Yahoo Gives Webmasters Way to Embed Media in SERPs

Yahoo has introduced a new way for site owners to enhance their Yahoo Search results using SearchMonkey. If you have flash videos, games, presentations, etc. you can have them show up right in Yahoo's SERPs. Yahoo shares an example of how Hulu added the following code: <link rel="image_src" href="http://thumbnails.hulu.com/9/967/32912_145×80_generated__VfWxSNY3rESG1ntOzexNRQ.jpg" />

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Twitter: A Real Time Pulse Of Customer Satisfaction

Sydney, Australia-based web developer Michael Air recounts how his “light bulb” moment about real time search came as he was looking for a new hosting company. Instead of looking on Google, he consulted Twitter about a specific brand. “Ten pages in and 99 percent of comments were saying how bad that hosting company was,” he told Webproworld. Twitter, then, becomes a kind of collective representation…

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Social Sites Surpass Email Usage

Social networking and blogging have become more popular than sending email, according to a new report from Nielsen. More than two-thirds (67%) of the global online population now goes online to visit social networks and blogs. "Social networking has become a fundamental part of the global online experience," says John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen Online.

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Gmail Tasks Lab Gets New Useful Features

Back in December, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs called "Tasks" that provides Gmail users with a window to keep track of their...tasks (go figure). Today, they have announced a couple new features for Tasks. Users can now easily move a task (along with its sub-tasks) to another list by clicking on the arrow (or using Shift-Enter) to the right of the task,…

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