Category: Portal tools and services

The Social Web is changing web search and the search engine business. This change poses challenges and brings opportunities. Here are some current trends that will change the shape of search in the yeas to come.

Google Friend Connect lets webmaster add gadgets or applications that connects their sites to the social networks more easily.

Alltop SEO is an all-in-one page where you easily browse through the latest news from all the best SEO blogs. It’s a surefire way to tap into the SEO hivemind.

It turns out that Google has added survey forms to Google Docs. You may now invite respondents by email and get them to fill out a form online.

Google Sites allows anyone to put up a collaboration web site for project management, team coordination, a company intranet or extranet, and other types of online information gathering where several people are contributing.

Yahoo! is experimenting with integrating del.icio.us bookmark data into regular search results.

The 15 seconds method to add Google maps and satelite images to your web site and blog.

Google claims that being in the supplemental index will pose less of a problem in the future.
To simplify: Google operates with two main indexes of web search results: (1) the regular database and (2) supplemental results.
Supplemental results consists of what Google considers to be less important pages. These could be pages with no or very [...]