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Google Local Search Flaw : State Abbreviations & Misleading Results
When searching within Google for localized terms by state, such as “loren baker maryland” or “ben franklin pennsylvania”, Google will automatically return search results with...
Well-Off Use Google, the Poor Use Yahoo
Hitwise recently released some new data, which suggests that those in different income brackets have a tendency to use one search engine over another. What...
Yahoo Blocking Bots from Spidering Delicious Bookmarks
Over the weekend, Yahoo’s Delicious (del.icio.us) social bookmarking property has been blocking spiders and bots from non-Yahoo search engines from crawling the site and identifying...
Yahoo Video Gets a Makeover & New Site
Today the Yahoo Video Blog announced not just an update to Yahoo Video, but a complete overhaul and all-new site. Some of the new features...
Protect Your Brand from URL Typo Squatters
I went to jump onto Techmeme.com this morning to get my fill of the Microsoft reshuffling news and instead of clicking over from my reader...
Guide to Video Marketing on YouTube
Youtube is the largest video sharing site to date, with the most traffic and the highest amount of users on it making Youtube the definitive...
Google Search Results Page Will Display Video Ads Soon
Google introduced video ads in YouTube a couple of months ago. Its implementation in the YouTube community has been pretty quite since it was launched....
Death of SEO Transparency
Scratching deeper into my little foxhole of the search engine marketing pie, I’ve noticed a trend among true experts – if you want to be...
Public Library of Law Search Engine Launches
On Wednesday, the world’s largest legal vertical search engine – Public Library of Law – launched in partnership with legal research provider Fastcase Inc. According...
Yahoo Letter Explains Why They Told Microsoft “No No No”
Last night Yahoo published the contents of a letter penned by CEO Jerry Yang to stockholders explaining Yahoo’s reasons for denying Microsoft of its $45...
Newscorp Joins the Yahoo-Microsoft Takeover Drama
As the Yahoo-Microsoft-AOL-Google-who-gets-who corporate drama continues, we see yet again another company joining the cast. This time, it’s media conglomerate Newscorp which is being tapped...
Get Your Doodle on Google for a Day
You know how Google puts up a special, stylized logo on their homepage for various holidays and occasions? Well today Google announced a new competition,...
Microsoft Live Search Announces Improvements to Crawling
This week, Microsoft announced updates and improvements to the Live Search crawler, which they say will “improve the efficiency” with which they crawl and index...
Bradley Horowitz Leaves Yahoo for Google
On the verge of a takeover and after laying off 1,000 employees yesterday, Yahoo does not seem to be a stable place to work anymore...
SEO Red Flags & SEO Misinformation : Let’s Put An End to It
A couple of days ago Eric brought up his views that overuse of the NoFollow attribute (or even use of it) may set off red...
Yahoo Wants to Expand Video Advertising Program, Buys Maven Networks
Aside from strengthening its mobile services, Yahoo wants to beef up its video advertising platform as well. Yahoo has just acquired leading online video platform...
Google Toolbar Hijacks Custom 404 Pages, Webmasters Not Happy
The latest version of the Google Toolbar replaces the custom 404 “Page Not Found” on the website you’re at with a Google version, which has...
Yahoo and T-Mobile Team Up for Mobile Search
The top internet players’ battle for supremacy moves on and towards the mobile industry as the Mobile World Congress 2008 kicks off in Barcelona, Spain....
Google Search Goes to Millions of Nokia Handsets
What would you get if you combined two giant companies in their respective industries? Better services for customers and better income for both companies. I...
Pixsy : the Media Search Engine
Pixsy, a media search platform that was once named in the Top 50 coolest websites of 2006 by Time magazine, uses innovative visually focussed search...
Microsoft to Acquire Mobile SaaS Company, Danger
Fresh from a buyout rejection bid from Yahoo, Microsoft enters into another buyout agreement. This time around, Microsoft wants to beef up its mobile services...
Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Microsoft to “Pursue All Necessary Steps”
And so as expected, Yahoo issued an announcement rejecting Microsoft’s undervalued bid and even contemplated on renewing merger talks with AOL. Pundits are saying that...
Google Indexing Blogs Quickly
If you’ve launched a new blog at Blogger or WordPress, you might be wondering if or when Google might get around to indexing your site. ...
Yahoo and AOL Talking Merger to Avoid Microsoft?
In what may become the most interesting and reasonable alternative to the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo yet, Yahoo is turning to another content and search...
Yahoo Rejects Microsoft’s Bid
Although the official announcement is yet to be made on Monday, reliable sources as reported by the Wall Street Journal said that the Yahoo board...
Yahoo Microsoft Decision Happening Today?
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is reporting that the Yahoo Board of Directors is meeting today to decide the outcome of Microsoft’s offer to purchase Yahoo...
Google Acquiring Bebo & Plaxo Despite Social Media Revenue Challenges?
On top of the buzz of Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo over the past week, Google has been making some acquisition waves of their own...
Yahoo Answers Links Not Working
Links inserted into Yahoo Answers discussions by its users have not been working recently, according to some webmaster forums and a post at the Yahoo...
Ask.com Launches “BigNews” Social Media News Site
Ask.com has just unveiled the latest addition to their line-up of features – BigNews. As you can probably figure out from the name, it’s a...
Google News Offers Local News : Enter Zip Code & Town Name
Google News is expanding its news sections beyond election coverage and recommended reading with a Local News area which serves targeted news stories based upon...