February 2009

Google drops Shopping, brings back Video in Top Navigation

Today, it came to knowledge that Google has dropped it’s “Shopping” link from Top Navigation and placed it to “more” drop down menu. Now “Video” link is visible in “Shopping” position from “more” menu. From Search Engine Journal, it’s also came to my knowledge that Google did reverse in November, 2007. They dropped the video [...]

Google Adsense publishers get more customization options

Google is offering more customization options for Adsense publishers, as I knew from Adsense blog published yesterday. Now publishers can change font face from Arial, Times, and Verdana. According to their blog, they said this option will be available for all publishers, but it may take time to appear in all account. I guess it [...]

Yahoo Search Shares Increase as Google Slips

A recent ComScore study shows an increase in Yahoo Search market share of .5% in January 2009 over December 2008, giving Yahoo a market share of US based searches of about 21%. Google on the other hand, showed a slight decrease in market share over the same period, losing the same 0.5% that Yahoo gained, [...]

Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Unite On “Canonical Tag” To Reduce Duplicate Content Clutter

The web is full of duplicate content. Search engines try to index and display the original or “canonical” version. Searchers only want to see one version in results. And site owners worry that if search engines find multiple versions of a page, their link credit will be diluted and they’ll lose ranking. Today, Google, Yahoo [...]

Yahoo! announces MyWeb closure

Yesterday, Yahoo! Search Blog announced that Yahoo! will discontinue the MyWeb service starting March 18, 2009 and will focus on improving Delicious for social bookmarking. Yahoo! has adviced its MyWeb users to migrate their bookmarks to three options. They described as: 1. Yahoo! Bookmarks. For users primarily interested in private bookmarking, the switch is simple [...]

Microsoft stepped into retail business

At last Microsoft has learnt to come closer to its customers! In an announcement, Microsoft, the software gaint will be launching its own retail chain of stores to showcase it’s products to the customers. In particular, the company mentioned a desire to better articulate and demonstrate the advantages of its products. Additionally, Microsoft hopes “to [...]

Android Market to offer priced apps for G1 starting next week

Google has begun accepting paid applications into its Android Market mobile app store — a move that lays the groundwork for potentially following Apple’s lead in turning smartphone applications into a sizable moneymaker. Initially, the Android Market offered only free applications. Now, however, the search giant confirmed plans to next week begin selling applications through [...]

Free UK Classified Ads Website Lists

Classified ads websites are good source of targetted website traffic. If you are targetting a specific geographic area, suppose UK – you need to find out classifed ads websites from UK. As a result, when Google indexes those websites, autometically it will drive UK visitors to those websites. Today, I was searching for free classified [...]