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Last Week in China – Baidu, Blogspot and a China Summer Ends
Last Week in China – Baidu, Blogger and a China Summer Ends Some of the more noteworthy news tidbits that happened in China last week....
Black Friday & Online Shopping
Yesterday’s Thanksgiving was a good one with about 15 family members, a pit smoked turkey, an accompanying Butterball, two pumpkin pies, and all of the...
AbbreviationZ : Acronyms & Abbreviations Search Engine
AbbreviationZ is a directory / search engine of categorized acronyms and abbreviations which helps Internet users figure out what’s behind those niche abbreviations found in...
Miva Response to PPC Click Fraud Story
After my blog post “A True 2nd Tier PPC Click Fraud Story” last week did I get contacted by Miva and had some email conversation...
Mpire Shopping Plugin: Market Analytics Distributed Across Thousands of Shopping Sites
I interviewed consumer empowerment engine Mpire’s CEO Matt Huelett in July. Mpire started *out of the gate* with an eBay partnership. That’s hot shit people....
Local Search Growing for Service Businesses
Believe it or not there are still people out there who are skeptical that the Internet is having a real impact in the “yellow pages”...
Free Google Base / Froogle Submission and Optimization from SingleFeed
My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize...
Google & Yahoo Compete for Mobile Search Market
While Google is currently the undisputed king (making others the queen, prince, baron, duke and viscount) of search that’s not necessarily going to automatically translate...
Thanksgiving Recipe Searches Doubling Recipe Site Traffic
Recipe sites experience the doubling of traffic during the Thanksgiving holiday week according to a recent Hitwise study, which shows that traffic to online recipe...
Google News Sitemaps for News Publishers
In an effort to assist news publishers with control over which articles are included in Google News and how, Google has now added Sitemaps for...
Urban Mapping : Natural Local Search
I had lunch last Friday with Ian White, CEO of Urban Mapping. The genesis of Urban Mapping is a fascinating story of perseverance and timing...
Yahoo Search Growing Faster than Google
According to a recent study from Nielsen//Netratings, Yahoo & Ask.com are growing faster than Google in terms of search engine usage. While Google still undoubtedly...
Google Ad Placements for AdSense
Google AdSense is giving publishers the option of assigning and labeling certain AdSense placements within their site as primary real estate for Google AdWords advertisers...
Webshots Adds Video Sharing
Webshots, which is one of the preferred photo storage and sharing destinations for millions of bloggers and MySpace members, has just gone video. While I...
Pronto.com Out of Beta, Adds Aggregated Product Reviews
Pronto.com, part of the IAC family which includes Ask.com, is out of beta and the shopping comparison engine is ready for the holiday season. Pronto.com...
Microsoft’s Live.com Banning Sites for Link Exchanges
Live.com is banning sites that take part in spammy and irrelevant link exchanges which are designed to corrupt and mislead search engines into ranking such...
Yahoo & Newspapers Form Major Partnership
Proving they can spread their peanut butter and eat it too, Yahoo has sealed a major alliance with the nation’s newspapers which include 176 daily...
Yahoo! Hotjobs Newspaper Deal Coming Soon
Rumored for some time, Yahoo! is apparently close to closing a deal with six newspaper groups. According the WSJ: Yahoo Inc. is close to a...
Europe’s Xing.com – The LinkedIn.com Killer?!
It was not too long ago when the European Business-Networking Service OpenBC.com announced their planned name change to Xing.com. OpenBC.com is no longer and all...
Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto : Cut Workforce by 20%, Build Focus
An internal Yahoo memo written last week by Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse has been leaked to the press and urges a major organizational shake...
Technology Top 100 Awards – South Africa
Congratulations to Vinny Lingham and his team over at IncuBeta for winning South Africa’s Technology Top 100 Award again this year. I am sure that...
Yahoo to acquire MyBlogLog
Techcrunch and Valleywag report that Yahoo! has agreed to acquire MyBlogLog for an estimated $10 million. That takes the number of Yahoo acquisitions we’ve heard...
Google Maps Adds Click-to-Call Ads
Google Maps has added Click-to-Call (my apologies for the short post, today will not be a heavy blogging day for me). From the Google Blog:...
Microsoft Live Search & Firefox Snooping on Search Queries
Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA looks at Microsoft Live Search and the Firefox Browser and how these companies are harnessing their web browsing...
Yahoo Maps Adds New Features
Deciding to avoid the arms race that Google and MSFT are engaged in around dynamic and 3-D mapping, Yahoo! has taken a more pragmatic approach:...
Expedited Upgrade For Yahoo!’s Panama Available Per Request
I blogged about a month ago about the long awaited launch of Yahoo!’s Panama Update of their Pay-Per-Click System. Yahoo! announced that accounts will be...
Snap Preview Everywhere: Distributing Search Boxes by Enabling Site Previews
WOW! I love creative ideas for distributing search! We have Eurekster (and now Google) that provide customizable search experiences for website owners. We have search...
Google’s Early Efforts to Monetize Video
Video. I can’t stop thinking about it. Neither can Google. A recent tour of the Google plex by Beet.tv yielded some news (to me) on...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Team for Sitemaps.org Search Engine Indexing Initiative
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined forces to support Sitemaps 0.90 (www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their...
Loki : Local Meta Search
Loki is a toolbar/technology from Skyhook Wireless that, once downloaded, uses WiFi triangulation to determine user location and saves the step of having to enter...