Fresh off the heels of beating Google in traffic for a week… Facebook has come out with an announcement about search. Yes, search. If you've ever used the search box that lies along the top blue bar in Facebook, you know that when you...
A couple of updates to one of the most popular mapping products. MapQuest has two updates for you to enjoy. One is greater access to version 2.0 of their mobile offering. Now, 40 of the most trafficked devices have access. Included in...
Sit back, relax, and digest this thing. SEW Expert Eric Enge has published an extensive (and that's an understatement) interview with Google web spam king Matt Cutts. It covers a wide gammit of material from the basics to advanced. It's a...
No, it's not Twitter's new advertising platform. When the new platform is launched, you'll start noticing the ability to Tweet from some of the web's most trafficked sites. Of course, sites can already implement this technology. In fact,...
You could see this coming a mile away. Hitwise is reporting a major milestone reached by Facebook. They were the most visited site in the U.S. last week, topping Google for the first time. We saw hints that this milestone would come....
Meanwhile, Bing gains 1.5 share. It goes against the numbers we've seen from comScore and Hitwise. Nevertheless, Nielsen is showing Google dropping a point in search share during the month of February 2010. It repeats the 1 point loss seen in...
Building on the location-sharing frenzy, a cool app for your site. Bing Maps has a Twitter application and now you can embed it on your website. Here's a visual tour of how to set it up. Go to Bing.com/maps Look for a menu at the bottom...
Or while waiting for panels at SXSW - if you can get a signal. If you're not at SXSW, you might be watching conference basketball tournaments. When play takes a break, catch up on these search stories: Google Webmaster Central announced...
It's nicer, but not yet as comprehensive, as FriendFeed. Lifestream is the name of AOL's new social product launched a couple months ago. It allows you to update Facebook, Twitter and AIM simultaneously. You can also view a feed of your network...
One click to comprehensive info on your favorite shows on the telly. When you search the name of a television show on Yahoo!, you'll now see a link to the show's page on tv.yahoo.com (one of my favorite sites for TV Listings, btw)....
YouTube experienced 160% growth in traffic to their mobile site in 2009. So, they've decided to capitalize on all that traffic and serve ads on the site, which can be reached at m.youtube.com. The ads will be served on the American and...
It's gonna be a great year for stalkers. In August, Twitter unveiled a location-sharing feature. It was limited to the API, so that developers could incorporate location data without having to require profiles in their own apps. Now,...
Find out what's in stock nearby. Ever go to pick up something at a store and they're out. No problem, just go to another store or another location of the same chain. But they don't have it either. Annoying. Google wants to help you save time...
Easily enable stalking by anyone your network. Just kidding. (Sort of) Sharing your location is all the rage these days. MapQuest is getting in on the game by introducing a Facebook sharing feature. When you have a map of a location pulled...
The announcement was as short as usual. But nevertheless, Yahoo!'s "Weather Report" is calling for shifts in rankings, updates to crawling and indexing, and page shuffling. Expect the storm to take place over the next few days. The last...
February is always a weird month for search data. It's a short month. Query volume is always down. And this year was particularly odd with all the snowstorms. Were people on the Internet more or less as a result? An interesting note in...
Just in time for spring, Google is helping you enjoy the great outdoors by adding bike trails to Maps. Simply open up maps and search the location you're looking for. Then click the "More" tab and select "Bicycling." The bike paths are...
It's being rolled out to Direct Messages first, where much of the spamming occurs. All links sent through Direct Messages will be submitted to this service. They'll be checked for spam and then shortened using a twt.tl root link. Twitter...
It's a contribution to the digital renaissance. Even though an Italian judge has found Google execs guilty in the case of an offensive video being uploaded to Google Video, that isn't stopping the company from partnering with the country on a...
A top mobile service harnesses its strengths to compete in the mobile ad space. WHERE is a mobile application (both downloadable and mobile web) that focuses on local search and recommendations. This week, WHERE is launching a local/mobile ad...
