With the closing of Google Answers, earlier this week, quite a few people are believed to have gotten “the boot” leaving them high and dry tight for the holidays… Yahoo saw the opportunity, and had posted an open call for these guys to cross the street and join the Yahoo Social Search Crew.
So, this is […]
Hitwise had published this week their stats on overall Google property usage. As you can see, Search captures roughly 88% of Google’s visitors, then Gmail, News and Video. Surprisingly, Google Answers which was closed this week captures a good spot in the middle, right above calendars, base and local.
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After over 4 years of helping the world answering questions, Google Answers is now closed for new questions.
The official goodbye post gives a bit of insight into Google answers:
* Google Answers was the first project developed by Google.
* Google Answers started from a rough idea by Larry Page, and along with a 4-man crew they […]
This past few days I found myself discussing the advertising of digital photo frames on the different holiday ads. It seems as if everyone is offering them this year and what used to be a Sharper Image type item which ran for about $300, is not in every store for about $30.
Well it seems as […]
Live.com/MSN is reportedly warning webmasters from purchasing / exchanging links with old sites. In a recent SEW thread, the writer quotes an exclusion email from Live.com:
Your site is acquiring links through posting to or exchanging links with sites unrelated to your site content. Techniques which attempt to acquire unrelated spam links in order to increase […]
Danny Sullivan is the “godfather” of search engine reporting. Beginning in the late 90’s he started writing on the subject and had published the very first search engine related newsletter.
Until not too long ago Danny had been with SearchEngineWatch and had quit his position shortly after they’ve been acquired by a new owner.
Last week during […]
The different search engines hare celebrating Thanksgiving today with some special Doodles:
Google has on his homepage:
Yahoo is sporting:
ASK:
And even DogPile joined the celebration this year:
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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Ranking pages and images is rather easy based on the different variables provided to you by the “community”, but have you ever wondered how does Google rank videos which are hosted on it’s own servers?
This video of Hunter Walk, a product manager at Google Video gives a bit more about what Google relies on when […]
An interesting article today on The Marker, outlines a recent trend of Yahoo losing some of its best and brightest to ambitious upstarts who keep leaving the company for bigger and better companies (Google, Microsoft, InterActiveCorp & TimeWarner). According to the article, the most recent executives to leave the ship are senior vice president Bill […]
According to a recent poll conducted by ChristiaNet.com among it’s users found that most Christians use Google. ChristianNet claims to be the world’s largest Christian portal with 12 million page views.
The poll covered 266 respondents out of which 125 users voted for Google, 108 voted for Yahoo and only 33 voted for MSN.
[via GoogleWatch]
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