Microsoft Seals Advertising Deal with Wall Street Journal
Microsoft and Wall Street Journal has reached and advertising deal, which if I may say so, is perhaps Microsoft’s biggest deal so far as a...
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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 4th Quarter Revenues Went Up in 2007, But Overall Net Income Suffered
The reports and statistics are out, and as I was looking over Yahoo’s financial report for 2007, all I saw was increase in this, and...
Reversing Google’s Position Six Penalty
When Search Engine Land reported last week that some sites were being hit by a mysterious plague called position six penalty, it created a stir...
Google Experiments on New Search Views
Finally Google maybe realizing that there’s more to being a search engine than giving relevant search results. Over at Google’s experimental lab, several new views...
Amazon to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Digital Store
Things are about to heat up (and get dirty) between Amazon and Apple’s digital music venture as Amazon announces that it will soon be launching...
Introducing Google Adwords’ Demographic Bidding
Google Adwords introduces demographic bidding, a new Adwords feature which will help advertisers in displaying their ads to specific gender and age group within the...
Chinese Search Engine Baidu Turns Japanese
After a month of delay, China’s top search engine Baidu finally launches its Japanese portal. By establishing a stronghold in the Japanese web scene, Baidu...
The Rumors are Getting Stronger, Yahoo to Layoff Staff
The rumor that started over the weekend about Yahoo’s impending plan to layoff hundreds of Yahoo staff worldwide seems to be getting stronger than bleaker....
Google Modifies Adsense Referral Program, Again
As a response to Adsense publishers outrage over the previously announced change in the Adsense referral program, Google is modifying the program policy yet again....
Google Wants to Change the World with 5 Initiatives
Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org announces its 5 core initiatives that will be the focus of its social responsibility activities. Using its strong information and technology...
AOL’s Truveo Joins the Election Fever
As the US election fever heats up, the focus has been directed towards the use online videos in each of the candidates campaign trails. Online...
Microsoft Snatched Advertising Deal with Edgar Online
And so the battle for internet strategic alliances surges on this year. Right after Google announced that it has reached a deal with broadband service...
A Friendly Adsense Reminder About Policy-Compliant Images and Videos
The image and video content that you embed in your blogs/websites that run Adsense units may conflict with Adsense program policies. Hence, the Inside AdSense...
Local Search Engine Grayboxx Finally Goes National
Online local search firm Grayboxx which was succeedingly rolled out in 5 major cities the past five months has finally come out of the box...
Google and Clearwire Reach Collaboration Agreement
Top broadband service provider Clearwire is teaming up with Google to provide popular Google Apps communication to Clearwire customers. In the first half of the...
Gmail for the iPhone Gets Two New Features
iPhone users would be delighted to know of two new nifty features of Gmail in their mobile devices. Gmail for iPhone enhances iPhone users’ Gmail...
Microsoft’s Targeted Shopping Cart Advertising, Innovation or an Act of Desperation?
ShopRite shoppers will soon be treated to a slew of advertisements while doing their shopping at ShopRite outlets. Thanks to a partnership between Microsoft, MediaCart...
Adwords Tweaked Conversion Optimizer for Profit Increase
The Conversion Optimizer introduced by Google AdWords in September is now out of beta. Along with this development are some improvements that would benefit AdWords...
PredictAd’s Search Auto-Complete Pays on CPC, What’s the Catch?
PredictAd is a fairly new product that offers bloggers/web site owners a new way to earn additional income. By adding a short code into a...
Yahoo Launches Web-Based MP3 Player
Yahoo just release an update of its mp3 player that no matter how Yahoo wants to underplay it, still web analysts might see it as...
Google To Phase Out Adsense Referral Program
If you are still implementing Adsense referral units on your blogs/sites and you’re outside of North America, Latin America and Japan and still manage to...
YouTube Videos and Picasa Web Going the HDTV Way
I know this idea may seem cool, but then would you really get excited about your newly bought HDTVs because of these features? Announced in...
Yahoo Launches Go 3.0, The Mobile Search Service Formerly Known as Go 2.0
Yahoo’s participation in the on-going Consumer Electronics Show is by way of the launch of its flagship mobile search service, Yahoo! Go 3.0 which is...
Google Docs Presentation Adds Embed Feature
This article was updated in 11/2016 to reflect changes in the industry. When Google Docs Presentation was launched in September, it was a much-awaited tool...
ChaCha’s Human Powered Search Goes Mobile with TextChaCha
You got to give credit to ChaCha search for trying to compete with the major search engines through its own little ways. Although its human-powered...
EarthFrisk: Another Meta-HyBrid Search Engine Rises
While we all await the opening of Wikia, join me in taking a closer look at another one of ’em “meta-hybrid-social search engine” which just...
Introducing SearchSalad: A Healthy Way to Search
Every once in awhile its good to see other metasearch engine come out of the web. While the top five major search engines battle it...
Google Adds U.S. Elections Coverage on News Portal
Doug Caverly of WebProNews is reporting that Google News has added coverage of the U.S. 2008 elections. The Official Google News Blog has announcement about...
Google Won’t Just Step Down the Search Rankings, Tops comScore’s November Report
Looks like Google is out to dominate the search engine battle this year. It has consistently topped search engine rankings from various web analytics reports...
WikiaSearch Launches in Private Beta
Michael Arrington is reporting that WikiaSearch, Jimmy Wales’ much anticipated open-source search engine has actually launched, today. The closed announcement (mailed through the WikiaSearch mailing...