Recently there has been a lot of chatter about .edu top-level domains. From whether a .edu TLD packs more Google-juice punch to whether one can actually register one, there’s been a lot of mis-information floating around the web. So let’s once and for all set the record straight on .edu domains.What are .edu [...]
Search engines are as much the first source of information as they are the starting point for research. Summarization of content of query results is an innovative technique to obtain an intelligent response from the system. This is the concept behind SenseBot and I am glad that Dmitri Soubbotin took the time to answer a [...]
Barry at Search Engine Roundtable has the forum scoop on some new AdSense ads that Google is testing which let the user scroll through various advertisements. AdSense has tested various formats in the past which let the end user enter a search term if the ad is not specifically targeted or even serve keyword suggestions [...]
Google Maps has added new social features to their My Maps initiative which lets viewers and users of those maps connect socially with the creators of those maps and other viewers via YouTube-esque comments, ratings and top links (from blogs and sites linking to the maps).The social additions are an excellent touch which will give [...]
Google has brought up the number of cities included in Street View to 23, with the addition of eight new cities, including: Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Fort Worth, Boston, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Providence. All of the newly added cities are in the top 150 U.S. cities by population.Street View offers 360-degree, street-level images of [...]
Yahoo and InfoSpace have come to terms on an extension of their multi-year search marketing agreement, where Yahoo provides sponsored results and contextual advertising via Yahoo Search Marketing within InfoSpace properties.Besides its business and local search offerings at InfoSpace.com, InfoSpace is also the parent company of DogPile, WebCrawler (blast from the past!), MetaCrawler and Zoo.com.The [...]
Achieving top organic positions in the engines or paying your way to the top through paid search is not only wise to increase sales but for branding as well. Searchers feel if your company is in the top positions of the engines, you must be important or popular giving them a sense of your brand.A [...]
We’ve been printing the headlines for years now : Google Rules Search Market Share, Google Tops Yahoo & MSN in Search for March, Google : Dominant American Search Engine for 2005 … yada yada yada. Hitwise released a press release today about how they tracked how Google Dominates Search in November with some numbers to [...]
Google has recently been granted a patent by the US government which the company originally filed in 2003. The patent, writes Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA, explores how Google would (a patent does not always have to be used) use anchor text links to rank and classify pages, Google crawls some sites more [...]
The search privacy feature of Ask.com which was announced sometime in July is finally launched today. AskEraser is a privacy tool which when enabled by user (See link at the upper right hand corner of the Ask.com portal) will delete all search activity of users from Ask.com servers. These search activity data includes: information about the visited [...]
