Google Reports Q1 9% Profit Increase But 3% Revenue Decrease
Google has just presented the company’s Q1 earnings and finally the report showed that Google is not immune to the crisis after all. Google’s revenue...
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Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
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Craigslist More Popular Than MySpace : Sign of Economy Says Hitwise
Hitwise is running a report on the top search term in the United States for the week ending March 14, 2009, and interestingly the data...
Gmail Labs Rolls Out “Undo Send”
Just right after rolling out the email preview feature for YouTube videos, Flickr and Picasa photos and Yelp reviews, the Gmail Labs is introducing a...
Gradual Roll Out of the New Facebook Home Page Starts
Update: I just checked out my Facebook profile and it’s now showing the new home page. My initial reaction is that the Highlights on the...
Top 3 Search Engines Unite on Canonical URL
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join hands in the drive to clean up the web of duplicate contents. The top three search engines are implementing support...
Gmail Continues to Grow as Hotmail Falters, and Yahoo! Mail Stagnates
If we are to take into account ComScore’s data on Gmail’s number of unique visitors between December 2007 and December 2008 vis-a-vis Windows Live Hotmail,...
Google is Broken, the 2009 Edition
I thought there was something wrong with my PC’s setting or something, or Firefox maybe experiencing some problem or my Internet connection has been attacked....
Yahoo to Shut Off Briefcase Online Storage Service
Quite frankly, I already forgot about Yahoo’s online storage service despite the fact that it was the first online storage service that I used way...
Google Stops Print Ads Program
Google has just announced that it is closing one of Adwords’ not so popular revenue generating (or the lack of) stream – Google Print Ads....
Google Search Generates 7g of CO2, says Study
What would you rather give up? Boiling a kettle for your tea or using Google search? You might want to give up both, as boiling...
Yahoo! Buzz Rolls Out New Publisher Landing Pages
Aside from the new features of its various online products, Yahoo is also rolling out some for Yahoo! Buzz. Specifically, Yahoo Buzz Publisher can now...
You Ask, Mahalo Answers
We all still remember Mahalo right? That human-powered search engine backed Jason Calcanis as SEO has just rolled a Question & Answer service. Perhaps realizing...
Adsense for Domain Now Available to all Publishers
The Inside Adsense Blog has just announced that Adsense for Domains is now available to all publishers who owns several domains which are not really...
Sarah Palin Tops Google’s Global Zeitgeist 2008
Well what do you know? Despite losing in the recently concluded U.S. Elections, Sarah Palin has won in Google’s 2008 search Zeitgeist. Beating search terms...
Google Amends Adwords’ Alcohol Ads Policy
Responding to what they claim as advertisers’ feedback, Google announced some modifications to the Adwords’ policy on Alcohol related advertisement across Google’s content network. This...
Britney Spears Tops Yahoo’s Top Searches for 2008
Once again Britney Spears has proven that she’s not only the Pop Princess but also the “Queen of Searches”, well at least in Yahoo’s 2008...
Google Brings Sponsored Videos on YouTube Search
YouTube is yet again embarking on a revenue scheme in the hopes of generating income from its existence on the web, and being the number...
Google Now Searches through Scanned Documents
Who would have thought that the day will come that even documents which were digitized through scanning can now be search by Google’s powerful search...
Google Says: We’re Ok and We’re Definitely Fine
Amidst the ongoing economic and financial turmoil and beating industry analysts’ predictions and forecasts, “miraculously” Google still managed to pose some considerable growth as reported...
Ask.com Parses More Data, Gives Answers in Search Results
Ask.com is making its presence felt in the search engine market by introducing two new features of its search engine recently. News.com is reporting that...
Yahoo! Launches APT, the Display Ad formerly known as AMP!
Yahoo has renewed once again its take on digital advertising with a new platform called APT from Yahoo. This digital advertising solution was previously announced...
Google Launches Project 10 to the 100th
In celebration of its tenth year as a company, Google has just launched the Project 10 to the 100th. The project aims to get the...
Yahoo Adds “Up and Coming” Buzz
Don’t look now, but Yahoo Buzz is getting better with new features up on its sleeves. Yahoo’s entry into the social news arena may not...
The Future of Search, According to Google’s Meyer
Reacting to several flaks she received during a published story quoting her with the following statements: I think there will be a continued focus on...
Google Makes Old Newspapers Searchable, And Readable Too
Remember those old microfiche reader that we use to read “digitized” old newspapers in the library? Not so long ago, those were pretty cool machines...
German Security Office Warning: Chrome is Bad for Surfing the Internet
This could perhaps be the most stern warning ever made against Google Chrome since it was released for public use last Sept. 4. The warning...
Google Silently Rolls Out Picasa 3.0 and New Features of Picasa Web Album
While everybody is recovering from the massive assault of its Chrome browser, Google silently launched Picasa 3.0, a new interface of its two-year old Picasa Web...
Google and Yahoo to Make Flash Content Searchable
Both Google and Yahoo in coordination with Adobe is finally making it easier for webmasters to make Flash contents on their site searchable by search...
Google Launches Google Affiliate Network
When Google acquired DoubleClick, the company has brought with it its affiliate ad network program called Performics. But Google never did something to push Performics...
9 Search-Related Twitter Service to Help You Find Tweets
Here you go, 10 search-related service for all your Twittering needs. Search for Twitter profiles, Twitter discussion, Twitter followings and what-have-yous. If you know of...