Archive for April, 2008

Yahoo! Outsources its Messenger Phone Calls to Jajah

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

According to a Yahoo News report, Yahoo will be outsourcing the Internet telephone functions of its instant messaging program to the startup Jajah. Of course, this is great news for the startup -- but forum members wonder why Yahoo seems...

Google Announces Software for VisualRank, Precision Image Search

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

The New York Times reports that "Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages." The algorithm, dubbed VisualRank, weighs...

Will Your Website Pass a Google Review?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Welcome to GoogleNet! Hitwise recently mentioned that Google controls over 1/3 of UK web traffic. With that much usage data, if you were Google, would you use usage data in your relevancy algorithms? An Army of Google Search Editors They could easily use algorithms to detect sites that they send a lot of traffic to ...

Google AdWords Displays Ad Scores: Pscore, mCPC & thresh

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around one advertiser noticing Google displaying three scores directly under a Google Netherlands ad. Here is a picture of the ad with the scores underneath the ad: So I began to do some research and...

Buying 70,000 Links From Same Site Equated to “SEOicide”

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A newish term, named SEOicide, caught my attention via a WebmasterWorld thread. The thread discusses how an SEO has the opportunity to buy 70,000 links from a PR7 site for a great price. He asks if it he should do...

Google Blending Ads More Into Organic Results?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A recent WebmasterWorld thread is complaining that Google seems to have changed the yellow background color of the Google sponsored ads to a color just a bit different then the white background. Tedster explains that the color he sees now...

Google Updates Toolbar PageRank: April 2008

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I am seeing reports from across the SEO forums that Google has updated or begun the update of the PageRank score found within the Google Toolbar. We have threads at DigitalPoint Forums, Search Engine Roundtable Forums, WebmasterWorld and Search Engine...

Google Maps Stickers Gone Missing

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Remember the Google Maps stickers spotted throughout the UK? They looked like the image on the right of this post. Well, a while back, probably a year or so ago, I convinced Google to send me one. It never actually...

Travelin’

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I'm traveling all week, posting will be a bit light...

Dailly Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2008

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....