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Searching Through Widget Content
Widgets are a very convenient way to share your favorite photos these days. Just upload your media and integrate them on your social pages, blogs or sites. Nearly…
Technorati Retools, Gets “Universal” Too
Technorati has gotten a “major refresh” that’s six months in the making, according to founder and CEO Dave Sifry. The biggest change…
Should SEOs Care About Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is not a search engine, and links from Wikipedia no longer count towards increasing your link equity, but there are still…
Tomi Poutanen Talks About Social Search
The latest in my rounds of interviews was with Tomi Poutanen at Yahoo. Tomi is the senior director of product management for…
Event Search Engine: Oyaka.com
Launched last year, Oyaka.com is a clever concept – a search engine for events. Have a date in mind, go here and…
User-Generated Videos On Your Domain?
Do you already produce or license video content for your site? Do you incorporate user-generated content and sharing tools now? Then encouraging…
Technorati includes “Authority” ranking of blogs
A tip of the hat to Ed Kohler over at Technology Evangelist for spotting that Technorati has a new way to rank…
Google Ad VP Spamming Google On The Side?
Threadwatch has outed Tim Armstrong, Google Ad VP, for his involvement with Associated Content, that seems to be a content generating company…
The “Bon Mots” of Social Search
Check out these well-chosen words about Social Search, from experts and attendees at the SES-NY show last week: – Social search is…
Why Are Search Marketers Getting Social?
The definition of what is and isn't search marketing is expanding to include other related disciplines. The move to social media marketing…
Get Social With Your Browser
This week, Mozilla Labs announced a new project to develop social functionality within the Firefox browser. The Coop aims to “create a…
Pay-Per-Digg Black Market Manipulation?
Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal has uncovered another pay-per-digg scheme Subvert and Profit that claims that it won’t get users banned…
E-consultancy publishes online PR briefing
E-consultancy has just published an Online PR Briefing. You can download the 12-page report for free. It includes a summary of a…
Voting Helps Dining Search, But Not Enough
Voting is one of the methods that we all accept for refining search results. While voting helps from a directional standpoint, results…
Microsoft Sucks, According to Robert Scoble
Former Microsoft Live evangelist Robert Scoble is now saying “Microsoft Sucks”. Scoble wrote in his Scobleizer blog, “the words are empty .…
Wikia Search Plans Progressing
Jimmy Wales continues to press ahead with his search engine plan. According to this article in Yahoo, “Wales said collaborative search technology…
The Intersection of Social Search & Pop Culture
That’s what social search is really about, isn’t it? The reflection of trends and conversation among related entities. Celebrity searches and following…
Blog Readers Are Loyal and Want to Be Entertained
Forget about getting that new puppy, if you want loyal, trusting, and eager to be entertained – just write a good blog.…
Bloggers, Journalists, and Parasites
Brett Tabke started an interesting thread over at WebmasterWorld with the choice title: Are Blogs a parasitic medium? The conversation ranges from…
Niched Portals and Vertical Search: The Catch Phrases of 2007
Seems 2007 is going to be the year of niched portals and vertical search. Microsoft is buying Medstory, a health information search…
More Ads for MySpace
Fox Interactive Media today announced that it has acquired Strategic Data Corporation (SDC) an interactive advertising technology company. This ad-serving technology will…
Sproose to show ‘subject expert’ information in search results
Bob Pack, CEO for Sproose, a personalized social networking search engine with user-ranked results, spent some time with me in an interview,…
MSN Reporter – A Digg Competitor from MSN
The LiveSide Reporter notes that MSN Reporter, in beta since October 2006, has launched in three markets — Netherlands, Belgium and Norway.…
ChaCha Ad Options Explored
ChaCha’s “human powered” social search platform has been discussed here from the search side when it launched in September, and again in…
Will Splinter Communities Work?
Web publishers are scrambling to provide their own outlets for user-generated content. This could be interesting to search marketers, especially if we’re…
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