Yahoo Search ResultsYahoo announced support of new tags for giving more flexibility to webmaster and web site owner ,that manage how pages and documents are crawled and indexed by Yahoo! Search. Yahoo now extending support of page level exclusion tags — NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET, NOFOLLOW – that be beneficial to provide additional control for archiving [...]

French Google blog Zorgloob has what they say are screenshots from a Google employee showing a certain “GG Score” value in action. Apparently, this value and others are displayed when a Google engineer internally looks at search results, perhaps through a certain special tool. The full line below the snippet for www.ffp.asso.fr for instance reads (my line [...]

  Google is missing out to celebrate US patriotic holidays with their special logo doodles, some think, and created a Google Memorial Day Logo Design Contest earlier this year. You can find the collected creations that will now be suggested to Google. The latest “controversy”: Google put Sputnik into their logo… a (gasp) communist satellite*! “Google [...]

The neat Google Alert service lets you subscribe to certain search queries to get updates emailed to you. For instance, you can subscribe to mentions of your website name in Google News. The newest member in the Alerts family is Video. I subscribed to the query “google” to give this a try, setting the alert [...]

Yahoo just acquired Zimbra for 350 million bucks, TechCrunch reports and Yahoo confirms. In Zimbra’s own, slightly cryptic words… Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration – email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. The Zimbra server is available for Linux, Mac OS X, appliances, and virtualization platforms. [...]

With the start of the Twenty20 world championship, cricket fever is upon legions of enthusiasts. To make it easier for you to indulge your interest in a game John Fowles characterized as “chess made flesh,” we’ve simplified your search for cricket scores. Just type [cricket] in a Google search box and you’ll see a brief [...]

Google Spreadsheets just got a bit more powerful. There are four new cell functions to automatically import external data: importXml, importData, importHtml and googleReader. For instance, importXML has two parameters, URL and an XPath query. Entering =importXML(”http://waxy.org/links/”, “//a/@href”)into a Google Spreadsheets cell and hitting return will load all links from the Waxy.org link blog in the [...]

Reporters Without Borders writes that China introduced a new “self-discipline pact” signed by 20 blog service providers in China. Two of these are Yahoo.cn and MSN.cn. According to the article, bloggers are now “encouraged” to register blogs under their real names, putting an end to anonymous blogging. Reporters Without Borders speculates that having Yahoo and [...]

On January 7 2006 Google announced a video store service on top of Google Video. You were able to purchase videos such as NBA games, Charlie Rose interviews, or shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (in the US at least). You were also able to set a purchase price for videos you uploaded yourself. Today, [...]

There’s nothing I like better than when Google AdWords decides to make our lives as search marketers just a bit easier. If you’re interested in working smarter and improving campaign results, be sure to check out two of the more recent reporting roll-outs – Google’s new Placement Performance Reports and Search Query Reports. Google Placement Performance [...]