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Yahoo Follows the Path of Digg and Others, Launches Yahoo! Buzz!
Yahoo finally opens up its much anticipated Digg-like content portal, Yahoo! Buzz. Yahoo! Buzz is an extension of Yahoo.com and is similar to top social...
Pension Funds Sue Yahoo for Stalling Microsoft Takeover
Two U.S. pension funds have now sued Yahoo over their efforts to thwart off a Microsoft takeover, and instead entertain less profitable alternatives. The lawsuit...
Hackers Release Google Vulnerability Scanner
A group of hackers known as “Cult of the Dead Cow” recently released a Google Web auditing scanner that allows users to search a specific...
Microsoft Introduces Engagement ROI Tool for Better Ad Campaign Analysis
Microsoft is replacing the outdated and flawed “last ad clicked” approach in measuring ad campaign performance. Through its Engagement Mapping Engagement ROI tool, Microsoft is...
10 Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
I love the Internet! But, at times it can be tough love, not because of the Internet itself, but because of human roadblocks and obstacles...
Matt Cutts Addresses Bad Linking and Google Penalties
Google’s Matt Cutts has responded to a Google Groups discussion on the Google -60 penalty, which sometimes can set a site back in Google 60...
Massive Computational Resources, Leveraging Time and Social Aspects as Factors in Search
Recently Bill Slawski from SEO By the Sea wrote on a patent application filed by Yahoo on Techniques for Searching future events. It brings forth...
CrowdFound : Social Discovery Engine
The founders of this social-networking, social bookmarking site with people powered categorization of content hoped to provide a topic centric approach rather than a people...
Microsoft Memos Employees about Microsoft-Yahoo Merger Plans
If there is one clear indication that Microsoft is seriously bent on taking over Yahoo that has got to be the recent memo issued by...
Featured Search Marketing Jobs : CNET, Link Building, eHow and Cracked
This week Search Engine Journal launched our Search Marketing Jobs Board in partnership with JobThread. The board has been a success to date, bringing several...
Flickr Adds NoFollow to Photo Description Links
Flickr today took away a major source of link juice for the social media marketers and search engine optimization link builders who were using its...
Growth and Development of Google’s Local Search
On day one of SMX West in Santa Clara, I will be speaking on Local Search and Blended Results. While that panel will be focused...
Google Remains Steady in Top Spot of comScore Search Report
comScore’s first monthly search report for the year is already out and as expected Google still tops all core search entity. Google registered 0.1% increase...
Yahoo Moves to Protect Staff in Takeover Battle with Microsoft
Microsoft has made their intentions about taking over Yahoo very clear, and are determined to succeed. Yahoo, perhaps sensing the inevitable at this point, has...
Cleveland Clinic Collaborates with Google for Health Records Management
The world renowned Cleveland Clinic Health System announced Wednesday that are teaming up with Google to test out a new online medical record service, which...
Google to Roll out Adsense for Video
Finally, Google is about to roll out its Adsense for Video program. Using the inlay video advertising format it previously implemented in YouTube, Adsense for...
Search Engine Journal Opens Search Marketing Job Board
I’m very happy to announce that Search Engine Journal has partnered with JobThread to launch our own Search Marketing Job Board where Search Engine Journal...
Yahoo Embraces Open Source Some More with Hadoop Inside Search Webmap
As part of its ongoing strategy towards moving to open source infrastructure and network, Yahoo announced that its webmap is now being processed using Apache...
Microsoft Continues Battle, Yahoo Prepares for the Worst
And so Yahoo’s battle to stay away from Microsoft’s take-over deal heats up as Microsoft prepares its proxy battle to win Yahoo. AP is reporting...
Google Issues Notice of Change in Ad Display URL Policy
The Inside AdWords announced that starting April 1, AdWords will no longer allow redirects and vanity URLs in place of ad landing pages. This is...
Google & Microsoft Sued in Paid Search Related Patent Case
Last week an Ohio company filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Google, alleging infringement on a patent related to paid search methods. The lawsuit was...
Feedburner Takes Off All-Time Stats Without Notice?
Did Google make a mistake in deciding to take out Feedburner’s all-time stats of individual accounts? Or was it the decision of the Feedburner, acting...
Fidel Castro Resigns : Search Engine Coverage of the Historical Event
Fidel Castro today announced that he will not be seeking ‘reelection’ by the Cuban Parliament to renew his position as the leader of Cuba on...
v7n Network For Sale : $500,000
The v7n Network, which consists of v7n Webmaster Forums, the v7n Directory and the Contextual Links link buying service is up for sale on Sitepoint...
Microsoft to Continue Battle Against Google Even Without Yahoo
It’s now time for Microsoft’s chairman Bill Gates to say something about the never ending issue about the unsuccessful Microsoft take-over bid of Yahoo. Mr....
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...