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Virgle : Google and Virgin Launch Mars Expedition, April Fool’s?
Google has partnered with Virgin Group to launch a new joint venture in Virgle, a project owned by the two companies which is dedicated to...
Geary Interactive Acquires Fathom Online
Was just listening to the Daily Search Cast with Danny Sullivan (which I’ll be co-hosting on Wednesday, my first major podcast guest hosting gig!) and...
23andme : Social Networking Comes to Genomics
The trend today is about ‘socialnetworking-zing’ everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other...
Google Now Controls 69% of Online Advertising Market
Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick has turned the company into double the online advertising juggernaut that it once was, with a total advertising market share of...
Google Goes Black in US and Abroad
Google Israel went black on Thursday to celebrate Earth Hour and today in the United States, Google has gone black here in a global effort...
Youtube Video Analytics : A Video Tutorial and Overview
On March 27th Youtube officially released its first version of video analytics. This release brings new depth and attention to the importance of video marketing....
Google Loses Another Top Exec to Facebook
In just one month, Google has lost two top executives to the wildly popular social networking site Facebook. First it was Sheryl Sandberg, a Google...
Twitterfeed : Bringing RSS to Twitter for Every Blogger
I’d heard about this Twitter fad for a good year or so, but had never really gotten into it (or Twittered) until after the SMX...
Mobile Search : World of Opportunity
Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that...
Google AdWords Feature: AdSense for Domains Opt Out
Should you opt for the new AdSense for Domains opt out feature, quietly launched with the Google AdWords upgraded Site Exclusion tool? (Author’s Note: This...
Diigo : The End Of Bookmarks?
Diigo is perhaps one of the web’s premier research tools – this is widely accepted. Whether Web 2.0 actually ever existed is irrelevant, but the...
Google AdWords Slowing Again Says comScore
For the second month in a row, comScore says that Google AdWords spending is slowing down and its advertising growth is low, especially compared to...
Google Goes Black in Israel for the Day
Google in Israel has issued a black out for the day; not shutting down but serving a black screen with white letters instead of an...
Yahoo joins Google, MySpace and others in the OpenSocial Movement
Yahoo just announced that it is finally joining the Google-led OpenSocial Movement. Likewise it is also joining a new non-profit organization spearheaded again by Google...
Google Android Phone to be Released By Summer?
Google first unveiled the Android mobile phone operating system in November 2007, and in recent months they’ve been showing the phone off to various media...
Yahoo HotJobs Launches New Search Algorithm
Yahoo issued a press release today announcing the launch of a new search ranking algorithm to be used with their HotJobs service. They’ve named the...
How to Analyze the Internal Power of Your Website
Obviously there are plenty of occasions where you would want to analyze your (or your competitor’s) internal pages strength. Most often these include: you want...
Do Links From Foreign Language Sites Have Value?
Usually, we do not cover forum threads, but from time to time, one does pop up which gathers my attention and is blog worthy. Today...
Searchme : A Refreshing Search Interface
Many have pointed out that the success of Google is as much its relevance algorithm as its simple clutter free approach to the user interface....
Will Apple’s Push of Safari with iTunes Cut into Mozilla’s Google Money?
When you update iTunes, Apple pushes their Safari browser to you. It’s not all that surprising that they’d want to do this, considering they now...
Microsoft & Yahoo Both Lose Ground to Google, Would Teaming Up Even Help?
Microsoft is still gunning for Yahoo in hopes that by acquiring the company they’d be able to take on and seriously compete with Google in...
Google AdWords Opens Demographic Bidding to All : Catches Up to adCenter & Yahoo
Google AdWords has opened up demographic targeting (or demographic bidding) to all AdWords advertisers according to the Inside AdWords blog. Demographic bidding lets Google AdWords...
Google Pulls Paid Ads from Search-within-Search Results Page?
When Google launched its search within search feature, there was not too much reaction about it. One of the harshest reactions was a guest post...
Learning About Locations through Wikinear
Wikinear is a simple application that lets users to locate Wikipedia entries for locations nearest to where a user is currently located. It was designed...
.info Domains are Not Worthless!
While domain names with the TLD .info are highly associated with spam because of their low costs, the domains are not worthless or always associated...
Skype & Importance of Phone Numbers in a Meta Description
I’m not a big Internet Explorer user but today I’m using IE as my browser of choice. I noticed that when I launch Skype and...
Successful Networking Tips for LinkedIn and Facebook
This week was an interesting one at Search Engine Strategies New York as for the first time, I effectively used online networking tools to connect...
Natural SEO : Reciprocal Linking and Interlinking
This is my second natural SEO post attempting to foster FUD-free approach to search engine optimization. This time it’s about two most overused (but still...
Google Loses Some Search Numbers in February
The latest search engine results from comScore showed the almost the same trend in terms of ranking. Google still topped the charts beating once again...
Yahoo Turns to Radio Ads to Attract Search Engine Users
Is the number radio-listening population in the U.S. that significant for Yahoo to consider running (or airing) ads on radio programs to promote its search...