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SEO Impact of Google’s unavailable_after META Tag
One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available,...
Facebook Growing Faster Than MySpace in the UK?
According to Heather Hopkins at Hitwise, more people in the UK are interested in Facebook than MySpace which may lead to the toppling of MySpace...
Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition
Google launches a new feature of its custom search engine which is geared for corporate clients which has the need to have a search engine...
Google Leads the Search Engine Pack Again
comScore just released its search engine analysis results for June and data shows that Google once again is ahead of the pack with 49.5% of...
Answers.com Buys Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com for $100 Million
Answers.com has agreed to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for $100 million in cash. The transaction is subject to...
Cognition Search: Formula for “Meaning” in Search
Backed by the experience of leading linguistic experts and technology that takes into consideration, ontology, morphology and synonymy, CognitionSearch, the semantic engine from Cognition technologies...
Myspace China and MSN China Become Partners
Yesterday I mentioned in the my post that there was a rumor that MSN Live Pages and Myspace.cn would merge. The rumor was denied but...
5 Quick Ways To Optimize For Local Search
So you recently went to search for your local small business site and wondered why three other similar businesses came up before yours? The answer...
MSN adCenter Upgrades with Negative Keyword on Campaign Level
MSN adCenter made some upgrades on Saturday which include the ability to add negative keywords on the campaign level, which apply to all of the...
Top 5 Pay-Per-Click Engines To Try
If you’re a small company trying to compete against the big dogs in the PPC space in a competitive market, you’re probably either spending a...
Glimpse into Google Copy & A/B Testing
Search Marketing has redefined the art of copywriting with the limited and precious space allowed by Yahoo Search Marketing & Google. Now, with the Google...
Last Weeks in China – Netease Launched Yodao, Guge Sues Guge, some stats and rumors
Some newsworthy tidbits that happened in the last weeks. Let’s start with something legal. Guge sues Guge Google carries the name Guge in China. There’s...
Using SEO for Better Paid Search Results, and Vice Versa
Even the most seasoned optimization experts hit roadblocks when it comes to marketing their web sites. When these issues arise, the most common way to...
Umdum Web Directory Acquired by Aviva
The Umdum Web Directory, previously owned by Search Engine Journal Pubishing, has been acquired by Jeff Behrendt, owner of the Aviva Directory. Jeff Behrendt adds...
Google Introducing New Meta Tag for Webmasters
Google will be coming out with a new meta tag for webmasters which identifies pages that have a time restriction or are time sensitive. The...
Google Global Firefox Extension Checks International Google Results
Ever wonder what Google results are served in different countries in both organic and paid search? Have an International or geotargeted Google AdWords campaign running...
Elections 2008 : Who’s Winning The Online Popularity Game?
The upcoming presidential election has become a media battle, which the Internet has been playing a huge role in. Video distribution via YouTube, Google Video,...
Google Banning Ephedra & Ephedrine Ads
The Featured Homepage Discussion today on WebmasterWorld is about Google notifying advertisers that it will no longer run ads for Ephedra or Ephedrine products. Google...
Xerox’s FactSpotter : Mining Concepts in Text
Xerox’s FactSpotter isn’t a mainstream search tool that will debut as a challenge to present day search engines. But the features packed into it may...
Site Banned in Yahoo Search? Just Pay Yahoo Search Marketing!
Looks like Yahoo Search has an interesting loophole or lack of communication between the quality control at the Search division and the Search Submit sales...
TheFind.com Shopping Search Engine Secures $15 Million in Additional Funding
TheFind.com has secured $15 million in Series C financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. The financing is planned to build new product development, traffic and...
The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google
That is the title of the new online game that Universal Pictures and Google are releasing to prep up the publicity blitz of the third...
Yahoo & Wayport Partner for Hotel Wi-Fi
Wayport Inc. and Yahoo! have partnered to launch a Wi-Fi portal for the hospitality industry, with localized services provided by Yahoo!. Hotel customers using Wayport’s...
Soon Patients Will Just Google their Sickness and Diagnose Themselves
U.K based analyst firm Wireless Healthcare predicts that Google and Microsoft are on the brink of making their presence felt in the healthcare sector. The...
Lack of Quality & Trust Leads to Google Deindexing
Google seems to be taking steps to assure that ‘Made for AdSense’ sites which are unfocused, decentralized and give no real value to the searcher;...
SenseBot : Summarizing Search Engine Results
Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot,...
7 Things Yahoo Does Better than Google
They’re an opinion piece from the Marc and Angel Blog which compares Yahoo & Google and appears to be making it to the Digg homepage...
Textonomy : Semantics Based ‘Sense Engine’
Semantics based search is the flavor of my articles and in this one I’ll be focusing on the Textonomy suite of products from Crystal Semantics,...
What’s Next in Social Media For Google? SocialStream.
As the social space keeps developing and growing, you really think Google will just sit in the sidelines and watch? I think not. Besides Orkut,...
Exalead : A Look Into Semantic Image Search
Exalead, the search engine founded by Francois Bourdoncle (earlier involved with AltaVista) has a number of features that makes it a bit of everything. It...