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Yahoo Pipes: Analyzing Digg, Part 3: Filter by Votes
This is the last part in a short series about Yahoo Pipes and how to use it to analyze Digg homepage stories and any topical...
My Yahoo! Updates With GMail Integration & New Modules
My Yahoo! has gone through another series of updates to their beta offering today, allowing users to preview their GMail and POP Mail accounts on...
Search Engine Advocates Metasearch for Search Result Accuracy
According to an updated study of search engines’ result overlap conducted by Dogpile.com, there was a staggering 0.6 percent average difference in the first page...
Yahoo Testing New Blue Bar Search Results Format
Yahoo is running limited testing of a new search results page format with a blue search bar above the sponsored and organic Yahoo results. Both...
eBay Halting its Google AdWords Advertising?
Google has definitely become more aggressive lately in the field of competitive warfare and public relations with its anti-trust complaints of Microsoft’s Vista search functionality...
Google Announces Adwords Placement Reporting System
To give advertisers better ROI with their ad campaigns running on Adwords, Google is providing advertisers with a new Placement Performance Report. This new reporting...
The Future Of Online Video Advertising For Online Marketers
At the Future of Online Advertising convention in New York last week, a commercial was shown to the attendees to show the power in YouTube...
Google Video Exposing Private Username & Password Information?
Google Video may be exposing the username and passwords of users who post videos to their MySpace accounts and serving this information over unsecure Internet...
Privacy Is Search’s New Click Fraud
In this Google Blog post, Google discusses its privacy protection efforts and its response to the recent EU complaint and investigation about data retention. In...
Yahoo Pipes: Analyzing Digg, Part 2: By Category and Submitter
This is part two of a short series that uses Yahoo Pipes to analyze information about Digg home page stories. Part 1 covered sorting by...
Calcanis Discussing Mahalo Search on LinkedIn
There is a most interesting discussion going on within LinkedIn of all places about how Jason Calacanis can better Mahalo, his human edited search project....
Google China & Sina Partner for Search & AdWords
Google will cooperate with Sina, one of the top portals in China, on search and advertising. Sina has already added Google’s search box to their...
Yahoo! & Future of Search Marketing- FOOA Presentation
The Future of Online Advertising conference was held last week. If I had to summarize the information given by 11 speakers, I’d have to write...
Chinese Internet Users Prefer Google Results
What do you get when 2,740 Chinese internet users don’t know which search engine they’re using? Surprisingly the outcome is that the majority favors the...
Last weeks in China – Video Search, Rumors and a Changed Interface
What has been happening in the last 2 weeks in the world of the search engines in China. Here’s the overview Baidu Video Search, and...
Google Ranked the Lowest in Privacy Protection Study
In what could be yet another blow on Google’s current web standing, Privacy International, an independent internet watchgroup has ranked Google in the bottom of...
Yahoo Pipes: Analyzing Digg, Part 1: By Submitter
For those of you that like to follow social media sites such as Digg, an easy analysis tool may be of some use to you....
YouTube Embedded Player Featuring Google Video Ads?
If the new embedded player from YouTube (example below), with all of its bells & whistles including the ability to surf through related videos while...
LookSmart’s CFO Resigns, But Revenue Increasing
Mixed signals from LookSmart today as their Chief Financial Officer John Simonelli has announced his resignation as CFO and Chief Operating Officer after a replacement...
Personalized Search Session at SMX Advanced
Personalized Search in 60 seconds: Personalized search is supposed to improve the user experience and decrease spam. Google is the only major engine to really...
Search Engine Strategies or Search Marketing Expo?
With two conferences under my belt, SES Chicago 2006 and SMX Advanced 2007, I felt compelled to do a conference showdown with important categories like...
In-house Spotlight: Duane Forrester, SEO with Sports Direct Inc.
This week’s spotlight is on Duane Forrester with Sports Direct Inc., a leading sports media content publisher. Duane is quite visible in the search industry,...
Yahoo Still Going After Facebook : Now $2 Billion?
Will Yahoo pay the rumored $2 Billion that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg is looking for? According to Jemima Kiss of The Guardian, Yahoo is in...
Feedburner Data Begins Transition to Google Ownership
The first signs of the Feedburner transition to Google have occured on the Feedburner login page as an optional opt-out message has been placed on...
Duplicate Content Session at SMX Advanced
Duplicate content and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What do these have in common? They shed some light into the bizarre psyche of Google developers, but...
Yahoo Search’s Slurp Crawler Updates Moves to New Address
Yahoo has updated and moved its Yahoo Slurp crawler to a new domain at crawl.yahoo.net, but is keeping the same IP address for those publishers...
Google Audio Ads Rolls Out for All AdWords Advertisers
Google has been testing its Google Audio Ads platform for some AdWords advertisers over the past month or so, and are now prepared to roll...
Social Networking for Business Professionals
If you think social networking was only for the young demographic, think again. The Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4CP), recently held a survey and found...
And the Safest Search Engine is? AOL
If you thought Google is the be all and end all of web search, well at least on the security side, Google is second only...
Google’s Matt Cutts on SEO : From SMX Seattle
Rhea here! If you don’t know who I am, it’s probably because I’m the least published SEJ contributor and well-known IT girl of SEO blogging....