In honor of their birthday Google has released a search engine that provides results from 2001. The search engine looks and feels like Google from 2001, note the bubble logo to the right, that look was all the rage back then. I know I created some crappy logos based on that look. Heck, Apple based […]
Search Industry Update SES San Jose 2008
First panel today for me is the Search Industry Update panel moderated by Sandeep Aggarwal of Collins-Stewart with Sean Walsh of LuxuryLink.com, Heather Dougherty of HitWise, Kevin Lee of Didit and Jaldeep Singh of Spock.com Sean Walsh is speaking about using Google Insights to explain search volume for the keyword ‘vacation‘ and how search […]
Cuil Search Engine Launched
There is a new search engine in town – Cuil (pronounced "Cool") was officially launched yesterday by three former engineers from Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Cuil claims to have more than 120 billion pages in the index that is "three times as many as Google" How does Cuil rank search results?Cuil’s […]
Yahoo! Introduces BOSS – Build Your Own Search
In positive Yahoo! news the hottest search commodity has announced it’s BOSS(Build Your Own Search) platform that will help ‘developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies… …build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index’ Yahoo!, recognizing the extreme talent base of its web users, is opening the doors in an effort […]
Technorati Launches New Blog Ad Network – Yay!
Technorati is finally throwing their hats into the ring of Blog Ad Servers and at first glance that makes us very happy. Their new service is called Technorati Media What is Technorati? Technorati is the ‘leading blog search and destination designed to showcase and bring consumers to blog content…’ Basically Technorati is to blogs as […]
The SEM Blog Tumbls!
In an effort to keep you well informed of all things web marketing focused we have created a SEM blog Tumblr account. What is Tumblr? Well, think of it as cross between a blog and a twitter account. Or a cross between a vlog and a micro-blog. Too confusing? Think of it this way; another […]
SEO Tools for Firefox
There are a host of add-ons that you can – well – add on to the Firefox broswer that can help you monitor the activity of your site. Below is an incomplete list of Firefox add-ons. Firefox First you are going to need the Firefox browser if you don’t already have it. Firefox is an […]
The Search Engine World is Heating Up
Call us big geeks but we have been enjoying the public but rather courteous skirmish between Microsoft and Yahoo! If you aren’t aware of what is going on I’ll give you a run down on things so far; January 31 2008 Microsoft bids 44.6 billion($31/share) in a cash and stock bid to acquire Yahoo! Yahoo! […]
Google Celebrates Earth Hour
Google users today may notice a not so slight change in the way their favourite search engine looks. Celebrating Earth Hour has ‘turned out the lights’ on their display page. Although this doesn’t really save energy its the symbol of it that raises awareness for the global Earth Hour initiative. What is Earth Hour Earth […]
Google Talk with Your Site’s Visitors
Google is always looking for ways to improve their products and well they’ve done it once again. Ever visited a site and wanted to talk to someone immediately without having to pick up the phone or fill out a contact form and wait for a reply? Well, it’s now possible for your site visitors to […]