Yahoo Inks Deal with Latin America’s Top Mobile Operator, America Movil
Not to be outdone with the recent news buzz about rivals Microsoft and Google, Yahoo does it end-of-the-year bang with its share of the web...
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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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Will Google Finally Get the FTC Clearance to Buy DoubleClick
The Google-DoubleClick deal has been going for too long now, that it is already tiring to follow on how the development of the transactions has...
The $500 Million Microsoft-Viacom Deal
The press release lead says: Companies sign landmark multiyear deal to collaborate on content distribution, advertising, event promotions and gaming; Microsoft’s Atlas to become exclusive...
Google Introduces Video Sitemaps
If you want to get your video contents searchable via Google Video Search, you better start creating sitemaps for these videos. With the Google video...
Is Google Building a Social Network Around Its Portal?
A lot can be deduced about the recent developments in Google’s online empire that past couple of months. New product launches, new features of current...
Wikipedia Better Watch Its Back, Here Comes Google Knol
Google will soon launch its Knowledge Portal which is in more ways than one similar to Wikipedia. Codename: Knol, which stands for a “unit of...
Flickr Launches Photo Stats Feature
If you think the Yahoo shortcuts for bloggers is way to cool, well here’s another one tool from Yahoo which would certainly be very helpful...
5 New Reasons to Upgrade Your Google Toolbar
Google has launched the new version of its Toolbar for Internet Explorer (Sorry Firefox fans) which is currently in beta version. If you are still...
Ask.com Launches New Privacy Feature, AskEraser
The search privacy feature of Ask.com which was announced sometime in July is finally launched today. AskEraser is a privacy tool which when enabled by...
3 Top Search Engines’ Webmaster Tools: Which Gives the Better Site Data?
Webmaster tools are used by site owners and developers to determine how search engines see their sites in terms of inbound and outbound links and...
Flickr and Picnik Collaborate on Online Photo Editing
Flickr has tapped Picnik’s online photo editing application to let Flickr users edit, well their Flickr photos right into the Flickr accounts. This is a...
Gmail Lets Users Chat with AIM Buddies
Finally Google is giving Gmail a much needed attention by way of feature upgrades. First we saw the group chat function and some spanking new...
Microsoft’s Way of Making its Presence Felt in the SEO/SEM Field
Microsoft today announced three new features for its adCenter program and Live Search. Actually the one for Live Search is already old news, the Webmaster...
Google Reader’s Two New Features Made Possible by Two Google Interns
Google Reader quietly introduced two nifty features aimed at finding more not so well known and yet interesting blogs and a better way of organizing...
Yahoo to Serve Ads on Adobe PDF Documents
Yahoo’s latest move towards expanding the reach of its advertisement program is in the form of Adobe’s popular document reading format, Adobe PDF. Dubbed as...
Gmail Becomes More Like Yahoo IM, Adds Group Chat and Rich Emoticons
The Official Gmail Blog just announced the addition of group chat and rich emoticons into Gmail’s chat facility. The Gmail Group Chat allows multiple chat...
AOL and CBS Radio Team Up to Bring Online Videos to Local Radio Station Websites
AOL and CBS Radio has reached an agreement whereby video contents from AOL’s Truveo will be made available on CBS Radio’s websites. Under the said...
Google Launches Highly Open Participation Contest
Google wants to mobilize pre-university students into its open source development projects. And Google is doing this through the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, whereby...
IBM-Yahoo Updates OmniFind Yahoo Edition
IBM and Yahoo have released a new version of their enterprise search tool with enhancements on customization and personalization of searches. Launched December last year,...
Is the GDrive Finally Coming Out?
Like I always say, if a long-standing rumor has landed the pages of the Wall Street Journal, that rumor must be finally coming true. This...
Google Dominates U.S. Searches for October
As expected Google once again dominated U.S. search engine rankings for October based on the recent ComScore report. The almighty Google search engine even managed...
Paglo: The World’s First Search Engine for IT
Paglo which just launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google of IT. A free and on-demand service for IT professionals, Paglo allows searching...
AOL Launches Video Ticker Ads
AOL introduces a new online video advertising solution that serves graphic banner ads integrated within streaming video contents in AOL network. Similar to Google’s video...
Reducing Accidental Clicks on Google Adsense Units
Earlier this week, Google Blogscoped reported the change on clickable areas on Adsense units, and it is only now that the Google Adsense Blog posted...
Webmasters’ Robot.txt files Prefer Google Over Other Search Engines
A study conducted by some Penn State University researchers revealed that webmasters who use robot.txt files to determine which part of their sites are open...
Live Search Webmaster Central Out in Public Beta, Finally
Microsoft has finally released its much touted Live Search Webmaster Central to public beta. It’s been a long journey for Microsoft’s answer to Google’s Webmaster...
Local.com’s Search Technology Gets a Patent
Local business finding search engine, Local.com gets to have its local search technology patented to several companies which are part of its LocalConnect Platform. These...
Searchboth.com Combines Search Results of Search Engines
Searchboth.com, a search engine that previously displays search results for both Google and Yahoo search side by side on a split screen has expanded its...
Yahoo Expands Global Mobile Leadership with Regional Initiatives
Yahoo continues its regional expansion program with several regional initiatives aimed at establishing its mobile presence in various Asian countries. These initiatives include search partnership...
Google Teams Up with GoDaddy for Webmaster Tools
Google and web hosting provider GoDaddy has just reached an agreement on integrating Google’s Webmaster Tools on Godaddy customer’s accounts. GoDaddy is offering its millions...