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Court Orders YouTube to Hand Over Complete User Logs to Viacom
Viacom, if you recall, filed a $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube not too long ago. As part of the lawsuit, a court as now ordered...
Build Your Reputation, Traffic & Links via Social Media Q&A Sites
Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social...
Microsoft Acquires Powerset Semantic Search Technology
The power of excellent public relations and positioning a company as an alternative to the technological norm has paid off for Powerset, the semantics oriented...
Google and Yahoo to Make Flash Content Searchable
Both Google and Yahoo in coordination with Adobe is finally making it easier for webmasters to make Flash contents on their site searchable by search...
Google Retires the Adsense Referrals Program, to Make Way for GAN
Expectedly, now that Google has relaunched DoubleClick’s Performics ad affiliate network as the new Google Affiliate Network, there’s no point in maintaining the Adsense Referrals...
Google Launches Google Affiliate Network
When Google acquired DoubleClick, the company has brought with it its affiliate ad network program called Performics. But Google never did something to push Performics...
From Microsoft to Google, and Back Again : Insider Perspective
A Microsoft Engineer leaves Microsoft to work at Google, and then decides to head back to Microsoft after spending time in the Google development system....
LinkedIn Launches DirectAds : Targeted Advertising
LinkedIn is putting together a smarter way to monetize itself with the launch of LinkedIn DirectAds (currently under limited testing), which lets advertisers target ads...
SEO Effectiveness: Spend Your Time Wisely
SEOs keep discussing the effectiveness of old traditional techniques like reciprocal links and directory submission. Naturally, they cannot so easily be forgiven because they remain...
Google Now Distributing Online Video Content : Starts with Seth MacFarlane Series
Remember Adsense for Videos which debuted not so long ago? We haven’t heard too much about this new form of placing Google paid ads since...
Billionaire Icahn Becomes a Good Blogger, He Knows the Importance of an RSS
Billionaire turned blogger Carl Icahn explains why he has not posted anything about his proxy battle against Yahoo in his newly established personal blog. At...
Rumor: Microsoft to Acquire Semantic Search Engine Powerset
Whether this is true or just plain rumor, we’ll let you decide. Venture Beat is reporting a scoop on a possible Microsoft acquisition deal of...
Google and Others Supports Online Health Record Privacy Framework
If you’ve been hesitating to entrust your personal health records to online health providers and insurers, perhaps the newly launched Common Framework for Networked Personal...
Yahoo Mail Suffered from XSS Vulnerability, but no one was affected
If not for Cenzic’s CIA [Cenzic Intelligent Analysis] Research Lab which notified Yahoo on May 23 that Yahoo Mail is facing serious risk from online...
Yahoo to Shareholders: Yes to Google and the Board, No to Microsoft and Icahn,
Yahoo! (represented by Board Chairmen Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang) has sent a letter to their Shareholders, to finally clear things on what’s has...
John Carcutt Wins $10,000 SEJ Contest : Donates Prize to Orphanage
The results of the $10,000 Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging competition are finally in after the great SEJ Blog Off between John Carcutt and Richard...
Twellow.com : Directory of Twitter Users
Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of...
Google Sued for $1 Billion in Software Stealing Dispute
Google is the target of a one billion dollar lawsuit by LimitNone, a software company which claims Google has taken trade secrets from the company...
Exploring Website Demographics with Quantcast & Microsoft
Google has started to open up their demographic tracking system to advertisers with Google Ad Planner and Google Trends users, but here is a look...
10 Ways to Increase Your Site Crawl Rate
Regular and frequent visits by the crawler are the first sign that your site appeals to Google. Thus the most efficient way to get frequent...
How to Land an SEO Dream Job Via LinkedIn
As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what...
Building Links for Geo Targeting
Incoming links are considered to be a major factor that forms Google’s opinion about your site. Naturally, country specific links are also very important to...
Best of the Web Launches BOTW Local Beta
Having worked tirelessly for the past two years, Best of the Web (BOTW) announced the launch of BOTW Local Beta on June 18th. While still...
70+ Most Useful Mashable Posts for Search Marketers and Developers
Today I have collected links of 70+ very useful posts from Mashable. These Mashable posts cover lists of various tools for Web Designing, Web Development,...
Google Has the Best Reputation Amongst American Consumers
Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these...
Link Building Steps : Clean Up Your Own Backyard
In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am...
Would the AP be better off owned by Google or another web company?
The newspaper business is slowly fading away and out of relevancy. By the time a story gets printed, it’s already broken in the online world. ...
Lawmakers Express Concern Over Yahoo-Google Deal
Following months of fending off a Microsoft takeover, Yahoo announced last week that they had entered into a non-exclusive advertising agreement with Google. Much in...
Google News is Cooking Up Something, it Better Be Good
The Google News Blog is reporting that something new is about to come up with Google News. The Google News Team is testing something and...
Yahoo Loses Top Social Media Brains : The Day the Music Died
Another critical piece of the Yahoo machine has left the garage, as Joshua Schachter, who Yahoo brought in when they acquired Del.icio.us back in 2005,...