Yahoo to Start Keeping Tabs on Your Searches

I got in touch with a couple of people from Yahoo including Tom Chi, Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo Search, about their new feature called Search Pad. Essentially, it keeps track of your searches, figures out when you are researching things, and stores results of interest in a virtual notepad you can use for reference. The following video will give you a pretty…

Hotmail Rolls Out New Features

Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail or just Hotmail to most, has seen a number of improvements in recent memory. Most notably it got an updated look, and they made everything faster. Now they are rolling out a number of new features, which if users aren't seeing yet, they will be very soon. New features include:

Darren Rowse Shares AdSense Advice

Darren Rowse is a blogger best known for his work on ProBlogger.net and Digital Photography School.  To say that he's successful would be an understatement - revenue from ads paid his mortgage - and today, Rowse shared some tips for making money with AdSense.

Google Looks At Itself Through Your Eyes

What captures a user's attention on their screen can play a large part in whether or not they click through to a search engine result. Naturally, that makes finding out where eyeballs go on a SERP vital to their overall search experience, and hence, vital to Google's strategy. Google of course obtains this knowledge through extensive eye tracking research. The company has a post up…

Facebook, MySpace Too Popular For Own Good

Social networks can be used to waste time, and members have also been known to encounter a virus or two.  Now, decision makers at Apple and the Maryland General Assembly seem to feel these problems outweigh the positives, as new bans on the two most popular social networks have been reported.