Microsoft Pre-Fills Search Box
There have been reports at search engine land and Search Engine Roundtable that MSN UK has been pre-filling their search box with “The Apprentice BBC”. I went to uk.msn.com to see for myself and sure...
View ArticleYahoo Releases Robots Tag for Blocking Specific Content
This morning Search Engine Land released details of a “robots-nocontent” tag that has just been adopted by Yahoo. The tag will allow site owners to block portions of a page from searches. This means...
View ArticleYahoo Search Assist Aids Visibility
Yesterday Danny Sullivan posted an interesting walkthrough on a new technology that Yahoo is currently testing called Yahoo Search Assist. Throughout the following I will give a quick rundown and...
View ArticleA Peek at Microsoft's Webmaster Tools
Barry Schwartz over at Search Engine Round Table posted screenshots of Microsoft’s Live Search Webmaster Portal in Beta. Head on over and check it out. So far nothing appears to be all that dissimilar...
View ArticleToday's Social Media Linkforth
Google has added a “search box” for sites chosen to have “a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within that specific site”. Without leaving Google’s results page the “search...
View ArticleMicrosoft Joins in with Mobile Display Ads
Google, Yahoo, and others are already there, and now Microsoft has decided to follow the leader with the launch of Mobile Display Ads.On Tuesday Microsoft Announced it had opened the doors for...
View ArticleScanned Documents Now Searchable at Google
Last week Google began turning PDF files of scanned printed documents into digital text, and as a result their searchable index has expanded once again.Previously, only rarely would a scanned document...
View ArticleFloogle
A lot of people are unaware of Google.org, the philanthropic wing of Google. Since its inception, Google.org has been involved in a variety of initiatives covering such global issues as health and...
View ArticleIs Online Advertising the Bastion of Hope During this Downturn?
I was doing some of my daily news digging when I came across the following chart on MarketingCharts.com showing the Share of Ad Spending by Medium as of September 2008. With all of the discussion these...
View ArticleNoteworthy Websites and More
There are quite a few online subscriptions I read regularly and the one I read pretty much on a daily basis is ‘The Best Article Every Day’. The articles tend to be short and informative. For example,...
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