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How to Build Links with Email Marketing
Quality links to your website remain one of the strongest contributors to high organic rankings in search engines. Plus, a link from a popular website...
12 Search Engines Which Can Replace Ask.com
Ask.com was/is one of the most resourceful and innovative search engines on the market and has claimed a relatively significant chunk of online search market....
AOL Acquires Bebo for $850 Million
AOL has pulled off a major move in acquiring the social network Bebo for $850 million in cash from under the noses of Yahoo and...
Google to Launch Ad Manager Service
Google is launching a new service that aims to help web publishers, specifically those with small-to-medium size sales force, manage their direct ads serving. Ad...
Get Paid to Click on Ads: Unethical Web Marketing
I was answering some questions on the Digital Point forum when I came across a thread about getting paid to click on ads, instantly, a...
FyberSearch Search Engine
FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a...
Commission Disfunction and FraudClick : A Peppered Rant
OK, I dont know exactly where Im going with the title (tried to come up with a good one for Valueclick but really couldnt.) For...
Compete Acquired for $75 Million
Compete has been acquired by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres plc) for $75 million, adding the Compete analytics and web traffic tracking suite to its current...
Why Mahalo will Fail and the Problems with General Search
Jason Calacanis talked at Gnomdex 7 in September 2007 about the days on the internet when only a handful new site appeared on the web...
Google Now Powering Opera Mini Mobile Search
Users of Opera Mini as the default browser of their mobile phones will be surprised to find out by March 1 that the mobile phone...
Google to Invest in Undersea Cable
Google, along with five other telcom companies, is investing $300 million into the construction of an 10,000 km undersea cable to carry data to and...
Yahoo Follows the Path of Digg and Others, Launches Yahoo! Buzz!
Yahoo finally opens up its much anticipated Digg-like content portal, Yahoo! Buzz. Yahoo! Buzz is an extension of Yahoo.com and is similar to top social...
10 Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
I love the Internet! But, at times it can be tough love, not because of the Internet itself, but because of human roadblocks and obstacles...
Matt Cutts Addresses Bad Linking and Google Penalties
Google’s Matt Cutts has responded to a Google Groups discussion on the Google -60 penalty, which sometimes can set a site back in Google 60...
Growth and Development of Google’s Local Search
On day one of SMX West in Santa Clara, I will be speaking on Local Search and Blended Results. While that panel will be focused...
Cleveland Clinic Collaborates with Google for Health Records Management
The world renowned Cleveland Clinic Health System announced Wednesday that are teaming up with Google to test out a new online medical record service, which...
Google Local Search Flaw : State Abbreviations & Misleading Results
When searching within Google for localized terms by state, such as “loren baker maryland” or “ben franklin pennsylvania”, Google will automatically return search results with...
Yahoo Blocking Bots from Spidering Delicious Bookmarks
Over the weekend, Yahoo’s Delicious (del.icio.us) social bookmarking property has been blocking spiders and bots from non-Yahoo search engines from crawling the site and identifying...
Protect Your Brand from URL Typo Squatters
I went to jump onto Techmeme.com this morning to get my fill of the Microsoft reshuffling news and instead of clicking over from my reader...
Google Search Results Page Will Display Video Ads Soon
Google introduced video ads in YouTube a couple of months ago. Its implementation in the YouTube community has been pretty quite since it was launched....
Bradley Horowitz Leaves Yahoo for Google
On the verge of a takeover and after laying off 1,000 employees yesterday, Yahoo does not seem to be a stable place to work anymore...
Google Search Goes to Millions of Nokia Handsets
What would you get if you combined two giant companies in their respective industries? Better services for customers and better income for both companies. I...
Pixsy : the Media Search Engine
Pixsy, a media search platform that was once named in the Top 50 coolest websites of 2006 by Time magazine, uses innovative visually focussed search...
Google Indexing Blogs Quickly
If you’ve launched a new blog at Blogger or WordPress, you might be wondering if or when Google might get around to indexing your site. ...
Google News Offers Local News : Enter Zip Code & Town Name
Google News is expanding its news sections beyond election coverage and recommended reading with a Local News area which serves targeted news stories based upon...
Searchles : The Multimedia Community Search Engine
Searchles ( pronounced “Circles”) is a complete Social Search engine founded by John Hopkins University graduate Chris Seline. The site is focussed on creation of...
Track Super Tuesday Election Results on Yahoo News & Google Maps
If you’re like me, you’re pinned in front of the television right now watching the news channel of your choice as results from the Super...
China’s Search Engine Baidu Under Fire for Music Piracy
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry representing major music companies, Universal, Sony BMG (Hong Kong) and Warner Music Hong Kong, has filed a court...
Yahoo 4th Quarter Revenues Went Up in 2007, But Overall Net Income Suffered
The reports and statistics are out, and as I was looking over Yahoo’s financial report for 2007, all I saw was increase in this, and...
Google Entering Paid Reviews Business? Via AdSense?!?
Shoemoney has published a tip coming from a secret source that Google is going to be offering paid reviews via their Google AdSense system and...