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Student Using Human Brain Mapping to Power Image Search Engine
There are some exciting new innovations in search coming up on the horizon, and one of those is a project currently being worked on by...
Google Removes Malware Sites, But Doesn’t Admit There Was a Problem
Following up on yesterday’s story about a massive malware attack on the “big three” search engines, which saw the manipulation of the search engines to...
Google Test Lets Users Vote, Add and Delete Sites in SERPS
Google Experimental is testing the ability to actually change the ranking of results or delete sites listed in personalized search results, in a Digg style...
Yahoo to Serve Ads on Adobe PDF Documents
Yahoo’s latest move towards expanding the reach of its advertisement program is in the form of Adobe’s popular document reading format, Adobe PDF. Dubbed as...
AOL and CBS Radio Team Up to Bring Online Videos to Local Radio Station Websites
AOL and CBS Radio has reached an agreement whereby video contents from AOL’s Truveo will be made available on CBS Radio’s websites. Under the said...
Big Three Search Engines Target of Massive Malware Attack
According to a security research firm report issued on Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search are currently under a large-scale organized attack campaign designed...
Linkbait 101: How To Create Linkable Content and Get Others to Link to It
Creating linkbait, or getting website to link to you on their own, and with Google starting to devalue paid links, it couldn’t be a better...
Google Maps Offers New Views & Collaboration Features
Working in a library where I am subjected to the random, erratic questions of library patrons, I’m a pretty avid user of Google Maps. From...
Ask.com Parent Company IAC Gunning For China
China, with its population of over 1.3 billion people, is an emerging force in the business world. Just think of all the tainted product recalls...
Yahoo Stores Crash on Cyber Monday : Merchants Outraged
One of the largest online shopping days of the year, Cyber Monday brought in over an estimated $700 million in online sales yesterday, but not...
Is the GDrive Finally Coming Out?
Like I always say, if a long-standing rumor has landed the pages of the Wall Street Journal, that rumor must be finally coming true. This...
Cyber Monday : Shop.org Holiday Turns into Online Shopping Phenomena
After a long extended weekend of football, overeating and hitting the malls, Cyber Monday has descended upon us as another way to get excellent discounts...
Google’s Treatment of Underscores vs Hyphens – The Confusion
Back in July, Matt Cutts made the announcement at the WordPress Wordcamp that underscores are now treated as spaces in Google. Blogs, webmaster communities, and...
Google Dominates U.S. Searches for October
As expected Google once again dominated U.S. search engine rankings for October based on the recent ComScore report. The almighty Google search engine even managed...
Google Says Selling Links Can Harm Site Ranking in Search Results
Earlier in the month Google began its unofficial crackdown on pages which openly sell links in an effort to capitalize on their Google PageRank. Google’s...
Black Friday : Sales, Search & Online Shopping
Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone, the Cowboys whooped the Jets, and like most Americans, I woke up this morning feeling like I’m carrying...
Wikipedia Article Quality Assessment and Ranking Tips for Users and Search Engine Engineers
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until...
Does Image Search Traffic Convert?
Interesting thread on DigitalPoint this morning about the influx in traffic from images indexed in Google Images and other image search engines, and how they...
Paglo: The World’s First Search Engine for IT
Paglo which just launched yesterday in beta claims itself as the Google of IT. A free and on-demand service for IT professionals, Paglo allows searching...
How to Get The Most Link Juice for Your Articles
Distributing articles for the purpose of building links to a site or for that site’s SEO can be a great way to link build and...
Yahoo Expands Newspaper Consortium With 17 Papers : Including New York Times
The Yahoo Newspaper Consortium has expanded to include 16 regional newspapers owned by the New York Times as well as The Columbus Dispatch. The latest...
Would You Use a Google Operating System?
Google is getting closer and closer to offering a full blown operating system (if it hasn’t already) with its suite of desktop and office services,...
Google Magazine : Print Your Own Publications
A recent Google patent filing shows that the company may be developing a service which lets its users create their own print publications made of...
AOL Launches Video Ticker Ads
AOL introduces a new online video advertising solution that serves graphic banner ads integrated within streaming video contents in AOL network. Similar to Google’s video...
Reducing Accidental Clicks on Google Adsense Units
Earlier this week, Google Blogscoped reported the change on clickable areas on Adsense units, and it is only now that the Google Adsense Blog posted...
Webmasters’ Robot.txt files Prefer Google Over Other Search Engines
A study conducted by some Penn State University researchers revealed that webmasters who use robot.txt files to determine which part of their sites are open...
Local.com’s Search Technology Gets a Patent
Local business finding search engine, Local.com gets to have its local search technology patented to several companies which are part of its LocalConnect Platform. These...
Searchboth.com Combines Search Results of Search Engines
Searchboth.com, a search engine that previously displays search results for both Google and Yahoo search side by side on a split screen has expanded its...
Early Information on Google’s Android SDK for Mobile Phones
As Google becomes a stronger player in the world of communications, their interests and participation in mobile devices is obvious. Like many areas though, if...
5 Quick Tips for Building SEO Content
While it’s great to have a web site optimized and performing well in the engines, you need to build out content on a consistent basis....