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Google announced that they are starting to push towards a global login. They are calling this global login a “federated login.” I feel this could be both good and bad.

I feel it would be a great thing because it would help make websites easier to use, being able to use any one login to login to a site. I feel it would be bad because what if that single login is compromised? Just like any single login system, there’s always that security threat of being compromised.

I have a lot invested into Google’s products already through Google AdSense, Google AdWords, Google Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Analytics, just to name a few. If my identity was ever compromised, it would mean a lot of bad things for me. (more…)

Just like the sea of content on the web, there is immense mix and mash of technologies that go into creating web sites. HTML, CSS, XHTML and their different versions to name a few.

Opera is planning to make available a search engine that indexes this structural information. (more…)

Time for Google AdWords to make it rain, AdWords advertisers are now allowed to bid on beer and champagne! Previously, the only alcoholic terms which could be bid on by sellers of the products were wine related terms.

Now, according to Gonzo SEO, Google has now opened up its alcohol restrictions. (more…)

I just received notification that SpyFu Kombat was launched today.

SpyFu Kombat is an add-on to the classic SpyFu online service by VelocityScape. For those who are not familiar with SpyFu at all, have a look at my article from 2006 where I described the features of the service in greater detail.

SpyFu is the commercial successor of the popular and free tool GoogSpy, which is not available anymore. SpyFu continues to offer some free information, but most data are only available to registered and paying customers.

In simple words, SpyFu is a competitive intelligence tool to evaluate and compare domains.

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Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a widely used, vigorously discussed and actively updated reference resource. The “usefulness” of the tools listed below is based on the following features of Wikipedia:

• it is popular;
• it is user generated;
• it is attentively monitored and edited;
• it stores a huge amount of material on various topics;
• it ranks well in Google organic search.

Now let’s see the three Wiki tools, SEOs and bloggers can find very useful:

1. Wikipedia article traffic statistics - the value is pretty obvious: if wiki ranks on top for your main (or one of your) targeted key terms, this tool can help you estimate how much traffic it can generate (note: Google is not the only Wikipadia traffic source of course, but the tool is a good traffic estimator in itself):

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According to a Bloomberg article covering comScore numbers (cough cough), Yahoo has gained search share over the last month while Microsoft has dropped a bit. Yahoo now has a 20.2% search market share, up from 19.6%, with Microsoft dropping to 8.5%, down from 8.9%. Google also showed a small dip, dropping one tenth of a percentage point down to 62.9% from 63%.

Why exactly, given Yahoo’s troubles with keeping employees, keeping their stocks up and keeping themselves from being takenover; why would Yahoo search share be increasing?

I believe it is because of multiple reasons where Yahoo still benefits as being an Internet start page and extremely popular content network (more…)

While social networking is nothing new today: starting from the early age of Myspace people establish and maintain connections online. A new people search service PeopleJar offers a new (somewhat innovative) focus on social connecting versus social networking.

The whole site is built with “Search and Be Found” concept in mind: from the robust search feature to networks and profile creation. (more…)

Many of our customers are companies who sell online marketing services to small businesses. When they come to us for sales leads, they usually know exactly what they want - what profile of businesses they‘re looking for and from which sites they’d like us to get the leads. Nevertheless, we do…

It used to be that, if you hoped Google would index a PDF file, you had to create a PDF that was text-based, not image-based; Googlebot couldn’t recognize the content of scanned or image-based documents. According to an announcement today, that’s no longer the case.
Google says…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

Tools of the SEO Trade In SEO, success is as much about your toolkit as it is about your skillset. Without great tools at your disposal, your ability to get…