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Is There a Future for LookSmart?
Is There a Future for LookSmart? Former search giant LookSmart has reissued investor guidance numbers for the last quarter of 2004. Posting lower revenues than...
Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta is out
Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta is out The drama continues with Yahoo! rolling out their own version based on X1 technology in the newly created and...
Bill Gates claims nearly 1 million users for MSN Spaces
Bill Gates claims nearly 1 million users for MSN Spaces In an interview with News.com, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has claimed that MSN Spaces has...
The Power Of The “Niche” – Choosing Keywords People Actually Use
The Power Of The “Niche” – Choosing Keywords People Actually Use Keywords and keyphrases are the search words and terms Internet surfers use to find...
The Search Engine Showdown
The Search Engine Showdown If you’re anything like me, you have a favorite search engine and you’re loyal to it. You never use any others...
Gigablast Search Engine Indexes 1 Billion Pages
Gigablast Search Engine Indexes 1 Billion Pages Gigablast announced today its recent database expansion from 650 million webpages to over 1 billion. The new index...
Microsoft Releases Anti-Spyware Application
Microsoft Releases Anti-Spyware Application As expected, Microsoft has released a beta version of their own Anti-Spyware application based on their recent acquisition of Giant Software...
Enhancing Search Engine Listings with Videos
Enhancing Search Engine Listings with Videos In the coming months a small start-up in Texas called SiSTeR Technologies hopes to introduce short video clips to...
Desktop Search for Apple Macintosh: Not Tiger’s Spotlight
Desktop Search for Apple Macintosh: Not Tiger’s Spotlight During all this buzz on desktop search over the past 3 – 6 months, there was no...
Howard Stern Prefers Yahoo Over Google
Howard Stern Prefers Yahoo Over Google On the day when Howard Stern was dumped by four of Citadel Broadcasting’s radio stations due to plugging Sirius...
Search Engine of Choice by the Search Companies
Search Engine of Choice by the Search Companies Recently there was a blog entry that came out named What Search Engines Do Search Engine Companies...
iTunes Customer Suing Apple over iPod-opoly
iTunes Customer Suing Apple over iPod-opoly Apple has been sued by a customer of their iTunes Online Digital Music Store on the charge that the...
MapQuest Brings Maps and Directions to Cell Phones
MapQuest Brings Maps and Directions to Cell Phones MapQuest today announced the launch of Send to Phone, a new feature that lets MapQuest Mobile subscribers...
SEO Book Revenue Goes to Tsunami Relief Efforts
SEO Book Revenue Goes to Tsunami Relief Efforts Pennsylvania based Search Engine Marketing specialist and author of the SEO Book, Aaron Wall will be donating...
Tsunami News, Search Engines and Blogs Lead Traffic to Humanitarian Sites
Tsunami News, Search Engines and Blogs Lead Traffic to Humanitarian Sites With relief coming in from all over the world, U.S. citizens are embracing the...
Visitor referrer logs: Keeping in touch
Visitor referrer logs: Keeping in touch Visitor referrer logs are valuable records to examine, from time to time. In my case, and probably yours too,...
What is Relevancy in Terms of Search
What is Relevancy in Terms of Search Determining what is relevant can be an incredible task. It is the goal of all search engines to...
LiveJournal’s Blog Network and its 5.6 Million Bloggers To Be Acquired
LiveJournal’s Blog Network and its 5.6 Million Bloggers To Be Acquired Big blog news today, Six Apart has plans to purchase LiveJournal. The move has...
Playboy Steps into iPod Podcasting with iBod
Playboy Steps into iPod Podcasting with iBod Playboy.com has harnessed the digital photo revolution to put the sexiest girls next door in the palm of...
MSN Search Launching Own Paid Search Division?
MSN Search Launching Own Paid Search Division? MSN Search made public their new MSN Search Beta two months ago, which showcases their own search engine...
Google Looking at Crispin Porter to Take Over Public Relations?
Google Looking at Crispin Porter to Take Over Public Relations? After it was announced that Cindy McCaffrey, Google’s vice president of corporate marketing, was leaving...
Bloggers took the Internet by storm in 2004
Bloggers took the Internet by storm in 2004 Users on the Internet have been blogging since ages. I have seen people maintaining their journals online...
Tools for Online Tracking
Tools for Online Tracking In order to determine which advertising and marketing efforts are effective you must have ways to measure the results of those...
Napster Music Download & Search Now On Nasdaq
Napster Music Download & Search Now On Nasdaq Napster, Inc. the biggest brand in digital music, today reiterated its guidance for the third quarter ended...
SBC, Yahoo, 2Wire, and Dish Network Partner For Multimedia Entertainment Monster
SBC, Yahoo, 2Wire, and Dish Network Partner For Multimedia Entertainment Monster SBC Communications and 2Wire Inc.teamed up to deliver a home entertainment service that integrates...
GuruNet Spins Off Answers.com – A Reference Driven Search Engine
GuruNet Spins Off Answers.com – A Reference Driven Search Engine GuruNet Corporation today announced the release of Answers.com, a site-and-software combination providing instant reference answers...
Blogs Have Overtaken 8 Million Americans, 57% Are Male
Blogs Have Overtaken 8 Million Americans, 57% Are Male After being pounded in the blogging stakes by rampant female blogging last year, men have flocked...
Search Engines Helping with Tsunami Relief Effort
Search Engines Helping with Tsunami Relief Effort As the tragic news of the December 26th Tsunami spreads across the web, so do initiatives by those...
Yahoo’s URL Normalization Issues
Yahoo’s URL Normalization Issues Yesterday I wrote on the topic of URL Normalization: Is a Trailing Slash the Same Page, discussing how search engines normalize...
Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay
Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay Microsoft’s technology for identity-management on the Internet in the form of Passport took another major beating today when eBay announced...