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SEO Challenge : Neil Patel Increases Jason Calacanis Search Traffic by 21%
Finally some positive spin on the practice of search engine optimization has come from Calacanis.com, but not from the potty-mouth of Jason, who had this...
New Gmail Shortcut : Delete Email Messages
Amit Agarwal has unearthed a new shortcut for Google’s Gmail which lets users instantly Trash a mail by hitting the “#” button (shift-3). The user...
MapQuest : Send Maps to Cell Phone
One reason I use Yahoo Maps is its ability to send directions to the mobile phone via text messaging, a feature which I along with...
Coming Soon: Online Video Search ala TV Guide
Looks like somebody took the cue from a question asked recently on whose going to be the TV guide of online video. And it’s none...
PHP Search Engines Roundup
Michael Douma from PHP Dev Center has come up with a list of PHP-friendly search engines that will allow you to easily integrate customizable search...
News Corp (MySpace) & NBC Partner to Build YouTube Rival
Speaking of video . . . As is being widely picked up this morning, the LA Times is reporting on a YouTube rival being created...
Yahoo Appoints Reggie Davis to New Click Quality Position
Yahoo! Inc. has appointed Reggie Davis to Vice President of Marketplace Quality, where Davis will serve as the company’s first senior executive dedicated to continually...
Building the Celebrity Cult: Personality-Centric Search Engines
What do pop singer Kevin Federline and a Yahoo-powered search engine have in common? Nothing except a fascinating collusion of celebrity branding with Internet search....
Google Plus Box : Search Results Get Better
While Yahoo improves its mobile search results, Google on the other hand unveils Plus Box. From the official Google blog: We’re very excited to unveil...
Yahoo CEO Loves New Yahoo Search Marketing Panama
Reuters is running a story on Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and how happy he is over the implementation of the new Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’...
Google & Kinderstart : As You Shout Into the Woods…
Matt Cutts noted briefly at his blog that Google’s motions to dismiss the 2nd amended complaint case without leave to amend and for sanctions against...
Megite Launches New Blog News Tracker Service
Megite today announced the launch of their blog news tracker which tracks all recent posts in a blog with surrounding conversations, like Techmeme or Megite...
Apple TV : iTunes Videos on Your TV
Apple Inc. has finally started selling their much hyped product Apple TV, which is a wireless set-top box designed to show video downloaded from the...
Cognition Search : Doing Search the Not So Google Way
Cognition Technologies is conducting a live demo of its patented linguistic search architecture aptly called Cognition Search. The search technology is a text based search...
Google Pay Per Action : Affiliates, Text Links & Click Fraud Implications
Yesterday saw the launch of the Google pay-per-action (cost per action) product on AdSense. I didn’t have a chance to write about it (or even...
Google Pay-Per-Action Launches for AdWords & AdSense
Google has rolled out the beta version of their new ‘affiliate’ influenced Pay-Per-Action Adwords model where advertisers pay Google & its publishers only when a...
Yahoo, MyBlogLog & Google AdSense Click Tracking
As some of you who use MyBlogLog to track your blog metrics and statistics know, MyBlogLog monitors the number of Google AdSense clicks which are...
Yahoo oneSearch Expands, Sets Standard for Mobile Search
Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded the reach of its Yahoo! oneSearch service beyond Yahoo Go users and to all US mobile web users....
Digg & the Power of Commenting on Blogs
On Saturday a story from Search Engine Journal on GMail storage space made it to the front page of Digg, resulting in : Over 2,500...
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...