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• Google Insights For Search, for advertisers and marketers

  Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

  Google launched a new product very useful for advertisers and marketers. It include a world heat map for the search volume and regional interest, the evolution for a specific search term and the top related and rising searches.
  With Google Insights For Search, it is possible to compare search volume trends across multiple [...]

• Obsolete results from Cuil

  Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

  I cannot explain to myself how that, if Cuil was launched some days ago, it shows results from web sites that are dead for more than a year ago.
  I just started a search for a very known keyword for me and I discovered that almost all of the results are links to web [...]

• Cuil, the new search engine

  Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

  Anna Patterson, the ex Google employer and one with a very important contribution in the development of the main search engine, decided to start a new search engine, which would provide better and more attractive results. She left Google and now she works with other prominent ex-Google employees, like Russell Power, [...]

• Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
  Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...]

• Twitter has acquired Summize

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  Twitter purchased Summize these days, in order to improve the search of the Twitter network, for relevant topics.
  Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts, ranging up to 140 characters long, via SMS, mobile, or Twitter’s web [...]

• Yahoo spurns Microsoft last offer

  Monday, July 14th, 2008

  Like I said in a previous post, the strategy of a big company like Microsoft to buy a big company like Yahoo!, cannot be based on a simple offer only. It takes into consideration multiple denies of the targeted company, and it can be foresee for several years, even 10 years, if [...]

• Google Ranking explained

  Saturday, July 12th, 2008

  Google PageRank is based primarely on the “votes” submitted by other web sites under the form of the links. It uses a complex algorithm to assign values, in order to measure the relative importance for every hyperlinked element.
  An interesting article was posted on Google Blog by Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow [...]

• Google Health and Search Factory Tour

  Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

  Google shows the latest research in various search-related fields and announced the official debut of Google Health.
  R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the amazing advances Google made in image search, as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. “There are over 300 [...]

• One more try for Microsoft to buy Yahoo

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  As I said in a previous post when everyone considered Microsoft gave up, it lost a battle, but not the war. Such a transaction is not a simple business deal, to make an offer and wait for an answer. It implies a very complex strategy over several years. So, a first [...]

• Yahoo! vs. Carl Icahn

  Saturday, May 17th, 2008

  A new move of Yahoo!’s board: a letter in response to Carl Icahn’s announcement regarding his intention to nominate a slate of ten directors to Yahoo!’s board of directors at the 2008 annual meeting of stockholders:
  Dear Mr. Icahn:
  We are in receipt of your letter with regard to your intention to seek [...]

• Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
  Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...]

• Dreamhost and the full power of the registrars

  Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

  So, let’s see shortly the problem for the readers that did not see my previous post:
  New Dream Network, LLC is a ICANN accredited registrar and, same time, a web hosting company.
  When I bought 5 web hosting packages from them, I registered with them 5 new domain names, the registration [...]

• The big known surprise: Microsoft buys Yahoo!

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  So, the decisive step is done: Microsoft Corp. has made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in order to better compete with Google Inc. If Yahoo! agree, it will be the problem of the U.S. Justice Department to check if this deal complies with the antitrust [...]

• Google wants to stop domain tasting/kiting

  Sunday, January 27th, 2008

  As of Feb. 11, Google will penalize domain tasting and kiting, by blocking Google AdSense for domain names, stopping all domain tasting in its tracks for domain names that are less then five days old.
  According to Domain Tools, there are partners that Google had that generated as [...]

• Google, iPhone, and mobile market

  Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

  It’s done! After iPhone was the most searched keyword in Google search for the last year 2007, now, the iPhone become the best user of the Google search engine. Never said in this blog so big words, but in my opinion this partnership is the beginning of a new revolution in Internet [...]

• Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

  Monday, January 14th, 2008

  Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks.
  As specified by MandarinMusing.com:
  Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

  iPhone: a [...]

• Yahoo.is for sale

  Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

  YAHOO.IS
  The domain name yahoo.is is for sale on eBay. The minimum offer is US $100,000.00. The end time is Jan-13-08 17:09:05 PST. There was no bidder yet.

  In accordance with Softpedia, quoted also on the eBay auction for the domain name, Yahoo! will open a new office in Iceland. The Prime Minister [...]

• Domain tasting and ICANN’s Report

  Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

  ICANN just releases a report on the domain tasting, known also as domain kiting, where the registrants use the five-day “grace-period” at the beginning os a GTLD (generic top-level domain) to test it. If the domain is a success, it is kept by the registrant. These are usually previously used and [...]

• To index or not to index the feeds

  Friday, January 4th, 2008

  Finally, Google decided on the indexing of the feeds. The policy is now to index the multimedia podcast feeds only, as no HTML page has the same content or they have more complete item descriptions than the associated HTML page.
  There are two main reasons to exclude the common feeds from the [...]

• Recognizing text in images, patent by Google

  Friday, January 4th, 2008

  Time for patents. After Microsoft with the “Wish list“, now it’s time for Google to have published its patent, “Recognizing text in images”. The patent was filed by Google with the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2007 and published on Thursday.
  The abstract of the patent describes it as “Methods, [...]

• Wikia Search, the new search engine powered by MediaWiki

  Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

  Next week will be officially launched Wikia Search, powered by the free software MediaWiki and managed by Wikia Inc., with about 50 million to 100 million Web pages indexed.
  Wikia Search will have open-source search algorithms and application program interfaces, and will include the Grub search project, acquired by Wikia in July 2007.
  Jimmy Wale, [...]

• New Google tools for webmasters: Video Sitemaps

  Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

  Google Video team joined the Sitemaps to introduce Video Sitemaps, allowing an XML submission of video assets for your site. This new tool will ease your self-hosted videos to compete with the big sites, like YouTube, when someone use Google Video Search. Your video may also appear in other Google search [...]

• New features in Google Webmaster Tools for SEO

  Sunday, December 16th, 2007

  Google helps the webmasters by introducing two new features in Google Webmaster Tools: Content analysis and Sitemap details. Some errors reported by Google are due, in fact, to problems in their crawling, but these are minor errors of the new tools.
  Content analysis
  It contains feedback about issues for visitors, or for [...]