Archive for July, 2009

Microsoft Takes Over Yahoo Search

Microsoft and Yahoo have finally come up with an agreement that will see Microsoft take total control over Yahoo’s search technologies. The deal still needs to have regulatory approval but both sides expect to have everything in place by early 2010, so here are some of the key points agreed so far: Microsoft will have [...]

twitter front page gets an overhaul

Twitter’s home page has been redesigned; the main focus of this overhaul was to demonstrate the power of Twitter as a discovery where users can find what is happening in real time through search and trends. With this in mind Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone believes it will lead new users to more compelling questions like [...]

bing takes the first step towards real time search

Bing continues to innovate the way we search and it is the first search engine to start showing Twitter’s results from some “prominent and prolific” Twitters without the need of a add-on or a script, hence the “Twitter Search Results on Google” script and the “Twitter Search Results on Bing Firefox add-on”. Since the 1st [...]

Google OS The Emperors New Clothes?

Who would have thought that the rumors about Google launching an operating system would actually be true, well it is up to a point. The Announcement from Google says: “Today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating [...]

michael jackson – king of pop and the internet

Within an hour of Michael Jackson dying, the Internet was flooded with users searching for more information on his death, or simply to confirm what they’ve heard on the streets or watched on TV was true, the King of Pop was dead! Hours after MJ’s death, 30% of all Tweets were about Michael Jackson, which [...]

google webmasters guidelines don’t apply to google itself

“Your site’s reputation can be affected by who you link to” If you are an SEO you know exactly where the above quote comes from, for those of you not familiar with it, that is a quote from Google Webmasters Guidelines, basically is saying that if link to bad neighbourhood sites, you could be penalised. [...]

seo round up – june09

Without a doubt June has been the most exciting month so far this year for the SEO community, a bunch of new products have been announced and introduced not to mention a new Search Engine, in case you missed all the action here is a quick round up of what happened. In the beginning of [...]