Google News

Revealing The Sources Of Google News

American journalists and news reporters never reveal their sources. Google News follows suit, nowhere providing a list of the more than 4,500 English language news sources it claims to track. However, Henk van Ess, an investigative journalist from the Netherlands, offers a service that reveals the names of 1,256 news sources used by Google News […]

Content

Google’s YouTube Signs Major Deal With EMI Group

YouTube signs broad licensing pact with EMI from Reuters reports that Google has struck a major deal with EMI Group. EMI Group, one of the world’s leading global music companies, will allow YouTube users to not only watch EMI’s videos and music but also create user generated content around the videos. “With this deal, all […]

Link building

100,000,000 Ways To Invest In SEO

There are over 200 signals analyzed by search engines, creating an endless combination of tactics and strategies that can be employed to achieve exposure, rankings, and—by far the most important—conversions. To successfully deploy these tactics and strategies, however, requires a tremendous investment of time. To say that SEO is a full time job is a […]

Google

Searcher Behavior In China

Attendees of Search Engine Strategies conferences in North America and Europe know that the searcher behavior panel has grown into one of the most popular sessions of the show. No surprise why: sophisticated search marketers have mostly mastered the tactical aspects of their craft, and in looking for a competitive edge turn to one of […]

SEO

You Can’t Fake Real Content

If you read SEO articles and forums, you’ve surely read over and over again how important “good content” is for your SEO efforts. You’ve heard how you need to write lots of informative articles about whatever it is you offer. Some SEO types even say to write an article a month or a week or […]

Ecommerce

Google Checkout Now Supports Mobile Devices

The Google Checkout Blog announced that they now support Google Checkout over mobile devices and mobile enabled sites. The only difference, for a buyer, is when checking out over Google Checkout mobile is that they verify themselves with a PIN as opposed to their Google account login (i.e. email and password).

SEO

Mark Stockford, Ask.com New Senior VP Of Operations

Ask.com has appointed Mark Stockford as the new senior vice president of operations today. Stockford will be responsible for the planning and operations of technology and engineering departments at Ask.com as well as all of Ask.com’s data center operations. Stockford previously held employment at eBay, PayPal and Excite@Home. Chuck Geiger, executive cp of technology and […]

Google

Google Buys Panoramio, Photo Mapping Software

Google announced last night the acquisition of Panoramio to help continue to complete the Google Earth application. Eduardo Manchón of Panoramio said he “couldn’t imagine a better scenario than selling Panoramio to Google.” He adds that the acquisition will enable them to work on “a better infrastructure to improve the reliability of Panoramio, more frequent […]

Paid social

eBay Buys StumbleUpon

As expected, eBay has purchased StumbleUpon for about $75 million. “StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust,” said Michael Buhr, senior director, eBay. “StumbleUpon’s downloadable toolbar provides an engaging and unique experience to its users, but it is the similarities in our approaches […]

Google

Google Gears Brings Offline Web Applications To Life

Today at Google Developer Day 2007, Google released Google Gears. Google Gears is a browser extension that will help developers create offline web applications in the open source framework. Gears is powered by JavaScript APIs enabling data storage, application caching, and multi-threading technologies for offline browsing and application use. Google Reader is the first online […]

Google News

Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results

Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early "Alpha" test release. In Mahalo, human editors have crafted the top search results for popular queries. For example, search for [paris hotels], and human editors at Mahalo have assembled a page that lists actual hotels in Paris rather […]

Apple

Google Mapping Announcements Revisited

Yesterday I discovered Google’s new “Street View” by chance, looking for directions, and blogged it, before it was officially announced and before I’d had a chance to talk to anyone at Google. At Where 2.0 yesterday I spoke to John Hanke, Google Maps GM, after the official announcement about Street View and some of the […]

SEO

Yahoo’s CTO, Farzad Nazem, Resigns

Yahoo! Tech Chief Checks Out from The Street reports that Yahoo’s Chief Technical Officer, Farzad Nazem is leaving Yahoo by June 8th. In a SEC filing posted today, a separation agreement declared Mr. Nazem will be receive a “lump-sum payment as of the Separation Date equal to” Nazem’s base salary. In addition, his outstanding stock […]

Paid social

How To Leverage The New Facebook Platform

The big news in social media last week was when Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Platform, which opens their API to allow third parties to build applications within Facebook. This means that companies now have instant access to Facebook’s twenty-four million members. And, even better, applications developed for the Facebook Platform can serve their […]

SEO

13 Tips For Getting Page One Search Rankings

How do you get what you want on page one for your brand phrases? When facing negative content at the top of the SERPs, it’s a challenge many companies want to conquer very quickly. The good news is that it is doable; it’s just that not many people talk about how to do it. If […]

Content

A New Place To Face-to-Face: B2B Social Networking

I recently saw a study by the market research firm, Keller Fay Group which was sponsored by experiential marketing agency Jack Morton Worldwide that concluded that word of mouth is the #1 influence on business purchase decisions and is best leveraged through face-to-face marketing efforts. The study’s conclusion was based on the fact that 50% […]

SEO

Only 30 Tickets Left For SMX Advanced!

Just a quick heads-up — we’ve only got about 30 tickets left for our SMX Advanced conference happening in Seattle next Monday and Tuesday. If you’ve been thinking of going, get your conference pass as soon as possible. When we sell out, we’re sold out. You’ll find the conference agenda here and registration info here.

Content

Wikipedia Asks For Help Editing The SEO Article

A popular Wikipedia editor Jehochman has requested that several respected SEOs contribute their time to editing the SEO wikipedia page. As you can see on the discussion page Jehochman said on May 16th, “I’ve invited half a dozen editors who have experience with this topic to evaluate the references.” While some SEOs are helping with […]

PPC

Yahoo Europe Launches Panama Search Marketing Platform

Yahoo To Launch Panama PPC System In The UK “Soon” from yesterday is no longer “soon,” it is now. Some European advertisers have already been upgraded to “Panama,” Yahoo’s new search marketing platform that was released in the U.S. back in October. An official email was sent out to advertisers today, notifying them that they […]

Google

Google In Video Ad Deal With China.com

China.com signs ad pacts with Google, China Mobile from Reuters reports that Google signed a deal with China Mobile to provide video ads for China.com. In addition, Google has been powering China.com’s search engine since 2006.

Google

Google’s New ‘Animated’ Home Page In Korea

Google has launched a new home page for Korea that departs from Google’s “classic,” minimalist home page approach. The new look features animated product buttons below the search box and will become the default home page in the country, a move Google is comfortable with given the near universal presence of broadband.

SEO

Report From The Field: Search Engine Strategies China

SES China is always a fascinating experience. Although the content is similar to other SES shows around the world, there are notable differences ranging from unique perspectives on the Chinese and Asian markets to a variable “schedule” that seems to work fine for locals but is guaranteed to drive anyone from a western culture accustomed […]

Local

Google Launches “Street View” Photography

There was no official post or announcement that I was able to find, but I stumbled upon the launch of Google’s new “Street View” imagery (screen shots below). Clicking the “Street View” button (upper right) outlines blue streets for which Google has photography. You can then drag a “person” icon to the street you want […]

Google

Google Images Quietly Adds Face Filter

Google Operating System reports that Google has added the ability to restrict your Google Image search by faces. To do so, just append “&imgtype=face” after your search string. For example, a search on paris returns results of Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower, Paris Hilton and others. A search on paris but with “&imgtype=face” appended to […]

PPC

Yahoo To Launch Panama PPC System In The UK “Soon”

I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Yahoo will be launching Panama, their new search marketing system, in the UK very soon. The PPC Blog has a copy of the email sent to Yahoo advertisers in the UK. The email notifies advertisers that their new “Sponsored Search system will be rolled out in the […]

SEO

Loki 2.0 And The ‘Geo-Web’

In another Where 2.0 related announcement — they just keep coming this morning — Skyhook Wireless has released toolbar/platform Loki 2.0. Loki is kind of like the Firefox of local search. Once downloaded, it determines your location through wifi triangulation and removes the need to enter location when performing a local search.

Google

Google Acquires Security Company, GreenBorder

Googlified reports that Google has acquired GreenBorder Technologies, an online security company, on May 11, 2007. Ionut adds that GreenBorder protects against virus, spyware, and trojan threats by watching the Internet session from the rest of the PC and earlier Internet sessions. If GreenBorder protects an application, the application would be highlighted in green. It […]

Local

MapQuest Introduces New ActionScript API For Richer Maps

In the second mapping-related announcement of the morning, MapQuest has introduced a new, Adobe ActionScript API for third party developers to build on. The bottom line is that this new platform will apparently enable richer and more complex mapping applications and mashups. Here’s a sample, mocked up for the announcement: golf course finder (see the […]

Google

Microsoft Virtual Earth Expands 3-D Coverage To Include New York

When Microsoft debuted Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth in 3-D last November there were many “oohs” and “aahs” but there was also the question: “Where’s New York?” It was not among the original 3-D cities that the Virtual Earth team rolled out. Now that omission has been rectified with the launch this morning of New York […]

SEO

More Maps Announcements Coming This Week

The conference Where 2.0 begins tomorrow in San Jose, California. It’s about mapping, mashups and location-based services and there should be a range of interesting announcements from companies large and small. To that end, Garrett Rogers speculates, based on domain name registrations, that Google will be announcing a “street view” mapping capability at the show. […]

Content

YouTube Tests New Video Player

Screenshots of YouTube’s New Player from Google Operating System shows a new YouTube player being tested to “improve the way you interact with videos and will create a cinematic experience” says Ionut Alex. Chitu.

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