What is Real Time & Social Search?

Twitter, Google & Bing – What is Real Time & Social Search?
Real time search and social search are two different things. The main things that make them different are the timeliness of the information they provide and the sources from which they are obtained.  Twitter, Google, and Bing respectively have their own ways of providing [...]

The Future of Yahoo! According to BING

With a deal being reached between Yahoo! and Microsoft to integrate their respective technologies and strengths, there will be several advantages that will be attractive for the SEO market. The licensing of Yahoo! core technologies should provide several new features for which Microsoft’s new Bing search engine will be able to take advantage. Yahoo! will [...]

Black Hat SEO Ideas

To keep abreast of internet marketing techniques, there are several ‘out of the box’ methods that I use for research. One of which is monitoring Black Hat SEO discussions. According to Wikipedia, Black Hat SEO attempts to improve rankings in ways that are disapproved of by the search engines, or involve deception.
I regularly visit [...]

Fake Insurance Leads Cost $4,800,000

Here is a story to consider if you are thinking about buying leads from another website. MostChoice hired a contractor, Brandon Byrd, to submit falls leads to its site. Byrd purportedly worked up to 30 hours a week for over nine months, and then turned around and knowingly sold these leads to Netquote.com.
While this [...]

Google Finance Streams Real Time Stock Quotes

Google’s Finance section now streams stock quotes in real time, a service not offered by most other financial information portals. Anyone can view these quotes for free and no user registration is required. Most recently, it expanded this feature to include additional quotes. Read on for more details.
A check of Dell Inc. and Intel Corp. [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo Hostile Proxy Fight?

After the failure of software manufacturer Microsoft to directly acquire popular search engine and portal Yahoo, a billionaire investor has initiated a hostile proxy fight aimed at replacing the Yahoo board of directors. Yahoo responded by delaying its yearly board meeting and releasing a lengthy letter criticizing the investor’s move to compel a merger between [...]

MIVA To Use Google Adsense Service

In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, MIVA said that it “agreed to exclusively use Google Inc.’s WebSearch and AdSense services for approved Web sites and applications.” according to the AP.
Of course the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed…when are they ever.
MIVA hopes to earn revenue off of displaying Google Ads on approved web [...]