January, 2007
Google’s small business search solution turns 2
Google’s Mini is now two years old! To commemorate the second birthday, the enterprise team has developed an upgrade with greater security features and the ability to search across various business applications, all from the same search box. Google als made the Mini a better fit for public sites by integrating Google Analytics and adding the [...]
More new Features for the Yahoo! Site Explorer
Seems Yahoo! has added some more new features to their Site Explorer Service. Beside the Site Explorer Badge (see my post from yesterday) the update contains these new functions: • Site Authentication using META tags: For those of you who cannot upload an authentication file to your site, such as a blog, you will now [...]
Yahoo! adds Link Badge to Site Explorer
Yahoo added a new feature called live badge to their Site Explorer: “Add a live badge to your blog or website that queries Site Explorer for the number of links to your site or page on the web. Select the type of link counts you want, the size and look of the badge and then [...]
Google PageRank Update – 26/01/2007
It seems that only 2 weeks after the last PageRank Update another Update is going on.
Google launched Google Testing Blog
Google launched a new blog, called “Google Testing Blog“, earlier this week. The Google Engineering Manager, Allen Hutchison, wrote in his “Welcome Post”: “We decided to start this blog to share our experiences with the rest of the developer community, and so that we can learn about some of your smart solutions to the same [...]
Yahoo! Reports Positive 2006 Financial Results
Yahoo! released the financial results for the year 2006 earlier today. “I am pleased with the progress Yahoo! made in the fourth quarter. We successfully addressed many of the challenges we faced in the third quarter and made aggressive moves to deliver on a number of strategic goals that we set forth for the organization,†[...]
Microsoft will donate if you use Live Search
Microsoft recently announced the launch of two new programs to help children in need. All that you have to do, to help them is to try Live Search on one of the “click for the cause†sites, and each search you do will add more money to Microsoft’s donation. The two organizations Microsoft is working with in [...]
Yahoo! Search Index Update
Priyank Garg from Yahoo! posted the following on the Yahoo! Search Blog: “We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may be seeing some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index throughout this process. This update [...]