yahoo, Spyware & Clickless Click FraudClick fraud without clicks? Yahoo Search Marketing’s dealings with adware companies has always left a sour taste i nthe mouths of many surrounding the search company and its advertisers. Ben Edelmen has just released a new study, dubbed The Spyware - Click-Fraud Connection — and Yahoo’s Role Revisited, which digs [...]

Google Loves BOTW - You Should Too
Google Loves BOTW - You Should TooThe last week has felt like a trip in Bob Massa’s Magical SEO Time Machine as Directory listings, directories and seo relevance and trust building links have taken center stage in many a search engine discussion. One of the latest SEO Excellent Adventures is taking place on Shimon Sandler’s [...]

Yahoo Finance Adds User Ratings
Yahoo Finance Adds User RatingsYahoo has now added user powered ratings to its Yahoo Finance channel which helps identify the messages in the Yahoo Finance Message Boards worth reading. Given the popularity of the Yahoo Finance boards, the rating system should be an effective way to trim the fat and spam from being read. This [...]

Google Talk?s New User Icons &Themes
Google Talk’s New User Icons & ThemesGoogle has finally given a thought to bring in more funky features to their Google Talk instant messenger & VOIP application. The latest beta version of the application comes with features like user icon and chat themes.Like MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk users can now use [...]

Become.com Shopping Search Enters Japan Market
Become.com Shopping Search Enters Japan MarketBecome.com has formed a joint venture with Transcosmos Corporation of Japan to launch Become Japan, which is the first International expansion of Become.com as part of their Asia expansion plan which includes the launch of Become Korea before July.Become Japan will focus initially on product research and reviews using the [...]

Search Marketing &SEO Job Openings at Fortune Interactive
Search Marketing & SEO Job Openings at Fortune InteractiveI was thinking about posting job openings here at Search Engine Journal today and just as the debate started to grow in my mind a new RSS feed update appeared upon my aggregator via Marketing Pilgrim; ” Career Opportunities at Fortune Interactive.” Now Andy is one heck [...]

Google Canonical URL Issues and 301 Redirects
Google Canonical URL Issues and 301 RedirectsThere is an excellent recent thread named Canonical URL problems results in two sites in Googles eyes where Dayo_UK explains the current issues with having a domain name without 301 redirecting the non www to the www.He uses Matt Cutts’s blog as an example, saying;mattcutts.com/blog/2005/10/ is not indexed under [...]

Free U.S. Subscription to Search Marketing Standard
Free U.S. Subscription to Search Marketing StandardI just saw over at Search Engine Watch that there’s a brand spankin’ new search engine marketing magazine coming out soon called the Search Marketing Standard. And, if you live in the United States, you can get a free subscription (with no credit card required) through April 30. W00t!

Google Partners with Clear Channel
Google Partners with Clear ChannelAnd just as I was right in the middle of Dan Gillmor’s excellent book We the Media, a completely timely and ironically relevant news tidbit came my way; this from Adotas:“Making a further shift towards control over “old media” outlets, Google has partnered with Clear Channel to implement its AdSense network [...]

Google Romance Powered by Google Base, Love.org &Porn
Google Romance Powered by Google Base, Love.org & PornAlthough Google Romance may have been an April Fools joke, the opportunity to find love or lust via Google Search is being made available with Google Base People Profiles. CNet’s Google Blog and Threadwatch point to some Google Base search results powered in part by Love.org content, [...]

Yahoo MyWeb Improvements
Yahoo MyWeb ImprovementsYahoo!’s MyWeb is a terrific tool for saving and sharing content that was not as useful for groups as it might be. That problem is being remedied (apparently) tonight. That’s according to this post from SEW’s Chris Sherman. As a heavy MyWeb user, I look forward to the changes.Yahoo! had a great conceptual [...]

Google Banning DMOZ Open Directory Clones?
Google Banning DMOZ Open Directory Clones?A featured WebmasterWorld thread shows that Google Is Banning Sites That Use Open Directory (DMOZ) Data. The thread creator conducted a “study” that looked at the published sites using the ODP database. He then checked Google, Yahoo Search, and MSN Search using a site command, and found that approximately “50 [...]

YouTube a Yahoo Takeover Target?
YouTube a Yahoo Takeover Target?CNET reports on video site phenomenon YouTube getting $8 million in new VC funding. Dare I say it: YouTube is the MySpace of the online video world, literally and figuratively.I would argue that YouTube is precisely the kind of site that Yahoo! would love to have in its stable to jump [...]

Search Engine Journal Booted From Yahoo Search!?
Search Engine Journal Booted From Yahoo Search!?Last weekend Priyank Garg, the Product Manager of Yahoo Search, made a post to the Yahoo Search Blog about a new update in which he revealed, and I quote; “As a result, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are [...]

Google Autos : Local Car Shopping on Google
Google Autos : Local Car Shopping on GoogleFirst real estate, now Google cars. This is Base based and very much like Real Estate. You get a “one box” tease on the Google.com SERP and then a click through to a Google Local-like map-based UI with refinement fields. (Content appears to be from a broader array [...]

Google &Earthlink Selected for San Francisco Wi-Fi Project
Google & Earthlink Selected for San Francisco Wi-Fi ProjectGoogle and Earthlink today were awarded the projects of supplying the city of San Francisco with both free and paid Wi-Fi services. After a six week review, the San Francisco Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS) approved the project and will now begin finalizing negotiations with [...]

MSN Search Down For 4 Hours Today
MSN Search Down For 4 Hours TodayThere are numerous accounts coming in from around the web that MSN Search was down for about 3 to 4 hours today. MSN Search has still not announced why their search engine was not working, but have fixed the problem and searches can now be performed.According to Barry Schwartz [...]

Yahoo Search Marketing Testing New Ad Ranking System
Yahoo Search Marketing Testing New Ad Ranking SystemYahoo is testing a new search advertising monetization model in Scandinavia with possible expansion into the UK this summer dubbed “Project Panama.” Panama will be Yahoo’s new answer to serving more relevant sponsored links to searchers by taking into account the relevancy of the ad to the search [...]

Yahoo, eBay and MSN Recruiting SEO Experts
Yahoo, eBay and MSN Recruiting SEO ExpertsUK based Search Engine War has the goods on SEO recruitment efforts by MSN, eBay and Yahoo; which Martin Dinham feels is a sure sign that the perception of SEO is on the definite incline.You know something has changed in the perception enterprise search engine optimisation (SEO) when you [...]

Giant Eva Longoria Attacks Google Earth
Giant Eva Longoria Attacks Google EarthMaxim Magazine and Google have pulled off one mammoth publicity stunt with a 75 x 110 foot Maxim cover featuring a bikini clad Eva Longoria spread out in the Nevada desert. The aim of the stunt is to get Eva’s body and Maxim’s 100th issue included in Google Earth satellite [...]

Google Toolbar Turning Homepage into Google?s My Yahoo
Google Toolbar Turning Homepage into Google’s My YahooThe Google (RSS) Reader, which I like, has met with mixed reviews and limited adoption (so far). Far more successful as a personalized home page and RSS reader is MyYahoo. (My belief, however, is that Yahoo! has yet to fully leverage the potential of MyYahoo!.)Google’s IE Toolbar has [...]

Yahoo Video Search Browsing by Source
Yahoo Video Search Browsing by SourceChristopher Akhavan, Yahoo! Video Search Editor, has made a post on the Yahoo Search Blog about an alternative form of searching Yahoo Video - by source.In order to view videos by source (eg. iFilm, vsocial, grouper.com), just perform a site specific search using the “site:domain.com” command with Yahoo Video Search.This [...]

Google Buys Student?s Search Algorithm
Google Buys Student’s Search AlgorithmThe Haaretz Daily reports that Google recently acquired the text search algorithm of student Ori Alon, an Israeli student studying at Australia’s University of New South Wales. According to Haaretz, Microsoft and Yahoo were in the bidding for the search technology and now Alon works for Google.Google, Alon and the university [...]

How To Link Spam Wikipedia
How To Link Spam WikipediaPeter Davis was sifting through Wikipedia one day and came across some obvious spam links and after striking up some discussion with Wikipedia editors and admins, has come to find out that a bit of seniority with the Wikipedia project will keep your spam links intact.Peter reviews his experience in his [...]

Google Cache : Searching Wikipedia When It?s Down
Google Cache : Searching Wikipedia When It’s DownGoogle’s cache of the indexable Internet may have its controversies with copyright lawyers, but when it comes to searching sites when their servers are experiencing problems, it’s the next best thing. Lifehacker points to a blog post entitled “How to live when Wikipedia dies” by Ian Sefferman.1. Instead [...]

YPNBlog Launches : Yahoo Publisher Network Blog Community
YPNBlog Launches : Yahoo Publisher Network Blog CommunityEven though Yahoo Publisher Network remains in an invite only Beta offering, it is growing larger by the day. Yahoo, in an effort to ad more of a sense of community and communication between its YPN publishers, has launched the Yahoo Publisher Network’s Blog at YPNblog.com.Yahoo! Publisher Network [...]

Google?s New Popularity Rank; Traffic Versus Links
Google’s New Popularity Rank; Traffic Versus LinksThere is a fresh thread at WebmasterWorld named Google algo moves away from links, towards traffic patterns. This reinforces what many have been saying for the past year or so. Google’s popularity came from using linkage data and PageRank to score how popular a Web page is. Times are [...]

Monster.com is a Monster in the Job Search Engine Market
Monster.com is a Monster in the Job Search Engine MarketThis according to the InternetStockBlog:“Monster is the leader in a business that many, many companies are in and many more want to be. These set up into two classes of competitors. One class has money and traffic, the other class is desperate. Yahoo! (NASD:YHOO) is in [...]

Mystery of the Yahoo Sock Monkey on YPN Blog
Mystery of the Yahoo Sock Monkey on YPN BlogThe Yahoo Publisher Network launched their YPN Blog today which will serve as a question & answer, feedback, information, and innovation forum for site publishers using the YPN Contextual Advertising program (still in invite only BETA). The blog is run via Wordpress, which is more community oriented [...]

Windows Live Product Search from Microsoft
Windows Live Product Search from MicrosoftA lot of buzz going on right now about the possible launching of Windows Live Academic Search sometime soon, but LiveSide also has the inside scoop on a new shopping search offering for Windows Live.In a manner similar to Froogle, Product Search performs price comparison on products and allows the [...]

ABC.com Offering Full Episodes of Desperate Housewives &Lost
ABC.com Offering Full Episodes of Desperate Housewives & LostWith CBS partnering finding a partner in Google Video, then deciding to bypass Google Video by offering downloads of Survivor via their website, and then partnering with Yahoo to offer a web version of 60 Minutes, it’s time for other netowrks to step up with some broadband [...]

Time Warner and SpotRunner : AdWords for Television
Time Warner and SpotRunner : AdWords for TelevisionGoogle has stuck their fingers in print media and radio, trying to integrate the AdWords format of auctioning off targeted direct response advertising spots to the most relevant and/or highest paying bidders - but now Time Warner Cable is claiming their stake in the big money traditional advertising [...]

Google Rankings via Linkbaiting Blogs
Google Rankings via Linkbaiting BlogsAt Problogger, Martin Roth (Darren is on vacation) has posted his Case Study on using blogs to gather top Google Rankings via Linkbait, the first for Bird Flu oriented terms and the second for Gillette Razors.The Bird Flu approach was quite simple and gathered Martin a decent response:“I posted my article, [...]

Ranting About Google AdSense Click Fraud Allegations
Ranting About Google AdSense Click Fraud AllegationsGoogle is denying ‘dot.com millionaire‘ (I think I know about 50 dot com millionaires) Benjamin Cohen payment for the Google AdSense ads which were run on his Gay News site.Seems Google thinks that there has been some click fraud going on despite the low amount of traffic and clicks [...]

Niall Kennedy Joins Windows Live Team
Niall Kennedy Joins Windows Live TeamFormerly of Technorati, Niall Kennedy has announced that he is joining Windows Live “to create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom. I will help build a feed syndication platform leveraged by Microsoft products and developers all around the world.”Niall made the announcement in his [...]

New Digg Module For Google Personalized Homepage
New Digg Module For Google Personalized Homepage Yay! From Google Blogoscoped, I learned that there’s a new Digg module for serious Diggers that want to add it to their Google personalized homepages. More from Google Blogoscoped:“You can switch the settings so that the module will show only your friend’s diggs. Otherwise, you’ll get the top [...]

RealClear Political Commentary on Yahoo News
RealClear Political Commentary on Yahoo NewsJoining other publishers such as Gawker Media, USAToday and The Sporting News, RealClearPolitics.com has entered a content agreement with Yahoo! News to use RCP content within Yahoo.Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! Newsnow offers users a daily selection of the best columns and postings from RealClearPolitics.com’s commentary and blog. [...]

Yahoo! Maps Adds Satellite &Aerial Photography
Yahoo! Maps Adds Satellite & Aerial PhotographyAfter some careful watching and waiting, Yahoo! has decided to match Google and Microsoft/Windows Live Local, adding satellite and aerial imagery to its mapping product (although it doesn’t quite have the “wow” factor of WLL’s “BirdsEye” photography, which is itself imperfect). The addition of aerial photography fills in a [...]

Windows Live Academic Search from Microsoft is Live
Windows Live Academic Search from Microsoft is LiveWindows Live Academic Search (academic.live.com) has been released by Microsoft in seven different countries with the intention of helping students, researchers, librarians and university faculty search and conduct research across an index of academic journals. The project is a collaboration between the Windows Live Search, CrossRef team and [...]

IRS &TurboTax Top AOL Last Minute Tax Searches
IRS & TurboTax Top AOL Last Minute Tax SearchesSaturday will be April 15th and Tax Day for the hundreds of millions of Americans who aren’t filing for an extension this year. AOL Search, capitalizing on the tendancy of their users to wait until the last minute (like myself on a very many occassions) to being [...]

Verizon Testing Pay Per Call in Print Yellow Pages
Verizon Testing Pay Per Call in Print Yellow PagesVerizon is taking a page from the Search Engine Marketing handbook and applying it to the traditional Yellow Pages as Pay Per Call ad auctions are sending phone calls to the top paying bidder in the Boston Area. Peter Svensson of the AP has covered how Boston’s [...]

eBay &Skype Acquire Voice Technology Company
eBay & Skype Acquire Voice Technology CompanyeBay’s Skype Technologies has said that they are acquiring Internet voice technology company Sonorit Holding and its U.S. subsidiary, Camino Networks. This deal is worth around $27 million and is conducted through eBay stocks.Skype said that this acquisition would help them add the companies’ online voice engineering experts to [...]

Maximize Google AdSense Revenue With Smart Pricing
Maximize Google AdSense Revenue With Smart PricingThere is a new wonderful thread at WebmasterWorld named How to make Smartpricing work to your advantage. Member 21_blue shares his four step process to achieving top earnings with Google AdSense. He believes targeting an “EPC-based strategy” will help you achieve the best possible bottom-line results.Here is a summary [...]

Google Testing New Site Image &Content Summaries in Results
Google Testing New Site Image & Content Summaries in ResultsGoogle seems to be testing a new function in specific search results which features expandable and collapsing site information blurbs. Dave Winer of Scripting.com first picked up the Blue Wedges next to Google web search results on a search for “Canada.”Here’s a screen capture courtesy of [...]

BlueFind Web Directory Back From the Dead?
BlueFind Web Directory Back From the Dead?Remember BlueFind, the staff reviewed & edited web directory from John Scott of v7n.com? Remember back in the SEO Salad Days when BlueFind was PageRank 8, and submitting your site to it was a must in most Search Engine Optimization & link popularity campaigns?Well BlueFind is back (never went [...]

Yahoo Travel, FareChase, and APIs
Yahoo Travel, FareChase, and APIsYahoo just announced the general availability of FareChase:Yahoo! FareChase (which is now in general availability) is a travel search engine that searches across many airline sites like AA.com, hotel sites like Sheraton.com, and on-line travel agency websites such as Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com, to give searchers a comprehensive set of prices and [...]

Washington Post &Oodle : Aggregated DC Classifieds Marketplace
Washington Post & Oodle : Aggregated DC Classifieds MarketplaceThe Washington Post has been doing some very interesting things online lately. And today, it has launched a site for its Express publication. Express is the Post’s free metro daily distributed at Washington, DC-area Metro stations and in other “popular urban areas” that tries to attract young [...]

Google Local?s New Head is Real Estate and Newspaper Classified Expert
Google Local’s New Head is Real Estate and Newspaper Classified ExpertPeter Krasilovsky at Local Online has the scoop and background info on Sam Sebastian, the new Head of Google Local. Peter notes that Sam’s experience in the newspaper classifieds and Real Estate portal world (Sam was a part of the Classified Ventures’ Homescape real estate [...]

IceRocket Blog Search Engine Acquired by Think Partnership
IceRocket Blog Search Engine Acquired by Think PartnershipAdd a little dash of irony to this Hattip as Andy Beal notes on his Marketing Pilgrim blog that Think Partnership is acquiring the blog search engine and blogging trends measurement company (I’m thinking the measurement tool will be quite valuable to Think and its public relations & [...]

Google Calendar Launches &Exceeds Expectations
Google Calendar Launches & Exceeds ExpectationsGoogle Calendar is now live and running after months of speculation and anticipation by the search and tech communities. Currently I use Yahoo Calendar for my time organization and planning needs and have used Basecamp in the past for project management, but Google Calendar is looking like it may [...]

Google Calendar Live - Are There Google Calendar Privacy Issues?
Google Calendar Live - Are There Google Calendar Privacy Issues?Yes, the highly anticipated Google Calendar is now live at calendar.google.com, for all your calendar needs. A bit more from TechCrunch:“My overall impression: Excellent. The abilit to share via web publishing or RSS shows Google’s commitment to an open stardard. And this application is impressive in [...]

Google CEO Interviewed by Charlie Rose
Google CEO Interviewed by Charlie RoseThis from Resource Shelf; Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down with Charlie Rose recently for a pretty good interview, here’s a snippet:(on people fearing Google) “Our ambition is consistent with our mission, and the mission is all the world’s information. There are many people who are concerned about the all [...]

Microsoft?s Social Search Plans &Eurekster
Microsoft’s Social Search Plans & EureksterMicrosoft’s MSN is planning on the launch of a social search and question-and-answer service which is bound to try and compete with Yahoo’s MyWeb and Answers. Aaron Wall points to a BusinessWeek article dubbed Microsoft Gets Social which centers around MSN’s social media plans.“Microsoft plans to unveil a question-and-answer social-search [...]

Paris Hilton Pics &Google Image Search Optimization
Paris Hilton Pics & Google Image Search OptimizationDaveN points at a screenshot of a Google search result with Paris Hilton doing …. well nevermind. I did a search on the same phrase and saw someone was putting thier URL in a top ranked image. Pretty smart marketing there, and no doubt one of the cheapest [...]

Google Voice Recognition Search Patent
Google Voice Recognition Search PatentFrom ArsTechnica: Patent #7,027,987 issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office covers a “Voice interface for a search engine,”…Translation: the system listens to your spoken query, does its magic, and returns the results.Google has not publicly commented on this voice search effort, although the company’s Alexander Franz did co-author [...]

Dabble Launches &Online Video Viewing Behavior Study
Dabble Launches & Online Video Viewing Behavior StudyIn a bid to become the Flickr of video (which is also what YouTube is going for), Dabble has launched a private beta. Video is hot, hot, hot. Given all the video sites/startups, later this year or next there will be some consolidation (with Yahoo! and Google probably [...]

Wordpress.com Blog Network Outage
Wordpress.com Blog Network OutageIn what may just be an Easter fluke, it seems that the entire Wordpress.com Blog Network is down for the day, and has been dead for at least an hour. The outage comes after complaints from some blog owners (including SEJ’s Greg Sterling) that posts placed over the past day were lost.There [...]

MSN Social &Windows Live Answers
MSN Social & Windows Live AnswersMicrosoft’s foray into social search received a large amount of press this week after a Business Week article entitled “Microsoft Gets Social” where MSN Senior Product Manager discussed the future of MSN Search and Social Media along with the possibility of MSN acquiring Eurekster.But it’s time to give credit where [...]

Google Analytics Says Jerusalem Belongs to Ireland
Google Analytics Says Jerusalem Belongs to IrelandOkay, not really. But according to Aviran’s Place there’s a bit of a glitch in the new fun Google Analytics updates:“No Ireland did not go on a crusade and concurred Jerusalem. Google Analytics program which give webmasters a free statistics for their web site lets users set their time [...]

Google Analytics Updates
Google Analytics UpdatesThe Unofficial Google Analytics Blog has the news of some “great feature additions” to Google Analytics which include upgraded support and new invites. But the beef of the update is as follows:* Localized time zone: Now you don’t have to convert your data from Pacific Standard Time.* Rename Your Accounts: If “UA-12345″ isn’t [...]

Mike Grehan Wants You!
Mike Grehan Wants You!With the vibrant world of bookmarking, user behavior tracking, site popularity measurement and the growing amount of linking opportunities on the web, is old school content oriented SEO still relevant?Andy Beal recalls a dinner conversation with Mike Grehan about Mike’s new ClickZ article Does Textbook SEO Really Work Anymore?In an industry which [...]

Google AdSense Text Size Expands With Site
Google AdSense Text Size Expands With SiteWe had a guest over this weekend using my computer for a bit and the guest asked if I could increase the size of the page text because their eyes were bothering them a bit. So, using Firefox (my browser of choice although some in the Opera community are [...]

Business Week on Local Search
Business Week on Local SearchThis BusinessWeek Article has been around for awhile apparently, but I just stumbled upon it (although I was interviewed for it at some point in the past). The piece profiles a San Francisco business called Absolute Adventures (which looks pretty cool) and its use of geotargeted search advertising, specifically on Yahoo!:In [...]

Attending Search Engine Strategies Tokyo
Attending Search Engine Strategies TokyoOn Thursday I’ll be packing up the laptop, business cards, digital camera & Japanese-English Dictionary and heading into Tokyo to attend Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2006 Japan - SES Tokyo.Unlike the US and European SES Conventions, SES Tokyo is managed and organized by a separate unit; IDG Japan, Inc. [...]

blinkx.tv Adds Zango Videos and Online Games
blinkx.tv Adds Zango Videos and Online GamesThe blinkx multimedia search engine and desktop search company has partnered with Zango.com to include online games, videos, and downloads to blinkx.tv video search service.blinkx is the only search technology optimized for rich media, and has the ability to index and understand rich media content on the web. The [...]

Search Engine Blog?s Peter Da Vanzo Blogging at V7N
Search Engine Blog’s Peter Da Vanzo Blogging at V7NPeter Da Vanzo, who pretty much initiated the search engine blogging phenomena with SearchEngineBlog.com, is now blogging with John Scott at the V7N Search Marketing News Blog. When I first began getting into the world of blogs about 3 years ago, Peter’s Search Engine Blog was one [...]

ClickTV Joins Video Sharing Crowd
ClickTV Joins Video Sharing CrowdMichael Arrington on TechCrunch talks about the immiment launch of yet another video/video sharing site, Click.tv, which joins an increasingly crowded field. Like Dabble and YouTube, it allows for tagging and annotations to be added to video content and for that content to be shown on third party sites (as does [...]

Social Local Network Backfence Acquires Bayosphere
Social Local Network Backfence Acquires BayosphereBackfence.com has made the great leap from one Bay Area to the next, acquiring the San Francisco Bay Area’s Bayosphere. Backfence is a super local social blogging and citizen journalism network of Chesapeake Bay Area communites (well, DC suburbs) such as Bethesda, Maryland and Northern Virginia’s Reston area.Bayosphere was previously [...]

Pay Per Click Search Keyword Prices Drop in 2006
Pay Per Click Search Keyword Prices Drop in 2006According to a report released by Fathom Online, search engine marketing PPC keyword prices have dropped in the first quarter of 2006. For example, Fathom says that the average keyword bid has dropped from $1.43 in Q4 of 2005 to $1.39 in Q1 2006.Fathom Online has tracked [...]

Reporters Without Borders &Li Zhi Anti-Yahoo China Video
Reporters Without Borders & Li Zhi Anti-Yahoo China VideoWas surfing around YouTube today and came across this video of Li Zhi’s brother criticizing Yahoo for providing the Chinese Government with access to Li Zhi’s China hosted Yahoo Mail account information. China apparently used the info provided by Yahoo as critical evidence which led to the [...]

The Spy Who Clicked On The Australian Google Ad
The Spy Who Clicked On The Australian Google AdHere’s a fun news item from TechDirt:“The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is testing out its latest recruiting method: buying job ads on Google. Seems a bit odd that a spy agency would use such a method to find potential spies… but, then again, the article doesn’t note [...]

Ask Japan : Searching Outside the Box
Ask Japan : Searching Outside the BoxAsk.jp, owned locally and somewhat independently in Japan by a customer service call center firm, has been doing some creative integration of Bloglines into their search engine which I believe foreshadow’s what Ask.com may do as a whole one day with Bloglines.For example, when a blog search is performed [...]

SimplyHired Job Search Engine Receives Fox Interactive Funding
SimplyHired Job Search Engine Receives Fox Interactive FundingOm Malik reports that Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital have ventured into the jobs search engine market with $13.5 million in funding of SimplyHired.com.Back in February SEJ contributor and Local Social Search Guru Greg Sterling looked into SimplyHired, which he said is Simply Fascinating:SimplyHired is a “metasearch” [...]

Yahoo Q1 Earnings: Revenues Up, Profit Down
Yahoo Q1 Earnings: Revenues Up, Profit DownAccording to the WSJ (sub. req’d), Yahoo!’s net income declined 22%, while revenues were up 34%:Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., posted net income of 159.9 million, or 11 cents a share, compared with $204.6 million, or 14 cents a share, in the same quarter last year … Revenue surged [...]

Technorati Says Blogosphere Doubles Every 6 Months
Technorati Says Blogosphere Doubles Every 6 MonthsDavid Sifry, founder & CEO of Technorati, has a post that details the remarkable growth of blogs. He says that the number of blogs is doubling every six months — amazing:Technorati currently tracks over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is [...]

Umdum Web Directory Launches : List Your Site
Umdum Web Directory Launches : List Your SiteSome of our Search Engine Journal readers over the past month have noticed a some stories on the importance of quality web directories and their importance on the definition of your site’s theme and help with search engine rankings. Well there was a reason to those posts. As [...]

Click Fraud Lower on Major Search Engines Shows CF Index
Click Fraud Lower on Major Search Engines Shows CF IndexCNET reporter Elinor Mills posts about a new Click Fraud Index, which reflects relatively low rates of CF on the major engines (”Tier 2″ is a different matter):The Click Fraud Index shows that the overall, industry-wide average click fraud rate is 13.7 percent. The click fraud [...]

Yahoo Publisher Network Pubcon Boston Party
Yahoo Publisher Network Pubcon Boston PartyLike the rest of the Search Engine Optimization and Marketing world, Lee Odden is at Boston’s Webmaster World PubCon and has the lowdown on liquored up SEO’s blabbing to a Sprite drinkin’ Matt Cutts, YPN’s open bar, and a who’s who of the web publishing world:Yahoo threw an invite party [...]

Google AdSense MediaBot is Crawling Sites says Matt Cutts
Google AdSense MediaBot is Crawling Sites says Matt CuttsYes, Google is using the AdSense MediaBot to index pages for the Google Big Daddy Index confirms Matt Cutts at PubCon. ShoeMoney has the lowdown on MediaBot and Google’s Big Daddy index:At the Lunch sponsored by Google today Matt Cutts confirmed the recent rumors about media bot [...]

Yahoo?s Meedio Purchase &Yahoo! Broadcast Scenario
Yahoo’s Meedio Purchase & Yahoo! Broadcast ScenarioOn Monday Yahoo acquired “most of” Meedio’s technology and all of its staff (looks like about 5 guys?).The technology encompasses: “Software that turns PCs into DVRs (digital video recorders) and digital media organizers and links them with television sets” (PCWorld)“Meedio TV, which “lets you watch, pause, rewind, and record [...]

Search Engine Strategies Tokyo &Yahoo Search Marketing
Search Engine Strategies Tokyo & Yahoo Search MarketingAfter three hours of train travel and navigating the underground corridors of Tokyo’s subway and train stations, I’ve finally made it to Search Engine Strategies Tokyo which has proven thus far to be a worthwhile experience. Although the introductory theme of the Keynote speech was Yahoo Social Search [...]

Google Base Car Search Appearing in Organic Results
Google Base Car Search Appearing in Organic ResultsLooks like in addition to Google Real Estate, there are some new Google Autos search boxes popping up in Google’s search results - powered by Google Base. Greg Sterling scooped Google Base powered Google Autos earlier in the month, but those test results were for a limited amount [...]

New Google ?Search This Site?Feature Coming
New Google “Search This Site” Feature ComingThis from Yellow Pipe News via Cybernet; apparently Google is “testing a new search feature within its search results.” More from Yellow Pipe:“Google is testing a new search feature within its search results. It’s an expandable content that can display more information about a site including an image [...]

Accoona Launches ?Talking Search Bar?
Accoona Launches ‘Talking Search Bar’Say what you will about Accoona, they are a bit different when it comes to launching new products and promotions. Accoona (Matata) has released a talking search toolbar which features text-to-speech technology that enables users to highlight English-language text on the Internet to be read aloud.Besides being perfect for those who [...]

Aloha Garrett French, Welcome to Search Engine Journal
Aloha Garrett French, Welcome to Search Engine JournalI’d like to extend a warm welcome to the latest contributing columnist to Search Engine Journal, Garrett French. Garrett is the Marketing and Communications Manager for MarketSmart Interactive and the Managing Editor of Search Engine Lowdown. Garrett will be contributing original news and opinion on social search and [...]

Facebook Going Local?
Facebook Going Local?Facebook’s Local Play? Is one coming? … yes, suggests MarketWatch’s Bambi Francisco in her column today. I spoke to her via email about it this morning. While MySpace isn’t “inherently” local, Facebook is — you have to be associated with a particular college to register (you can also be in high school). Literally [...]

PaperRank Implemented on Google Scholar
PaperRank Implemented on Google ScholarToday Google launched a new feature over at Google Scholar - a system that ranks scholarly papers and information based upon criteria Google believes researchers value.Today we’re launching a feature of Google Scholar which will make it easier for researchers to keep up with recent research. From quantum computing to copper [...]

Google Q1 Results: $2.25 Billion in Revenues
Google Q1 Results: $2.25 Billion in RevenuesGoogle net profit jumped 60% on revenues of $2.25 billion. From the IR release:Revenues - Google reported revenues of $2.25 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, representing a 79% increase over first quarter 2005 revenues of $1.26 billion, and a 17% increase over fourth quarter 2005 revenues [...]

Google Social Calendar
Google Social CalendarMatt Booth, who took over my job at The Kelsey Group, points to a post at Google Blogoscoped, which has a list of public Google Calendars built on its API. There are a few things that I think are really interesting about Google’s Calendar API. First, it immediately becomes another mashups medium (like [...]

A Billion Dollars Lost In Unspent Google Ad Money
A Billion Dollars Lost In Unspent Google Ad MoneyFrom InsideGoogle:“BuyGoogle’s got the fascinating tidbits from the Google earnings announcement conference call, including this biggie: Over a billion dollars in ad money that was allocated to Google went unspent. Although the period in which this happened is unclear, it is still a significant item Google will [...]

Yahoo Visual Timeline 1996-2006
Yahoo Visual Timeline 1996-2006Philipp Lessen has put together an interesting visual timeline of Google’s homepage and the expansion of its services at Google Blogoscoped with screen captures of archived Google.com pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Building upon Philipp’s idea, which is as simple as it is unique, I thought that since Google was dominating [...]

Google AdSense Publisher Payout Dropping?
Google AdSense Publisher Payout Dropping?Google released its outstanding first quarter figures yesterday which reported a 60% jump to $2.25 Billion in revenues. One reason for the increase in Google revenue over the first three months of the year could be attributed in part to an increase in the percentage of Google AdSense spending that Google [...]

Google Rebrands Local into Google Maps
Google Rebrands Local into Google MapsLast October Google merged Google Maps into their local search application and branded the end product Google Local. Like Yahoo Local and Local.com, the Google Local brand association with local search is strong for business marketing, but has little differentiation with the brands and direction of other services.Google has decided, [...]

Miss PubCon Boston? No You Didn?t. Read the PubCon Blog Round Up!
Miss PubCon Boston? No You Didn’t. Read the PubCon Blog Round Up!I searched Google News, Google blog search (lots of fresh blog posts - much improved since last I searched it), Technorati, Yahoo, PreFound and Ask (who has SEL’s feed in their news results… yay!). Malcolm Gladwell was PubCon’s keynote speaker, so I’m opening [...]

Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz Leaves for Microsoft
Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz Leaves for MicrosoftMicrosoft has announced the hiring of former Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz to head Microsoft’s Online Business Group. The newly formed Microsoft Online Business Group includes MSN.com, MSN AdCenter MSNTV and Windows Live.Under Berkowitz’s leadership Ask Jeeves rebranded and restructured its search engine into Ask.com, was acquired by IAC, and [...]

?Local?Search on Microsoft Live.com
‘Local’ Search on Microsoft Live.comSearch the word “Local” on MSFT’s Live.com and what do you get?1. Local.google.com2. Local.yahoo.com. . . In that order. Live.local.com is the seventh result. (It’s the second paid result.) Depending on how one looks at this, one could either praise or criticize Microsoft.And there’s something even more interesting going on. Undoubtedly [...]

Real World SEO : Motivate Your Customers to Link
Real World SEO : Motivate Your Customers to LinkYesterday I made a guest blogging post at the V7N Search Marketing Blog on how a local business can motivate its customer base to write about the business and link to the business through promotions and incentives. Membership driven businesses, like video stores or health clubs, have [...]

Internal Wikipedia Link Popularity &SEO
Internal Wikipedia Link Popularity & SEODominic posted on DP about flowing Wikipedia PageRank internally to pages where you are mentioned.Search wikipedia in goog for a mention of your keyword / phrase. Edit those wikipedia pages to link to the lovely wiki page that links to your page.And, of course, if you can’t get your stuff [...]

Google?s GData: Portal is Nigh, APIs as Marketing Resource
Google’s GData: Portal is Nigh, APIs as Marketing ResourceI’ve seen surprisingly little written about Gdata over the past few days, both in my regular blog reads and in the main stream media (which I find out about from blogs :).So it was great to see “Why Google is extending RSS” this morning in bloglines [...]

Windows Live Mail Has Four-Month Expiration Date
Windows Live Mail Has Four-Month Expiration DateFrom Inside Microsoft, Windows Live mail accounts will have a four-month expiration date; meaning, if you go away for four months your account will automatically be deleted. Gmail has a nine month expiration date, which for me begs two questions: why can’t Microsoft mimic this, and how did such [...]

Flickrization of the Yahoo Toolbar
Flickrization of the Yahoo ToolbarThe Flickr team has put together a Flickr button which can be added to the Yahoo Toolbar. From Stewart Butterfield on the Flickr Blog:If you already run Yahoo! Toolbar, you can click this link to install the Flickr button. And if you don’t already run it, you can get the whole [...]

Matt Cutts Speaks on Google &Toolbar Data
Matt Cutts Speaks on Google & Toolbar DataLee Odden of TopRank recently wrote Google’s Matt Cutts on the issue of Google using user toolbar data as a search engine query result algorithm ranking variable. Lee’s questions were as follows:1. Does Google currently use toolbar data for rankings?2. What do you see as the pros and [...]

MySpace: Next Generation Yellow Pages?
MySpace: Next Generation Yellow Pages?There’s yet another in a series of almost daily articles on MySpace in the NY Times today. The piece reviews the history of the site and discusses ways that it might make money going forward. They’re talking behavioral and contextual targeting among other strategies.I wrote an earlier post about small businesses [...]

10 Years of LookSmart - Visual Timeline
10 Years of LookSmart - Visual TimelineIf someone were to ask you which search engines or directories have been in business for the last 10 years and are still going strong, what would be your answer? Google? Nope, Google is somewhere around 7 to 8 years old.I’ll give you some clues. This search company began [...]

Google?s Big Daddy Cleaning House
Google’s Big Daddy Cleaning HouseThe Google Big Daddy update has been underway for a bit now and I’ve noticed a thread on Digital Point Forums about a large amount of sites being cleansed from the Google Big Daddy index.The thread is about 10 days old, but is stil fairly active with accounts of thousands of [...]

MySpace Banned at Del Mar College
MySpace Banned at Del Mar CollegeYet another college has banned the popular online social networking website MySpace.com. The latest in the line is the Texas based Del Mar College. Students of this college would have to access this website from outside their campus if they want to stay in touch with their friends.The reason for [...]

Google Maps Details Europe
Google Maps Details EuropeGoogle Maps has upgraded its European maps and driving directions (per SEW and Google Blogoscoped). Side by side on a query for the Ask (Jeeves) offices in London (at the highest available level of aerial resolution), here’s:* Google* Yahoo!* Windows Live Local* MapQuest (aerial coming soon)Ask only maps US locations currently. Here’s [...]

Umdum Update : Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN Indexing
Umdum Update : Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN IndexingIt’s been a week since the launch of the Umdum Web Directory and Umdum would like to take the chance to thank all of those who have submitted their sites already and those who covered the launch.We’ve been monitoring the indexing of Umdum by the major search [...]

Jim Lanzone : CEO of Ask.com, the Firefox of Search
Jim Lanzone : CEO of Ask.com, the Firefox of SearchJim Lanzone has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ask.com - after former CEO Steve Berkowitz left Ask for Microsoft. Jim is not only a large part of the reason for Ask.com’s turn around over the past year, but he has served as an accessible and [...]

Google AdWords Abuse Video on YouTube
Google AdWords Abuse Video on YouTubeEvan Roberts posts on Marketing Shift the recap of a video from YouTube which shows how “a couple different forms of adsense abuse including Made-For-Adsense sites and multiple accounts bidding on the same words both violations of Google Policies.”From the YouTube member who posted the video:“There has been a recent [...]

Yahoo Serves More Search Advertisements than Google
Yahoo Serves More Search Advertisements than GoogleAccording to a comScore qSearch search advertising study, Yahoo now serves more search oriented advertisements than Google. From the 360TechBlog:In March 2006, Yahoo increased the proportion of its searches that contained a sponsored ad by 30 percent year-over-year; 59.7 percent of searches now display ads. Google showed ads on [...]

Internet Explorer 7 Beta Now Available for Download
Internet Explorer 7 Beta Now Available for DownloadAccording to the official IE Blog, Internet Explorer 7 Beta is now available. More from the site:“We acted on a lot of the feedback and bug reports from the previous public releases. In particular, I feel good about changes we made based on reports from web developers around [...]

Search Engine Journal Comment Problems?
My apologies for this ‘unprofessional’ post, but we are currently experiencing commenting problems in our Wordpress script here at SEJ. If you have a chance, could you try and leave a comment below. If you are taken to a blank screen, then you are experiencing the same commenting problem as I am. Please email me [...]

Wallop - Microsoft?s MySpace?
Wallop - Microsoft’s MySpace?Microsoft funded Wallop is preparing to launch in an effort to enter Microsoft into the “hey MySpace, we’re cool too” category along with Orkut & 360. Despite Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington saying that Wallop is not another “me too” social networking offering and CNET claiming that “the Wallop approach will center on trying [...]

Mozilla Firefox on Google Homepage
Mozilla Firefox on Google HomepageAccording to TopRank, Google is promoting the spreading of Firefox to its users on the Google Homepage. Apparently if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and visit Google, you may be served a message which states Firefox with Google Toolbar: tabbed browsing, safer surfing”.Firefox confirms the siting on the SpreadFirefox.com site [...]

Job Interview at Google
Job Interview at GoogleI’ve had only a handful of job interviews in my life (although I have conducted many) and thus far can claim that I am 4 for 4 in the interview to employment ratio. Not being an expert on the receiving end of the interview process, I found the blog posting My Interview [...]

FeedBurner Ad Network Adds Automated Advertising
FeedBurner Ad Network Adds Automated AdvertisingBlog & RSS advertising has just gotten easier as FeedBurner has introduced an automated advertiser signup and campaign launch feature which elevates their network past the slow manual process.Darren Rowse reports on ProBlogger that FeedBurner’s new Automated Advertising allows advertisers to:* Select a channel that matches your target* Create [...]

Washington Post?s Express Classifieds Launch
Washington Post’s Express Classifieds LaunchAfter a week or so delay, the full online edition of the Washington Post’s Express (its free metro daily intended to attract younger audiences) launched today. It’s a clean, nice looking site and contains the Oodle classifieds marketplace integration. I wrote about it in an earlier post:[T]he Washington Post has struck [...]

Yahoo Go Is A Go
Yahoo Go Is A GoFrom Yahoo Next, I learned that Yahoo TV is (semi) up and running (still in beta). More from the site:“Now you can take Yahoo! off your computer and put it in your living room for everyone to see. View photos, search for video clips and watch movie trailers on your TV. [...]

Sawafi Arab Language Search Engine to Launch
Sawafi Arab Language Search Engine to LaunchSeekport is panning on launching the Arab language search engine “Sawafi” (”sandstorm”) later this year which will be specially designed to meet the challenges of the Arabic language. Sawafi will be the project of Dubai based Seekport Internet Technologies Arabia FZ-LLC,, a joint venture between Seekport and the MITSCO [...]

Local Search Traffic Estimator Tool from TrueLocal
Local Search Traffic Estimator Tool from TrueLocalTrueLocal has launched their Local Traffic Estimator, a tool that aggregates and shows users local traffic statistics on TrueLocal. In a similar fashion to those doing keyword research on Yahoo Search Marketing or Google, potential advertisers can now take their research down to the local level by typing [...]

DMOZ Listing Ruining Google Rank
DMOZ Listing Ruining Google RankI’ve heard about search engines substituting web site titles and descriptions with information gathered from web directories - especially Yahoo Search using Yahoo Categories and Google relying a bit on DMOZ, but here’s a story about the DMOZ title leading to lower ranking, clicks and conversions.V7N’s John Scott says a thread [...]

Google Alerting Webmasters of Guideline Violations
Google Alerting Webmasters of Guideline ViolationsLeslie Walker at Washingtonpost.com may be stirring up the ranking juice, but Matt Cutts says that Google is going to start feeding spammers some ‘egg on your face’ juice with a trial program which will notify some spammers when their sites are penalized by Google. In order to receive these [...]

Crossing the Google AdSense Border
Crossing the Google AdSense BorderSure Google AdSense has been around for years now and yes, it has almost single handedly monetized the blogging and problogger revolution (especially with Blogspot Adsense in the mix), but every once in a while someone reminds the crowd of Google AdSense basics which can help to increase a site’s contextual [...]

Google Gives Away Free Downloads of SketchUp
Google Gives Away Free Downloads of SketchUpVia blogSEO, I learned that you can grab a free copy of Google SketchUp, “an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships.” Totally free, don’t have to register, and it’s [...]

Yahoo Babel Fish Translation Tool
Yahoo Babel Fish Translation ToolJust when I almost forgot that Yahoo owns Altavista, Yahoo goes and integrates one of the only reasons I still visit Altavista into Yahoo; Babel Fish.Now branded Yahoo Babel Fish (with a big Advil expanding ad next to the translation tool which is great targeting as I have a splitting headache), [...]

Link Logically &Better Than Your Competition
Link Logically & Better Than Your CompetitionBefore you go spending countless manpower and a huge budget on your linking campaign be sure to do a full competitive analysis of your competition’s backlinks and to what degree their link marketing is being carried out as. You can see who links to your competition by entering this [...]

Technorati Latest Search Engine Banned in China
Technorati Latest Search Engine Banned in ChinaChina’s great firewall has apparently blocked Technorati blog search according to sources such as IT Views and Chinese Pod.Tom Raftery writes on IT Views:“Does this mean Technorati isn’t censoring search results into China like Google, MSN, Yahoo are? And if this is the case, will Technorati now have to [...]

No Yahoo Directory Links on New Yahoo Homepage?
No Yahoo Directory Links on New Yahoo Homepage?Yahoo is testing a new design for their homepage which is quite sleek, tabbed, and interactive - but does not include links to the Yahoo Directory, which is the foundation (or was the foundation) of Yahoo and its human edited differentiation from Google. The end of directory [...]

A Link is Worth a Thousand Dollars
A Link is Worth a Thousand DollarsAfter the sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL for somewhere around $20 million, Tristan Lewis put together a bog valuation formula based upon the amount of backlinks to each Weblogs Inc. blog as tracked by Technorati. Tristan’s conclusion was that for a $20 million sale, one incoming link to [...]

SEO &Tagging : Building Tag Hierarchies
SEO & Tagging : Building Tag HierarchiesI’m a firm believer that the future of SEO includes expansion of web page quality and categorical definition beyond site content, directory listings, and co citation. Tagging puts the definition of a web site into the hands of the public, and when compared to the meta tags or content [...]

Yahoo?s del.icio.us &Flickr Introduce Cross Platform Social Sharing
Yahoo’s del.icio.us & Flickr Introduce Cross Platform Social SharingYahoo’s social bookmarking network, del.icio.us, released a new informational connection system this week dubbed “your network“. At your network one can track the latest saved bookmarks of friends, and share one’s bookmarks with those same friends (consider it bookmark swapping) when clicking on their username.Stephen at del.icio.us [...]

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