Yahoo to Launch a YouTube Like Video Portal
A couple of weeks ago Yahoo announced that it will be integrating video content into its photo sharing site, Flickr aside from intensifying content development...
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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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NYT Opens My Times to the Public
Finally, after more than a year of being in beta stage, NY Times opens the doors of its start page personalization portal, My Times to...
Facebook Draws Advertising Strategy
Despite establishing itself as a contender into the social networking arena, Facebook up to know is still uncertain on how to put in more revenues...
Nokia Brings Windows Live into Mobile Handsets
Nokia and Microsoft are teaming up to bring the Windows Live Suite into several Nokia mobile handsets in the S60 series. Under the partnership, Microsoft...
YouTube to Serve Overlay Ads on Selected Videos
Google will begin serving advertisements on selected YouTube videos through an “overlay” method that appears on the bottom of videos during the first 20 seconds...
comScore Enhances Search Measurement with qSearch 2.0
comScore launches its second generation search measurement tool, qSearch 2.0. Whereas in previous measurement tool, web metrics company includes only searches occurring in the major...
Search Engine Marketing Firm’s Study Says Offline Channels Drive More Searches
The recent study on offline channel influence on online behavior study by search engine marketing firm iProspect yields some interesting findings about how offline channels...
Google Rolls Out Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center
Following Yahoo’s launch of its Traffic Quality Center, Google Adwords launches its own click fraud protection system, the Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center. Inside Adwords...
Mobile Social Networking Peaking in US and Western Europe
Data from a recently concluded study of the mobile media authority, M:Metrics shows that there are around 12.3 million American and European mobile users who...
Social People-Search Site PeekYou Gets a Boost
Social peeking site PeekYou gets even better with the release of its beta 2.0 version. The newly refurbished people-search engine introduces new features such as...
Microsoft Closes aQuantive Acquisition, Forms Ad Group
Microsoft’s largest acquisition deal so far is finally sealed. The acquisition deal which started as early as May of this year was put into a...
Search Engines Rate Themselves on Privacy Issues
Based on the survey of five leading search engines conducted by CNet News, Ask.com turns out to be the most protective of the privacy of...
Google Adwords to Give Advertisers Better Top Ad Placement Chances
Inside Adwords announces that it will be introducing a new way for advertisers to control top placement for their ad soon. Currently, top ad placement...
Google News to Add Reader Comments
Hoping to revitalize its news portal, Google News will, starting this week, include reader comments on news stories featured in the portal. But these reader...
Garage Sale Gets Inside Facebook
Buy.com is hoping to get a share of Ebay’s customer base by launching Garage Sale inside the Facebook network. Unlike Ebay and other auction sites,...
Google Removes Supplemental Results Labels
Starting today, Google will be removing the “supplemental labels” on the URLs of supplemental results displayed by the search engine. Since 2003, the supplemental results...
Google Gets Two of Four from FCC
The Federal Communications Commission finally reached a decision on Google’s proposed openness conditions before bidding on the upcoming auction of the publicly owned spectrum in...
Improve Adwords Performance through Campaign Optimizer
Google Adwords launches a new ad performance tool called Campaign Optimizer which is an on-demand Adwords tool that suggest personalized campaign ideas for Adwords account...
Online Dating Site Match.com Goes Mobile
There’s really no stopping the transition of web services into the mobile web. Now, even online dating sites, such as Match.com gets their own mobile...
Wikia Grabs Grub, Distributed Web Crawler
Wikia’s Co-Founder, Jimmy Wales takes a step further towards his vision of the LAMP stack for search, by acquiring Grub, the original visionary distributed search...
Forum Optimization for Better Adsense Performance
If you are running a community forum with Adsense placement and yet can’t seem to get significant earnings, Inside Adsense suggest these three Adsense performance...
DailyMotion Enters the US Internet Video Scene
Looks like YouTube has finally met its match with the entry of french-based video production hub DailyMotion in the internet video scene. DailyMotion, a french-based...
Microsoft to Acquire Advertising Marketplace
Microsoft seems to be pretty much aggressive on its advertising program the past couple of days. After sealing an advertising placement deal with Digg, the...
Digg-Microsoft Advertising Deal, Why Not Google?
By this time, the web is probably dilluted with all sorts of news bits, blog posts and what-have-yous on the most controversial press release for...
Yahoo! Toolbar Teams Up With Home/Office Store for a Safer Web Browsing
CA Inc, leading information technology management company is teaming up with Yahoo! with the upcoming release of a CA/Yahoo toolbar that will be packaged with...
Microsoft’s Answer to Google Analytics, Codename – Gatineau
A Computer World article reports that Microsoft is building its own web metrics tool that will compete against the highly successful Google Analytics. The Microsoft...
Search Engines Take Privacy Issue Seriously
After Google’s announcement that it will anonymize search data logs on its servers after 18 months of inactivity and Ask.com will allow users to scrub...
Social Search Engine iRazoo Launches
It’s good to know that there are still some entrepreneurs who are trying out their luck on the monopolized search engine industry. Take the case...
Picasa Web Albums Updates, New API Features
Google’s free web album, Picasa introduces some great new features which were the top requests of Picasa Web Album users. Google’s Data API blog enumerated...
Ask.com Will Give Users Control of Privacy Information
So while Google is reducing the retention of cookie information it gets from users who use its search engine, Ask.com is giving their users more...