Search Engine News

Simpler sign-ups for Yahoo! users with OpenID

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:15:27 +0000

How many times have you created a new account at a website and seen a message that said:”Thank you for creating an account. To activate your new account, please access your email and click the verification URL provided.” Even though you just want to start using the website, this lengthy process requires you to manually perform a whole bunch of steps—including switching to your mailbox, trying to find the message the website sent you (which might be in your Spam folder), opening the message, clicking the link, etc. Until recently, we also required people to follow these steps if they wanted…

Bing-Yahoo Combine For 25% Of Search Market Share: Hitwise

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:15:15 +0000

In the first five days of its search alliance, Bing and Yahoo combined to hold just under 25 % of the search engine market share. That’s according to an Experian Hitwise release just out this afternoon. Yahoo and Bing announced that the transition to using Bing-powered organic results on Yahoo was completed on August 24th. According to [...]

Googles Music Service to be Launched by Christmas? It Sure Seems Like It

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:15:00 +0000

According to sources very close to the project ( as reported by Wired ), Google’s Andy Rubin has been in talks with various music labels about a music service that the search giant has been trying to launch. Now, according to these sources, we may get said service by Christmas. Google continues to build weapons for it’s arsenal in the war it is seemingly waging against Apple. With this new downloading service, it could replace the current integration system it has with Amazon’s MP3 store and really bolster its Android line to be even more of a competitor against iPhone’s then it already…

Google TV Coming to a Console Near You This Fall

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:14:52 +0000

Adding another Apple-fighting feature to it’s roster, Google will be launching its web-to-TV service this fall in the U.S. and worldwide next year. CEO Eric Schmidt announced at the IFA consumer electronics trade fair in Berlin, that the service will allow users the ability of full Internet browsing on their television sets and that Google will be working with content providers, though they doubt they will get any actual content from them. First announced in May, Google TV will be powered by Chrome and allow users to turn their consoles into more than just an instrument on which to watch video…

The human process behind Googles algorithm

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:14:38 +0000

When Google launched Analytics, it pretty much changed the way websites tracked their visitors and because it’s free it helped to put a considerable number of its competitors out of business. I can give you a long list of what is good about Analytics, Funnels, goals, conversions, segmentation and did I mention it’s free. There is one thing about Google Analytics that makes it even better, it’s API which allows some Wiley developers to tweak prod and poke analytics to make it even better. Lately I have been researching how I can track stats for multiple websites, this had led me to a lot of testing and downloading of plugins, though most couldn’t quite offer me what I needed I found some really great plugins that can help me in other ways, here are some of the best ones I have found:

Google Dots Doodle Causes Frenzy

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:14:28 +0000

Today’s Google doodle is making more than a few people pretty upset with the search engine. There are multiple support forum threads and reader comments all over the web about the interactive moving balls logo. If you load the Google homepage the first thing you will see is tons of dots in Google’s colors (blue, red, yellow and green) flying all around your screen. Eventually they settle in the middle to spell out “Google”. Whenever you move your mouse around the dots move around as well. Usually these doodles are created for a specific reason, for instance to commemorate an anniversary…

A few updates on reporting in AdWords

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:14:20 +0000

If you think AdWords reporting is looking a bit different these days, you’re right! Since we announced some important changes to reporting in late June, we’ve been regularly adding statistics and features into the Campaigns tab that were previously only accessible through the Report Center (with many more additions to come). At the same time, we’ve begun to move reports out of the Report Center entirely. In fact, new Account, Campaign, and Ad Group reports can no longer be created from the Reports tab. Now that the transition is in full swing, we thought it would be a…

Googles Schmidt: ‘Next Great Stage Of Search Is Autonomous, Personal

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:14:11 +0000

Speaking today at the IFA consumer electronics event in Berlin, Google CEO Eric Schmidt painted a vision of the future in which search is fast, personal, and all-knowing— even to the degree of providing search results when searches haven’t been conducted. “A new definition of Google would be, we’re trying very hard to get you [...]

UBL Ventures to Europe Touting Business ID Management

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:14:03 +0000

Universal Business Listing first launched as a “list once, be found everywhere” label to enable SMB business listings to comprehensively populate the “fragmented web.” However, with social media fueling an even more fragmented web, UBL is now coupling listing enhancement with presence management — a move that puts it in competition with such players as Marchex, Merchant Circle, Yext Rep and Reach Local (through its acquisition of SMB Live). It is also expanding beyond the U.S., with operations set to begin in the U.K. and several other European countries. European operations…

Feds Consider Google-ITA Deal: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Dont

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:13:54 +0000

In what is becoming an annual ritual Google announces a dramatic acquisition, pundits speculate about the potentially market-changing impact and anti-trust investigators give it a long, hard look— only to allow it in the end. Last year the transaction in question was AdMob; this year it’s ITA software. Since the roughly $700 million deal was [...]