NEWS FLASH – Google to Add News to Main Search Results

In a recent update to the Search Engine Land blog, Chris Sherman announced that Google will be mingling the latest news headlines into the main body of search engine results; wherever searches appear relevant to the news. According to Marissa Mayer, VP of search...

XML Sitemap Submission Just Got a Little Bit Easier

Getting Google and other major search engines to spider your XML Sitemap just got a little bit easier. Although submitting through a search engine’s submission interface such as Google Webmaster Tools can offer additional valuable information, if you simply could not...

Yahoo, Viacom Sign Multi-Year Search Marketing Deal

In a recent paid advertising deal to supply ads for Viacom giants including MTV.com, VH1.com, comedycentral.com, and 30 other web properties. Google has been left in the cold as Yahoo’s Panama platform was chosen. The deal could also expand in the future to include an...

Bulletin – Yahoo Weather Update

Thursday evening the Yahoo Blog gave warning of changes to their algorithm. “We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the...

Yahoo! Slurp Gets a New Home

Today Yahoo posted news that its search engine spider, Slurp will now resolve from a different domain: crawl.yahoo.net. So what does this mean to you? Likely nothing unless you have some custom access filters setup for spiders. Priyank Garg of Yahoo noted that...

Google and Microsoft’s Fight for DoubleClick

DoubleClick Inc. announced recently it was available for purchase and undoubtedly many a suitor has made offers, not least of which are Microsoft and Google. The question now is, how much will DoubleClick sell for with these two giants gearing up for a bidding war?...