Microsoft has released a tech news aggregator at microsoft.com/web that seemingly has little or nothing to do with Live Search News, though I have to wonder if it might be integrated somehow further down the road. The site is broken down into tabbed categories for the home page, inspiration, methods, business, events, blogs, and [...]
Digg has decided to do away with a couple features, namely Digg Podcasts and Digg Spy. As Daniel Burka at Digg The Blog notes, subtraction can sometimes be a form of improvement, and Digg believes this is the case here. He writes:
Yahoo shares dropped to their lowest level in five years on Thursday, plummeting 8 percent to $12.65 amid continuing economic chaos. It was Yahoo’s lowest level since the summer of 2003, when the company was recovering from the bursting of the Internet bubble.
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Want to buy property in Bangalore, India? Or stay in a Dublin hotel? Google hopes so, because the search giant’s latest effort in terms of monetization is tied to Google Maps, and when you search for certain cities, you’ll see ads for things like these placed at the bottom of the page.
Want links? Google says be interesting. Google’s Maile Ohye concluded Link Week with a tutorial on inbound links. It says basically what SEO experts have been saying for years: content and inbound links are most important, and in that order.
With the economy in limbo what should search marketer’s focus on? WebProNews spoke to Milind Mody, CEO of eBrandz Inc, an SEO and SEM firm, about online marketing and advertising. Mody said because of the economy “a search engine marketer might have to scale down branding campaigns in favor of tactics which yield great ’short [...]
The other day, YouTube released its “HotSpots” feature as part of YouTube Insight. It is an analytics feature that allows users to pinpoint the moments in their videos that are the most popular.
Google is no longer suggesting that you should be listed in relevant directories. In fact, they’ve even removed the suggestion from their webmaster guidelines, as Brian Ussery noticed.
Google is straying from its old ways and moving more toward traditional advertising methods, says the Wall Street Journal. We’re not seeing Google commercials on TV yet, but could that be on the horizon?
Web 2.0 is a broad term describing many different kinds of websites, websites that provide a platform where end-users have control over the content of sites. Web 2.0 includes social networking sites, wikis, sites like Squidoo.com and MySpace.com, folksonomies, Blogs, RSS Feeds and other sites that emphasize collaboration and sharing among users.
Lots of Web 2.0 sites are great. But for every Flickr, there’s a Drivl (really!). Here are a few of the new Web’s silliest ideas.
The billion-dollar stake Google took in AOL to keep the company out of Microsoft’s hands nearly three years ago doesn’t look like it will approach that value now. As 2005 neared its close, Microsoft and Google raced to wrap up a transaction with AOL. Its appear stemmed from the visitors AOL received on a daily [...]
Copyright infringement accusations emerged from Italy as a TV company called Mediaset lobbed a 500 million euros lawsuit at Google.
Google Page Rank (PR) is underway, so check your new PR’s as soon as possible.
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