Google Search Generates 7g of CO2, says Study
What would you rather give up? Boiling a kettle for your tea or using Google search? You might want to give up both, as boiling...
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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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Ask.com Focuses on Semantic Search
We got to give credit to Ask.com for not bowing out easily from the search engine market where it is not performing well for eternity....
Yahoo Moves Closer to Naming a New CEO
It’s been quite awhile now since Jerry Yang has stepped down from his post as Yahoo’s CEO. And since then, there were a lot of...
Google Street View Helps Solve a Crime
Those who have been criticizing the invasion of privacy posed by Google Street View may find some reprieve from their complaints and perhaps appreciate one...
Apple Removes Anticopying Measures on iTunes Songs
At the recently concluded Macworld conference, among the not so many highlights of the event was Apple’s announcement that it would start selling songs at...
Microsoft to Layoff 17% of Staff?
I know it’s not so nice to usher in the first day of the new year with such a bad news. But hey, everybody is...
Google Tries to Lure Gmail Users Using IE to Switch Browser
Google is reportedly trying to lure Gmail users who are still using Internet Explorer in switching to either Firefox or its very own Google Chrome...
Google’s Product Search Catches Up with Rivals
It’s very seldom that we encounter this kind of news when Google is actually playing catch up with rivals instead of leading ahead of them....
Google, Microsoft and Apple Targeted in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Recently, Cygnus Systems, a small Indiana company has filed a patent-infringement case against Microsoft, Apple, and Google involving the use of a web browser technology...
Google Employees Take G1 Dream Phone Instead of Cash Gift
Then annual Google tradition (or shall we say obligation?) of giving out holiday cash gift to its employees worldwide is not happening this year. Google...
Google Gets 70.8% Search Market Share in Compete’s November Metrics
A lot of things happened in November related to web activities and which affected the volume of web searches. Election-related searches for must have taken...
Google Image Search Rolls Out Style Options
Previously when you use Google’s Image Search to find a particular image, you type in specific keywords that would best decribe the image that you...
As Google Tops November Search Ranking, YouTube Gets A Chunk of its Search Volume
As expected in comScore’s November search market report, Google’s share of the search market for November increased again compared to October’s data. And of course,...
Google Ad Manager Rolls Out New Features
Just got this from my email sent by Google to all Ad Manager Administrators. Google is rolling out some new features and updates of its...
Coupons.com Launches a Facebook App
With a few days left for all us to do our last minute Holiday shopping, what better way to do it but using some digital...
Yahoo Reduces Data Retention Limit to 3 Months
In what could be a pre-emptive move to the planned legislative advocacy push of some privaty advocates in putting some government pressure to the data...
Yahoo! Buzz Rolls Out New Publisher Landing Pages
Aside from the new features of its various online products, Yahoo is also rolling out some for Yahoo! Buzz. Specifically, Yahoo Buzz Publisher can now...
Yahoo Rolls Out Some Product Updates
Yahoo is rolling out updates of some of its online products today. These enhancements which are geared towards achieving full implementation of its Y!OS strategy...
You Ask, Mahalo Answers
We all still remember Mahalo right? That human-powered search engine backed Jason Calcanis as SEO has just rolled a Question & Answer service. Perhaps realizing...
Adsense for Domain Now Available to all Publishers
The Inside Adsense Blog has just announced that Adsense for Domains is now available to all publishers who owns several domains which are not really...
Gmail Labs Tests SMS Messaging through Chat
After Gmail Task here comes another feature which would allow Gmail users to send SMS text messages through Gmail chat. This new Gmail feature is...
Sarah Palin Tops Google’s Global Zeitgeist 2008
Well what do you know? Despite losing in the recently concluded U.S. Elections, Sarah Palin has won in Google’s 2008 search Zeitgeist. Beating search terms...
Google Adds Magazines to Book Search
I love Google Book Search and its many features including the full and partial preview of digitized books. It’s really a big help when planning...
Google Amends Adwords’ Alcohol Ads Policy
Responding to what they claim as advertisers’ feedback, Google announced some modifications to the Adwords’ policy on Alcohol related advertisement across Google’s content network. This...
Google Gives Adwords Advertisers Mobile Ads Options
Google’s advertising program has not really been pretty active when it comes to the mobile platform. Until now as the Google Mobile blog is announcing...
Yahoo to Push Through with Planned Layoffs
Things are definitely not looking good at the Yahoo camp. The previously reported planned layoffs is pushing through after all. And as previously published, the...
Live Search Webmaster Center Discourages Automated Link Exchanges
For webmasters who are still in the practice of participating into automated link exchanges, you might learn a thing or two from the latest post...
Flickr Adds iPhone-Friendly Video Streaming Feature to its Mobile Site
Flickr has introduced several upgrades into mobile site highlighted by a video streaming feature that would let users view their uploaded video contents right onto...
Google Was Almost Charged with Web Monopoly?
For those who still remember the sudden decision of Google to back away from their paid search ad deal with Yahoo and still wondering the...
Britney Spears Tops Yahoo’s Top Searches for 2008
Once again Britney Spears has proven that she’s not only the Pop Princess but also the “Queen of Searches”, well at least in Yahoo’s 2008...