If you’ve noticed that the lastest Google PageRank update has distilled your site’s PageRank (Toolbar PageRank that is) because Google believes that you are selling links or up to other ways to mislead the Google algorithm or break their Webmaster Guidelines, and you are not, there is a way to redeem yourself with Google.As an [...]

  Yahoo stock hasclimbed again over the weekend, but not soley because of its new advertising partnerships or efforts to open up the Yahoo network to third parties. Instead, the stock is climbing as Wall Street prepares for the $1 Billion Alibaba.com IPO, which Yahoo is set to purchase 10% of, or $100 Million.Beyond the [...]

  Matt Cutts emailed Search Engine Journal last night to let us know that in fact, the partial Google ‘Toolbar’ PageRank update which happened last week wasa result of Google’s campaign against paid linking and advertisement links which influence PageRank.The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding [...]

  Maybe Microsoft Live Search ought to rename its search engine into “Smart Live Searchâ€�. After introducing auto-spell Correction and search stemming, Live Search is introducing the concept of equivalencies and implementing intelligent stop words retention. Both search enhancements are geared towards giving Live Search users higher relevance in the search results they get from Live [...]

  I’m seeing a number of new sites showing PageRank updates tonight, and assume that it has to be happening elsewhere as well. This of course comes on the heels of the PageRank massacre earlier this week.There’s not too much to post right now on this as more information comes in — but I wanted to [...]

  When you cannot bring the Internet to the people, bring the people to the Internet. Yahoo Vietnam’s Yahoo! powered Internet Cafes areopening around Vietnam’s Hanoi and Ho Chi Mihn City in an effort to bring Internet to people and effectively brand Yahoo services. The Yahoo Internet cafes are sponsored by Yahoo and exclusively offer [...]

  For a while now, Google has been testing behavioral targeting in their search result pages. And while behavioral targeting may be the next big thing, it’s already putting AdWords advertisers at risk by costing them money and decreasing their quality score.I’ve opted to use video here to help illustrate the progression and assumptions Google [...]

  YouTube is opening up its new site design to users who want to preview the new YouTube. The main new difference in the new YouTube is the addition of multiple obtrusive dropdown menus, which Garett Rogers of ZDNet points out make him “feel like I stepped back in time to 1999 with the drop down [...]

  Kelvin Newman at Site Visibility has an interesting account of how when he was sending out educational link request mails for a client’s product, the site owners he was contacting were mailing him back, asking how to purchase the product.What I hadn’t anticipated that a lot of the people I was contacting would reply asking [...]

  Google seems to be planning the construction of a new campus in Northern California according to a Google job description for Director Real Estate and Workplace Services (HQ/NorCal) - Mountain View, found by David Dalka.Director Real Estate and Workplace Services (HQ/NorCal) - Mountain ViewThis position is based in Mountain View, CA.The Director of Real [...]