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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...
Wikipedia Better Watch Its Back, Here Comes Google Knol
Google will soon launch its Knowledge Portal which is in more ways than one similar to Wikipedia. Codename: Knol, which stands for a “unit of...
SEOBook Launches Improved Wordtracker Powered Keyword Tool
Aaron at SEO Book has partnered with Wordtracker to release a new & improved keyword tracking tool just in time for the holidays (forgive me,...
Imagery : A Novel UI to Google Image Search
User Interfaces to search engines have not undergone much change since the last decade. When it comes to searching for URLs, perhaps the vanilla single-text-box-list-of-result...
Google Adding Blogs to Universal Search
Starting this week or next, Google will be adding blogs as new feature in its Universal Search results. What’s this mean? According to Marissa Mayer,...
Yahoo Launches Shortcuts Plugin For WordPress Blogs : Very Cool!
Yahoo worked on this Plugin with the help of WordPress, and being a lifelong WordPress user (SEJ first started on Blogger, then switched to b2;...
ISP Injecting Yahoo Logo & Own Ads on Google Homepage, Google is Not Happy
Canadian cable and telecom giant Rogers Communications has begun testing new technology on its high-speed internet service that inserts Rogers-centric messages and advertisements on third-party...
Google Follows its Universal Search Patent & Ask.com’s Lead : Serves Media on Right of SERPS
Google has been testing the placement of product and video results on the right side of the Google results page, which is valuable real estate...
Worthless Meta Tags used by SEO Companies
Everyday I am amazed by the countless number of pointless tags that are inserted into the header of a website. The largest issue with such...
Yahoo Answers & Social Researching: The Dangers, Risks, and Proper Usage
Jacob Leibenluft at Slate recently wrote a piece about Yahoo Answers, summing up the entire service as a “ librarian’s worst nightmare“. My worst nightmare...
Truth About .Edu Domains : Registration, Links and Google Juice
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about .edu top-level domains. From whether a .edu TLD packs more Google-juice punch to whether one can...
Summarization, the Answer to Web Search : Interview with Dmitri Soubbotin of SenseBot
Search engines are as much the first source of information as they are the starting point for research. Summarization of content of query results is...
Google My Maps Adds Social Features : Comments, Ratings and Links
Google Maps has added new social features to their My Maps initiative which lets viewers and users of those maps connect socially with the creators...
Google Maps Adds 8 New Cities to StreetView
Google has brought up the number of cities included in Street View to 23, with the addition of eight new cities, including: Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis,...
Top Spots in Organic & Paid Search = Branding
Achieving top organic positions in the engines or paying your way to the top through paid search is not only wise to increase sales but...
Google, the New England Patriots of Search, Runs Up the Score on Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com
We’ve been printing the headlines for years now : Google Rules Search Market Share, Google Tops Yahoo & MSN in Search for March, Google :...
Google Granted Patent on Anchor Text Link Crawling
Google has recently been granted a patent by the US government which the company originally filed in 2003. The patent, writes Bill Slawski of SEO...
Ask.com Launches New Privacy Feature, AskEraser
The search privacy feature of Ask.com which was announced sometime in July is finally launched today. AskEraser is a privacy tool which when enabled by...
Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Mobile Ads in America
On Monday, Microsoft Corp. began placing advertisements on the U.S. version of the MSN Mobile page, marking the Redmond giant’s foray into the U.S. mobile...
Yahoo to Launch TechTicker : Tech Stock Video Program
Yahoo Finance is arguably one of the most widely used and successful financial websites. Access to streaming quotes, SEC filings, company data, and more make...
Google News Updates Algorithm to Reflect Local & Breaking News
Google News has been tweaking its algorithm to show more updated and fresh stories as well as identifying the local news media which would be...
Embeddable Charts Made Easy with New Google Charts API
On Thursday, Google rolled out the new Google Charts API, which makes putting stunning, dynamic charts into your web pages easier than you’d think. And...
PicSearch : Intuitive Relevant Image Search Engine
Founded by two engineering students at the beginning of this millennium, PicSearch is a multi-language, image search engine that rivals Google’s and Yahoo’s image search...
Google Shows Apple Some Love with New ‘Mac Developer Playground’
Earlier this week, Google launched the Google Mac Developer Playground, a place where Google Engineers can showcase their Mac-oriented projects. In addition to their regular...
About URL Tracking Parameters and Duplicate Content Issues
How do you deal with links that have tracking parameters in the URL for referrer measurement for analytical reasons or in case of a partner...
Google Rankings Changing : Result of Paid Links?
Google search engine rankings seem to be undertaking an update or change over the past week as some sites and publishers are noticing a trend...