Steve Balmer on Search Innovation In the above interview Steve Balmer states that search innovation has slowed down over the past 5 years compared to the 5 years prior. While committing to pouring billions of Dollars into the search market, Steve Balmer does not think that search has kept up its rate of innovation. But …
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for: ‘2009’
Save Money while you Shop Using Google Checkout
The culmination of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale officially starts the holiday shopping season. So, if you still got some Christmas shopping to do, you might want to do it via Google Checkout. Google’s online payment facility, which supports various online store is offering exclusive discounts ranging from $5 – $20. The promo gig …
SEO for HTTP and HTTPs
As the holiday season is rolling in, ecommerce websites are going full force at their SEO, which inevitably includes HTTP/HTTPS pages which need to be optimized in a proper way. I approached Matt Cutts with this question on Twitter and got a very simple answer: Yet, there’s virtually no information anywhere that helps understand the …
DIY SEO: Create Your Own Keyword Tracking Master Feed
There are plenty of tools that help you track a keyword mentions either for reputation management or for keyword research. But you know what, if you want something done well, you better do it yourself. So here’s a quick tutorial on creating your own keyword tracking master feed: Step One: Collect the Sources For this experimental …
Identify Most Powerful Pages with SEJ Tools
First, let’s define what we understand by “powerful” here: these are web pages that have achieved highest rankings and / or are receiving most referrals. There may be multiple reasons why you would want to single out the most powerful pages of a website: (!) Find pages with the highest potential (by pushing just a …
Google Makes its Clean Search Portal Cleaner
While the Microsoft folks are peppering the Bing portal with all the bling-blings to make search enticing and attractive to users, Google is doing the opposite way. Google just launched a new cleaner and simpler interface to its already simple and clean search portal. So if you check out Google.com right now, what will greet …
Microsoft Sells Fast Search & Transfer Businesses
Perhaps Yahoo has started a trend. Yesterday, we learned that the company will shut down part of a business it bought two and a half years ago. Today, there’s word that Microsoft’s sold some things it picked up while acquiring Fast Search & Transfer in early 2008. It’s important to note that this deal isn’t …
Representatives To Hold Hearing On Internet Gambling
On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee will discuss legislation introduced by Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) that would regulate online gambling in the United States. The hearing will begin at 10 am EST and will include testimony from leaders in the fields of online security and consumer safety. Experts will describe how current systems and …
Digg’s New API Allows Digging of Stories and Comments
Digg released a new version of the Digg API today, which lets developers write and contribute data via OAuth. This API supports the digging and burying of both stories and comments. "In addition to the revamped API, we focused extensively on usability and have included an updated API documentation section on Digg with more detail …
Google Makes Free Holiday Postcard Offer
It is, of course, the thought that counts. A message from a friend or loved one means a lot regardless of what form it takes. Still, physical items tend to have more of an impact, and Google’s made a very nice gesture by offering to send out real postcards this holiday season. A Google representative …
