VisualRank image search was unveiled by Google in Beijing, China today. VisualRank is like PageRank for images in that it uses visual data in addition to text to rank images in the search results pages. Other companies have been trying to crack the visual search code for years with varying results. Typically, what image search [...]
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Yahoo has beaten the estimates somewhat with a 14-percent greater earnings gain over 1-year ago. Analysts were estimating earnings of $1.32 billion and Yahoo announced the actual number was $1.35 billion this quarter. But, Microsoft has not blinked because of the announcement. In fact, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a preemptive announcement that Yahoo’s earnings [...]
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Last week, search giant Yahoo announced the acquisition of Hungarian firm Tensa and their IndexTools analytics software. The addition of Yahoo IndexTools, which the company is stating will now be free, will give users tools for website monitoring, metrics, analytics, traffic performance and optimization. While Yahoo Site Explorer in itself is a useful tool, it [...]
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I ran across an article on the CNET News Blog about whether or not the Google duplicate content rankings drop (for lack of a better word) is actually a penalty or a filter. This got me to think about perspective. From the perspective of the search engines, it is a filter that lets the original [...]
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After a yearlong deal to acquire DoubleClick / Performics, yesterday Google has announced the selling of the Performics Search Marketing division. On the official Google Blog, DoubleClick Director Tom Phillips states a conflict of interest as a reason for the sale. According to Phillips, “Maintaining objectivity in both search and advertising is paramount to Google’s [...]
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Inside of Webmaster Tools, the Google Robots.txt Generator has been unveiled. The Robots.txt Generator will help webmasters travail the often misunderstood method of allowing or disallowing search engine robots from crawling files, folders and pages on a website. Inside of the tool, webmasters are offered the Action of allowing or blocking plus another pull-down menu [...]
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