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Why Brazil Loves Orkut!
Why Brazil Loves Orkut! Danny Sullivan made a post today at Search Engine Watch quoting a USA Today piece on the alarming amount of Al-Qaeda...
blinkx Pico : World’s Smallest Search Engine & Desktop Search App
blinkx Pico : World’s Smallest Search Engine & Desktop Search App blinkx is working on a new desktop navigation tool dubbed Pico, which is a...
Google Supplemental Results & Big Daddy
Google Supplemental Results & Big Daddy As I was running through my daily web chores today I noticed something peculiar on Big Daddy server: http://64.233.167.104....
LinkWizard: Spam Targeting WordPress Blogs
LinkWizard: Spam Targeting WordPress Blogs Spam is one of those topics that gets returned to time and again. Well, I was just updating my Simple...
Performing an AdSense Background Check
Performing an AdSense Background Check Jen Slegg has a nice write up at JenSense about testing to see if a site has been banned by...
Viva Yahoo? Yahoo is Elvis, Yahoo is Everywhere
Viva Yahoo? Yahoo is Elvis, Yahoo is Everywhere Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny had a post on his blog this morning called Viva Yahoo! which quotes Topix.net’s...
Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings
Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings With the launch of Alexadex “share trading” and more and more sites using Alexa rankings as a way to judge their...
New Google AdSense Layout and Features
New Google AdSense Layout and Features From the AdSense blog: You can now access all AdSense products from the AdSense Setup tab within your account...
Google Japan Blog Launched
Google Japan Blog Launched Google Japan has launched their own Google Japan Blog, hosted by Blogger, which shows some behind the scenes pics and info...
Dumbfind Offering Free Trial for Search Tagvertising
Dumbfind Offering Free Trial for Search Tagvertising Dumbfind began a free trial for advertisers with Adsonomy; which serves advertisements to users related to the results...
Ask.com Expands Search Engine & Information Focus
Ask.com Expands Search Engine & Information Focus Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), in an effort to seriously contend with Google, Yahoo & MSN, has officially dropped...
Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance
Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance Over the past three or four hours Search Engine Journal has noticed some interesting referrals from Google.com/finance. HINT#1 : Referrals from...
Hanging Out With Google Japan
Hanging Out With Google Japan As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal may know, I am currently living outside of Tokyo, Japan and...
How to Value and Appraise Websites
How to Value and Appraise Websites If you’re looking at selling one of your old websites or possibly acquiring one to add to your network...
BlogBurst Distributes Blog Content to Traditional Media
BlogBurst Distributes Blog Content to Traditional Media BlogBurst, the blog to [online versions of] print media offering from Pluck which was announced last night via...
Google Protects Trade Secrets from Department of Justice
Google Protects Trade Secrets from Department of Justice Google has posted its 25 page response to the Department of Justice motion to force Federal courts...
Bill Slawski’s Search Engine Patent Marathon
Bill Slawski’s Search Engine Patent Marathon Over on Cre8asite Forums one member asked if anyone know of a list of papers and patents related to...
v7n’s John Scott on SEO Contests, Blogs & Branding
v7n’s John Scott on SEO Contests, Blogs & Branding John Scott and v7n.com have turned the search engine optimization world on its heels with their...
Search Engine T-Shirt Competition
Search Engine T-Shirt Competition I’ve always been quite impressed with the t-shirts that Philipp Lessen has for sale from Google Blogoscoped and would like to...
TextLinkAds Interview : Monetize Your Site or Blog
TextLinkAds Interview : Monetize Your Site or Blog I had the chance to talk with Patrick Gavin yesterday of TextLinkAds. If you have not heard...
v7ndotcom elursrebmem in Wall Street Journal
v7ndotcom elursrebmem in Wall Street Journal Obviously Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal is in need of about $4,000 because he’s joined the largest...
Synergy of Search, Blogs, and PR : Lee Odden Interview
Synergy of Search, Blogs, and PR : Lee Odden Interview Aaron Wall of SEOBook & Threadwatch has conducted a nice sit down interview with Lee...
Target.com Sued Over Lack of ALT Tags (Attributes)
Target.com Sued Over Lack of ALT Tags The National Federation of the Blind and a college student are suing Target and want to establish a...
Ask to Retire Jeeves Character This Month
Ask to Retire Jeeves Character This Month The BBC is running a story today which says that Ask Jeeves is planning to drop the Jeeves...
Lycos Responds to Rumors of Abandoning Search
Lycos Responds to Rumors of Abandoning Search Jim Hedger of Stepforth SEO received this letter from Lycos in response to a story he posted on...
Google’s Page & Brin Visit Brazil
Google’s Page & Brin Visit Brazil Before getting into the details of Google’s visit to Brazil and their plans in this emerging technological giant, I’d...
What’s Wrong With Amazon A9 Search Engine
What’s Wrong With Amazon A9 Search Engine In recent events which may become the beginning of the fall of A9 or the commencement of its...
Google BigDaddy Tool & Big Folks in Search
Google BigDaddy Tool & Big Folks in Search Google is expected to be rolling out the BigDaddy update sometime soon and is currently running it...
Google Bans BMW for Search Spamming
Google Bans BMW for Search Spamming Matt Cutts has a hardcore spamming feature on his blog about Team Webspam at Google removing the BMW.de site...
Memorandum Founder Gabe Riviera Interviewed
Memorandum Founder Gabe Riviera Interviewed Don Dodge of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team has interviewed Memorandum founder Gabe Riviera. Memorandum is a nifty blog news...