Digg Dumps Google Ads for MSN
Social networking site Digg has dropped Google Ads on its site for rival Microsoft AdCenter. The details of the deal were not disclosed as both companies declined to comment. Digg is MS AdCenter’s...
View ArticleJimbo’s Wikia Takes on Google
A few months ago I wrote about building my very own Google using the open source software that is Nutch. I actually did it but had to remove it from my server because the crawling sessions occupied...
View ArticleGoogle Moon
Google has launched Google Moon in honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, They’ve also added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to make it even more...
View ArticleYouTube’s New In-Video Ad Format
Google announced today that it will be launching a new “in-video” ad format on its sister site YouTube. The new ad format is supposed to be 10 times more effective than the existing ad formats. The...
View ArticleYahoo! Buys Blue Lithium
Just in… Yahoo! has acquired Blue Lithium, a San Jose, California-based company with 100 employees. The price tag for the purchase… a whopping 300 million dollars! (thats £149.4 million). The purchase...
View ArticleBebo & Yahoo! announce strategic partnership
Yahoo! and Bebo, the UK’s largest social network, have forged an exclusive strategic partnership. As a result, Yahoo! will sell the majority of Bebo’s display advertising in the UK and Ireland. This...
View ArticleIran Blocks Google Access
Iran has decided to block access to Google search and Gmail service. This is supposedly part of a “clampdown on material deemed to be offensive” as reported by the Mehr news agency. Hamid Shahriari,...
View ArticleSergey Brin talks about the Google-NASA Partnership
Sergey Brin is questioned about the NASA-Google partnership. He answers questions, delves into topics such as A.I. and even discusses Keyhole – which was backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s front operation....
View ArticleGoogle Acquires Zingku
Google unofficially announce it has acquired Zingku, a mobile social networking and communication platform. this is according to the unofficial Google Operating System blog. The Zingku service allows...
View ArticleProject “Google Body”– Indexing the Human Body
Google has announced that it is well underway in its plan to index the Human body. This news was announced by Google VP of Product Development Eric Hind who commented: “We’re happy now to extend...
View ArticleASK Launches the Ask Eraser Privacy Tool
In response to Google’s promise to only keep search records for 12-18 months, asked has announced that it will allow its users to completely erase their search activity from the search engines within...
View ArticleGoogle’s Universal Search Extends to Blogs
Back in June I posted about SEO for Universal Search and how the future of search results will, in some form or another include images, videos, maps, news, books and now blog posts! Yes, it is...
View ArticleMSN to Buy FAST Enterprise Search
MSN has announced that it will buy the FAST “Enterprise” Search engine for $1.2 dollars. Fast is a Norwegian enterprise search company focusing on providing tailored search software and solutions to...
View ArticleBarbarians at Yahoo’s “Gates”
Unless your head’s been in the sand for the past week, you’ve probably heard by now that Microsoft has made an unsolicited offer to buy out Yahoo for $45 Billion. You’ve also probably heard that...
View ArticleMSN Abandons Yahoo Bid
After a few months of wrangling, MSN has now officially abandoned its efforts in bidding for Yahoo. Yahoo shareholders are now bracing themselves for a share slump as a direct result of this news....
View ArticleNews Flash – Adobe’s Product More Search Friendly
Adobe recently announced it is has developed its Flash technology to enable search engine spiders to read the content within it. In the past, search engines like Google were able to pick out links...
View ArticleNew Engines on the Search Block
Over the past few months, two new search engines have been creeping their way into the limelight; Cuil and Wikia Search. Quil (pron: Cool) was started by ex-Google engineers who now claim they have an...
View ArticleGoogle Search Wiki
On Thursday, Google officially launched its much anticipated “Search Wiki” application found within its personalised Google search accounts. This move was hardly a surprise especially as Google’s been...
View ArticleSearch Engines Agree on Canonical Tag
An agreement was struck yesterday by the three main search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) on the adoption of a new tag to tackle canonicalisation in the SERPs.Canonicalisation is the challenge of...
View ArticleReal Time Search – The Twitter Model
Think back, way back. Remember when Alta Vista was senonomous with search? How time flies. Google came along and re-defined what search means and the rest is history, or is it? Is Twitter the next...
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