Yahoo! Says, “I Got The Music In Me.” Napster and iPod beware. Yahoo! has just rolled out Yahoo Music Unlimited with pricing that undercuts the market by one-third. While Napster charges $14.95 per month for unlimited access to it’s music catalog, Yahoo Music Unlimited is charges just $4.99 per month. This price includes access to...Read More
Google has introduced its new Web Accelerator beta, which is supposed to “help web pages show up in a snap.” Designed for DSL and Cable users, this new product is supposed to make results appear even more quickly. Sorry, 56K modem users. Unfortunately, the beta has now been closed to the public. This posting appears...Read More
A fellow named, Philipp Lenssen, reported in his Google Blogoscoped weblog that long-time holder of the number 1 spot in Google for the coveted search term “search engine optimization”, SEO Inc. has received a penalty from Google and falling from the top rankings into oblivion. Actually, Mr. Lenssen reported that SEO Inc. had been banned...Read More
According to an article in MyWay, AskJeeves’ Chief Executive Steve Berkowitz announced that his search engine will be cutting the amount of ads it shows atop the results pages by 31-percent. The report also states, “The company’s tests show that a smaller number of ads boosts the frequency with which people use the site and...Read More
I spy with my little eye some spyware on a lawyer’s PC. Not a good move according to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer who is suing Internet marketer, Intermix for placing spyware on millions of PC’s including 3.7 million downloads on New Yorker’s PC’s alone. According to an article in Yahoo! News, “Spitzer’s civil...Read More
Google is beta testing its new site-targeted AdWords feature so that advertisers may pick the websites on which they want their Google ads to appear. According to Google, “Since Google first introduced AdWords, advertisers have asked us for the ability to run their ads on specific websites. Site targeting gives our users that ability, while...Read More
When Microsoft’s long-awaited Longhorn operating system is finally rolled out later this year or early next year it will include a new document format that they have dubbed “Metro.” Metro is based on XML (extensible markup language), and is expected to rival Adobe’s PDF (portable document format). According to Computer World, “The Metro technology is...Read More
If you haven’t already heard, on Friday, April 22, 2005 Google began its toolbar Page Rank update, for real. Whether it was an early April Fool’s Day joke or a burp, glitch or hitch in the update, reports were on March 25, 2005 that Google was updating the toolbar PR and the update did not...Read More
Every once in a blue moon a new free tool comes along that is so useful for Webmasters and SEO specialists that it just has to be written about. A company called Domain-Pop.com has come up with such a free tool for checking a website’s back links. This back link checker adds a couple of...Read More
An article in USA Today states that Google has lost its ICANN challenge to Froogles.com owner, Richard Wolfe. Google tried making the case that Wolfe’s Froogles.com was infringing upon its Froogle.com shopping site and the Google trademark because the domain names were too similar to each other. A panel of three New York judges voted...Read More
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