At one time, IAC’s CEO Barry Diller thought his Ask.com search engine could take on Google.

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Aaron Wall posted an example of a large brand manipulating Google through an old spam technique. In short, they were buying expired domains to piggy back off of the link popularity and anchor text of those old domains. Aaron wall…

There are several complaints at both WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums that the Yahoo Search Marketing campaigns are missing all their data. One person received a response from Yahoo, where Yahoo presumingly said: Upon researching your account we found there is…

Wired published an article last night named Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring. Here is a snippet of that article: The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web..

A couple months ago, we wrote on how Google Alerts tweaked their algorithm to be more more quality focused and send out less alerts. A recent Google Web Search Help thread has more on how Google Alerts works from Google…

One of the things we do to help our SEO efforts is to write professional articles about our niche. We believe this is a great way to get links, and anyone can do this in their own niche.

Their objectives may be different but both Google and the “investment arm of the CIA” are funding the same startup: Recorded Future. According to a piece in Wired both In-Q-Tel (the CIA investment firm) and Google will have a seat on the company’s board

Before the revamped Google Image Search design went live 9 days ago, there was a clear and quick way to report offensive images to Google. In fact, Google released the report offensive image feature just about a year ago, due to complaints

A WebmasterWorld thread has Zeus, someone well known in the SEO forum space as tracking the image search engines, as not speaking positively about Bing Image Search. The thread talks how Bing is slower than Google to index new content…