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Yahoo! Inquisitor: Mac Safari browser plugin updates, now faster and multi-lingual
D' Technology Weblog —
... has integrated Inquisitor with BOSS, (Yahoo!’s open search web services platform). Yahoo! also gave Inquisitor a little facelift with a new, refined, yet simple home page and a cleaner user interface of the Inquisitor client.
Finally, they’ve made it available in different languages, including Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.
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Yahoo! Site Explorer redesigned, adds new site stats
D' Technology Weblog —
... roll-outs. The new interface also includes a new Site Summary page to provide statistics for authenticated sites including:
+ Site URL + Number of pages known + Number of pages crawled + Number of host on this domain + Number of inlinks + Number of inlink domains + Number of outlinks + Number of outlink domains
….also the number of rules for Dynamic URL Rewriting has been increased from 3 to 10.
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Fun Weekend at #Gnomedex
LIVEdigitally —
... Some of the presentations were eye-opening, such as Danny Sullivan demonstrating the power of search and the challenges of privacy. I learned a lot of useful camera tips from ...
VideoSurf: Computer vision search engine
D' Technology Weblog —
... and extract all kinds of additional information directly from the video itself. Until I saw the demo, I thought this type of technology was still years away.
VideoSurf was founded by the folks who built one of the first real-time travel information sites, Farechase, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2004. The VideoSurf team applied many of the lessons they learned in working with real-time info in the development of VideoSurf.
VideoSurf
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AOL unveils Truveo Video Search For Mobile (WAP), MapQuest Local
D' Technology Weblog —
... new “start page” (think MyYahoo or MyAOL) for local content. It features drag and drop widgets that can be customized. AOL also sees MapQuest Local as a kind of open platform that will increasingly allow third parties to distribute their locally relevant content to MapQuest’s 48 million monthly users. While there are some conceptually similar things in the works from others, this is a very fresh and compelling approach to local.
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Google adds My Location to Mobile Web Search
D' Technology Weblog —
... My Location will be available in the US and UK. Note that some devices don’t yet support My Location. For this reason, check out help center article for supportred devices listing. To get started, visit google.com from your phone and click on the My Location link under the search box (you may have to refresh the page to see the link).
Watch this video to see how Search with My Location can help save your thumbs!
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Search Engine Rap Battle - Rockumentary
D' Technology Weblog —
Search Engine Rap Battle — rappers go out it, mocking each other, as if they’re Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google vs. MSN, MSN vs. Yahoo and Yahoo vs. Google. Check out the video and vote for the winner at searchenginerapbattle.com.
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Google “Submit Your Content” page updates - Launches Google Content Central Blog
D' Technology Weblog —
... lists the three steps we recommend all content partners take to begin sharing information with us. Alternatively, pick an industry that most accurately describes your organization.
The Content Types page is also a helpful way to see all the types of content that Google accepts and lists. Also check out the tools page for the many ways to be listed or listing tools that are provided by Google.
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Google Toolbar PageRank and Yahoo Search Updates (Rosh Hashanah 5769)
D' Technology Weblog —
... that Yahoo Search is shuffling their search results, several webmasters’ve noticed changes. There is also a DigitalPoint Forums thread discussing a spike in traffic from one webmaster. Yahoo Search Blog yet to confir the update.
Both these updates are called as the “Rosh Hashanah 5769” PageRank Update to celebrate the Jewish New Year, year 5769.
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The Google Diaspora: A Xoogler Universe
D' Technology Weblog —
... Stewart, have started or invested in new companies. The result is a growing class of brilliant, connected, and well-funded entrepreneurs seeking to do what they couldn’t do at their former employer–own and profit from their ideas. In Stewart’s installation, the strands between pods represent a current working relationship while the size of the pod indicates the relative employee size of the new venture.”
Full Article
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Google Maps: Market share on rise, closer to MapQuest
D' Technology Weblog —
... 23.31% of Google Maps’ search traffic was paid compared to 12.19% for MapQuest, reports Heather Hopkins.
In a report issued this week, the boutique investment bank Cowen and Company says Google is the clear leader with the most user-friendly features among the four major mapping sites. “Google Maps has meaningfully expanded its lead in features and functionality over its competitors,” Cowen analysts say in their report.
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AdWords Quality Score adds Geographic Data
D' Technology Weblog —
... it won’t make a difference on the campaign level. Brad hopes Google moves this to a more granular level, i.e. on the campaign level - where many SEMs place their geo-specific targeting options.
Geographic information is not 100% new to Google’s quality score. Google does use it for your page load time score, which is part of the overall quality score. But it was not used outside of that, until now, reports Brad Geddes.
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The new Hakia with “Trusted Results”
D' Technology Weblog —
... to guide searchers.”
[…]hakia introduces a new, focused search experience. For any given query, the first tab – “All Results” – provides a three-column overview of the Web results, including results from hakia Credible Sites, images and news, if available. The advertisements are clearly marked in the far right column. Searchers can now enjoy a clutter free, clearly marked and organized start to find more.[…]
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SEOmoz Indexing Web; Launches Linkscape SEO Tool
D' Technology Weblog —
... of the indexing was to build out a new tool called “Linkscape”. Linkscape gives SEOs “online access to the link data provided by our web index, including ordered, searchable lists of links for sites & pages, and metrics to help judge their value,” said Rand. I hope to play with it more after the SMX East conference, but with a quick trial, it seems pretty comprehensive.
Full Article
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Beware of Google Local Business Center Scam: Claim your local business listing with Google Local Business Center; Before someone else does!
D' Technology Weblog —
... targeted high ranking florists in major markets that had not claimed their business listings in the Google’s Local Business Center so as to be able to benefit from an existing business ranking and reviews. The spammers, using these community edit tools, would change the phone number to another local number, change the location of the business slightly and then proceed to add a category, a new URL and ultimately the change name of the business.
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AdSense Ads under Google Maps
D' Technology Weblog —
... tried few searches in Opera, and Google Chrome but couldn’t get to see any ad. “These’re actually local business ads when there’re local business ads available to show - but written as text ads at the bottom of the page, clicking on the ads below the map take you straight to the advertiser’s website. The screenshot shows how the new ad placement looks on a search in Google Maps for [seattle real estate].
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Google rolls out New Blog Search in China: Google China Blog Search now features “popular stories, clustered hot topics”
D' Technology Weblog —
Earlier this month, Google launched a new “homepage for Google Blog Search” that let you browse the popular stories in the blogosphere. In the launch post, Google promised to launch support for more languages in the coming months. Google has now, rolled out the clustered home page on Google China Blog Search.
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How Google handle Flash Contents? 2009 Google Flash SEO
D' Technology Weblog —
... several case studies, Brian published the results in an article titled 2009 Google Flash SEO.
Here’s a brief summary of Brian’s tests:
Does Google correctly associate Flash content with the right “parent URL”?
Can Flash files accrue PageRank?
How does Googlebot handle #anchors in Flash-based link URLs?
Does Google translate text found in Flash files?
Full Article
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Bill Tancer SEM Keynote “desperately seeking hot photos of Sarah Palin & other search trends”
D' Technology Weblog —
... Tancer, author of the new book “Click: What Search Activity Tells Us About Society,” gave a presentation at SMX East search marketing conference. His keynote is now available online, and can be watch below. Best part: when Bill explains how he altered search behavior relating to “hot photos” of Sarah Palin by writing about it.
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SMX East: What is search spam (search engine spam)? - Video
D' Technology Weblog —
... Spam, Part 3: Link Spam & Paid Links: Overview of issues about link spam and paid links. It also offers specific reinclusion tips for Yahoo. Presented by Sean Suchter of Yahoo. See also:
Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines: What to do — and not to do — directly from Yahoo.
Yahoo! Search URL Status Review Form: How to submit a review of a page you think might be mistakenly blocked.
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Google AdWords Ads with Images - “Show products from” plus box
D' Technology Weblog —
... link ad. For example, try search for bluenile, which brings up a Blue Nile ad. Under the usual ad title and description is a plus symbol (called a Plus Box), followed by the words, “Show products from Blue Nile for bluenile.” If you click on the box, it opens up three product listings from Blue Nile, each listing with an associated image.
Here’s the ad when it is closed and opened:
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proSEO - iPhone SEO Content Analyzer: SEO tool for iPhone
D' Technology Weblog —
... about almost any webpage. The tool was developed so that anyone could quickly determine key “On-the-page”(factors that affect a page’s performance in the SERP’s (Search Engine Ranking Pages). With proSEO, a person can browse to a website using a browser control and selectively analyze the page for it’s features. It cost $14.99 available on iTunes.
More info: proSEO
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Ruth Kedar: The Israeli woman who designed the Google Logo
D' Technology Weblog —
... an Israeli newspaper has an article about Ruth Kedar; the Israeli woman behind the Google logo. Ruth was contracted by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to design the Google Logo. Unfortunately, she did not accept payment in shares of Google stock.
Ruth her own Wikipedia entry, the big question is, how much did the Google logo cost?
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AOL launches Local Event Guide “When.com”
D' Technology Weblog —
AOL launched an online local events guide called “When.com”, powered by Zvents. When.com uses IP targeting to determine default location, but offers personalization when users register. Mapping for events is supplied by AOL’s MapQuest and events can also be bookmarked to AOL, Google, Outlook or Yahoo Calendar.
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Glync Firefox extension: External Link Tracker for Google Webmaster Tools
D' Technology Weblog —
... extension and visit your Google Webmaster Tools account, you will notice that the graph will not yet display on your first day in the external links section. The system will only display the graph after you have at least 2 days recorded. Visit your webmaster tools external links tomorrow and your graphs will all be in place. Anyone can download the extension and it is completely and permanently free.
More info: glync
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Google Veterans Day Logo; now with Coast Guard hat
D' Technology Weblog —
... Air Force, and Marines, but forgot the U.S. Coast Guard “[…]we weren’t trying to represent all of the branches or all of the symbols of military service and, as a result of space and design limitations, we inadvertently left the U.S. Coast Guard out of our depiction.”
To their credit, Google quickly posted a mea culpa and added a Coast Guard hat to their logo. It now sits atop the L. In the old version, the L had no hat.
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Google adds ‘Voice search’ to iPhone via Google iPhone app
D' Technology Weblog —
... “The sound is then converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.
The search results, which may be displayed in just seconds on a fast wireless network, will at times include local information, taking advantage of iPhone features that let it determine its location.”
Full Article
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Activating “Bells and Whistles” on Google Mobile App for iPhone
D' Technology Weblog —
... with Voice Search and My Location, but missed a hidden feature in the App, named “Bells and Whistles.” In fact, no one noticed it, which is why Google blogged about it. To activate the bells and whistles button, you need to go to the “settings” area in the app and then keep on flicking the page up, over and over again, until you see the button show up.
Here is a video demonstrating how to get the button to show up: ...
Google shows experimental “timeline view” in search results
D' Technology Weblog —
... reports that when you make a query [albert einstein] on Google.com, the search results page is now showing “timeline view,” which was previously only available as an opt-in experiment in Google Labs. Clicking the “More timeline results” in the main search results leads to a page with much more historical data about your query that Google says comes from their News Archive search service.
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ASCII art of 9/11 airplane appeared at Google Trends
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A reader over at SEL blog tipped off about an ASCII art of an airplane showing up at Google Trends, representing of an airplane crashing into New York’s former World Trade Center towers on 9/11. The ASCII image is this ? ??. The “Hotness” level is “Volcanic,” which is hottest level Google Hot Trends can see. ...
“Timeframe”: Google new AdWords Budgeting Option
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... gives advertisers a new budgeting method that automatically adjusts the daily budget based on your traffic to reach a set dollar budget as per the calendar month. For example, with daily budget, you might not use up the whole day’s budget and what is not used, is never used. But with the monthly budget, Google would automatically adjust your daily budget based on the unused monthly budget limit - which would then help you use your whole budget.
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What's right with Search Engine Optimization
Boing Boing —
... a blog in addition to a main site? That has an impact. Has she considered some unusual, creative ways to create content around real estate in her area, perhaps some catchy link bait, which may pull in the links she needs to rank better (which, by the way, is a recommended Google practice).
Does she have a local office? If so, has she claimed her listing in Google Local? If so, has she updated her title to reflect that perhaps she has "newport beach homes for sale?"
An Open Letter To Derek Powazek On The ...
What's not wrong with Search Engine Optimization
Boing Boing —
... a blog in addition to a main site? That has an impact. Has she considered some unusual, creative ways to create content around real estate in her area, perhaps some catchy link bait, which may pull in the links she needs to rank better (which, by the way, is a recommended Google practice).
Does she have a local office? If so, has she claimed her listing in Google Local? If so, has she updated her title to reflect that perhaps she has "newport beach homes for sale?"
An Open Letter To Derek Powazek On The ...
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