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Google Sitemaps for WordPress & Sitemaps XML
Google Sitemaps for WordPress & Sitemaps XML Michael Nguyen of Social Patterns has been quick to the draw in constructing a script for WordPress which...
Yahoo and Google continue to update SERPs
Yahoo and Google continue to update SERPs Google’s most recent update is taking longer than usual to complete. As reported here two weeks ago, Google...
Search Dominates New Advertising Spending
Search Dominates New Advertising Spending Google and Yahoo are eating lunch on what used to be the expense accounts of the largest advertising and information...
Google Sitemaps Program – Take Advantage
Google Sitemaps Program – Take Advantage Google recently launched a new program called Google Sitemaps. This program (free, currently still in Beta) is designed to...
Secret Google Evaluation Lab
Secret Google Evaluation Lab Although it’s been speculated that Google is manually spot checking some of its rankings, this is the first time we’ve seen...
Online News Papers Face Complexity, Competition Not Found Offline
Online News Papers Face Complexity, Competition Not Found Offline Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of the NY Times Co., spoke at the 58th World Newspaper Congress...
Porn Sites Get Own .XXX Domain
Porn Sites Get Own .XXX Domain It was announced today that porn sites will have the right to use a domain name with the .XXX...
eBay Buys Shopping.com For $620 Million Price Tag
eBay Buys Shopping.com For $620 Million Price Tag eBay plans to acquire Shopping.com for an estimated price tag of $620 million (based on the outstanding...
Google Provides “Weather Update” for Bourbon
Google Provides “Weather Update” for Bourbon Many of you are following the most recent Google Update. In the past, at the Indexing Summit at SES...
Paris Hilton Carl’s Burger Ad Crashes SpicyParis Site, Boosts Profits
Paris Hilton Carl’s Burger Ad Crashes SpicyParis Site, Boosts Profits Carl’s Jr. has caused quite the stir with their new Paris Hilton commercial where America’s...
eBay Buys Shopping.com
eBay Buys Shopping.com Big news this evening in the world of search engines, eBay has reportedly acquired Shopping.com. Apparently the reasoning for eBay becoming interested...
Google the Advertising Agency
Google the Advertising Agency Over the weekend, Chris Gaither wrote an interesting and entertaining piece in the LA Times about the role of the Google...
Ask Jeeves’ Jim Lanzone Answers Search Questions
Ask Jeeves’ Jim Lanzone Answers Search Questions Cre8asite Forums hosted a “live” Question and Answer session with Jim Lanzone, the Senior Vice President of Search...
Yahoo Tries to Get into the ‘Mindset’ of the User
Yahoo Tries to Get into the ‘Mindset’ of the User John Battelle’s blog points out a new search offering from Yahoo! Labs called “Mindset.” At...
Google and Microsoft View Each Other Differently
Google and Microsoft View Each Other Differently Despite recent search developments and a respectable third-place market market share, Microsoft is still not a competitor in...
Images in Google Adsense Text Only Ads
Images in Google Adsense Text Only Ads Jensense reports that icons, better known as 16 by 16 pixel favicons, have been spotted in AdSense wide...
Bloglines Developing a Blog Search Engine
Bloglines Developing a Blog Search Engine In an interview, Mark Fletcher, the CEO of Bloglines (now a division of AskJeeves) says that his company will...
Apple to Support Podcasting in iTunes
Apple to Support Podcasting in iTunes Apple Computer has announced that it will start to support and organize podcasts in its newer versions of iTunes...
Ask Jeeves to Rebrand as Ask
Ask Jeeves to Rebrand as Ask In what should be a very good move for Barry Diller’s IAC, rumors are flying around MarketWatch that IAC...
SEO Quiz May Answer Who’s the Most Knowledgeable SEM Person
SEO Quiz May Answer Who’s the Most Knowledgeable SEM Person SEOMoz, aka. Randfish, has put together one nice SEO Quiz which was done as a...
Mega BizFest Wilmington, DE : Internet Marketing Speaking Engagement
Mega BizFest Wilmington, DE : Internet Marketing Speaking Engagement I’ll be speaking on a panel at Wilmington Delaware’s Mega BizFest on June 10th, representing the...
Exalead Combines Search Features
Exalead Combines Search Features Found a link to Exalead through Seth Godin’s site. Although Exalead’s results are not as relevant as the top search engines,...
MSN Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth
MSN Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth In the battle of the interactive maps, MSN is seeking to challenge Google’s satellite mapping supremacy with a suite...
Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0
Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0 Back in December 2004, Yahoo first announced Media RSS in conjunction with their Video Search. Last week they announced the...
Accoona: Time to Worry?
Accoona: Time to Worry? Last Fall general purpose (as opposed to niche) search engine Accoona launched to considerable media fanfare. Yes the name does come...
Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search
Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search I missed Blogdigger’s announcement about the addition of local a few days ago. Local.blogdigger.com appears to be a...
Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe
Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe Ask Jeeves has acquired Excite Europe from Tiscali for EUR 6.1 millions (an apparent pittance). In March of last year,...
My Google – Personal Google Home Page
My Google – Personal Google Home Page My Google is here. Though that’s not the official name, that’s what the new home page personalization features...
Google Homepage Personalized or Portal?
Google Homepage Personalized or Portal? Many of you are already aware of Google’s new lab announcement, Personalize Your Homepage. It is very interesting that Google...
New Google Personalized Homepage in Beta – Answer to My Yahoo!
New Google Personalized Homepage in Beta – Answer to My Yahoo! Finally, Google has figured out a way to tie in all of their subscription...