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Wall Street Journal 3.0 Redesigns : Where’s the Social Media Optimization?
The Wall Street Journal has gone and redesigned again, in what they are claiming to be WSJ 3.0, and are offering free access to their...
YouTube Anti-Piracy Software Issue Detrimental to Google Entertainment?
MSNBC / Financial Times is running a story on how YouTube’s failure to finish a “key piece of anti-piracy software as promised” may impose an...
GMail Exploit Fixed
Yesterday the New Year brought upon us many global happenings, and bugs here at Search Engine Journal, but the biggest tech problem of January 1st...
Google : Victim of Its Own Success?
One of the persistent complaints for the last year or so about Google is that it’s too powerful now — owning 45% to 60%+ of...
Saddam Hussein Execution : Internet & Wikipedia Coverage
Former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, is expected to be executed within the day as punishment for crimes against humanity after being convicted by the Iraq...
Yahoo Answers Dominates Answers Sites Market Share
A recent study by Hitwise shows that Yahoo Answers is dominating the Answers Search Market Share by attracting 96.1% of the share of answers sites...
Apple iTunes Traffic Soars from Giftcards & New Ipod Owners
Apple iTunes giftcards and new iPod owners led to a 413% rise in visits at iTunes.com on Christmas Day. Yours truly was an accidental visitor...
How Big is Google’s Index?
Since Google has stopped exposing the size of their indexed web documents on their homepage, it seems that different web users have been performing searches...
Wikiasari : The Answer for Search?
Even as search becomes all-but-synonymous with the Internet for many users, there’s a paradoxical and growing sense that it’s failing. We have incredibly high expectations...
MySpace.com : ID Theft & Scamming Target
As social networking sites continue to grow in popularity and their user base expands beyond savvy early adopters, such Web 2.0 offerings are becoming more...
Last week in China – Baidu Censors Competition, Yahoo Wins and More eBay
The big news last week was about eBay China deciding to give up on their own business by selling the majority to Tom Online. Many...
Kidneys or Lungs? SEO or PPC? eMarketing Biology 101.
I was catching up with some of my podcast subscriptions and listened to the SEO Rockstars Episode from 12/19 with Greg “WebGuerrilla” Boser and Todd...
Yahoo! Answers got company. Welcome Askville by Amazon.
Amazon launched quitely with only some little “Teaser Ads” on their Website and via Email to existing customers their new Service AskVille. I received only...
MyBlogLog Blog Registration Flaw
Tonight I noticed a flaw in MyBlogLog while tracking some of the comments I have made in blogs over the past two days. MyBlogLog is...
Microsoft Trying to Patent RSS Feed Readers
Microsoft’s patent applications for RSS feed (and other feed format) readers & aggregators were made public yesterday, showing that the company filed for the patents...
Justin Timberlake & SNL Show YouTube.com & TV Now Inseparable
Some of you may have seen a couple of “off color” videos widely circulating on the Internet from the NBC TV show Saturday Night Live...
PageRank is dead and NOFOLLOW will NOT Save it!
It’s again time for a discussion about the use of the nofollow attribute for links at the English language Wikipedia. A lot of the Wikis...
del.icio.us Tagometer is Deliciously Refreshing!
Almost every blog and news publication on web includes a small “save to del.icio.us” link or little del.icio.us box next to posts which entice users...
Vote for the 2006 Search Blogs Awards!
Voting for the Search Engine Journal’s 2006 Search Blogs Awards are now open. Please take the time to rank and vote for your favorite search...
TrueLocal’s Jake Baillie Moving On
Jake Baillie has helped to build TrueLocal into a true success, rocked Chicago, and is now heading to the world of funding Internet start-ups and...
Google Checkout : Doing Better Than Expected
When Google introduced its payments system (and more) Checkout earlier this year my belief was that it had to break with its long-standing approach of...
Ebay China Sells Business to Tom Online
It has been hanging in the air for sometime now. Back in September 2006 the rumor circus already pointed at Tom online as the likely...
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me : Blog Tag
In the tradition of friendly blogosphere blogging, I’ve been blog tagged by Peter and Lee in the great search blogger meme of the five things...
Ask.com’s Ask X : Search Testing Ground
Lisa Barone, super search blogger, has the beef on Ask.com’s search interface & user experience testing ground, Ask X. Google has its SearchMash to test...
10 Reasons Why Digg Could Bury Google and Suggested Improvements
Todd Malicoat has jotted down his thoughts on why Digg is the new Google and why Digg is attracting the ‘geek mindshare’ that Google did...
9 7.5 Ways To Get Banned (or Penalized) by Search Engines
Putting together an SEO campaign and thinking that cloaking, link farming or regurgitating content will get your site high rankings? Think again. Chances are, your...
Google 2006 Top Searches : Very 2.0
Once Google filtered out all of the questionable, offensive and not-safe-for-work search terms, looks like the people Googling on Google were in fact searching for...
Benefits of CSS in Search Engine Optimization
Mikhail Tuknov, founder of Infatex.com, sent in this article on CSS and its importance in search engine optimization. I found it to be a basic...
Google Radio Ads Sell Out; Not Enough Airtime
Ben Charny at MarketWatch reports that Google Audio did not secure enough radio airtime “for would-be advertisers to thoroughly test out the initiative.”
Google Maps Multiple Destinations
Google has added a new feature to Google Maps which I first experienced when testing out Ask.com’s AskCity, multiple destination directions. Google Maps lets users...