Google Labs have developed technology to analyze audio contained within YouTube videos and make it searchable. Initially they have set up a Google Elections Video Search gadget which focuses on the the US election. The implications of this technology are huge. Videos have always been a very compelling way of disseminating information but the words [...]
Google search is good – the best available. I use it all the time, but recently three articles set me thinking about the future of search and the level of innovation in search accuracy. On September 7, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user [...]
Google Chrome is a new, yet to be released open-source Web browser from Google. According to Google, the main reason for its existence is to provide a firmer foundation for increasingly complex, mission critical and JavaScript driven applications (such as Google Apps). As they say, a normal HTML Web page crashing a browser is one [...]
Earlier this week, Social Target (http://www.socialtarget.com/), an independent social media research and consulting firm, announced the publication of the second edition of the Guide to Social Media Analysis. According to Social Target’s press release, the report includes information on social media monitoring and analysis tools from the following companies: Andiamo Systems, Attensity, Attentio, Beyond Analysis, [...]
The Live Search Webmaster Center Blog reported yesterday that the backlinks feature has been made actionable again. The linkdomain attribute feature had been taken away in 2007 and then later a subset of back link information was included in the Live Search webmaster tools. The new feature appears to return accurate results and gives the [...]
There are 3 options as to how you can format your keyword phrases within the PPC control panel: Exact match: Exact match words are placed between square brackets (e.g. [Web site hosting updates]). The advert only appears if someone does a search for the exact phrase, without any additional terms. So, in this case, if [...]
The new search engine, Cuil, seems to have caught the imagination of SEO commentators with much written in the last few days. Cuil’s claims to fame include a very large search index (121,617,892,992 web pages at the time of writing) and founders who (mostly) hail from Google. The design of the site is crisp and [...]
HitTail have anounced that, as of August 5th, they will no longer offer their free Basic service to new users. Existing users wil still be able to use the service. So I would strongly recommend that anyone who hasn’t tried the service takes a look at it prior to August 5, 2008. HitTail works by [...]
During the last few years I have created many Web sites and one of the critical things I have come to realize is that sites render differently in different browsers – sometimes disastrously differently. Of the browsers that your users are mostly likely to be using, IE6 was a horror for misinterpreting CSS styled sites [...]
In my last post I mentioned Ann Smarty’s comprehensive article about SEO tools. One of the tools I looked at is a search engine SPAM detector. The tool looks for keyword stuffing, doorway farms and hidden text, but is not able to find Javascript or CSS positioning/layering based techniques. I didn’t really think I would [...]
