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Yahoo Acquiring BuzzTracker News Aggregator for $5 Million
Michael Arrington is reporting that Yahoo has acquired BuzzTracker, a small news aggregation site which I have always considered more of a news scraping site,...
Wordze Keyword Research Tool
Wordze, dubbed the King of Keywords, is a keyword research and search volume tool suite which allows its users to dig deep into identifying keywords...
Idearc Buys LocalSearch.com for $3.3 Million
Is it my imagination or is there a massive local search land grab in action between companies like Idearch, Marchex, Dex and Local.com? Idearc Media...
Netscape Social News Rebranding to Propeller.com
Last week Netscape & AOL announced that they would be reverting the Netscape.com site to its old news portal self and away from the Calacanis...
Omgili : Search Engine for Forums & Discussion Boards
Omgili stands for “Oh My God I Love It”. Its a search engine exclusively for discussion boards, opinions, forums and conversations and returns results on...
Google Loves Transparent Links & Hit Counter Spam
Searching Google for to monitor the top ranked sites for high dollar key terms is a long time habit of mine, and a useful way...
Future of SEOmoz & Lunch with Rand’s Parents, Gillian Muessig and Scott Fishkin
The weather in downtown Victoria sometimes baffles the brain. It is a cool, overcast Pacific NW morning with a warm fog that makes it feel...
Ixquick : Rating Based Meta Search Engine
Ixquick.com meta search engine submits your search query to 14 search engines and the results are ranked according to a “star” ranking system. While the...
Yahoo Acquires BlueLithium Ad Network
Yahoo acquires BlueLithium, U.S. fifth and U.K.’s second largest advertising network with 145 million unique visitors every month. The acquisition deal was closed with an...
Google Fueling Technorati Blog Spamming : Wanda Nara Example
Today I was reading a post on BlackHatSEODiary about the continuous blog spamming of Technorati based upon the public publishing of their top searches. The...
Social Media’s Direct Influence on Search Engine Ranking
Social media marketing is becoming more of an accepted part of the online marketing mix because of its ability to drive website traffic and inbound...
Google Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator : Check Your Site!
Francesco Mapelli has launched a new SEO tool called the Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator which allows site owners to check the percentage of pages from...
SideKiq : Search Engine for the Power Searcher
To put it in one word, SideKiq is quirky. At this meta search engine, you search by category. Enter the query into the search box...
Video Search Engine Blinkx Forms Targeted Broadband Media Partnerships
The video search engine blinkx has formed 28 new partnerships with special interest broadband based media companies. Among the new partnerships are Cycling TV and...
GigaBlast Search Engine : Hand Built Algorithmic Search
GigaBlast, the search engine has an interesting history. Matt Wells wrote the code for GigaBlast from scratch in C++ after quitting InfoSeek. Thus for a...
Oingo Meaning Engine, Semantic Search & Google
Oingo, the meaning based search engine debuted in 1998 i.e. at the time when keywords and relevancy alone were the driving factors for online content,...
Four Reasons Why You Should Never Use Google AdWords’ Pre-Pay Option
As you may know, Google AdWords offers two main types of payment options: Pre-Pay and Post-Pay. There are some pros and cons to each method,...
Accoona : AI Powered Search
Accoona, the AI powered search engine has not received much popularity. The engine touts a powerful AI based algorithm that uses techniques that go beyond...
Google Universal Search : Invasion of News, Video & Blogs
Universal Search is the biggest thing to happen to search since the Florida update and when Google rolled out Universal Search is rewrote the rules...
SurfWax : The Customizable Meta Search Engine
Meta search engines do the one logical thing that relates well to the “not-reinventing-the-wheel” concept, i.e. presenting results culled from the best repositories in the...
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...
AOL Launches AOL Mobile Search with MovieFone, CityGuide & Mapquest Content
AOL has launched a beta version of their new AOL Mobile Search product which takes advantage of AOL properties such as Moviefone, MapQuest and AOL...
Swoogle : An Engine for the Semantic Web
Swoogle, the Semantic web search engine, is a research project carried out by the ebiquity research group in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department...
Yahoo Search Adds Yahoo Sports Baseball Shortcuts
Yahoo Search and Yahoo Sports are working together to bring Yahoo Sports Shortcuts to the searching experience. The first batch of shortcuts is for current...
Google Expanded Match: Background and Pointers
Many Google AdWords advertisers use broad match for their keywords, but few realize that using broad match also automatically activates expanded match. Expanded match, according...
Kaboodle Social Shopping Bought by Hearst
Hearst Media has purchased Kaboodle, the social shopping & recommendation engine, for somewhere around $40 million (according to Om). Following in the footsteps of Fox,...
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,...
Weighing in on PPC vs. Non-PPC Advertising
The question of whether pay-per-click (PPC) or non-pay-per-click (N-PPC) advertising offers the better return on your online investment is one that search-engine marketers continue to...
Yahoo Paid Inclusion: Thing of the Past?
Many people who are new to web site optimization may be unaware of a small corner of the market known as paid inclusion. Paid inclusion...
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...