Seo Home > SEJ SEO News FeedsMSN Virtual Earth vs. Google EarthMSN Virtual Earth vs. Google EarthIn the battle of the interactive maps, MSN is seeking to challenge Google’s satellite mapping supremacy with a suite of mapping tools that will seek to combine the best elements of satellite mapping with A9’s Yellow Pages local business photography and Yahoo! Maps’ layered results.Virtual ...
Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0
Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0Back in December 2004, Yahoo first announced Media RSS in conjunction with their Video Search. Last week they announced the completion of the Media RSS 1.0 standard.From the specification information: "Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, as ...
Playing By Googles Rules
Playing By Googles Rules As the undisputable leader in search engines, Google places a very high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search results, especially now that the company is public. The know that in order to keep the shareholders and users of the engine happy, ...
How to Get Your Site Indexed on MSN Search
How to Get Your Site Indexed on MSN SearchWhile MSNBot crawls billions of web pages, not every page that we crawl is indexed. For a site to be indexed, it must meet specific standards for content, design, and technical implementation. For example, if your site’s link structure does not provide ...
Frustrated with a website ? Just destroy it
Frustrated with a website ? Just destroy it Have you ever experienced, just like God himself, how it feels to generate disasters anywhere in the World (Wide Web)? You can do it now! Enter the URL of a website @ Netdisaster and just choose a catastrophe, from things like meteors, ...
Apple Tiger Shipped: Spotlight To Arrive Monday
Apple Tiger Shipped: Spotlight To Arrive Monday14 Days Ago I wrote a quick preview of Apple`s Spotlight Search feature in its new OS named Tiger. Last night I received an email that my order has shipped and I will be expected delivery day is for May 2nd, this Monday. I ...
Picsearch Providing Image Search to Lycos
Picsearch Providing Image Search to LycosPicsearch announced today that it has entered into a syndication agreement to supply Lycos, Inc. with image search services for Lycos` Multimedia Search. This agreement brings Picsearch image search technology to millions of Lycos users, which adds upon Picsearch`s image search marketshare which is already ...
SBC &YellowPages.com Offering Simple Search Marketing
SBC & YellowPages.com Offering Simple Search MarketingModeled on BellSouth’s “Real Search Engine Solutions,” which offers simplified search-engine marketing (SEM) to local businesses based on subscription pricing, SBC Yellow Pages and YellowPages.com are introducing the same product in their respective markets. Called “SBC Search Engine Solutions” and “YPclicks!” respectively, the search ...
Snap.com and Moreover Team for News Search
Snap.com and Moreover Team for News SearchSnap, the search engine for broadband users, has selected Moreover to provide online news content for use in the Snap news search service, currently in beta at http://news.snap.com. In a release sent out today Snap cited Moreover`s comprehensive real-time news coverage, robust metadata enrichment ...
Video Search, Media, and New Google Partners
Video Search, Media, and New Google PartnersMark Glaser at the Online Journalism Review put together an excellent piece on video search and multimedia last week called "Search engines, startup media sites dream of becoming video hubs." It`s a deep look into the approach search engines such as Google, Yahoo and ...
Download.com Banning All Adware
Download.com Banning All AdwareSpeaking of spyware (see the Ask Jeeves entry), Download.com, a CNET owned downloading portal, announced that they will no longer be distributing programs associated with adware over their downloading service. Download.com claims to have started a zero-tolerance policy against downloads which include bundled adware packages. Yikes, there ...
Ask Jeeves Distributing Spyware to Children?
Ask Jeeves Distributing Spyware to Children?Super anti-spyware activist Ben Edelman called out Ask Jeeves in an old fashioned finger pointing today by posting some research on his site about Ask Jeeves running an ad campaign which targets children and influences them to download the Ask Jeeves Toolbar. "My new Ask ...
CNN Spamming Blogs With High Google Rankings?
CNN Spamming Blogs With High Google Rankings?Danny Sullivan picked up on a Wired piece about CNN strategically placing linked comments in blogs which are ranked highly in Google, or as some folks would like to call "blog spamming." Seems that some Daffy Duck type genius over at CNN thought it ...
Dex Strikes Distribution Deal with Yahoo
Dex Strikes Distribution Deal with YahooLike Yell in the U.K. two weeks ago, DexMedia becomes the latest directory publisher to provide its local advertiser database to a major search provider. In Yell’s case it was Google Local U.K. In this case it’s Yahoo! in the U.S.Dex local advertisers will appear ...
New Google Approach to Search Relevance
New Google Approach to Search RelevanceAs Google became progressively more powerful, more and more people began trying to manipulate Google’s “organic” search results. That aim has spawned a whole industry—search-engine optimization—and in fact resulted in more manipulated links (some would say “spam") on results pages.Now Google is considering implementing a ...
Tweaking Tools from Google Fans
Tweaking Tools from Google FansThe WSJ has compiled a list of tools created by Google fans and critics that add features or remove ads. Google Logos and Google Mirror are missing from the writeup but they are another great innovations from Googe Fans.The services were developed not by the ...
Yahoo Mail Updated to 1 GB
Yahoo Mail Updated to 1 GBI just logged into my Yahoo Mail account this morning and noticed that my Yahoo account`s used memory space has gone from 35% to 9% (I have a problem with deleting emails) and its total memory storage is now up to 1 GB. Yahoo made ...
Apple Tiger Spotlight Review
Apple Tiger Spotlight ReviewYesterday, I installed Tiger and the process went pretty well. Skipping over all of the other OS related topics, let`s quickly discuss Spotlight, Apple`s new OS Search technology.After installing Tiger, and restarting, Apple started to index the contents of my harddrive behind the scenes. It really did ...
Urchin Price Drop &Google API Integration
Urchin Price Drop & Google API IntegrationToday, Google is dropping the price of Urchin On Demand, Google`s comprehensive marketing intelligence and web analytics service, making it affordable for all sites large and small. This service, provides web site owners and advertisers data to enhance their user`s experience and increase advertising ...
Real Estate and the Future of Dynamic Mapping
Real Estate and the Future of Dynamic MappingAlthough everyone and their great grandmother has already written about this, I wanted to point out Housingmaps to the 10 people who haven’t already heard or read about it. This site uses the Google Maps UI and Craiglist data and was put together ...
Google Web Accelerator Speeds Into Firefox and IE
Google Web Accelerator Speeds Into Firefox and IEGoogle has launched the first steps in compiling every little bit of web behavior information they can get their hands on for their emerging ad network and also a preview of what a Google browser can do by introducing the Google Web Accelerator. ...
Copernic Desktop Search Voted Best Desktop Search Appliance
Copernic Desktop Search Voted Best Desktop Search ApplianceCopernic Desktop Search was selected as the best overall desktop search tool this week in a benchmark study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison`s E-Business Consortium. The independent study tested vendors on usability, versatility, accuracy, efficiency, security, and enterprise readiness and was not ...
Work.com Job Search Engine Launched by Business.com
Work.com Job Search Engine Launched by Business.comBusiness.com has launched Work.com (talk about great domain name buying tactics) which claimes to be the only job search engine dedicated to directly connecting job seekers with premium employers. Work.com is Business.com`s latest offering and provides a customizable interface that gives job seekers the ...
Ask Jeeves Responds to Spyware Accusations
Ask Jeeves Responds to Spyware AccusationsEarlier this week the Search Engine Journal published a piece about allegations by Ben Edelman that Ask Jeeves is pushing its toolbars on children and that Ask Jeeves owned toolbars and other browser add ons are using security holes to install themselves on unknowing users` ...
Google UK?s Second Local Deal
Google UK`s Second Local DealFirst Google and Yell announced that the latter, the owner of the Yellow Pages brand in the U.K., would provide the content for Google Local U.K. Now Yell’s rival in the directory publishing business, Thomson Directories, has announced that it will effectively be a sales agent ...
Holy Resume Batman, Another Jobs Site Launches
Holy Resume Batman, Another Jobs Site LaunchesFollowing the latest wave of job “meta-search” sites (Indeed.com, SimplyHired, etc.), Business.com is launching Work.com after several months in beta.Calling itself a “premium” jobs site, Work.com’s twist is that employers pay only for those leads (recruits/applicants) that click through to their sites (applicants are ...
Yahoo! Video Search Goes Wide
Yahoo! Video Search Goes WideThe search world is like a hydra and video is one of the heads. Yahoo!, AOL, Google and other competitors are jockeying for position in the emerging online TV/video sector. See Stefanie Olsen’s write up.Yahoo said that it will allow video creators to send links of ...
Yahoo Video Search Officially Launches
Yahoo Video Search Officially LaunchesYahoo has the jump on most other search engines with the launch of Yahoo Video Search, which has been in beta for months now and is by far the most robust video search offering on the market. Along with video spidered and indexed by the Yahoo ...
Avoiding the Big Page Title Mistake
Avoiding the Big Page Title MistakeOne of the biggest mistakes made by website owners is leaving the titles of the website pages blank or filled with the wrong words.The page title of any website page is set using the HTML *TITLE* tag. Even if you don`t do the programming yourself, ...
Yahoo Working on Music Search Engine
Yahoo Working on Music Search EngineYahoo is working on a Audio / Music Search Engine according to a CNET article which states that Yahoo "plans to introduce the music search engine within the next couple of months, according to a source familiar with the service. The specialty engine will let ...
Selling Content Articles?Smart Business Model
Selling Content Articles...Smart Business ModelA while ago someone shot me an email about Constant Content and I forgot to post about it. I just remembered it again and thought to post on it.From their site: Constant Content is exactly what the name implies: A website where you will be able ...
Backfence Goes Live With Hyper-Local Community
Backfence Goes Live With Hyper-Local CommunityBackfence went live tonight in McLean and Reston, VA. I previously wrote about Backfence’s “hyper-local” strategy. It’s a very interesting strategy (comprehensive local site, relying heavily on user-generated content) and will be one to watch.There are those who will be very skeptical that you can ...
Blocking Google Web Accelerator
Blocking Google Web AcceleratorGoogle launched their Web Accelerator yesterday which has raised some eyebrows in the webmaster and privacy worlds although it does offer a helpful web acceleration tool. Google’s Web Accelerator is not only serving pages faster, sources report that it’s serving the wrong web pages to the wrong ...
The Dark Side of Desktop Search Tools
The Dark Side of Desktop Search ToolsThere is a lot of mention on UW`s study that found Copernic software to be the most well-balanced of desktop search tool among those evaluated, ranking it above 11 competitors including MSN Toolbar Suite, Google Desktop, Yahoo! Desktop Search, Wizetech Archivarius 3000, Ask Jeeves, ...
Search Engine Users Convert into Offline Buyers
Search Engine Users Convert into Offline BuyersLate last year Yahoo! Search Marketing (then known as Overture) conducted a study with comScore to capture, among other things, the influence of search on purchases in the Consumer Electronics/Computers category. The bottom line was that search had a powerful influence . . . ...
Broadcast Flag Struck Down By Appeals Court
Broadcast Flag Struck Down By Appeals CourtOn Friday the United States Court of Appeals ruled in favor of consumers in a hearing on Broadcast Flag. The Appeals Court ruled that the FCC does not have the authority to decide whether consumer electronics devices sold in the United States must ...
AOL Blogs With AOL Journals
AOL Blogs With AOL JournalsAOL has added blogs to its mesenger service with AOL Journals. The inclusion of AOL Journals functionality to AIM opens up the blogging service to 36 million active IM users. From eWeek: America Online Inc. on Thursday opened its AOL Journals blog-publishing service to members of ...
Google Outage Result of Web Accelerator or DNS Hijack?
Google Outage Result of Web Accelerator or DNS Hijack?On Saturday May 7th, Google shut down from 6:45 to 7 p.m. EST, according to Google spokesman David Krane. Google has clarified that the outage was not a result of server downtime or hacked and that the problems were DNS related. A ...
Google?s Blogger Mobile Relaunched
Google`s Blogger Mobile RelaunchedYou would have read about the "new" Google service called Blogger Mobile where you need to do to use it is send an email or MMS from your phone to go@blogger.com - your blog is automatically created, and whatever text or photos (or both) you send ...
Napster Attacks Ringtones Cell Phone Market
Napster Attacks Ringtones Cell Phone MarketNapster and Dwango Wireless today unleashed the Napstertones mobile phone service on cell phone users. The new search powered music store will provide ringtones and artist voice "shoutouts," exclusive wallpapers featuring the iconic Napster Kitty and other cool graphics from Napster`s library. Napstertones is immediately ...
X1 or Yahoo! Desktop Search ?
X1 or Yahoo! Desktop Search ?If you are wondering why X1 is charging for features that Yahoo! is offering for free, think again. X1, the big brother of all desktop search tools offers some unique features including special versions for Government and Enterprise users who have valid security concerns.To help ...
FindWhat Slapped with Class Action Lawsuit
FindWhat Slapped with Class Action LawsuitAs if FindWhat was not facing enough problems. On top of tumbling shares, suspision of click fraud and other problems associated with second tier search engines, FindWhat is now the target of a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit states that FindWhat issued, or caused to ...
Firefox Security Holes Named Critical
Firefox Security Holes Named CriticalTwo serious security holes in Mozilla`s Firefox browser were identified this week which have led to questions as to exactly how secure the Firefox browser truly is. The Mozilla Foundation and the public were educated when European security firms Secunia and FrSIRT were given the information ...
Cracking the Google Code : Under the GoogleScope
Cracking the Google Code : Under the GoogleScopeGoogle’s sweeping changes confirm the search giant has launched a full out assault against artificial link inflation & declared war against search engine spam in a continuing effort to provide the best search service in the world… and if you thought you cracked ...
Press Release Editorial Process Lacking Quality
Press Release Editorial Process Lacking QualityPress releases have been a very popular strategy in the search engine optimization industry for a couple years now. If you wanted immediate top rankings in the news portals of the engines plus some additional quick anchor text links, you send out a press release. ...
Local TV Stations Form Online Advertising Network
Local TV Stations Form Online Advertising NetworkWorldNow, a technology vendor, and a network of almost 150 local TV news sites, have formed the Local Media Network (LMN). The network claims it has a combined 20 million monthly unique visitors and will be represented in 34 of the top 50 U.S. ...
Google Scholar is Now Open to All Libraries
Google Scholar is Now Open to All LibrariesToday, the "small" Google Scholar pilot that went live in February -- allowing about 30 libraries and institutions to provide direct links to articles found in the Google Scholar database -- is being expanded. Now, ANY library or institution that has the proper ...
Yahoo Music Unlimited Threatens iTunes, Napster and Real
Yahoo Music Unlimited Threatens iTunes, Napster and RealYahoo just dealt Apple, Real Networks, and Napster a serious blow with the launch of Yahoo Music Unlimited, a paid music download service which undercuts Yahoo`s rivals with a $6.99 a month charge or $.79 per track download and also offers the option ...
Microsoft Office 2006
Microsoft Office 2006Microsoft has established an internal Office 12 ship calendar that pegs Office Beta 1 availability for August 29, 2005. Beta 2 is slated for December 5, 2005. The internal release-to-manufacturing target is May 22, 2006. And the target for "street" availability for the Office 12 System is July ...
Best Paying AdSense Ad Formats
Best Paying AdSense Ad FormatsNacho started a poll at Search Engine Watch forums asking What is your BEST paying Adsense Ad Format? Currently, we only have six votes, so I felt an obligation to get the word out and ask you to get over to that thread and place your ...
Yahoo Music Unlimited Integrated With Yahoo Music Engine
Yahoo Music Unlimited Integrated With Yahoo Music EngineYahoo released Yahoo Music Unlimited today which is a paid music subscription service which charges $6.99 a month, $.79 per track or $60 a year for unlimited access. The new Yahoo Music service is more of a direct threat to Napster and ...
87% of Media Buyers Not Satisfied with Web Site Advertising Reps
87% of Media Buyers Not Satisfied with Web Site Advertising RepsWant to sell more advertising on your site? Well, then respond to media buyers promptly and do not give them misleading information say a recent survey of online media buyers by WebAdvantage.net, an online marketing agency. The survey shows that ...
Podscope Searches Podcast Content, Audio and Video
Podscope Searches Podcast Content, Audio and VideoPodscope, dubbed as the first engine to search within a Podcast, was launched recently by TVEyes, the real-time broadcast search provider. Podscope, which makes every word searchable within a podcast, enables the audio indexing of podcast content, which is equally applicable to video blogs ...
Yahoo Music Unlimited Integrated Into Yahoo Music Engine
Yahoo Music Unlimited Integrated Into Yahoo Music EngineYahoo released Yahoo Music Unlimited today which is a paid music subscription service which charges $6.99 a month, $.79 per track or $60 a year for unlimited access. The new Yahoo Music service is more of a direct threat to Napster and ...
Apple Safari?s RSS Reader
Apple Safari`s RSS ReaderI switched RSS readers three times this year so far, the last one I used was Bloglines and I still think its great. But Apple came out with Safari RSS which has some awesome browser based RSS reader functionality. I am not limited at all by switching, ...
Mother?s Day Online Spending Hits $4.4 Billion in 2005
Mother`s Day Online Spending Hits $4.4 Billion in 2005VeriSign, the e-commerce infrastructure provider, announced that Mother’s Day-related spending hit US$4.4 billion this year, during the period from April 25 through May 8. That represented a 24% increase over Mother’s Day 2004. I didn’t see a detailed category breakdown (i.e., flowers ...
Google Plays Hardball Acquiring Dodgeball.com
Google Plays Hardball Acquiring Dodgeball.comOn a day which could have easily been overshadowed by the launch of Yahoo Music Unlimited, Google snuck in under the radar with the reported acquisition of none other than Dodgeball.com. Dodgeball.com is not the official site of the Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn comedy, infact ...
Reuters Inks Video Search Distribution Deal with AOL?s Singingfish
Reuters Inks Video Search Distribution Deal with AOL`s SingingfishReuters and AOL’s Singingfish announced today that the industry-leading Singingfish video and audio search engine will have access to Reuters extensive video content. Hundreds of breaking and archived news clips produced by Reuters global news network will now be easily accessible via ...
Dogpile?s New Meta Search Tricks
Dogpile`s New Meta Search TricksInfoSpace launched a new version of its Dogpile metasearch engine. The new site, which is cleaner, more prominently highlights the fact that it delivers results from Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves and also suggests ("Different Engines, Different Results") that it delivers more comprehensive information than these ...
Search Engine?s Obligation to Public Sector?
Search Engine`s Obligation to Public Sector?There has been a Search Engine Watch thread I have been watching, actually since before it became a thread. The thread started off on the topic of a company`s Web site being de-listed from Google. The thread is named Webposition.com de-indexed, but the news of ...
IP Detection for Currency Content Delivery
IP Detection for Currency Content DeliveryAs many of you know, there is no fine line when it comes to what is acceptable IP Delivery and what is not. Google clearly states in its Quality Guidelines, "Don`t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects." But Google, "cloaks" or uses IP delivery methods themselves. ...
Overture (Yahoo) VS FindWhat - Mistrial
Overture (Yahoo) VS FindWhat - MistrialHuge news for the beaten down FWHT stock, which was recently down to 4.07 from it`s 52 week high of 23.94, gained about 10% on the day. "A judge declared a mistrial in a patent infringement lawsuit between Yahoo Inc. and FindWhat.com Inc. after a ...
Yahoo Search Shortcuts on the Yahoo Search Blog
Yahoo Search Shortcuts on the Yahoo Search BlogToday Adam Durfee, Product Manager at Yahoo! Search, on Yahoo`s Search Blog (YSearchBlog.com) wrote up a nice little review on Yahoo Search Shortcuts. "One of the items I work on is Yahoo! Shortcuts. A Yahoo! Shortcut is a quick way to use web ...
Mozilla Updates Firefox 1.0.4 - Fixes Security Holes
Mozilla Updates Firefox 1.0.4 - Fixes Security HolesThe Mozilla Foundation has responded to security flaws in the Firefox browser today by patching the two "extremely critical" security holes. Mozilla recommends its Firefox users upgrade to Firefox 1.0.4, which is secure and patched. Mozilla released this statement "Firefox 1.0.4 is a ...
Google Around The Globe
Google Around The GlobeGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt told shareholders in Google’s first annual meeting that the company would focus on developing overseas markets, where growth is outstripping the U.S. Approximately 66% of Google revenues are generated from U.S.-based advertisers. Currently, most of its international revenues come from Europe and Japan. ...
FireTune Fine-Tunes Mozilla Firefox
FireTune Fine-Tunes Mozilla FirefoxIf you are an advocate of open source applications, you know that few applications out there are as popular as Mozilla Firefox on the Internet. The open source browser from the stables of Mozilla Foundation has redefined the way people looked at free browsers. It is doing ...
Is SEO Ruining the Web?
Is SEO Ruining the Web?A Cre8asite Forum thread started by Kim, named It`s the SEO that counts, not user centered design talks about a recent article at C|Net named Is search ruining the Web? Read the article and take a look at the thread for some very good opinion.You and ...
Google Blog Moves And Adds ?What We?re Reading?
Google Blog Moves And Adds "What We`re Reading"I was checking my referral logs for today and I noticed referrals from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/. I first thought, is this a copycat site of the original www.google.com/googleblog/, where the original Google Blog resided. But no, click on http://www.google.com/googleblog/ and it redirects you to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/. ...
Guide for Google AdSense Publishers
Guide for Google AdSense PublishersIf you are a regular visitor to my site, you might have noticed some changes in the style. Well, I drew most of the inspiration from the picture above also known as the "heat map".This "heat map" illustrates ideal ad placements on a sample page layout. ...
MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search Launched
MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search LaunchedThe MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search was officially launched today. The toolbar also includes a pop-up blocker and form fill functions to enhance the browsing experience. Users of MSN`s line of services, such as Hotmail, Messenger and Spaces, will find one-click ...
Stop Clicking Me! Warn Click Fraud Offenders
Stop Clicking Me! Warn Click Fraud OffendersThere are several click fraud programs out there that help you detect fraudulent click activity. Some even go further by throwing up a warning screen after X clicks from the same IP address. The warning screen might say something to the effect of; Thank ...
Yahoo!?s Trend Analysis Patent
Yahoo!`s Trend Analysis PatentBill Slawski over at Cre8asite Forums posted a thread named Yahoo! Adds Trends to Concept Analysis. In that thread he introduces a new patent released by Yahoo! named Systems and methods for search query processing using trend analysis. Abstract:Systems and methods for processing search requests include analyzing ...
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Creates Huge Buzz Among Blogs
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Creates Huge Buzz Among BlogsEven before its opening day, "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," has sustained a higher level of "buzz" and word-of-mouth among bloggers than any other movie scheduled for 2005 or either of the year`s top-grossing films, Intelliseek`s ...
Blogs Not Such a Big Deal?
Blogs Not Such a Big Deal?The spin being given to a new report by Pew and marketing firm BuzzMetrics entitled, “Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004” is that blogs have not displaced traditional media in terms of influence. (That’s the clear ...
NYTimes to Charge for Content
NYTimes to Charge for ContentThe Gray Lady will introduce “TimesSelect“ in September. TimesSelect will require users to pay $49.95 annually to get access to “Op-Ed and news columnists on NYTimes.com, easy and in-depth access to The Times’s online archives, early access to select articles on the site, as well as ...
FyberSearch Releases Tutorial and Lessons Search Engine
FyberSearch Releases Tutorial and Lessons Search EngineFyberSearch has developed and released a search engine tool to help users find tutorials and lessons on the web at http://tutorial.fybersearch.com. From the release : "Tutorials are a very important part of the internet. They provide a quick and easy way to learn a ...
Yahoo 360 Invites Still Available
Yahoo 360 Invites Still AvailableHeard of Yahoo 360? It`s Yahoo`s "blogging local reviews social network friend finder" community which has yet to really take off in the States like Orkut did in Brazil, but Yahoo 360 is fun and I`ve been taking it seriously this week by establishing my network ...
Google AdSense for RSS Feeds
Google AdSense for RSS FeedsAndy Beal, who just left the Google headquarters as part of his mission to take over the search engine marketing world, has the scoop on Google AdSense and the new RSS feed advertising they are offering. Google is a bit behind the rest of the pack ...
Amazon A9 Search Engine Makes Changes
Amazon A9 Search Engine Makes ChangesAmazon`s A9 Search Engine has made some changes to its search result display and personalization tools, including new support for the Opera 8.0 browser. One added change I really do not understand as to why they are recommending is for faster service to turn off ...
Multiply Social Network offers Social Relationship Search Engine
Multiply Social Network offers Social Relationship Search EngineMultiply, a growing social network, announced last month that it features the first search engine that finds information that`s been published in one`s social network. Multiply`s search returns content published by people that have a relationship with the person searching, and relevance is ...
Log File Analysis and SEO - Make or Break Your Campaign
Log File Analysis and SEO - Make or Break Your CampaignIf you own or manage a website, you are probably already aware of the importance of your log files or site statistics. Such data can give you insights about your site`s usability, errors in your HTML code, the popularity of ...
Optimizing Flash for Search Engines - Can it be Done?
Optimizing Flash for Search Engines - Can it be Done?Since the inception of Flash, it has been the programming medium of choice for many companies. Most professionals recognize the superior visual aspects that Flash has to offer. Unfortunately, Flash is also very hard to optimize. Many SEO firms would rather ...
SourceForge.net Reaches 100,000 Open Source Project Milestone
SourceForge.net Reaches 100,000 Open Source Project MilestoneOpen Source collaborative development site, SourceForge.net, has surpassed the 100,000th project milestone. The momentum behind SourceForge.net`s continued rapid growth has been fueled by the visibility of new projects posted by leading organizations such as NASA, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and SalesForce.com. In the past ...
Google AdSense Text Ads Versus Banner Ads
Google AdSense Text Ads Versus Banner AdsA thread at DigitalPoint forums named do images pay more? discusses whether graphic ads over text ads or more profitable for the publisher. Everyone seems to agree that graphic ads pay the highest cost per click to the publisher, when compared to the text ...
Google Advertising Locally?
Google Advertising Locally?Danny Sullivan pointed to a very interesting thread on the Webmaster World forum about Google advertising in the Kansas City market for Google Local. I had heard a rumor about this from an Advertising Age reporter a few weeks ago. I’ve requested a Google briefing. We’ll see if ...
Google and Yahoo Updating Rankings
Google and Yahoo Updating RankingsBoth Google and Yahoo appear to be updating their listings at this time. Searchers and SEOs have reported major fluctuations in search engine results pages over the past two days.The Google shuffle was confirmed by the recent backlink update, which saw some sites gain thousands of ...
Search Engine Marketing Growing More Complex
Search Engine Marketing Growing More ComplexWorking out a marketing plan for new and evolving websites is a bit more complicated than it used to be. There are a few new things to be considered before embarking on a search marketing campaign than in previous years. Search marketing has become more ...
XBox 360, PS3, and Nintendo Revolution Consoles Heat Up Gaming
XBox 360, PS3, and Nintendo Revolution Consoles Heat Up GamingThe E3 Conference is being held this week and due to some great coverage by Yahoo Games and Ensight, we`re seeing that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all have a strong console offering to market this year. Yahoo Games has put together ...
Google and MSN Desktop Search Tools Go Corporate
Google and MSN Desktop Search Tools Go CorporateJust when you thought MSN and Google Desktop Search tools were like a link from Fark.com and "not safe for work", the two companies come out with more secure Enterprise versions of their popular desktop search software. Google yesterday announced Google Desktop Search ...
New Google Personalized Homepage in Beta - Answer to My Yahoo!
New Google Personalized Homepage in Beta - Answer to My Yahoo!Finally, Google has figured out a way to tie in all of their subscription services into one offering and has also given its users a reason to use Google`s personalized search. Directly from Google Factory Tour live, Luca Conti of ...
eBay on Cable TV, Buys More Int?l Classified Sites
eBay on Cable TV, Buys More Int`l Classified SitesNothing radical in one sense, but the development is very interesting and another harbinger of—dare I say it—TV-Internet convergence. (Actually there won’t be true convergence, but some mixing of TV and Internet on both mediums).Separately, eBay bought two classified sites that it ...
Google Homepage Personalized or Portal?
Google Homepage Personalized or Portal?Many of you are already aware of Google`s new lab announcement, Personalize Your Homepage. It is very interesting that Google says nothing about "portal" in this announcement, at least I haven`t seen the word used much. It is more about "personalization" then "portal". There are tons ...
Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe
Ask Jeeves Buys Excite EuropeAsk Jeeves has acquired Excite Europe from Tiscali for EUR 6.1 millions (an apparent pittance). In March of last year, Ask Jeeves bought Excite.com in the U.S.Also today, Ask Jeeves and InfoSpace announced they had settled litigation associated with the earlier U.S. Excite acquisition and that ...
My Google - Personal Google Home Page
My Google - Personal Google Home PageMy Google is here. Though that’s not the official name, that’s what the new home page personalization features seem to amount to. While the move is not a tremendous surprise—we speculated about My Google when Google News personalization was released—it does appear to be ...
Google AdWords Adds Account Size Limitation
Google AdWords Adds Account Size LimitationI haven`t heard this talked about anywhere else, but a client of mine notified me that his AdWords representative told him he needs to reduce the number of keywords within his new campaigns "to ensure that they do not place unnecessary load on our advertising ...
Accoona: Time to Worry?
Accoona: Time to Worry?Last Fall general purpose (as opposed to niche) search engine Accoona launched to considerable media fanfare. Yes the name does come from the Swahili phrase “acoona matata,” popularized in the U.S. by the Disney film The Lion King. Though I’m sure everyone already knows, the meaning of ...
Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search
Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local SearchI missed Blogdigger’s announcement about the addition of local a few days ago. Local.blogdigger.com appears to be a mix of local search, blog/news search and community. The results of my few quick searches weren’t very impressive. But the concept is pretty interesting.From the press ...
Politicial Blogs Cause Bias in Google News Coverage
Politicial Blogs Cause Bias in Google News CoverageThere was a study conducted by Eric Ulken named Non-traditional sources cloud Google News results. In the study, Eric claims "that the search engine`s selection of online-only news sources to include in Google News skews its search results toward political extremes.""When articles from ...
Bittorent Planning to Launch Search Engine
Bittorent Planning to Launch Search EngineBitTorrent is planning to launch an advertising-supported search engine allowing users to find live torrent files. The search results will display sponsored links through Ask Jeeves.The most interesting aspect of BitTorrent’s search engine is their ranking system. Current search engines rank results by relevancy, while ...
Bo Bice Will Win American Idol Says AOL
Bo Bice Will Win American Idol Says AOLFor those of you that actually watch American Idol, AOL has just released their predictions of who will win the FOX Television talent contest. According to the AOL Search Index, Bo Bice (the hippie) has been a solid AOL Search favorite over the ...
Mega BizFest Wilmington, DE : Internet Marketing Speaking Engagement
Mega BizFest Wilmington, DE : Internet Marketing Speaking EngagementI`ll be speaking on a panel at Wilmington Delaware`s Mega BizFest on June 10th, representing the field of Internet Marketing and Search on behalf of WebAdvantage.net. This is one of my first speaking panel engagements and I`m really looking forward to it ...
Exalead Combines Search Features
Exalead Combines Search FeaturesFound a link to Exalead through Seth Godin’s site. Although Exalead’s results are not as relevant as the top search engines, Exalead is doing some interesting things on the presentation side.In addition to normal search results, Exalead allows users to filter by related search terms, related categories ...
Web Analytics Needs Standards Bad
Web Analytics Needs Standards BadIs the Web Analytics Association doing anything? I am not being sarcastic, I really do not know. What I do know is that when you install any Web analytics program, each one will report different numbers. Today, I installed an open source analytics program named AW ...
MSN Virtual Earth Demo
MSN Virtual Earth DemoVirtual Earth is MSN’s answer to Google Maps and maybe even Google Earth. So much to cover, but here are some features I noticed that were different than Google Maps.* Aerial Maps* More controls - Keyboard navigation, Mouse Scroll Wheel to zoom* Zoom in all modes - ...
Ask Jeeves 9000 B-Sides
Ask Jeeves 9000 B-SidesCheck out the clips that were cut out of the original Ask Jeeves 9000 post. There has been speculation that Ask Jeeves is going to be renamed to just "Ask" or "Ask.com". Ask Jeeves has slowly been phasing out their "Ask Jeeves" name and moving towards "Ask.com" ...
Images in Google Adsense Text Only Ads
Images in Google Adsense Text Only AdsJensense reports that icons, better known as 16 by 16 pixel favicons, have been spotted in AdSense wide skyscraper ad units (160x600). Register.com, eBay.com and Amazon.com are among those advertisers whose favicons are being shown.This could have a negative impact on the earnings of ...
Bloglines Developing a Blog Search Engine
Bloglines Developing a Blog Search EngineIn an interview, Mark Fletcher, the CEO of Bloglines (now a division of AskJeeves) says that his company will release a blog search engine this summer which will surpass the likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub. "The challenge," he says, "is to create world-class blog ...
Apple to Support Podcasting in iTunes
Apple to Support Podcasting in iTunesApple Computer has announced that it will start to support and organize podcasts in its newer versions of iTunes and iPod software. "With the next version of iTunes, due within 60 days, there will now be an easy way for everyone to find and subscribe ...
Ask Jeeves to Rebrand as Ask
Ask Jeeves to Rebrand as AskIn what should be a very good move for Barry Diller`s IAC, rumors are flying around MarketWatch that IAC will be dropping the Jeeves from Ask Jeeves and rebranding as Ask. In the piece, Biller is quoted as saying "We`re thinking about renaming it,...It probably ...
SEO Quiz May Answer Who?s the Most Knowledgeable SEM Person
SEO Quiz May Answer Who`s the Most Knowledgeable SEM PersonSEOMoz, aka. Randfish, has put together one nice SEO Quiz which was done as a reaction to a recent thread on Search Engine Watch Forums entitled Vote for the Most Knowledgeable SEW Forum Member. So far, Barry Schwartz of Rusty Brick ...
Ask Allows Enhanced ?Zoom?&?Web Answer?Functions
Ask Allows Enhanced "Zoom" & "Web Answer" FunctionsNews comes way that Ask has announced two new very useful features named Zoom and Web Answers. John Batelle has a quick & easy write up on those features but I will try to make it even quicker for you below. Chris Sherman ...
Google and Microsoft View Each Other Differently
Google and Microsoft View Each Other DifferentlyDespite recent search developments and a respectable third-place market market share, Microsoft is still not a competitor in Google’s eyes. Addressing the audience at the Technology Alliance luncheon yesterday, Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt identified Yahoo! as their main competitor. He downplayed the notion ...
Yahoo Reads Your Mind
Yahoo Reads Your MindYahoo just released Yahoo Mindset - allowing you to view Yahoo search results sorted by intent.Sometimes you are looking for information and other times you are looking for something to buy. Yahoo Mindset gives you the option to sort results by the level of commercial or informational ...
Yahoo Tries to Get into the ?Mindset?of the User
Yahoo Tries to Get into the `Mindset` of the UserJohn Battelle’s blog points out a new search offering from Yahoo! Labs called “Mindset." At the top of the results page you get a bar with a “slider.” On the left is “shopping” and on the right is “research.” What it ...
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