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Newsletter Archive: 2008

Google to Provide More Transparency for Customized Search Results!
Considered to be one of the most tight lipped search engines of all, it is always a daunting task to make Google reveal anything.

Date: 2008-07-31

Microsoft Talks About 'BrowseRank'- Beyond PageRank?
News.com, reports that a Microsoft research team has recently come up with a new concept known as BrowseRank. Through this concept, Microsoft has tried to teach Google a thing or two about ranking pages.

Date: 2008-07-30

Former Google Employees Try Being Cuil
Cuil is a search engine that came to life on July 28, 2008. Cuil was conceived by former employees of Google. Cuils founders are Anna Patterson, tom Costello, Russell Power and Louis Monier, all former Google employees.

Date: 2008-07-29

Yahoo! Finally Closes Curtains on Ambassador!
In May this year, we had informed our readers that Yahoo! was possibly in the process of dropping its Search Marketing Program called 'Ambassador'.

Date: 2008-07-25

Google Knol Launches
You know how dj vu is? Im feeling that today, since its been seven months since Google Knol was announced, and theyre just now getting around to going live.

Date: 2008-07-24

Social Search Just Got Serious
I've written in the past that these upstart new search engines won't unseat Google, and nothing about Delver changes my mind. However, I do think Delver is worth watching, because it might show us the way to a new level of search...

Date: 2008-07-23

Google Lesson No. 2: Technologies behind Ranking
It's back to school again with the second lesson in Google ranking: Technologies behind Google ranking. As we mentioned last week, Amit from Google had promised to continue feeding us with more information about Google ranking and...

Date: 2008-07-22

Google & Microsoft's Quarterly Earnings Upset
Both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) reported quarterly earnings yesterday evening: it was not a pretty picture for either company.

Date: 2008-07-21

Yahoo & Microsoft - That Sound is Google Sucking up Your Profits!
While Yahoo is busy slurping, Google keeps sucking market share like an out of control turbine powered Hoover vacuum cleaner. Sucking the ad dollars right out of Yahoos pockets, that is.

Date: 2008-07-18

Webmasters Still Feeling Aftershocks Of Google SERP Changes
At the beginning of this month, I had reported about the Google SERP changes for July 2008 along with the confusion and chaos it had created.

Date: 2008-07-17

Google Refines its Flash Indexing!
At the very beginning of the month, I had informed our readers about Google's effort to enhance its Flash indexing technology. It was planning to develop a new algorithm that would enable it to index textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.

Date: 2008-07-16

Google School: Lessons in Google Ranking
The Google Search Quality Team have recently taken us back to school with a number of postings to teach us a little about the ins and out of the Google search engine.

Date: 2008-07-15

Google Sheds Light on Search Engine Ranking Factors
Google search engine ranking team Google Fellow Amit Singhal published a blog post Introduction to Google Ranking at the official Google blog. While not going into the specific nuts-and-bolts factors influencing SERPs, Amit outlined a number...

Date: 2008-07-14

Yahoo Now the BOSS of 6,602,224,175 Volunteers
Forget the 20,000+ employees that help Google grow its market share every day. Yahoo just signed on 6,602,224,175 volunteers to help it grow its share of the search space! 6,602,224,175? A pretty impressive number, huh?

Date: 2008-07-11

Google Explains Ranking (Basically)
Today, Google Fellow Amit Singhal posts on the Official Google blog explaining Googles ranking system. But before you all start salivating and clicking, note that this is a very high level overview"no secrets given away.

Date: 2008-07-10

Google Releases 3D World Lively
Google just released Lively, a 3D world where you can chat with others and create your own rooms. Traces of this program appeared back in 2007 under the name of My World (this project also nicknamed Google metaverse; TomHTML...

Date: 2008-07-09

Yahoo: Make Us an Offer (We Won't Refuse)
Suddenly, I feel like I work for Soap Digest. But with the latest dont-miss developments in The Young and the Profitless, we had to get a jump start on Season Two!

Date: 2008-07-08

Google Sends More Traffic To Yahoo Than Yahoo Itself!
In recent research from Hitwise that may surprise some (and perhaps not others), it appears that properties owned by Yahoo! actually receive more traffic from Google rather than from Yahoo! Search.

Date: 2008-07-07

Microsoft Planning Another Yahoo Run
Sometimes we just cant let dead horses lie. Thats okay, neither can Microsoft. After months of more drama than a daytime soap (ahem) with the attempted merger/acquisition of Yahoo, Microsoft pulled their offer back in May.

Date: 2008-07-03

How Microsoft Could Compete With Google
Yahoo! is back around the $20 range again today. If Microsoft could find a way to buy them they could quickly gain some search marketshare, but presuming Microsoft builds a memorable search brand they could probably catch up through other acquisitions cheaper.

Date: 2008-07-02

Google Affiliate Network- A Platform for Advertisers!
In March this year, I had informed our readers, that Google had finally acquired DoubleClick, which is a leading Internet advertising service provider.

Date: 2008-07-01

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