Move Over Facebook and MySpace, Here Comes Google Friend Connect
As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google...
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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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Yahoo! Search Embraces the Mac Community
Yahoo is extending its search clout towards Mac users, as it acquired Safari browser plug-in, Inquisitor. This plug-in works similarly to Yahoo’s Search Assist which...
Yahoo is Testing Glue Page Search Result in Yahoo! India
Yahoo has just launched its search portal in India a couple of days ago. And to coincide with the launch, it is being reported that...
Live Search Gets a Clean Up, Looks More Like Google Search
The good thing when you’re into the search engine business and you’re up against only two competitors is that you can do away with copying...
Yahoo and McAfee Offer a Safer Way to Search with SearchScan
Yahoo! Search has teamed up with McAfee to bring a safer way of doing search at Yahoo with a new security feature called, SearchScan. SearcScan...
Google Reader Gets More Social with New Sharing Features, and we love it
Google Reader has just rolled out some new features, which obviously is geared towards making Google’s RSS aggregator more social. So, here’s a run down...
Microsoft Cancels the Yahoo Acquisition Deal, Finally!
So, what do we have here? Finally, Balmer and his guys walk off the long-standing acquisition deal after finally not agreeing on the terms. TechCrunch...
Tom Cruise promotes his site using AdWords?
It’s time for a little bit of Sunday fun reading. Remember that hotly contested tomcruise.com domain which was later on given to actor Tom Cruise,...
Google TV Ads now available for US-based advertisers
Google Adwords’s take on TV advertising is going full blast as Google TV Ads which has been in by invitation-only beta mode becomes available for...
Feedburner-Google Integration under way, Adsense on RSS to push through
When Google acquired Feedburner last year, one of the changes that were announced was the integration of Adsense ad units into Feedburner members’ RSS feeds....
Windows Live Search Mobile intros Shop and Search on the Go
Windows Live Search is on th roll the past couple of days. It’s latest offering, a convenient mobile application for product search. Product search on...
Google’s Vision of the Future of Image Search
Can Google’s technology automatically analyze what’s inside an image? I mean is it really possible to automatically analyze an image subject then rank it according...
comScore Validates Accuracy of its Google Paid Click Data
It looks like the issue on the declining click data of Google’s paid ads won’t just die down. Well, at least for comScore, they will...
Microsoft Live Search News gets an RSS
Either the Microsoft Live Search team were sleeping when they were developing the Live Search News portal or they wanted so much to make it...
Yahoo’s Take on the Open Web, A Search Monkey
Actually, I would have made the title of this post into something like, “Yahoo calls the people for help to save itself from getting eaten...
Google Rolls Out Mobile Image Ads
Google just launched mobile image ads which works like your typical Google image ads but small enough to fit on a mobile phone’s screen. The...
MSN Live Search Rolls Out Some New Features
MSN Live Search has been rolling out some new features lately. The latest of which being on its Live Search Products which is now sporting...
Google Sued for Fraudalent Ads Charging?
A federal class action lawsuit is being filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Carolina in San Jose, against...
Google World’s No.1 Brand, Again
I guess reading a news item saying that Google is the world’s no. 1 is not surprising anymore. So next question to ask, is how...
YouTube Rolls Out Some New Features
YouTube has started rolling out some new features to help us better manage our YouTube accounts. But I would like to think that it is...
Google to Everyone – We’re Still Ok and We’re Still Earning a lot
“Our ongoing innovation in search, ads, and apps helped drive healthy growth globally across our product lines, yielding another strong quarter for Google. As we...
Yahoo successfully tested Google ads on search results
It looks like Yahoo is all set to outsource its web search advertising to Google as announced last week. Citing Wall Street Journal, Reuters is...
Microsoft launches Live Search News, Google News killer?
Microsoft Live Search has unveiled its new web service, the Live Search News (LSN). The Live Search News is very similar to Google News, or...
Salesforce ties up with Google
As expected, Salesforce and Google have officially announced that they have linked to deliver an integrated solution for their Salesforce customers who are also users...
Jerry to Steve: Yahoo Deserves More than $31 per Share
The Yahoo Board has issued an official response to Microsoft’s letter addressed to the Yahoo Board last Saturday. Once again, Yahoo reiterated that it will...
Yahoo AMP : Adsense-like Ad Sales System
Seems like Yahoo won’t just be affected by any deadline given by Microsoft to accept their offer. While Microsoft is working on a possible solicitation...
Microsoft Sets a deadline for Yahoo to accept $41 billion buyout or else
For Microsoft, the waiting game may soon be offer as it finally gave a deadline for Yahoo to accept its $41 billion offer. Microsoft warned...
Yahoo adds voice-recognition, search assist feature in mobile search
Yahoo has its share of limelight in the ongoing CTIA 2008 with the revamp of its mobile search engine – oneSearch. For its second version...
Yahoo Launches Shine, Site for and by Women
Yahoo has just launched a new site that goes by the moniker “Shine”. It a new site by and for women. Everything you’d always wanted...
Google Brings Robot.txt generator to the Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools has a new tool that would certainly be useful to site owners in making their site Googlebot friendly – the Robots.txt generator....