Relegence, a financial news search engine that AOL acquired last year, is finally being put to good use. AOL has just launched a new website that is primarily aimed at investors, which includes real-time streaming of financial and investing news from more than 3,000 sources.The beta version of the site is now publicly available, [...]
AOL and CBS Radio has reached an agreement whereby video contents from AOL’s Truveo will be made available on CBS Radio’s websites. Under the said partnership, Truveo’s video search engine will be integrated into more than 35 CBS Radio stations spanning several different formats and markets across the country.Truveo has a wide selection of [...]
According to a security research firm report issued on Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search are currently under a large-scale organized attack campaign designed to steer online searchers towards malicious malware websites.Chances are, if you do any significant amount of searching, you may even run across some of these dangerous search results. Hundreds [...]
This may be my shortest blog post in a long time, but here’s a quick question :Are you going to Search Engine Strategies Chicago or PubCon 2007 in Vegas?And why?
Creating linkbait, or getting website to link to you on their own, and with Google starting to devalue paid links, it couldn’t be a better time to start utilizing linkbaits. Creating linkbait can be difficult and pushing it through can be even more difficult. This post will go over a few of the [...]
There’s more than one way to get organic search traffic. That’s the message that you should be hearing from your search engine (SEO) optimizer these days. With the advent of Universal Search, the traditional organic search result is getting pushed further and further down the page and this effect will only get more [...]
Working in a library where I am subjected to the random, erratic questions of library patrons, I’m a pretty avid user of Google Maps. From looking up a quick phone number to pulling up directions or an address for someone, it comes in handy and helps me find the information far more quicker than I [...]
Google has taken GPS technology and integrated it into their Google Maps for Mobile offering, even if the cell phone owner does not have GPS on their phone.The My Location feature takes information broadcast from mobile towers near you to approximate your current location on the map - it’s not GPS, but it comes pretty [...]
China, with its population of over 1.3 billion people, is an emerging force in the business world. Just think of all the tainted product recalls coming out of China in the past year, and how many American companies that affected. Everyone who’s anyone is itching to get into business with China and capitalize [...]
Google wants to mobilize pre-university students into its open source development projects. And Google is doing this through the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, whereby any students 13 years and older can participate by in any aspect of open source development at Google’s Summer of Code program.Google’s Summer of Code program has introduced hundreds of [...]