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Google, What Happen to Our Page Rank?
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 10/25/2007
Along with many sites that were impacted by the latest Google trick, ISEdb page rank has dropped to 4. We held PR 7 for over a year and a half and then it was dropped to 6 in the last Google update ma...
Sometimes Motivation Has to be Felt
- By Stoney deGeyter
- Published 10/4/2007
My daughter recently turned 15 and now that school is out it
means it's time for her to get a job. Unfortunately, despite my threats of
cutting off her allowance, she has not taken job hunting serio...
Google is Being Hacked Using this Technique
- By Scott Van Achte
- Published 08/16/2007
According to a fascinating release
from search marketer Dan Thies, Google has been aware over a year now
(that he knows of) of a method to destroy a website's ranking. The
method is called proxy ha...
How About NBC - Yahoo Merger?
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/14/2007
"Wouldn't that just be a Time Warner-AOL redux?" Said breakingviews.com."NBC and Yahoo are both focused on building audiences and selling ads to them. AOL was a telecom service masquerading as a dot-c...
Microsoft Sees Mergers As A Way To Fill Gaps And Enter New Markets
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/10/2007
Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO said the company will try to fill holes in its business or enter new markets mostly via small deals, but he also said larger deals are "conceivable,".
"We have not, by d...
Google Launches a Blog For Google Maps
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/10/2007
Google has launched "Lat Long Blog", a blog focusing on Google Earth, Maps, Local and APIs.
"Things are changing so fast we thought a blog focused on this topic would be the best way to communicat...
Yahoo! Closing Auctions in US and Canada
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/8/2007
Yahoo! have decided to close down its Auction sites in Yahoo! US and Canada.Auction sites in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan will not be impacted. The US and Canada Auctions sites will close June...
Local.com Launches Local Verified
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/8/2007
Local.com today has launched Local Verified, a new advertising program that offers businesses preferred placement in Local.com search results, Search Engine Journal reported."Using Local Verified, bus...
New Features on Google Finance
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/7/2007
Google added more integration with Google Calendar. You can download all events in your portfolio such as earnings calls, analyst meetings, and any other material event on your company and portfolio...
NBC sides against Google’s YouTube
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/7/2007
NBC Universal is taking sides with Viacom Inc. over a piracy lawsuit filed against Google Inc.'s YouTube site. The case involves a separate party, Los Angeles News Service operator Robert Tur, wh...
Microsoft, Yahoo Reconsider Merger
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/4/2007
Last year, Yahoo and Microsoft explored the idea to merge forces to compete against Google but the talks led nowhere. According The Wall Street Journal, executives at Microsoft and Yahoo are ta...
Yahoo to Buy Right Media, Microsoft Bidding on 24/7 Media
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/1/2007
Yahoo has announced it will acquire Right Media, which operates an auction-based display ad exchange called Remix Media.The acquisition of Right Media will build upon Yahoo!'s leadership in online adv...
Google Responds to Viacom Suit
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/1/2007
Google responding to Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement suit over video clips on YouTube, Google said it would not back off, declaring that the law was on its side and Viacom’s cla...
Google migrating older AdSense accounts
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/1/2007
Google is slowly starting the migration of older AdSense accounts to a "Google Account".Users will see a wizard once they login that will guide them through the process.Currently it's not possible to ...
Google to help state governments search their records
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 05/1/2007
Google Inc. is helping state governments make large records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to Web surfers. Google said it has joined with four states -- Arizona, Cal...
Study Shows More Than One Third Of American Consult Wikipedia
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/24/2007
According to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia.T...
PhoneSpots Launches Mobile 'Ad Exchange
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/24/2007
Directory assistance vendor PocketThis has rebranded as PhoneSpots and relaunched a new mobile ad "exchange." The company has been around since 1999 and pioneered the "send to mobile" feature now in w...
Yahoo China Agreed To Remove Links To Free Music Web Sites
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/24/2007
A Beijing court has ordered Yahoo China to delete links to free Web sites offering music-downloads and to pay about 200,000 yuan ($27,200) for facilitating distribution of unlicensed songs by other si...
Yahoo, Gracenote launched an online lyrics service
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/24/2007
Yahoo Inc. and digital media company Gracenote launched an online lyrics service on Tuesday.Song lyrics are among the top searches performed on the Web, until now consumers have largely relied on unli...
Consumer Privacy Groups Challenge Google's DoubleClick Deal
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/24/2007
Consumer privacy groups filed a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds arguing the merger would violate agreed limits on how much data advertisers collect on consumers a...
DoubleCick Deal drove up ads of other Internet ad firms
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/17/2007
Investors were betting that Microsoft and Yahoo would be driven to make deals of their own to keep up with Google after the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick.BusinessWeek notes that aQuantive...
Yahoo eBay Alliance, Introduces Paypal
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/17/2007
Yahoo and eBay have formed a commercial partnership which the two companies feel will build their position in their respected online shopping, payment and communications markets against recent moves ...
Google to introduce a presentation software
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/17/2007
Google is set to introduce this summer a software for creating meeting presentations online similar to Microsoft popular Power Point tool.Eric Schmidt played down the direct challenge to Microsoft whe...
Yahoo Profit Fell
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/17/2007
Yahoo reported an 11% drop in first quarter profit as revenue growth
rate continued to decline. Analyst expected a tough first quarter with
benefits form its new advertising system dubbed Pana...
Google will sell ads on Clear Channel stations
- By Tariq Ali
- Published 04/16/2007
In a multi year partnership with Clear Channel Communications Inc, Google will begin selling radio commercials on stations owned by Clear Channel, the U..S largest radio chain.Clear Channel will set a...