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Google Makes its Maps More Useful for Daily Road Warriors
Google has just launched a new feature of Google Maps that how I wish would also be enabled internationally – live traffic conditions in major...
YouTube Extends Video Monetization Program To Other Users, Selectively
YouTube is extending its YouTube Partnership Program to other regular provided that their videos gone viral and have received considerable page views. YPP which was...
Yahoo to Acquire Arab Site Maktoob
In a rather surprising move, Yahoo announced that it intends to acquire Arab site Maktoob. This is the first time that Yahoo is acquiring an...
SEO Differences Between Google and Bing
Cuil founder Tom Costello has published an interesting article (discussed at WebmasterWorld forums) sharing his findings on the differences between Google, Yahoo and Bing search...
Yahoo Rolls Out Search Product Enhancements
Interestingly, just when the Yahoo-Microsoft deal is a few months from materializing, here comes Yahoo telling us all what the Yahoo search engineers have been...
SEOmoz 2009 SEO Tips & Tricks Seminar Kicks Off
Is the most exciting thing that happened at SEOmoz’s 2009 advanced seminar that Rand almost fell off the stage on the first morning despite his...
Have You Optimized Your Crawl Equity?
Sites with hundreds of thousands of pages, or even millions, may not ever get all their pages indexed. This is because of a concept sometimes...
How to Add Fresh Content to Your Social Profiles
Building multiple profiles for social media marketing, online reputation management or for SEO purposes is pretty easy. But keeping those profiles actively updated with relevant...
SEO Terminology: Boilerplate (How Google May be Treating Repeated Content)
SEOs have been discussing how Google may be giving different treatment to different page elements based on their location on the page. Identifying so-called “boilerplate”...
Why There Are More Generic .com TLD Results in UK SERPS
In a short post on his personal blog wherein he answers not so personal questions and more Google-related questions, Google’s Matt Cutts clarified on a...
No Love for the iPhone?, Google Rolls Out Listen Audio Magazine for Android Phones
Aside from the new Image Search results for mobile phones, Google is also showing some love to its very own Android-powered mobile phones by way...
Google Faces Tough Challenge on Book Settlement Issue
If the planned coalition spearheaded by the Internet Archive is to take shape, Google might find itself facing a tough battle ahead. Worst, this coalition...
Wolfram|Alpha Reports on What it Has Achieved So Far
Among the many new things that greeted us recently, Wolfram|Alpha is perhaps one of the most controversial. This was due to the fact that it...
Featured FireFox Addon: Search Any Site with Google
It is funny I am so used to Google search that I no more bother to look for any site search field. I just go...
Google Tops User Satisfaction Index
Report of the recent American Consumer Satisfaction Index showed that there are more satisfied Google users now than there were last year. The report also...
Semantic Technology and Search – SES San Jose 2009 Coverage
The semantic search panel was very very interesting. There were representatives from Ask, Bing, Google, and Yahoo! to answer questions about semantic search and share...
How SEO Can Help Save the Publishing Industry – SES San Jose 2009 Coverage
The session explored the challenges, tactics and opportunities unique to online publishers. It covered solutions for technical obstacles, duplicate content and CMS issues, writing keyword...
Bing Gaining Grounds on Comparison Shopping
Gradually Microsoft’s massive promotional campaign for Bing and its search verticals may be starting to pay off. The latest Hitwise statistics on comparison shopping tools...
Microsoft and Yahoo Need to Focus on Search Users’ Loyalty
comScore is running an interesting look into the June search data of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Overall, the analysis is pointing to the possibility of...
FireFox Addon: Monitor the Page Size with “View Dependencies”
A long time ago I listed a few web-based tools to check a web page size and why it matter for SEO. Today I am...
Google Adds More Cool Templates to Display Ad Builder
Just a short update posted by the Inside AdWords regarding its new professional looking templates which were just added to AdWords’ Display Ad Builder. If...
Matt Cutts Joins the SES San Jose SEO Site Clinic
Google’s Matt Cutts has made a surprise appearance here today in the SEO Site Clinic at SES San Jose 2009 along with Web Guerilla’s Greg...
Google Reader Rolls Out Some Good Features
Google is really so into “social” right now. Aside from introducing the social gadgets for iGoogle to everyone, it is also enhancing the sharing features...
Google Opens Up Social Gadgets to All
Recently Google Australia introduced some new social features to iGoogle, specifically social gadgets that bring iGoogle closer to becoming a full-featured social networking site. And...
Google Needs You to Test its New Search Infrastructure
Here’s what could probably be Google’s first in gearing up for an impending battle against the combined force of Yahoo and Microsoft in the coming...
Your AdWords ROI Is Better Than You Think
If you understand the AdWords conversion tracking cookie, you know you can’t report a monthly AdWords ROI accurately until 30 days after the month ends....
Bing Offers Double Cash Back When You Shop
Just in time for the back-to-school days shopping gigs of U.S. households with student members in the family, Bing is offering double cash back when...
Catch Search & Social at SES San Jose
There may not be a Google Dance during this year’s SES San Jose, but that does not mean that the staff of Search & Social...
4 Search Engines That Use Different Approaches to Achieve Relevancy
Previously here on Search Engine Journal, I covered various Semantic Search Engines which have erupted on the scene as alternatives to Google and Microsoft /...
Is There Such a Thing as a “Virtual” Backlink?
We know how much Google depends on external links for assigning some value to a site and a page. And because we all know that,...