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Like.com : Revisiting Visual Search as It Should Be
Riya launched Like.com, a visual search engine in the year 2006. Image search in its true spirit should be about the image only. Most image...
Empire Today : How to Optimize a Badly Branded Google Results Page
Last week was a trying week for me as on top of the normal day to day responsibilities of managing a search blog and a...
Meta Search Engines : Why Use Them? Still Important?
Engines which work on top of search engines has been a growing area ever since Web Search went mainstream. Most meta-search engines use content from...
Google Won’t Just Step Down the Search Rankings, Tops comScore’s November Report
Looks like Google is out to dominate the search engine battle this year. It has consistently topped search engine rankings from various web analytics reports...
WikiaSearch Launches in Private Beta
Michael Arrington is reporting that WikiaSearch, Jimmy Wales’ much anticipated open-source search engine has actually launched, today. The closed announcement (mailed through the WikiaSearch mailing...
Kayak.com Travel Search Engine Merges With SideStep Inc.
Kayak.com announced today the completion of a $196 financing round, which they will use to complete a merger with SideStep Inc. and to pursue a...
Google Granted DoubleClick Acquisition, Big Week for Big Media
In a pro-Big Media trend by government regulatory agencies, Google was just handed a huge Christmas present by the FTC, which voted 4 to 1...
Yahoo Inks Deal with Latin America’s Top Mobile Operator, America Movil
Not to be outdone with the recent news buzz about rivals Microsoft and Google, Yahoo does it end-of-the-year bang with its share of the web...
Will Google Finally Get the FTC Clearance to Buy DoubleClick
The Google-DoubleClick deal has been going for too long now, that it is already tiring to follow on how the development of the transactions has...
The $500 Million Microsoft-Viacom Deal
The press release lead says: Companies sign landmark multiyear deal to collaborate on content distribution, advertising, event promotions and gaming; Microsoft’s Atlas to become exclusive...
Digg.com for Sale : $300 Million
Digg.com is officially in the market for sale with a price tag of $300 million dollars. One of the most popular social media sites on...
FCC Approves Google’s Application to Bid on Wireless Spectrum
Google’s application to bid in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction next month has been accepted by the Federal Communications Comission (FCC). However, some of...
Buried Link Treasure: The Acquisition of Quality Backlinks
As we all know, link building has become a bit more difficult these days. Google has recently come out with a new campaign to filter...
Natural Language Search Not a Priority for Google
Some segments of the search engine world, such as Ask and Powerset, are gambling on the idea that the future of search is in natural...
MS AdCenter Affiliate Program Launch and Some Historic Affiliate Marketing Insights
Despite the not so perfect reputation that affiliate marketing has are companies like Microsoft and even Google using this advertising and marketing channel with thousands...
Google Rolls Out Centralized Profiles Via New Google Profiles
Over the weekend, Google quietly began rolling out a new, centralized profile system that will supply personalized information to each of the Google products that...
The Upcoming Face-Off Between Microsoft vs. Google : Battle on the Horizon
The New York Times had an interesting piece in the paper over the weekend, which talked about an upcoming battle between Microsoft and Google. The...
Google Introduces Video Sitemaps
If you want to get your video contents searchable via Google Video Search, you better start creating sitemaps for these videos. With the Google video...
Zuula : One Site to Search Them All
Zuula is a meta search engine that presents information from multiple engines in a neat tabbed format. Its more of a portal to perform extensive...
Google Q&A : Rebirth of Answers Adds to Google’s Socialization
Google is taking steps to relaunch their Google Answers service as a social content generation system similar to the Yahoo Answers model, and rebrand the...
Microsoft Kicks-Off Online Student Avatar Playground & Competition
On Friday, Microsoft launched their “Ultimate Steal” promotion, which allows university students from around the globe to create and customize their own avatar, or digital...
2007 Search Blogs Awards : Nominations Now Open
Good morning readers! It’s late December again and the search conferences have come to a finish, which means like in 2005 and 2006, Search Engine...
Is Google Building a Social Network Around Its Portal?
A lot can be deduced about the recent developments in Google’s online empire that past couple of months. New product launches, new features of current...
Netease Searches With Yodao
Netease, the company that operates popular portal 163.com and is big in offering online games has re-launched their search engine Yodao with some new features...
Paid Reviews Examples by Matt Cutts and Paid Links
Matt Cutts wrote two weeks ago at his blog a post about selling links that pass PageRank. I wanted to comment at his blog, but...
Google Knol”edge”, Wikipedia and Trias Politica
Arnold Zafra posted about Google’s KNOL service (derived from the word “knowledge”) already on Friday here at SearchEngineJournal.com. Yesterday Brook Schaaf from Schaaf Consulting reported...
11 Steps to Successful SEO for Your Business
I wrote in November a long article for my website about the necessary steps for a business to successfully engage in organic search engine optimization....
Google Reveals Year-End Zeigeist Search Trends for 2007
2007 is almost done and gone, and in the land of search it’s time for the annual year-end reviews. Both Yahoo and Ask.com have already...
Hello Google Shopping! Sayonara Google Products?
Google has always tried to be a bit different than other search powered portals, insisting first that it is not a portal and then either...
How to Boost Your YouTube Subscribers : Power of Video Marketing
Video marketing is not only one of today’s leading means to market a service, product or business online but it is positioned to become even...