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How Much Demand Is There for Open Search?
Yahoo's Build your Own Search Service, otherwise known as "BOSS," is described by Yahoo as "a truly open API with as few…
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Is Google Sexist?
In the movie version of the TV cartoon South Park, the boys ask Chef how to make women happy. Without thinking about to whom he’s talking, Chef tells them the secret, and the boys go off in search of it. If they’d searched on Google with strict safe filtering, though, they’d never have found it, an anticlimactic event to which many women might sniff and…
YouTube Enhances Embedded Search and Audio Library
YouTube has a couple of new things going on worth noting. First off, if you nave not noticed by now, embedded YouTube videos now carry a search box at the top. This only appears when you mouseover the top portion of the video, and disappears when you move away.
Embed and Upload High Quality Videos with Facebook
Facebook has just started allowing users to upload higher quality videos, and start embedding them on other sites in classic embeddable-video fashion. Facebook launched its video feature last year, but has not offered the ability to upload high quality videos until now. Chris Putnam at the Facebook Blog writes:
Nielsen Looks at Online Retail Category Performance
Nielsen is sharing some interesting data today regarding online retail web traffic during the holiday season. This data shows that both Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic were up by 10% each when compared to last year.
Link Building With Articles
There are many different ways that a link can be built. One that is often overlooked but which can have huge rewards is writing and submitting articles. The reason article writing and submission is arguably one of the best of the link building methods is that it not only functions as a link building exercise but also a traffic source. Honestly, can you think of…
