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Google Ranking & Results Update Underway
Google set blogs and webmasters ablaze in coverage last week with their changes in Toolbar PageRank, which was cast aside by some and taken quite...
Wikipedia: The Barry Bonds of Search Results
Even if you’re not a fan of baseball you probably know that Barry Bonds is one of the most questionable men in the game. From...
Retired Males : Endless Vortex of Valuable Content
Being a professional blogger and a work from home consultant, sometimes cabin fever starts to kick in, and it’s time to flee the humble abode...
Google & Opera Renew Ad Deal : But Still No gBrowser
Opera Software and Google have renewed their partnership agreement for another two years as Google will remain the default search provider for Opera browsers and...
$200 Google PC Coming to Wal-Mart Today
Everex is launching its gPC “Google PC” today at Wal-Mart stores for the low price of $200. The gPC runs off of a mix of...
Hakia Adds Social Networking to Search Engine
Semantic search engine Hakia has added a social component to its meaning-based search engine called Meet Others. The idea behind Meet Others is to connect...
Yahoo Search Update Underway : Ranking Changes Reported
Yahoo Search is updating with some changes to its algorithm and index, which at first seems like one of their monthly weather reports. However, there...
Why You Should Bid on Brand Keywords in Google
As competitive as we get, sometimes brand keywords are the most overlooked. Brand keywords are also some of the cheapest clicks. Not only that, but...
Can the Party of Six a.k.a OpenSocial Beat Facebook?
Facebook’s Zuckerberg must be laughing right now as he reads the latest buzz on the web about OpenSocial, a group of “other” social networks headed...
AOL Launches Indian Language Portal
AOL takes a giant step towards its expansion goal with the launch of a local language version of its web search portal in India. Coming...
Truveo Expands to Eight Major International Markets
Video search engine Truveo which was founded sometime in 2004 and was acquired by AOL in 2006, is expanding its operations with the launch of...
The Oracle of Mountain View
The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more...
Microsoft’s Gatineau Web Analytics Now in Beta Testing for adCenter Advertisers
With all of the announcements of adCenter upgrades, enhancements to their search engine, local maps search changes, buying equity in a major social network and...
PageRank Dropped And You Don’t Sell Links? Try Requesting Reconsideration from Google
If you’ve noticed that the lastest Google PageRank update has distilled your site’s PageRank (Toolbar PageRank that is) because Google believes that you are selling...
Microsoft adCenter Gets Some New Upgrades
Microsoft’s Pay-Per-Click advertising program, adCenter introduced three new features to aid advertisers better manage their ad placements on Microsoft’s search advertising program.
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...