Pandia Post No. 27 Part 2

From the news archive:

Go fish for media files

Searchwebmedia claims to be the first ever search engine that spans both the world of web search results and universe of online multimedia content.
The new search engine is powered by the GoFish Technologies.

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Yahoo!, China and the freedom of expression

Yahoo! chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, and it was this choice that made them subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction in the case against dissident journalist Shi Tao.

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Exploring the web and having some fun with StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting web pages you wouldn’t think to search for.

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Trouble shooting guide for AdSense

Google has made available a troubleshooting guide for AdSense. It starts out with the basics of accessing your account and finding your ad code. It goes on to deal more specifically with HTML issues and gives screen shots from a WYSIWYG HTML editor. You also get the solution to four common problems and some […]

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Andy Beal is back with a new search engine marketing blog

Search engine marketing expert Andy Beal is back with a new blog: The Marketing Pilgrim.

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Planning a Balanced Search Engine Marketing Campaign

With both natural and sponsored listings, brand reinforcement builds trust with users who skip around to multiple engines while searching for your strategic keyword phrases.

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MSN adds operators for RSS search

MSN is first out among the big search engines to add special operators that lets you search for RSS and Atom feeds.

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Chirac takes on Google

(September 1 2005) French president Jaques Chirac is planning a digitization of European libraries in an attempt to challenge the dominance of Anglo-saxon culture online. He hopes the project will rival Google Print.
Chirac fears that Google’s “industrial scale” digitization of Anglo-Saxon library book collections, will lead to the internet being dominated by English […]

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Microsoft acquires Internet telephone company

(September 1 2005) Microsoft has bought Teleo , a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) company.
This is part of a strategy to catch up to Google and Yahoo! on the instant messaging front.

Teleo’s software allows customers to use their PC to make different kinds of VoIP calls: to cell phones, regular phone or PCs. […]

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New search engine marketing tools from SES San Jose

(August 16 2005) Most people involved in search engine marketing and web site optimization will be looking for tools that can make life a little bit easier.
Pandia Guest Writer Paul Bruemmer writes about new search engine marketing software and online tools he found at the recent Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose.

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How to profit from your free reprint articles

(August 28 2005) Pandia guest writer Kalena Jordan tells you how she discovered a marketing secret.
In this article, she tells you how to use your free reprint articles to get visitors to your site that have already decided to trust you and are ready to buy your product.

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New version of Google Desktop Search

(August 22 2005) Google has launched version 2 of its desktop search program. For those of you that still haven’t acquired one of these nifty tools, a desktop search program is a piece of software that lets you search your own hard drive, your emails and the web from the same search form.
“Google Desktop […]

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All-you-can-eat music deal from Yahoo!

(August 20 2005) Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Music Unlimited. This is a subscription service where you pay 4.99 US dollars per month and get access to over 1 million songs.
You can listen to the songs on your PC or transfer them to compatible devices and you can buy burnable downloads for 0.79 US dollars. […]

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The new Trovando multi purpose search service

(August 20 2005) Italians are famous for designing fancy cars and even fancier shoes. Now you can search the web using the new Italian multi purpose search service Trovando.
Trovando means finding in English and the new search service is aptly named. It contains 11 tabs and eight of them take you to a search […]

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Feeds from Google News

(August 9 2005)Google now offers RSS and Atom feeds for Google News.
Feeds are generated for any Google News section (Top news, World, US, Business, Sci/Tech, Health, Sports, and Entertainment.
So if, for instance, you want to be up to date on general entertainment news, all you have to do is select a feed link. […]

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Don’t Pay a Thing If You Don’t Get a Ring

(August 8 2005) The Verizon SuperPages Pay For Calls headline reads: “If Advertisers Don’t Get a Ring, They Don’t Pay a Thing.” Sounds a bit like, “You pay only for the clicks to your website,” right?
Verizon announced its new Pay For Calls system at Search Engine Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo in San Jose, California, […]

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Start.com from Microsoft

(August 4 2005) Microsoft is previewing a new search service called Start.com. It is a start page that can be customized to include news, weather, stock quotes and more.
The personalization is easy: There is a pull-down menu in the top left corner that lets you choose from different feeds. In the top right corner, […]

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Audio search from Yahoo!

(August 4 2005) Today Yahoo! launched the beta version of Audio Search, a service that lets you search millions of audio files. Importantly, this includes songs from iTunes, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, GarageBand, eMusic, Napster, and other sites that let you download music.
Yahoo! is the first search engine to provide a service that searches songs available […]

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The Hidden Value in Search Listings

(August 3 2005) Search engine result listings not only bring you visitors, they also create brand awareness among searchers.
Pandia Guest Writer Paul Bruemmer writes about the branding effect of search engine listings.

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Why title tags are so important

(August 2 2005) If you want to improve your search engine rankings, make sure that you use the HTML web page title tags correctly.
Online marketing expert Derek Vaughan tells you how to write the perfect title tag.

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AOL gets personal

(July 28 2005) America Online or AOL was originally a closed community for subscribers to a bulletin board system outside the Web. Today many of its services are available for everyone.
This also applies to My AOL, which lets you build your own home page with search forms, weather forecasts and more.
You may also […]

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MSN Virtual Earth

(July 26 2005) MSN has launched a beta version of its MSN Virtual Earth service, a response to Google’s similar Google Earth service.
MSN Virtual Earth, which so far covers North America only, lets users search for areal photos of towns and areas, and zoom in on buildings, shops and services.
If you let your mouse […]

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Danny Sullivan launches podcast

(July 26 2005) Search Engine Watch gurus Danny Sullivan and Gary Price are to launch a new podcast service focusing on search engines and search engine marketing.
For those of you that are out of the loop, a podcast is a kind of online broadcasting where the publisher distributes sound files that can be […]

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The Value of Competitor Intelligence

(July 25 2005) If you do not optimize your search engine and text ad campaigns for the right keyword phrases, your competitors may win “your” traffic.
Paul J. Breummer tells you how to use competitor intelligence research to get a competitive edge.

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Kartoo presents new exciting version of Ujiko

(July 1 2005) Last year French Kartoo presented its experimental search service Ujiko, with a new advanced user interface for Yahoo’s search engine index.
There is now a new version of Ujiko available, which looks like a oval game console. In the middle of the console you will find a circle displaying relevant information, like […]

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Google improves personalized search

(June 29 2005) As Pandia reported last year Google has been testing a personalized search service for a time.
Last year’s version asked you to tick off categories of interest from a list, and Google would then adjust the listings, giving priority to web pages of relevance to these topics.
Google continues to ask you […]

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Testing Deepy, a new search engine

(June 26 2005) A Saudi Arabian company is testing a new search engine based on the Gigablast database.
And yes, the company definitely delivers a few useful innovations to Internet searching.
Pandia has more on the Deepy search engine.

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Increasing Quality Inbound Links

(June 21 2005) Inbound links may increase your site’s popularity among web surfers as well as search engines. But how do you get them?
Paul Bruemmer gives some advice on link building in general and on the use of press releases in particular.

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Google Federal Bank Inc.

(June 19 2005) The rumor has it that Google is preparing an online payment service similar to Ebay’s PayPal.
Pandia has more on Google’s plans for providing bank services.

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Repository Search Service from Elsevier’s Scirus

(June 18 2005) Scirus Repository Search is a free science and technology search engine for the institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions.
Scirus Repository Search offers deep, thorough indexing and full-text delivery. The Scirus search engine already indexes many institutional repositories, including articles, presentations, reports etc. Those joining the new Scirus […]

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Yahoo! Search Subscriptions Beta

(June 16 2005) Yahoo has launched Yahoo! Search Subscriptions Beta. This is a new service that allows you to search subscription sites not usually accessible by search engines. Subscribers will then have direct access to the articles.
At the time of launch, the service includes the following sources: Consumer Reports, FT.com (60 days), Forrester Research, […]

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Google adds Sitemap feeds for URL submissions

(June 4 2005) Google lets webmasters submit lists of new webpages for Google to crawl.
This will help Google getting accurate information about your web pages, updates and site structure, and may even help you — as a webmaster — get more of your pages indexed.
Read more about the new Google Sitemap file format.

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The search engine technology of the future finds “hidden” information

(June 1 2005) At the University at Buffalo researchers have recently finalized a new search technology that is to find “hidden” information on regular web sites.
This time we are not talking about information that is not available to search engine spiders. Rather, this is a project attempting to interpret the information found in an […]

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