Digital Media Consumption Making Big Gains

Americans are increasing their overall media consumption and multi-tasking is playing a bigger role, according Nielsen's new Three Screen Report. In the 2nd quarter of 2009 the number of people watching mobile video increased 70 percent from last year and people who watch video online increased their viewing 46 percent during the same time period. In addition, the average American TV consumption remains at an…

Digg Makes Changes to Nofollow Policy

Digg announced today that it has tweaked its policy on the nofollow attribute on external links.  "We've made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community," says Digg's John Quinn. "These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality…

Google Improves AdSense Competitive Ad Filter

In August, Google announced that it was upgrading its category filtering feature for AdSense, and extending the feature into more countries (like the US and the UK). Today, Google announced that they have added two additional improvements to the Competitive Ad Filter.

Yahoo Looking for Some of that Twitter Action

Remember Yahoo Meme? It's a microblogging site from Yahoo that appears to be the company's attempt at a Twitter clone. Instead of birds however, its theme is dogs. The site was has been available in Portuguese and Spanish, but now it is available in English. Well, "available" is a strong word. You can go to the site and read what it says in English, but…

Google Expands Reach of Arabic Google News

Google launched four new Arabic versions of Google News for Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. According to Google, there are over 40 million Arabic-speaking Internet users, so you might say these versions of Google News are long overdue.