Flickr has tapped Picnik’s online photo editing application to let Flickr users edit, well their Flickr photos right into the Flickr accounts. This is a great feature that is long time coming for Flickr. And it was a wise decision to just let in a party developer into the Flickr interface to introduce the online [...]
Finally Google is giving Gmail a much needed attention by way of feature upgrades. First we saw the group chat function and some spanking new emoticons getting into Gmail chat. Then Gmail labels got color coded for better mail management and organization.And now, Gmail is letting us sign into our AIM account and chat with [...]
To be successful with your search engine marketing efforts, you will need to perform keyword research. Too often though, keyword research becomes this monotonous routine that we simply fall into — and before we know it, we blindly arrive at results that we simply assume we can trust.These results can and often will apply [...]
It was revealed today that AOL will discontinue their pay-for-download video service, and instead move their content over to Amazon’s Unbox service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Amazon did indicate that they will share revenue with AOL.AOL’s original pay-for-download service was launched in October 2006, and Amazon Unbox was launched just [...]
Following closely on the heels of Yahoo’s release of their 2007 Top Trends in Search is Ask.com, who today have released their “Real Deal” List of Top Searches for 2007. Unlike Yahoo, who stuck mostly to listing the top searches within specific categories or topics, Ask.com issued a straight-up, top 10 list of the [...]
If you’ve noticed over the past week, there’s been a new face on Search Engine Journal covering the search engine news. I’m happy to announce that we’ve taken on Julie Kent as our Search Engine News Anchor at Search Engine Journal to cover the day to day happenings in search outside of the SEO and [...]
Not to be confused with Google Zeitgeist’s year-end top searches, which has yet to be released, Google revealed today a list of the “fast rising U.S. search terms” for 2007. Marissa Mayer, VP of Search & User Experience at Google, made an appearance Tuesday morning at NBC’s “Today Show”, where she revealed, not surprisingly, [...]
NoFoodHere is a search engine developed by Jordan Bayliss-McCulloch, an Engineering student at the University of Melbourne. The engine culls results from Yahoo but presents them in a uniquely tabbed interface with a single page scrollable list of results. As the user moves down the list, more results are generated in real time.Now, tabbed searching [...]
Microsoft today announced three new features for its adCenter program and Live Search. Actually the one for Live Search is already old news, the Webmaster Center. While the new tool for the adCenter is fairly a new feature. And the other a Google Advertising Professionals Program copycat?Microsoft adExcellenceAs I said, this similar to the Google [...]
The year is quickly winding down, which in the world of search means that it’s time to review the year’s overall trends. On Monday Yahoo became the first search engine of the year to release their report on the Top Trends in Search, as told through the billions of searches in 2007 at Yahoo! [...]
