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Hakia’s Semantic Search : The Answer to Poor Keyword Based Relevancy
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, “Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.” And while...
Yahoo! Steps Up Online Advertising with SmartAds
Yahoo is stepping up its online advertising program with the launch of SmartAds, a behavioral targeting ad campaign which display ads that are tailored for...
SEO & Blogging Success Story : Diabetes Blog Earns $40K per Year
There’s an old golden rule in terms of choosing a career or venture which still applies today, even to blogging; love your work. Being passionate...
Enter the World Wide Wiki
As the world of Web 2.0 has brought many new components to the user, aside from social communities which keep emerging and showing growth, the...
How to Protect Your Site from Canonical Triggers
What happens when search engine spiders get lost? They cannot figure out what way to go on your site. They sometimes get confused or other...
Kosmix.com : Search Start-up Looking for “Meaning” in Search Queries
What do Stanford grads Anand and Venky have in common with Google founders, Larry and Sergie? One, they were batch mates. And two, they are...
Google Earth Goes Socially Relevant, Reaches Out to Non-Profit Organizations
Showing that it is not only a profit-oriented company, Google launches its own socially relevant program called Google Earth Outreach. Utilizing the power of its...
Google Further Explains Why It Is Buying DoubleClick
Today in Google’s Public Policy Blog, Alex Kinnear, Group Product Manager traces the history why Google decided on buying out ad serving company, Double Click....
Practical Guide to Vertical Search Advertising
Vertical search engines (VSEs), or specialized search engines, are becoming increasingly popular, and e-marketing reporters and search engine industry analysts have deemed vertical the “hottest...
Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search
Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query...
How To Find Wikipedia Links
Although all external Wikipedia links are using the nofollow attribute since January of this year, links from the encyclopedia are still important because of other...
Yahoo & Bebo Partner for Search & Sponsored Listings
Yahoo Search is now powering the search results within the Bebo social network. According to Pete Cashmore at Mashable, Bebo users can now use Yahoo...
Microsoft Vista Making Search Changes Thanks To Google
Early this month, The engine giant Google initiated a complaint stating that Windows Vista has made it difficult for users to use desktop search applications...
Does Language and Culture Affect Search Techniques?
Betty Birner at the Linguistic Society of America discusses how some linguists feel that the language you speak, and your cultural background, affects the way...
My Yahoo! Updates With GMail Integration & New Modules
My Yahoo! has gone through another series of updates to their beta offering today, allowing users to preview their GMail and POP Mail accounts on...
Yahoo Testing New Blue Bar Search Results Format
Yahoo is running limited testing of a new search results page format with a blue search bar above the sponsored and organic Yahoo results. Both...
Google Video Exposing Private Username & Password Information?
Google Video may be exposing the username and passwords of users who post videos to their MySpace accounts and serving this information over unsecure Internet...
In-house Spotlight: Duane Forrester, SEO with Sports Direct Inc.
This week’s spotlight is on Duane Forrester with Sports Direct Inc., a leading sports media content publisher. Duane is quite visible in the search industry,...
Yahoo Search’s Slurp Crawler Updates Moves to New Address
Yahoo has updated and moved its Yahoo Slurp crawler to a new domain at crawl.yahoo.net, but is keeping the same IP address for those publishers...
And the Safest Search Engine is? AOL
If you thought Google is the be all and end all of web search, well at least on the security side, Google is second only...
Google’s Matt Cutts on SEO : From SMX Seattle
Rhea here! If you don’t know who I am, it’s probably because I’m the least published SEJ contributor and well-known IT girl of SEO blogging....
Mahalo Human Edited Search : Past Meets Future
Jumping on the human edited search wagon and keeping a little bit of Netscape dirt on the heels of his boots, Jason Calacanis is backing...
In-house Spotlight : AllRecipes.com’s SEO Dustin Woodard
This week’s spotlight is on Dustin Woodard, a veteran in-house SEO at Allrecipes.com. Dustin made an interesting choice when joining AllRecipes.com, he joined a company...
Google Using Image Recognition Filtering in Results
Google Image Search has finally implemented some of the technology that Google acquired with its purchase of Neven Vision last August. Now searchers on Google...
Alternate Link Building Strategies: The Linkerati Effect
Several bloggers have suggested writing about the linkerati as way to draw editorial backlinks. This post is a sort of lens to some great articles...
Tracking Google News : Most Popular Stories and Sources
Google News Report USA is a new service which tracks the sites which are featured on the homepage of Google News and then ranked by...
Yahoo Buzz Index vs. Google Hot Trends
Sometimes it’s quite easy to hail any new product or experiment launched by Google, even if the idea behind it is years old and has...
How to Submit your Site to Yahoo News
With the rise of blogging and low cost content management systems also comes the rise of news publications and the need for content syndication. Yahoo...
Digg Bans Users Who Digg Too Often
Digg has been sending out messages which explain the banning of user accounts which Digg has red flagged as possible spammers or just non-quality Diggers....
Google Bans Term Paper & Essay Writing Ads
In a move to lessen if not prevent plagiarism among university students, Google is banning advertisements by essay writing companies and services from its advertising...