Bing Mobile Looks and Feels Like Google Mobile Search, Almost
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is starting to make waves as more people are trying it out. But before we forget, aside from web version of...
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Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
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Microsoft Officially Announces its New Search Engine – Bing
As expected, Microsoft’s official announcement of its new search engine aka decision engine, aka vertical search engine aka Bing or whatever you may want to...
Google Adds Image Ads on AdSense Link Units
If you’re implementing AdSense Link Units on your sites, this new feature might interest you. For those who may have forgotten already, AdSense Link Units...
Google Gives More Suggestions to Search Inputs, Sponsored Links Included
Google is gradually rolling out some enhancements to its search auto-suggest features with the hope of giving users faster way of finding information using Google...
Yahoo Buzz Gets a Facelift, Goes to India Too
Yahoo is making it easier for Buzz users and followers to submit, vote and comment their friends and the whole Yahoo Buzz community’s activities as...
Yahoo Releases Placemaker Geo-Tagging Service for Unstructured Data
Yahoo has just released Placemaker, a geo-enrichment tool for the web contents geared for developers. Yahoo’s official description of Placemaker service: … a freely available...
Google Rolls Out Maps Ad Unit
Google is giving geo map developers a new option to earn revenue from their Google Maps API implementation. Dubbed Maps Ad Unit, this new Google...
Scribd Launches E-Book Store
Scribd, one of the largest social publishing site has began testing a new e-book store which it hopes to compete with the growing popularity of...
Google’s Downtime Affected 5% of the Internet
Last week’s Google downtime created quite a stir among us all, there’s no doubt about that. And one of the most interesting observations/reactions was perhaps...
Google Updates Trademark Policy on Keywords Ads
Starting June 15, Google AdWords will start displaying trademarks on keywords ads, the Inside Adwords Blog announced. This new policy would allow advertisers to use...
Gmail Doesn’t Want You to Ever Use Another Webmail Provider Again
Google is continously improving the features of Gmail. Whereas before forwarding your Gmail messages to other webmail services has been pretty simple, now Google is...
Google Search Gets New Options, Snippets, Squared
Fresh from the second Searchology Event, Google announced three new enhancements to its Search Product – Search Options, Search Results Snippets, and Google Squared. The...
Google Launches AdSense Ad Planner Publisher Center
Inside AdSense Blog has just announced that Publisher Center is now integrated with Google Ad Planner. Actually 3 of Google’s Official Blog, Inside AdSense, Inside...
New Labs Feature Brings Google Search Inside Gmail
Gmail Labs has rolled out yet another useful feature. This time, it’s bringing Google Search right smack into your Gmail account. From then on you...
Google AdSense, Analytics Integration Now Available to All Publishers
Google AdSense has just made the AdSense-Analytics integration available to all publishers. This feature which was gradually rolled out to selected AdSense publishers the past...
Live Search Adds Traffic Updates to 411 Service
Live Search in partnership with traffic provider INRIX has added live traffic reporting updates to Live Search 411. If you will recall, Live Search 411...
Google Now Displays Links to Google Profiles
Recently, Google has started including link to individual Google profiles when users search for their names. Whereas before, Google search would only display 10 of...
Microsoft’s AdSense-Like PubCenter Goes into Public Beta
Microsoft is finally making its PubCenter ad publishing tool available to the public after some months of being under close private beta mode. Public beta...
Yahoo Q1 Earnings Report, Not Looking Better
After Google reported on its financial conditions recently, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to report how bad the company is doing in terms of its finances....
Google Labs Launches Similar Images and Google News Timeline
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard about exciting innovations from Google Labs, but today two new products are being launched – Similar Images and Google...
Google Reports Q1 9% Profit Increase But 3% Revenue Decrease
Google has just presented the company’s Q1 earnings and finally the report showed that Google is not immune to the crisis after all. Google’s revenue...
eBay to IPO Skype in 2010
Fresh from losing StumbleUpon after its SU founders bought back the social bookmarking site from eBay, it seems like eBay doesn’t want the same incident...
Yahoo May Layoff Some More Employees
The exodus of some more Yahoo employees might continue as Yahoo is said to be planning on announcing another round of layoffs during its first...
StumbleUpon Starting Up Again, Goodbye eBay
The StumbleUpon blog has officially announced that the social bookmarking site is no longer a part of eBay. SU was acquired by eBay sometime in...
Google and Microsoft Fighting Over Twitter
Twitter is growing exponentially the past couple of months in terms of site traffic, usage and membership. Because of this the number of Tweets posted...
Yahoo To Lose Search Share Due to Toolbar Deal with HP and Acer
As if its current search market share is not already low, Yahoo’s search share might suffer some more setbacks due to failed toolbar deal with...
Shoemoney Sues Google Employee for AdWords TOS Violation
Shoemoney’s Jeremy Schoemaker is hot on the heels of a Google employee who owned a website which uses Shoemoney’s patented keyword “Shoemoney” on his AdWords...
Google Image Search Gets the Rainbow Color Treatment
Google has just rolled out color filtering to Image Search. It’s a pretty simple feature that lets you get image results based on preferred color....
Google Expands Local Search
Google has just rolled out its local search results to worldwide coverage. What this means is that when you search for things such as restaurants...
Twitter Wants to Be A Discovery Engine
A couple of weeks ago Twitter has began rolling out some enhancements which consisted of an integrated search box and a Twitter zeitgeist sort of...