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AdBrite Opens Up to Facebook Apps
For awhile I thought AdBrite had already folded up until I read from News.com that it is opening advertising opportunities for Facebook Apps developer and...
Yahoo Launches Messenger Version 9.0
For those who have stopped using Yahoo Messenger for instant messaging purpose and have shifted to GTalk this post may not interest you. But for...
Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links & Google PageRank Update
Matt Cutts emailed Search Engine Journal last night to let us know that in fact, the partial Google ‘Toolbar’ PageRank update which happened last week...
Another Round of Search Enhancement from Live Search
Maybe Microsoft Live Search ought to rename its search engine into “Smart Live Search”. After introducing auto-spell Correction and search stemming, Live Search is introducing...
Yahoo Internet Cafes Launch in Vietnam
When you cannot bring the Internet to the people, bring the people to the Internet. Yahoo Vietnam’s Yahoo! powered Internet Cafes are opening around Vietnam’s...
Google’s Behavioral Targeting Flaws Put Advertisers at Risk
For a while now, Google has been testing behavioral targeting in their search result pages. And while behavioral targeting may be the next big thing,...
When Link Building Requests Result in Sales
Kelvin Newman at Site Visibility has an interesting account of how when he was sending out educational link request mails for a client’s product, the...
Baidu, Google & Yahoo Lead China Search Engine Market
Baidu.com, the domestic Chinese search engine company, dominates the China Search Engine market with a 61.5% share this third quarter, proving itself a powerhouse in...
Firefox Earned Around $60 Million from Google in 2006
Mozilla reported a 26% jump in earnings from 2005 to 2006, earning ‘most’ of its revenue from a search partnership with Google where Mozilla collects...
Microsoft Secures Facebook Advertising Deal : Takes $240 Million Equity Stake in Facebook
This just in, Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo, securing a deal with Facebook wherein Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in...
Why You Should NEVER Use AMEX with Google AdWords
That’s right. You should never use American Express for your payment method for Google AdWords. While American Express (AMEX) is widely accepted as the credit...
Google Drops PageRank For Many Sites : Paid Links or New Algorithm?
Dude, where’s my PageRank? This morning, around 1 am, I was finishing up a document and clicked over to Search Engine Journal to see if...
Fun Ways of Learning What Should Not Do
There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line....
Live Search Gets Smarter with AutoSpell Check and Stemming
Seems like there’s no stopping Microsoft Live Search from improving on its search features. After last week’s announcement on the final round of improvements on...
Google to Buy TV Data from NielsenMedia
Google and NielsenMedia are set to announce a multi-year agreement which will give Google access to NielsenMedia’s TV demographics data. Google will be using these...
SEO Question : Do WhoIs Privacy Services Harm SEO?
This morning I was sifting through a post from the Redfly Marketing blog of Dave Davis entitled : The 5 Easiest Ways To Get Search...
Proximic: Contextual Approach to Matching Nail Relevancy
The Munich based company, Proximic has been the result of 5 years of research into a search methodology that is a set apart from the...
3 Steps to Solid Linkbait
Linkbait was a popular topic last week at SMX Social Media in New York City. While social media experts understand link bait inside and out,...
Display Advertising is Dependent Upon Search & Defined User Intent
Interesting story on the Bloomberg wires which follows up on the Yahoo Search & Display Advertising deals sealed last week with WebMD and Forbes.com. Microsoft’s...
Google Runs Black Homepage For a Day
Google users who accessed the search engine from the San Francisco area yesterday were served an all black version of the Google Homepage. No, Google...
Microsoft’s Live Search 411 : Voice Activated Search Results
This week Microsoft launched their voice activated local search service, Live Search 411, which harnesses the technology behind Microsoft acquisition Tellme to deliver local, maps,...
Top Search Queries in Google Webmaster Tools
Google’s Webmaster Tools’ top search queries just got better with the expansion of its time coverage, top query percentage and search data upload via CSV...
Wikipedia Spam Resulting in Google & Yahoo Penalties
Even though Wikipedia uses a NoFollow attribute on their external links, if you spam Wikipedia results, your site can end up in a penalty in...
YouTube Launches Chinese Language Sites for Taiwan & Hong Kong
Google has launched a new Chinese language version of YouTube for the Taiwanese market, YouTube.com.tw YouTube this week launched a Chinese language site for Hong...
Google Health Coming in Spring 2008
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer said that users should expect the Google Health project to launch in Spring...
Weather.com Serving Pulse 360 Sponsored Links : What About Yahoo!?
The Weather Channel and Pulse 360 (formerly Kanoodle) today jointly announced an exclusive multi-year agreement resulting in the launch of Pulse 360’s sponsored links on...
China Netcom Redirecting Google, Yahoo, MSN Traffic to Baidu
Chinese ISP China Netcom has been redirecting Google, Yahoo and Microsoft search queries to Baidu, the most popular and local Chinese search engine. Duncan Riley...
SMX Panel Recap: Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing
The most recent panel here at SMX Social Media was entitled Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing. With Wikipedia dominating the search results, many SEOs...
SMX Panel Recap: Micro Communities
Today’s first post following lunch was a great one for those involved in the social marketing space. The panel covered micro communities and was led...
Yahoo Reinvents Web Advertising : Lands WebMD, Forbes.com, Cars.com and Ziff Davis
Yahoo Search Marketing has landed a high dollar vertical search partner in WebMD, which will be serving Yahoo sponsored search results across its medical network...