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Google Acquires Gapminder & Trendalyzer
Google has finalized their acquisition of Gapminder and their Trendalyzer statistical visualization tool, which could easily breath new life into Google Documents, Google Earth or...
WordPress SEO Title Tag 2.0 Plugin
If you use WordPress to manage your blog or blog driven web site, Stephen Spencer has just released a new plugin which should be of...
Comcast & Google Deal Over? Yahoo or MSN Search Next?
Comcast, which is the second largest ISP in the US, currently has a search & advertising deal with Google which will be expiring at the...
YouTube 2007 Video Awards : Honoring User Generated Media
YouTube is launching their inaugural YouTube Video Awards which will recognize the creative achievements of YouTube users and its community. The 2007 YouTube Video Awards...
Google Tracking Anchor Text Phrases for Webmasters
Google Webmaster Central has added new features which report on the anchor text (in phrase format) used to link to your site. Why is anchor...
Mastering Digg.com with Firefox
Muhammad Saleem of Pronet Advertising has a run down of three different Firefox extensions which optimize your Digg.com experience. First is the Digg This! Firefox...
del.icio.us adds Tag Descriptions
Tagging has become the ultimate way to externally describe a web site using metadata. Services such as YouTube, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! MyWeb and del.icio.us use...
Google Talk Gadget on Google Personalized Homepage
Google has added the ability to chat and make VOIP calls directly from a Google account holder’s Google Personalized Homepage with the Google Talk Gadget....
Microsoft Confirms Tellme ‘Mobile Local Search’ Acquisition
Here’s the release. Here are my previous posts on Tellme and mobile local search. Bringing more usability to mobile search in particular — and differentiation...
Topix Branding Strategy : .com vs .net
I was at Topix last week chatting with Chris Tolles and CEO Rick Skrenta and they told me of their acquisition of the Topix.com domain...
Add Work.com to B2B Link Building Campaigns
SEO community, meet Work.com. Work.com was briefly mentioned last fall in a post by Greg Sterling. What wasn’t divulged is that it’s an excellent site...
Disney Getting into Search Again?
Remember Go.com and the ease of securing a top ranking for your site within the search engine results just by gaming the old Go.com GoGuides...
Eurekster Secures $5.5 Million in Funding
Eurekster, Inc., which wasone of the first community based social search engines, has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing. The funding, from Technology...
Viacom Sues Google for $1 Billion in Copyright Violations
Viacom, the parent company of MTV, is suing Google for $1 Billion in damages brought about via alleged copyright violations as Viacom claims that its...
Marketing Your Site on Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers is the knowledge sharing Q&A based social network with over 90 million users worldwide with around 18 million users in the United States....
Google & Dish Network in Video Advertising Deal?
VentureBeat is reporting that Google is taking the first rumored moves in its obvious next step to bring Google Video Ads to the masses by...
Build Quality Links Using MeetUp.com
The other week I joined MeetUp.com, the online event, local and “meeting up” social networking site, in an effort to meet other bloggers, search marketers,...
Microsoft adCenter’s Content Ads Expanding
Microsoft adCenter is currently launching their ‘pilot’ offering of Microsoft Content Ads which is their contextual advertising solution that displays relevant ads to the content...
Last week in China – What Do Chinese Youngster Do Online
As always some news about what Google and Baidu are up to in China but also some interesting results from a user panel with young...
Link Building : Measuring Directory Value
I’m always looking for tips on link building and am a fan of using directory links as part of the overall link building mix; usually...
Google CEO Schmidt on YouTube, Viacom and Media Companies
Bloomberg is running an article which quotes Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s stance on media companies and their reluctance to upload content on YouTube, despite its...
MySpace Entering Social News Market
Today Terry Heaton posted about how inside sources have tipped him off about MySpace making a social news play, fortifying them as more of an...
Google Crawls 404 Error Pages Forever, Time to Spice Them Up!
Barry points to a Webmaster World thread which asks how long does Google send their crawlers to a page which begins serving a 404 error...
Google Local Business Center Enhancements
As I was driving all over “God’s creation” today, from meeting to meeting, there were a number of interesting developments and announcements. The first concerned...
SEO Clinic : Now Every Two Weeks
SEO Clinic, the free SEO recommendation and review service where Search Engine Journal editors and special guest SEO experts help sites better their rankings, usability...
MyYahoo Goes 2.0 : Preview & Snapshots
Read/WriteWeb has the scoop on the new MyYahoo personalized homepage which has gone ‘Web 2.0’ and includes a hovering Ajax powered RSS reader! Beta test...
CitySquares : Local Search on the Neighborhood Level
Never a dull moment in local these days as I learn of new sites almost daily. I spoke this morning with Ben Saren, CEO of...
Yahoo Answers Adds Social Networking
Yahoo Answers, the question & answer social media exchange, has become a success for Yahoo, bringing the phenomena of social knowledge sharing to over 90...
Friendster & Google Partner for Global Expansion, Advertising & Search
Friendster chose Google as its exclusive advertising and search provider today after not resigning with Yahoo, their previous search & ad provider. Friendster, which was...
Is the Google Phone Real?
Here’s a detailed post (widely picked up) by Simeon Simeonov about Google developing a mobile phone. Here’s the reported strategy: Apparently, Google is planning to...