Building Your Own Local Search Engine
Quite a few bloggers out there have clued-in to how using Eurekster’s Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for their users.
Yellowpages Launches New Mobile Search Tools
Yellowpages.com has launched two new mobile search products, including one for Apple’s iPhone and a free downloadable application for other cell phones.
Google Redesigns Gadget Directory
The iGoogle gadget directory has been completely redesigned.
Change In Yahoo Rankings
Yahoo! Search is updating some important changes to its algorithm and index.
Cisco, Google, And The U.N. Take On Poverty
Google has partnered with many companies and organizations, but a new development is far larger, and should have much more of a real-world impact, than anything we expected to see: the search giant is now working with Cisco and the United Nations to decrease global poverty.
Free 3D Modeling Added to Live Maps
Windows Live Maps continues to do amazing things with its 3D view, adding an experience that in many ways matches or surpasses Google Earth, all while running in nothing more than your regular web browser. The latest new feature is the ability to add 3D models to the map, a feature Google Earth accomplishes with Google SketchUp, and Live Maps now manages with the 3DVIA Technology Preview, a new, free online application developed by Dassault Systèmes.
AdWords Leak Raises Ranking Questions
A French blog presented a glimpse of Google’s search rankings hitherto unseen by anybody outside the AdWords sales department. The big discovery: dollar amounts ascribed organic rankings, among other bits of information.
Misspellings: The Fate of the Keywords Meta Tag
Meta Tags were once a major player in SEO. With the advancement of search engine algorithms, meta tags become less and less significant. The description meta tag is still used for your search engine snippets, but the keywords meta tag has been disregarded by all the major search engines.
5min Earns $5 Million In Funding
For a video-sharing site known as 5min, there’s good news and bad news. The good: it just brought in $5 million through a round of funding. The bad: about half of it is now owned by investors.
Social Networks And Advertising
A third of online advertisers in Europe plan to create their own profiles on social networking sites in the next year.