Google today announced the introduction of couple of new tools to boost the appeal of its spreadsheet application under Google Docs for developers First of all there is Gadgets-in-Docs for spreadsheets API.
Gadgets-in-Docs is a nice concept. Just like MS Word and MS Excel form the crux of Office, Google Docs is the heart of [...]

I am wondering, whether the number radio listening population in the U.S. is that significant for Yahoo to consider airing ads on radio to promote Yahoo search? Elinor Mills of News Blog is reporting that Yahoo has started running ads in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs something like this:
“Search engines like Google get [...]

Google recently announced that they are allowing adwords dvertisers to target both gender and age in AdWords starting today. This is a very important feature that I’m sure advertisers will be very happy to start using.
It makes a lot of sense to consider your target gender and age when paying for clicks — if you [...]

Google have recently added a new entry in their robots.txt file — one way you can keep an eye on what Google doesn’t want everyone to see. The new entry that forbids the web crawlers from seeing http://www.google.com/m/lcb made very curious.

This new feature is pretty interesting; It lets you browse through categories of businesses without [...]

Google Analytics Blog recently reported a new benchmarking section which is live now in Google Analytics. If you opted in to this particular service, you should be able to find it in your site stats navigation at Visitors -> Benchmarking. You will be able to view a number of charts from sites of comparable traffic, [...]

Ann Smarty of SEOsmarty.com recently started writing for SEJ. In one of her recent post she talked about reciprocal linking and its usefulness. So below I’m going to summarize her post with my own comments.
Q.1 – Is reciprocal linking useless? Can it harm my site?
Reciprocal links are natural and there is no way to avoid [...]

Many people often ask me this question – is .info domain any good? Well frankly domain names with the TLD .info are highly referenced with spam because of their low costs (only $.99 cents/yr); the .info domains are not completely worthless or always associated with spam (It was mentioned over 10 times at SES NY).
Although [...]

Do you guys remember Microsoft’s Clippy, that annoying “living and talking” paper clip? I am sure you do! It always used to popup with useless tips when I’m about to do something important in MS Word.
It looks like Google Docs is preparing integrating a similar feature called Cliply. Instead of a paper clip, this [...]

The brand new Sequoia backed visual search engine SearchMe is just starting to send invitations to their private beta, which launched last week. The company says there are 30,000 people now on the waiting list.
SearchMe Inc.
Website: www.searchme.com
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Founded: July, 2005
Funding: $31M
SearchMe, founded by Randy Adams [...]

Internet Marketer Aaron Wall has recently blogged about a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which is a document used by Google Quality Raters to help them in classifying queries, measuring its relevancy, and rating the search results. In order to do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google actually works and [...]