The recent PageRankâ„¢ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more or less far-fetched speculations about what this could mean. There is in my opinion no need to panic just yet, but it also does not mean that you should do [...]

  With all of the announcements of adCenter upgrades, enhancements to their search engine, local maps search changes, buying equity in a major social network and new webmaster services being launched by Microsoft, the company is beginning to look more and more like Google; it what is a major push by Microsoft to establish as [...]

  So, did you think Google would weep over its lose to Microsoft on purchasing a share of the social giant Facebook or come up with its own grand plan? But of course! It’s Google! TechCrunch reports, “Maka-Maka encompasses Google’s grand plan to build a social layer across all of its applications. Some details about Maka-Maka [...]

  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 [...]

  Microsoft’s Pay-Per-Click advertising program, adCenter introduced three new features to aid advertisers better manage their ad placements on Microsoft’s search advertising program. The adCenter blog categorizes these new features into three namely:Immediate editorial feedback – to save advertisers’ [...]

  For awhile I thought AdBrite had already folded up until I read from News.com that it is opening advertising opportunities for Facebook Apps developer and giving AdBrite advertisers a new avenue to place their advertisements on. I use to run AdBrite in my personal blog, but low CTR and revenue generated prompted me to take [...]

  Microsoft is really serious on gaining a good ground in the web search arena. New features after new features are being slowly carried out by Live Search. The most recent of which are ten new features of its Live Search Maps.The Live Search blog enumerated these 10 new features and in brief here are [...]

  Now, you can get your daily Google News fix right into your iGoogle home page. Google has just made it possible to add the iGoogle News gadget right smack into the middle of your iGoogle. The iGoogle News gadget lets you display your Google News in a small screen format with headlines, snippets and thumbnail [...]

  Yahoo stock has climbed 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 [...]

  For those who have stopped using Yahoo Messenger for instant messaging purpose and have shifted to GTalk this post may not interest you. But for those who remained loyal to the once most popular Yahoo Messenger (or is still popular right now?) you would be glad to know that Yahoo has just launched the beta [...]