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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...
Google & Microsoft Are Battling It Out At The Mapping Front
Google may have its advantages over Microsoft when it comes to online advertising. But over to mapping services and we can see that both Google...
A Search Engine Fairy Tale
I revisited today an older post of mine that talks about paid links and the problems that I have with the way how Google is...
Microsoft Cancels the Yahoo Acquisition Deal, Finally!
So, what do we have here? Finally, Balmer and his guys walk off the long-standing acquisition deal after finally not agreeing on the terms. TechCrunch...
Tom Cruise promotes his site using AdWords?
It’s time for a little bit of Sunday fun reading. Remember that hotly contested tomcruise.com domain which was later on given to actor Tom Cruise,...
Microsoft Reveals its Strategies for Yahoo
On Thursday during a meeting with staff, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that the company has three options available to them with regards to Yahoo,...
Yahoo & Google Close to Striking AdWords Deal
Yahoo may be running Google AdWords quite soon as the two companies are growing closer in an effort to work together which will boost Yahoo’s...
Connect on Twitter : And Drop Your Twitter ID in the Comments!
Do you Twitter? If you do, there’s a whole lot of SEO and search marketing people using Twitter to share ideas, share news and even...
SenseBot Releases FireFox Plugin for Google Result Summaries
SenseBot is a search engine that produces summaries of the results that appear when you perform a search. Its a tool that is very useful...
Microsoft Raising Bid on Yahoo Takeover
After the deadline passed last weekend for Yahoo to accept Microsoft’s takeover bid, many were left wondering what Microsoft would do next. This week, Microsoft...
Jason Gambert – New Low in the SEO Trademark Saga
If you’ve never heard of Jason Gambert before, don’t be alarmed, the rest of the search community hadn’t either until Sarah Bird, General Counsel for...
Google TV Ads now available for US-based advertisers
Google Adwords’s take on TV advertising is going full blast as Google TV Ads which has been in by invitation-only beta mode becomes available for...
Google Responds to Adwords Quality Score Variable Leak
Yesterday on Search Engine Journal, Eric Lander posted some screen shots of Google openly serving confidential advertiser information in their AdWords results, such as the...
SEORipOff.com : Stain of the Search Marketing Industry
If you are in the field of search marketing, search engine optimization, or online marketing in general; you have probably seen the ads in Google...
Looking for ‘Bad Guys’ – Discovering Networks of Sites
Creating networks of (interlinked) sites is a widespread tactic of PageRank and ranking manipulation. To own a lot of websites is perfectly OK but to...