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Netscape Social News Rebranding to Propeller.com
Last week Netscape & AOL announced that they would be reverting the Netscape.com site to its old news portal self and away from the Calacanis...
Omgili : Search Engine for Forums & Discussion Boards
Omgili stands for “Oh My God I Love It”. Its a search engine exclusively for discussion boards, opinions, forums and conversations and returns results on...
Superpages.com Adds Merchant Comparison Feature
Superpages.com today launched a compare merchant feature which allows users to compare up to eight business listings through a dynamic, customizable drag-and-drop tool. The new...
Microsoft Dominates Domain Ratings, Google Tops Brand Ratings
Nielsen/Netratings released its Topline U.S. Data for August 2007 covering Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. Before going into the findings of the...
Google Loves Transparent Links & Hit Counter Spam
Searching Google for to monitor the top ranked sites for high dollar key terms is a long time habit of mine, and a useful way...
Future of SEOmoz & Lunch with Rand’s Parents, Gillian Muessig and Scott Fishkin
The weather in downtown Victoria sometimes baffles the brain. It is a cool, overcast Pacific NW morning with a warm fog that makes it feel...
MyFloridaTeacher.com : Search Teacher Backgrounds
The State of Florida has launched a controversial new site which lets school students and parents check on the disciplinary histories of public school teachers....
Ixquick : Rating Based Meta Search Engine
Ixquick.com meta search engine submits your search query to 14 search engines and the results are ranked according to a “star” ranking system. While the...
Delicious Redesigns, Drops the Dots & Adds New Features : Screenshots
Delicious is currently testing a new redesign and Yahoo has invited Search Engine Journal to test and cover the new features at Delicious (available via...
EarthLink TrafficBuilder : Monthly PPC Management
EarthLink, which laid off 50% of its workforce and backed out of the Google partnered San Francisco wireless program, is now refocusing its business structure,...
Facebook Opening Profiles to Search Engine Indexing
Facebook, the super popular social network which has enjoyed somewhat walled garden status by not letting search engines index the bulk of its user profiles,...
Yahoo Acquires BlueLithium Ad Network
Yahoo acquires BlueLithium, U.S. fifth and U.K.’s second largest advertising network with 145 million unique visitors every month. The acquisition deal was closed with an...
Google Fueling Technorati Blog Spamming : Wanda Nara Example
Today I was reading a post on BlackHatSEODiary about the continuous blog spamming of Technorati based upon the public publishing of their top searches. The...
Trexy : The Search Trail Engine
Trexy is a web search tool that adds a social connotation to the science of searching. Trexy lets users follow search trails of users over...
Bill Slawski and Liana Evans Join KeyRelevance
When I ran into Bill Slawski & Li Evans several times at Search Engine Strategies San Jose, I was surprised to find out that two...
Google Declares Victory Over Trademark Lawsuit
The long running trial of a lawsuit filed by the American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. against Google finally came to an end with both...
Social Media’s Direct Influence on Search Engine Ranking
Social media marketing is becoming more of an accepted part of the online marketing mix because of its ability to drive website traffic and inbound...
Yahoo Kickstart : Social Job Network
Yahoo is launching a LinkedIn style service for college students to connect with employees at companies which are recruiting called Yahoo Kickstart. Harrison Hoffman at...
Google Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator : Check Your Site!
Francesco Mapelli has launched a new SEO tool called the Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator which allows site owners to check the percentage of pages from...
SideKiq : Search Engine for the Power Searcher
To put it in one word, SideKiq is quirky. At this meta search engine, you search by category. Enter the query into the search box...
Video Search Engine Blinkx Forms Targeted Broadband Media Partnerships
The video search engine blinkx has formed 28 new partnerships with special interest broadband based media companies. Among the new partnerships are Cycling TV and...
Hulu.com : Fox and NBC’s Answer to YouTube
After months of speculation, News Corp. and NBC’s online video partnership has surfaced to the face of the web. Simply named Hulu, the online video...
Protect Yourself From Duplicate Content Issues
One of the standout sessions at SES this year involved duplicate content and the impact it has on rankings, linking and the competitive marketplace. Today’s...
Myspace Partnering with Google to Boost Profits From P2P Transactions?
In an effort to boost profits, Myspace is considering allowing members post ads on their profiles and conduct transactions with one another. Besides profiting from...
GigaBlast Search Engine : Hand Built Algorithmic Search
GigaBlast, the search engine has an interesting history. Matt Wells wrote the code for GigaBlast from scratch in C++ after quitting InfoSeek. Thus for a...
SEO Bashing : First Pasternack then Calacanis and Now Scoble
You can just sit there and wait and you can be sure that every now and then somebody will come along who has the urge...
FactBites : The Results in Meaningful Sentences
Evolving algorithms, AI and computational linguistics, those are the credentials of Rapid Intelligence, the firm that provides us the search tool FactBites. The search engine...
Reign of Bread and Whip. Outtakes
The two part article “Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy” is already long enough. I had more content, which I decided not...
Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy II
This is part two of the article: “Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy“. Now here is a misconception that I would like...
Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy I
One of the most interesting SES SJ panels last week was definitely the panel “Are Paid Links Evil” with Matt Cutts (Google), Michael Gray (Graywolf),...