Danny Sullivan announced his plans for 2007 in his blog today. In short, he will participate in next year’s SES conferences, although in a decreasing role with each one (chair of SES NY in April 2007, co-chair of SES SJ in August 2007, and consulting for SES Chicago in December 2007). For Search [...]
I have tried out the personalized home page option for the 3 major sites: Google, MSN (My MSN), and Yahoo (My Yahoo). All three do a good job to allow you to set up page(s) where you can see the information you care on a single page, and users can easily add/modify/delete content [...]
Microsoft has introduced the LinkfromDomain operator on live.com. This operator allows users to see all outgoing links from a top-level domain. This is basically the opposite of the LinkDomain operator, which allows users to see all incoming links to a domain.
Whlie test driving this command, I noticed the following:
1. LinkfromDomain is not [...]
Google announced its acquisition of Youtube after the market closed today in a stock purchase valued at $1.65 billion. I’ve outlined why I thought this is a good purchase for all parties involved in the previous post.
The fallout with this purchase is that Yahoo will most likely speed up its courtship of Facebook, which [...]
There is rampant speculation that Google is close to buying Youtube. Let’s take a look at whether this is a good deal from 3 respects: Google, Youtube, and users.
Google
1. This acquisition will instantly make Google the #1 player in online video, currently the hot trend on the internet.  Outside of search, [...]
Google released Code Search, a search utility to find computer codes across the web. Users can type in a snippet of code they are looking for (including regular expressions), and Google Code Search will return the codes that contain that particular snippet. People can also search by specifying the file name, package name, language, or [...]
Combo search refers to a different way of presenting search results. In the Google world, people are used to see pages after pages full of only web search results, or image search results, or new search results, etc (with the exception of some sponsored links). This is, however, not the way search results are presented [...]
There is an article on Search Engine Watch that talks about the research going on in major search engine labs. Below is what each search engine lab is focusing on:
Microsoft adCenter Labs
Paid search
Contextual ads
Behavioral targeting
Emerging markets
Yahoo Labs
How to know what to believe
Trust models online and propagation
What makes communities thrive and wither
Tagging images and videos, and [...]
