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Google Blog Search Becomes Content Aggregator
Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation. More »
Posted on October 6th, 2008 in Blogs, Social Media, Google.
Google Starts Indexing Audio Content
With the manifold increase that audio and video have recently gained on the Internet, it is becoming extremely difficult for users to find exactly whatever it is that they are looking for. In order to make the task simpler, Google has launched a speech recognition tool that enables searching within audio and video files. More »
Posted on September 19th, 2008 in Video.
Google Showing 2 Videos On Single Listing
Google seems to be capitalising on its results pages real estate by now showing two video listings side-by-side in the space normally occupied by a single search result. More »
Posted on September 13th, 2008 in Google, Video.
Google Launches MP3 Search In China
A post on the Music 2.0 blog mentions that Google has launched a legal MP3 (music) search service in China under the URL www.google.cn/music. More »
Posted on August 11th, 2008 in Multilingual, Google.
YouTube Gets Geographical Search
YouTube the world’s most popular video sharing site, will soon offer its viewers the ability to locate the local videos that they are interested in via a geographical search function. More »
Posted on July 16th, 2008 in Video.
Google Remains Undisputed Market Leader
A report released by comScore, this weeks found flthat Google has retained its position as the leader among search engines in the UK. More »
Posted on June 10th, 2008 in SEO, Search.
Social Search Launches On Microsoft Live
Microsoft has just launched a new service called Search Together, which will be a free service allowing groups of people to work on Web searches in conjunction with each other. More »
Posted on June 9th, 2008 in Technology, Search.
Search And Give To Charity Through Microsoft
Last year, Microsoft launched a programme through which money would be donated to certain charities for every search conducted through their search engine. The project was a great success, in that over $250,000 were donated to over 20,000 charitable organizations. More »
Posted on June 6th, 2008 in SEO, Search, SEM.
Microsoft Reopens Talks With Yahoo!
On Sunday 18 May 2008, two weeks after withdrawal of its offer to Yahoo!, Microsoft has issued a statement, regarding its continued efforts to improve their online services and advertising business. More »
Posted on May 20th, 2008 in AccuraCast.
Buzz Overkill From Yahoo!
Does the world really need yet another Digg clone? Yahoo! seems to think so. They have launched Buzz, yet another social news site where the most popular stories are determined by user votes. More »
Posted on February 27th, 2008 in Blogs, Social Media, News.
Yahoo! To Downsize Employees And Egos
No one’s favourite search engine, Yahoo! announced its third quarter results on Wednesday, along with official notice that they will be laying off 1,000 employees. The road ahead is definitely rocky for the once-darling of the Internet economy. More »
Posted on January 30th, 2008 in SEO, PPC, Search.
Forecasting The Growth Of Mobile Advertising
Forecasts about the growth of the mobile advertising market vary wildly from month to month and from one analyst to another. In an attempt to add some clarity to this confusion, Advertiser Perceptions have carried out a survey of marketers and media buyers to generate insight into their advertising plans for the near future. More »
Posted on January 28th, 2008 in Mobile.
Del.icio.us Flavours Yahoo! Search Results
Yahoo! has just started testing the efficacy of integrating bookmarks and tags generated by its subsidiary, del.icio.us in the organic listings on search results pages. More »
Posted on January 24th, 2008 in SEO, Social Media.
Nielsen Mobile Reports Questionable Mobile Search Statistics
The mobile web still has a long way to go before it can become a mainstay of search marketing. According to the latest report by Nielsen Mobile, the number of users of mobile search has increased to 46.1 million in the last quarter of 2007. More »
Posted on January 21st, 2008 in Mobile.
3 Biggest Advertiser Mistakes On Yahoo! Search Marketing
A recent post on the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog brought up quite an interesting set of points that apply to search engine advertisers across the board, irrespective of the platform they advertise on. The three common mistakes to avoid, provided by veteran search marketer, Mike Moran, for entrepreneurs new to the field of search marketing are: More »
Posted on January 15th, 2008 in PPC.
Microsoft Bid to Acquire Fast Search and Transfer
It looks as though Microsoft is bent on proving at least some of Steve Ballmer’s predictions for the future to be true. They have recently made an offer to buy Norwegian company Fast Search and Transfer. More »
Posted on January 9th, 2008 in SEO.
Online Marketing Predictions For 2008
We have looked at some of the leading tech blogs and heard what search marketing professionals had to say on popular forums. Based on the collective brain power of all the professionals and contributors at ReadWriteWeb, ValleyWag, TechCrunch, SearchEngineWatch and WebProWorld we have compiled a list of our favourite predictions for 2008: More »
Posted on January 7th, 2008 in Mobile, Social Media, Internet, Search.
Microsoft Study: Search Marketing For Small Business
400 small and medium businesses in the UK were questioned about how they embraced PPC and online advertising, as part of a research project commissioned by Microsoft. The study revealed some interesting misconceptions and barriers to entry among SMEs in the UK. More »
Posted on November 13th, 2007 in PPC.
Matt Cutts Confirms Fall In PageRank Due To Link Selling
Google’s Webspam team leader, Matt Cutts, has just confirmed that the recent PageRank update has targeted websites that sell links without using the “nofollow” tag, in order to help other websites increase their inbound link counts on the Google search index. More »
Posted on October 30th, 2007 in SEO, Google.
iGoogle Being Promoted Forecfully
Some visitors to iGoogle were greeted with a slightly altered interface today. The new interface grayed-out the default iGoogle interface and pushed it into a background. The foreground consisted of a layer forcing users to create their personalised Google homepage. More »
Posted on October 24th, 2007 in Google.
