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AOL Discontinuing Paid Video Download Service, Selling Videos on Amazon.com Instead
It was revealed today that AOL will discontinue their pay-for-download video service, and instead move their content over to Amazon’s Unbox service. Terms of the...
Ask.com Reveals the Top Searches of 2007
Following closely on the heels of Yahoo’s release of their 2007 Top Trends in Search is Ask.com, who today have released their “Real Deal” List...
Google Reveals Fast-Growing Search Terms of 2007
Not to be confused with Google Zeitgeist’s year-end top searches, which has yet to be released, Google revealed today a list of the “fast rising...
Microsoft’s Way of Making its Presence Felt in the SEO/SEM Field
Microsoft today announced three new features for its adCenter program and Live Search. Actually the one for Live Search is already old news, the Webmaster...
Yahoo Reveals the Top Trends in Search for 2007
The year is quickly winding down, which in the world of search means that it’s time to review the year’s overall trends. On Monday Yahoo...
Google Watching Paid Review Blogs that Pass PageRank
If your blog openly posts paid reviews in an irrelevant, poorly written, not disclosing these as advertisements and using deliberate anchor text in the posts...
Yoople : Yahoo + Google + People !
Yoople is a search engine where users get to re-rank the results if they find the results of greater relevance. The collaborative search looks to...
Google Banning Ads for PageRank Selling Schemes
On a blog post discussing why Google does not like irrelevant Sponsored Blog Posts that pass link juice, Matt Cutts left a little tidbit of...
Yahoo Local Neighbors Launched to Bring Communities Together
Attempting to pull of what BackFence.com could never accomplish, Yahoo has begun testing on a new feature of Yahoo Local called “Neighbors“, which allows members...
SEO In-house Spotlight: Baron Ginnetti with Pronto.com
This week’s in-house spotlight is on Baron Ginnetti, the new Director of SEO & Content Distribution at Pronto.com. Baron’s legacy comes from his SEO efforts...
Google Confirms Intentions to Bid on Wireless Spectrum
After months of speculation and whispers, Google confirmed on Friday their plans to submit a bid for wireless spectrum to be auctioned by the Federal...
Google Adds Form for Reporting Malware in Results
This week we saw a vicious attack on Google, Yahoo and MSN search results by malware and spyware operators hit the big news after months...
News Publishers Seeking More Control Over Search Engines Propose Automated Content Access Protocol
News publishers meeting today have unveiled a new proposal that would give them a greater amount of control over the way that search engines index...
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...