Yahoo and Microsoft announced a search deal. Bing (from Microsoft) becomes search engine behind Yahoo. Yahoo gets the ad revenue share and saves money not having to build search. Microsoft gets Yahoo search traffic. With the announcement, Yahoo goes back to being a Portal Company. The deal is the biggest development in Search Arena in years. Read More »
It seems Google has removed publicized “Enhance 404 Pages” Widget from Google Webmaster Tools account. Read More »
As the name says, Google Blog Search is a tool to search blogosphere. Blog Search was initially launched as just a basic tool to search blogs and has evolved overtime to include categories and stories on Homepage and added more features later. With all the improved features, Google Blog Search is a tool to be used more frequently if you wish to follow Blog world. Read More »
Bing recently replaced Live Search. Bing is much better version of Live Search and got really good response from community. Read More »
It has been approximately one year, Yahoo started providing free real time quotes. Google quickly followed. But Yahoo still keep asking users to sign up for paid service to provide Real time quotes. Read More »
XML-Sitemap plugin automatically generates sitemap for submission to Search Engines. Generated Sitemap supports Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com. Read More »
It could be confusing to change settings in Hostmoster to use Gmail as email host rather than Hostmonster. You need to verify domain ownership with Google and change MX record to point it to Google. Read More »
Google finance has been down all morning today. The website is down with 502 server error. Read More »
Adsense is down today. This is a scheduled maintenance that was reported yesterday evening on AdSense Blog. Even though it is good to know that AdSense is down due to scheduled maintenance, the notice is hardly enough. Read More »
Googlepedia is a Firefox add-on that will display a relevant article from Wikipedia along side Google search results. This is a really useful extension if you like to read Wikipedia overview of the topic while searching or like to see Google search results for the Wikipedia internal links.
Here are key features of the extension Read More »
After few days of launching Knol, Google is being criticized for artificially increasing ranking of Knol articles. I decided to take a look at Yahoo ranking for these keywords.
There are few examples shared. Search Engine Land test picked 30 knols from homepage and 10 out of these showed up on first page. Let’s compare these on Yahoo. I am going to check Google again as Search rankings in Google might have changed since the time, article was written. Read More »
Cuil, a New Search Engine, launched today claiming to be better and more comprehensive than Google. Cuil is taking a different and refreshing approach to search. Search results are displayed in columns with more summaries of search results (downside being fewer results per page). Related searches are shown in tabs. Categories are also shown to fine tune results. Cuil has arguably found a way to index web for lower cost and that way they can index more pages faster than current search engines. Read More »
There have been some discussions in blogsphere about Google trying to compete with Content producers. Knol is Google’s online article publishing service. Anybody can write article for free and earn ad revenue. Knol was recently opened for everybody after being announced last year. Many blogs have reacted strongly (Recently Problogger, Journalistopia, and earlier on Tech Crunch, Search Engine Land), on Google becoming a direct competitor to publishing partners. Is Knol in direct competition with Blogs and Media companies and is it fair? Read More »
Google opened Knol to everybody after announcing it last year. Knol is another free web publishing tool in which author can earn ad money. Main point Google is trying to stress here is focus on authors. Moderated collaboration is allowed and encouraged.
Most Blogs (TC, SEL) are comparing Knol with Wikipedia because of collaboration features. Knol is more like Squidoo or Hubpages. Read More »
Google extended search capabilities to video with speech to text. Now we can search not only title or description of videos, but spoken content also. This is limited to only few 2008 US election videos in Youtube at this time and will be extended. Using Speech to text capabilities, audio part of the video is converted into text and indexed. Read More »
Google launched Browser based 3D virtual world product for online chat and interactions – Lively. Anybody can access Lively using Google account. The product currently works on Windows XP/Vista and Internet Explorer/Firefox browser. More platforms will be added later. Read More »
With Firefox 3, you can use your favorite web mail application (such as Yahoo mail) to launch mailto links. Earlier only desktop programs such as MS Office Outlook could be used with mailto links. Prior to Firefox3, To use web-based mail application either toolbar (such as Google toolbar for gmail) or complicated scripts were required. Read More »
In this video Matt Cutts offer 5 quick SEO tips to rank high in Google. These are mostly commonsense tips. But will help understand basics of Search Engine Optimization. Read More »
Google Trends for website unleashes Google database of web traffic for everybody. You can see and compare traffic details for different websites. Data is then broken down by Countries. Read More »
Google added Free NYSE real time stock quotes to Finance Portal. Earlier Free real time NASDAQ quotes were launched. Read More »
There is one area where Yahoo is simply outstanding and way ahead of competition, Yahoo Finance Portal. 2 weeks have passed since Google launched Free real time quotes. But NYSE stocks still shows delayed quotes in Google while Yahoo provides real time quotes (example GE). Read More »
Google Trends is Web tool that allows everybody to access Google Search database to decipher and compare popular search term.
Here are the key things you can do with Google Trends Read More »
Custom Search Engine (CSE) is the core technology for the entire Google’s customized search initiatives. This technology is used with some modifications in Google Site Search and Google Adsense for Search and will probably be used for any new initiatives Google undertakes in Customized search area. Read More »
You have created a wonderful sticky site and have worked really hard to make sure customers and users can navigate thru the site to find information and products they are looking for. But users prefer search to find information. Consider adding Google Site Search (previously called Custom Search Business Edition) to help your users find information they are looking for quickly and easily. Read More »
