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Google Attracting 25% of Online Ad Revenue
eMarketer just put out a release with some amazing research behind their prediction that Google will pocket 25% of all US Online Advertising Revenue –...
Top 20 Misspelled Search Terms at Yahoo
Sure the uTube.com … YouTube.com story is a fine example of a misspelled or mistaken domain name, but Yahoo’s Buzz Log has just published the...
SEO & 404 Error Pages
We’ve covered how to optimize your 404 Error page for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes in the past, making sure all of those dead links...
Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Platform Goes Live
This afternoon Yahoo announced that it is finally going live with the rollout and transition to its new Yahoo Search Marketing platform, dubbed ‘Panama’. Yahoo...
Best of the Web Blogs : Talking Blog Search with Greg Hartnett
For a reasonable amount of time, Best of the Web (BOTW.org) has been among the few in setting the standard of quality web directories; giving...
Google and Ask.com Insider Search Engine Information
Yesterday two SEO & search engine experts, Rand Fishkin and Bill Slawski, were taking the time to look into the technologies behind two separate search...
LinkedIn Adds Services Directory
Yes, business networking site LinkedIn is now in the yellow pages business. The site has added a “services” directory. It’s a logical extension of LinkedIn’s...
Robert Scoble : Live.com Search Closing the Gap With Google
Ex-Microsoft employee and blogging rockstar Robert Scoble recently shared his views and experience with Microsoft’s Live.com Search saying that the improved interface and index is...
Yahoo Music Price Increase Another Sign of Yahoo’s Struggles?
An email went out over the weekend from the Yahoo Music Service stating that they would be increasing the cost of their monthly music download...
Google Reader for GMail
Now that Google Reader has been redesigned, it is much more user friendly, and operates more like a mix between Bloglines, del.icio.us and GMail than...
Chris Pirillo Interview
Lee Odden has been busy blogging over the weekend and posted his follow up interview with Internet, Pectoral & Coffee guru Chris Pirillo which Lee...
MySpace.com Adds Video Space
MySpace made a silent change to their MySpace Video program over the weekend, adding user uploaded videos to the default MySpace profile in a new...
Wikipedia Unblocked in China for All Languages But Chinese
Wikipedia Unblocked in China for All Languages But Chinese Update It seems the Chinese version of Wikipedia is slowly getting unblocked. In Shanghai it loads...
Work.com : Small Business Portals Heating Up Again
Work.com : Small Business Portals Heating Up Again Back when I was part of the founding editorial team at AllBusiness.com, now about seven years ago...
Google Using Certified Teachers to Reach K-12 Students
Google Using Certified Teachers to Reach K-12 Students Google for Educators is a new Google outreach program which offers K-12 teachers the chance to become...
Ask Mobile : Ask.com On The Road
Ask Mobile : Ask.com On The Road Ask.com has launched its new mobile search application, Ask Mobile, which is available for use at http://mobile.ask.com. Ask...
Helium.com : About, Yahoo Answers & Wikipedia All Rolled Into One
Helium.com : About, Yahoo Answers & Wikipedia All Rolled Into One An alternative to the Q&A services and social media projects at Google Answers, Yahoo...
YellowPages.com & SuperPages Top IYP’s in Local Search
YellowPages.com & SuperPages Top IYP’s in Local Search YellowPages.com and SuperPages put out dueling press releases yesterday about their success and innovations. Here’s YellowPages.com’s release...
Yahoo’s Tim Mayer Addresses Directory Tag Support
Yahoo’s Tim Mayer Addresses Directory Tag Support Search Engine Roundtable’s Podcast, Search Pulse [mp3 file], featured Yahoo’s Tim Mayer this week and remarked on the...
Google Docs & Spreadsheets : An Online Office
Google Docs & Spreadsheets : An Online Office Over the course of the evening Google opened Google Docs & Spreadsheets for beta testing by Google...
Google vs. MySpace.com : YouTube Fallout
Google vs. MySpace.com : YouTube Fallout Sure, the plans to acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Google stock (sound familiar?) has sent ripples around the...
Smalltown : Local Search with Flash
Smalltown : Local Search with Flash Smalltown, a new local-search destination with a snappy, flash-based interface announced that it had received $3 million in funding...
Shopping Search Data Feed Management
SingleFeed : Affordable Shopping Search Data Feed Management Brian Smith, an independent analyst for the shopping comparison engine industry known for his work at Comparison...
Google YouTube Conference Call
Google YouTube Conference Call Here are some random snippets from the call (comments not in order). These are very close to verbatim quotes: Google CEO...
Google Acquires YouTube for $1.65 Billion Stock Transaction
Google Acquires YouTube for $1.65 Billion Stock Transaction No longer Internet specultion, Google has confirmed that it will be acquiring YouTube in the forth quarter...
Blinkx.TV to Power Microsoft Video Search
Blinkx.TV to Power Microsoft Video Search Blinkx.tv has been cutting deals left and right over the years to expand the reach of their proprietary video...
Google Video Adds Free Warner & Sony Music Videos
Google Video Adds Free Warner & Sony Music Videos Google Video just made two simultaneous announcements that they will now be featuring music videos from...
5 Reasons Why Google Will Buy YouTube
Update: Google did, in fact, purchase Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars in October of 2006. Sure, the internet, newspapers, and blogosphere have been buzzing all...
Google Blog Was Hacked : It’s Official
Google Blog Was Hacked : It’s Official For those of you who have been following the story of the rather odd message posted on the...
Google Stops Singing the Harvest Song in China
Google Stops Singing the Harvest Song in China Update Google China decided to sing again as Imagethief rightly points out. The Guge logo is back....