SEO.
Have You Been Googleshanked?
I had dinner with Allan Dick of Vintage Tub & Bath last week at SES Chicago. Allan’s a great guy, an attendee who turned into a moderator and…
Burn the Spam!
I love how Yahoo!’s beta e-mail interface denotes spam. The icon shows a mail message aflame. Meanwhile “delete” is symbolized by a…
Chitika faces criticism from publishers
Chitika, a new contextual ad network that launched in May, has come under fire from publishers in its network — mostly bloggers…
Writely Adds New Convert to PDF Feature and Another Free PDF Conversion Tool Called DocMorph
It was about 36 hours ago that I pointed to a ResourceShelf overview of Writely, a wonderful and free web-based word proccessor…
Web Search History: Before Google Answers and Yahoo Answers There Was “Answer Point” From Ask Jeeves
How about some web search industry history? Long before two major search engines, Google and Yahoo offered Google Answers and Yahoo Answers,…
Jux2 Returns!
Jux2 the metasearch/comparative search engine that won our Best Meta Search Engine site in the 5th Annual Search Engine Awards, is back…
Google Releases New Version of Sitemap Generator Tool
A new version (v1.4) of the Google Sitemap Generator Tool is now available according to Vanessa Fox from Google Engineering. She writes:…
E-Mail Consolidation Continues
E-mail service provider Quris, which was majority-owned by Charles Schwab Corp. (little did I know), has a new owner today. The company…
Other Q&A Services, Most Available For Free!
The new Yahoo Answers joins a long list of other answer-providing services. Here’s a recap of some prominent services that offer online…
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service
Lots of news coming from Answers.com in the past 24 hrs. First, the acquisition of Brainboost and this morning, word that Answers.com…
Answers.com Buys “Answer Extraction” Engine Brainboost for $4 Million in Cash and Some Shares of Restricted Stock
Word from Answers.com that they’ve acquired an “answer extraction” database that utilizes NLP (natural language processing), Brainboost.com for $4 million in cash…
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Interviewed on NPR
One of the most popular topics in the mainstream press the few days has been the Wikipedia. What it is, how it…
Reports from Search Engine Strategies Chicago: Day One
Well, it’s cold in Chicago but Barry (RustyBrick) Schwartz and Phoenix are keeping warm (especially their fingers) by blogging detailed session summaries…
New from from The Internet Movie Database: The Movie Keyword Analyzer, Fun!!!
When I not working either with Danny and Chris on the blog or my other sites, I’m a movie fan. In fact,…
New Rule of E-Mail, Socially Networked
This week Microsoft introduced SNARF, an organization tool that groups e-mail by social networking conventions based on information available on your computer…
Locally Targeted Ads, Links, and Offers Coming to CBS Station Sites
DMNews reports in the article: Viacom Eyes Local Sponsored Links for CBS Station Sites, will soon launch locally targeted ads on CBS…
Answers.com Now Embedded into Firefox 1.5 Search Toolbar
A quick note from Answers.com that a link to this ready-reference database is now embedded directly and automatically into the new Firefox…
Fortune Interactive Offers Reputation Management
It’s certainly not the first of its kind, but given that Fortune Interactive’s CEO is noted search marketer and blogger Andy Beal,…
Clusty Launches Japanese Version of Its Metasearch and Dynamic Clustering Service
Word from Pittsburgh today that Vivisimo (the company that powers Clusty, the metasearch/dynamic clustering engine) have just released a version of for…
Blog ‘Empire’ Indispensibles
Love this transparency. Nick Denton shares his startup kit, a collection of cheap & free tools he uses to keep the Gawker…
On SEO Myths & Getting The Balance Right
There’s been a variety of articles out recently that look at search engine optimization advice that people hear, believe and perhaps act…
New from The Internet Archive: Hurricane Katrina & Hurricane Rita Web Collection
Brewster and crew at The Internet Archive have just debuted a new specialty collection that contains more 25 million fully archived web…
Gollum and Other Wikipedia Search Tools
News.com reports about a new “Wikipedia Browser” named Gollum that comes from German web developer, Harald Hanek. In my opinion the interface…
30 Days To Turn An Online Profit
Jennifer Laycock has been running a great series, “Zero Cash, A Little Talent & 30 Days” to see if she could set…
Nokia’s Blog Strategy for the N90
Nokia has launched a “blogger relations” blog aimed at getting out info about its new N90 phone, which offers advanced photography options…
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