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SecondBrain – The First Complete Social Aggregator
Sometimes we look at great innovation and are compelled to compare like creations in evaluating them. More often than not it is the differences between...
Icahn Wants to Take Over Yahoo
Microsoft may have walked away from the table in negotiations with Yahoo for a takeover deal, but just because they’ve pulled their bid, that doesn’t...
Google Now #1 Web Destination, Beats Yahoo
For the longest time, Yahoo was the U.S.’s most-visited website and Google was the most popular search engine. That has, however, changed. Google is now...
Ask.com Buying Dictionary.com’s Lexico Publishing Group
Ask.com has announced that it will be purchasing the online reference network of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns and operates Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The...
CBS Acquiring CNET for $1.8 Billion : Includes Search.com
CBS is making a major Internet and news powerplay, acquiring CNET for $11.50 per share (44% more than CNET is trading at) for a total...
Worth $299 Per Year to Join Yahoo Directory?
Yahoo Directory is considered the creme de la creme in the human edited directory and search field, and is one of the major authority listings...
Yahoo Launches Site Explorer for Yahoo Japan
Yahoo Japan & Yahoo have just launched Yahoo Site Explorer for the Japanese market, which Yahoo search & services dominate. Using Yahoo Japan Site Explorer,...
Yahoo.com Redirecting to UK.Yahoo.com for UK Users
Yahoo has started to automatically serve the local version of their Yahoo homepage to users from the UK (and perhaps other global destinations) in what...
How Might the Machine Understand Text Relevance
What’s exactly relevance? Google finds the following explanation of the term: Relevance describes how closely the contents of an information source match the topics. [source]...
Google Serving Vodka in Search Results Despite AdWords Ban on Liquor
Google AdWords has a rather tight rule banning the selling of hard liquor online, like vodka or whiskey, but does allow AdWords advertisers to run...
Handling Your 404 Page Properly
We don’t know for sure if Google pays much attention to the site 404 pages but it does show them within Webmaster Tools report as...
Move Over Facebook and MySpace, Here Comes Google Friend Connect
As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google...
The Next Frontier for Search Marketing Standards
I believe it is time to introduce an additional topic into the standards dialogue that to date has been largely ignored. Currently there is no...
Black Hat SEO Lessons: Indirect Promotion
I’ve always said that instead of getting angry with black hat SEOs, we should learn from them. Working and often succeeding in really competitive verticals,...
Powerset Launches : A New Dimension in Web Wikipedia Search
Powerset launches today to an overzealous amount of fanfare, as the mysterious new semantic search technology will open its doors for the first time to...
Yahoo! Search Embraces the Mac Community
Yahoo is extending its search clout towards Mac users, as it acquired Safari browser plug-in, Inquisitor. This plug-in works similarly to Yahoo’s Search Assist which...
Google Rolls Out Web Security for Mobile Enterprise
Google is getting serious about its push into the enterprise arena. On Thursday the company announced the launch of a new comprehensive security offering geared...
Google Founders Would Love to Expand Partnership With Yahoo
Google really wants to make sure that Microsoft won’t get their hands on rival Yahoo. So much so that they’re willing to enter and expand...
Google Maps Adds Photos, Video and Popular Searches
Google Maps has added a very Flickrish feature which serves photos and popular searches along wth specific Google Maps local search results. The photos are...
Google Comes Out On Top After Yahoo Microsoft Saga
Microsoft’s failed attempt at taking over Yahoo might be one of the best things that could have happened for one of both companies’ rival –...
How Much Would You Pay For a Link?
If on-page optimization is the meat of SEO, relevant and quality linking is the bread, butter and dish it is served on. Together, the mix...
Yahoo is Testing Glue Page Search Result in Yahoo! India
Yahoo has just launched its search portal in India a couple of days ago. And to coincide with the launch, it is being reported that...
SEJ Guest Blogging Competition : Review These Guest Blog Posts
A good amount of new names and faces have been popping up on Search Engine Journal over the past few weeks. This is because we...
Google Joins Venture for Mobile WiMAX Next-Gen Wireless Internet Access
Google has teamed up with a number of partners investing in a new venture to develop and deliver high-speed WiMAX internet access for mobile devices. ...
8+ Ways to Evaluate a Page (Domain Independent)
Besides the overall domain strength, there are quite a number of ways to evaluate a site page power. Even if that’s not your site and...
Live Search Gets a Clean Up, Looks More Like Google Search
The good thing when you’re into the search engine business and you’re up against only two competitors is that you can do away with copying...
Do You Report Your Competitors?
By profession we, SEOs, always have to compete. That’s an integral part of our daily routine: we come to work and check how our sites...
Yahoo and McAfee Offer a Safer Way to Search with SearchScan
Yahoo! Search has teamed up with McAfee to bring a safer way of doing search at Yahoo with a new security feature called, SearchScan. SearcScan...
Yahoo Shares Tumble After Microsoft Pulls Bid
After Microsoft pulled their $47.5 billion takeover bid on Monday, shares of Yahoo plummeted more than 16 percent in late morning bidding, nearly wiping out...
Choose Your “All In One” – The Stage Is Set
Is it time for one site to be everything to everyone (in a similar fashion that Yahoo or AOL was 10 years ago)? We are...