Search Engines
Bye Bye Accoona
Accoona.com, the site that started back in 2005 have finally given their last breath, admitting the touch competition and how hard it is to maintain such an expensive service up and running. Not that I was a heavy user of it, but I did like their Business Search service. Fare well.
Cuil below expectations
Cuil is a new search engine just launched to the public with a claimed index of 120 billion pages. Google on the other hand says they have 1 trillion urls, not all of them are indexes because some are spam or duplicate contents. No specific number on the index size it self. Anyways, doing my [...]
Google Ads on Yahoo Search Pages Almost A Reality
I left the soccer pitch yesterday 11 PM to see an SMS forward from a friend about TechCrunch Twitter alert, Yahoo-Google announcement 1:30 PM today. This is gotta be about the advertising partnership. And indeed, I woke up today to read about the Google & Yahoo public joint announcement declaring they are going into an [...]
Use Google Suggestion for any search engine
For Firefox users, this is a small hack that I think might come in handy sometimes. Firefox Search Engines support on-the-fly auto-complete, which IE7 as I know doesn’t. This feature however is rarely utilized, but the default Google search engine luckily does use it. It comes pretty useful sometimes, especially when you want to search [...]
Soon your Google Ads may showup on Yahoo!
Google and Yahoo! have been undergoing a testing period for the efficiency of delivering Google Ads alongside Yahoo search results. This is to measure how the ad click-throughs are compared to Yahoo’s own ads. Yahoo themselves estimate that Google Ads bring 60-70% more revenue than Yahoo. This is because of ad relevancy for one, and [...]
SEO Using Proper Image Labeling
IMG ALT attribute is an alternative text that is displayed to the user when the image is not found, giving the user a hint about what the image is. Typical example would go as this: <img src=”/images/google-logo.jpg” alt=”Google logo” /> In most cases, you normally expect that the image will be shown rather than alternative [...]
Is the Google hype over?
Google, the company which started 10 years ago as a Phd project, moved into a garage for a while, and then 6 years later went on public offering, turning half of it’s employees into millionaires over night. The company which was chosen as the strongest brand in the US, and best place to work for [...]