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Google Indexing Blogs Quickly
If you’ve launched a new blog at Blogger or WordPress, you might be wondering if or when Google might get around to indexing your site. ...
Google News Offers Local News : Enter Zip Code & Town Name
Google News is expanding its news sections beyond election coverage and recommended reading with a Local News area which serves targeted news stories based upon...
Searchles : The Multimedia Community Search Engine
Searchles ( pronounced “Circles”) is a complete Social Search engine founded by John Hopkins University graduate Chris Seline. The site is focussed on creation of...
Track Super Tuesday Election Results on Yahoo News & Google Maps
If you’re like me, you’re pinned in front of the television right now watching the news channel of your choice as results from the Super...
China’s Search Engine Baidu Under Fire for Music Piracy
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry representing major music companies, Universal, Sony BMG (Hong Kong) and Warner Music Hong Kong, has filed a court...
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...
Google Entering Paid Reviews Business? Via AdSense?!?
Shoemoney has published a tip coming from a secret source that Google is going to be offering paid reviews via their Google AdSense system and...
Gameseekr : Online Gaming Search Engine
Gameseekr is a search engine tailored for games which are accessible and playable on the internet. It also supports a social model that enables users...
Google, Publicis Working Together on Digital Ads Technology
Google Inc. and Publicis Groupe announced Wednesday that they are working together on using technology to improve advertising. The two companies have already been collaborating...
SeeqPod MP3 Search Engine Sued by Warner Music
SeeqPod, the MP3 search engine which lets users play music on the site, has come under target by the Warner Music legal team because it...
Redirects in AdWords Ads Bypass Banned Sites Filter in Google AdSense
Even if you block a domain in AdSense from being served on your site, there are still ways that publishers and Made For AdSense “spammers”...
Top 10 Social Networks, Blogs & Web Brand Rankings for Dec. 2007
Reported by Marketing Charts, Nielson Ratings releases the statistics for the top 10 social networks, blogs, and web brand rankings for December 2007. Top 10...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Ask.com For Failure to Prevent Click Fraud
Ask.com is apparently being sued in a class action lawsuit for “failing to adequately detect and stop ‘click fraud’ or other invalid or improper clicks...
Collaborative Blog Search with BlogDigger
RSS and blog search engine BlogDigger provides services such as media search, link search and grouping of blog results. Media search pertains to RSS feeds...
Google Boots IncrediMail from AdSense Program
IncrediMail revealed today that they had received a notification from Google indicating that they had been dismissed from the Google AdSense program. Upon the announcement...
Weather Channel Adds Weather to Google Maps
The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. has launched a new mapplet for Google Maps, which makes weather conditions available on the map with one click. Additionally,...
Ask.com Names New CEO Jim Safka, Replacing Jim Lanzone
IAC made an interesting move today, replacing one of the head figures responsible for taking Ask.com out of the search spammy shadow of Jeeves, and...
Do Not Hire an SEO Company!
As the owner of an SEO company it is somewhat contradicting to write such an article. However, there are many times when a company or...
Dailymotion : Video Marketing on this Global Version of YouTube
I am happy to announce my first in a series of posts on video marketing on video sharing sites. I will be going off of...
There is No G.com, Y.com, M.com, Why Not?
Google’s acquisition of the one character g.cn domain for China, reminded me of the old question about one and also two character domain names in...
Search Engine Roundtable : Best SEO Blog of 2007
Another year, another blog voted Best SEO Blog by Search Engine Journal’s readers. In 2005, Matt Cutts took away the award. In 2006, SEOmoz. Search...
Spam for the Search Engines and a Smile for Matt Cutts
I wanted to call the post “Website Scraper, Trackback Spammer and Cloaking Bundle” at first, but then thought that the current one is a bit...
Search Blogs Award Voting : Quality vs. Quantity
In this year’s Search Engine Journal Search Blogs Awards, I took a different approach at the blog rating system, giving voters the option to rate...
Hardcore SEO Fundamentals: Markov Chaining Points and Term Vector Modeling
Heather Paulson from Paulson Management Group wrote a post for ReveNews.com titled “SEO Matrix’s- Markov Chaining and Term Vector Models“. It is basically a rundown of the...
The Importance of Research: A 2008 Resolution
Research, Research, Research! Personally, 2007 was the year I spent a few hours a day doing research on branding strategies, traffic strategies, news, etc. A...
Google Knol – Looking at Wikipedia’s Rival
There’s a new kid on the online block named Knol and even this early in the development stage, some people are already predicting that it...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I
It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs...
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 Partners with DoCoMo : Japanese Search Market Prepares for iPhone
Google is making a push to expand its reach in the Yahoo owned Japanese market via targeting where the majority of Japanese users spend their...
Sam’s Club Search Marketing : Good or Bad for the Industry?
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart owned mega store which is a godsend to small businesses looking to stock locally breaking dependency on wholesale distributors, is now...