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Yahoo “Might Be Open” To ...
Written by firstrank on September 21, 2009
Joseph Tartakoff reported, "During an update on the status of the home page, Yahoo senior director Burke Culligan told analysts that the company was not opposed to letting users replace Yahoo search with Microsoft's Bing or even Google."
Culligan apparently explained, "Right now, we're not doing that but long-term that may not be out of the question. We want to provide the best experience for the user and, in some way, if that was the best experience for the user we might be open to that."
This led Kit Eaton to speculate that the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is falling apart. Or perhaps ...
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Google Is Really Huge in India and Br...
Written by firstrank on September 17, 2009
New comScore data has shown that Google's services are receiving a significant amount of attention in India and Brazil.
"It's interesting that the dynamics of Google usage would be so similar in Brazil and India given that the two markets are on opposite sides of the world and quite different culturally from one another," said Alex Banks, managing director of comScore Latin America.
"As it turns out, there are interesting similarities between Brazil and India as emerging Internet markets," added Banks. "Google's prevalence in these markets can perhaps best be explained by the fact that the time at which these markets really ...
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Google Acquires Web Security Firm reC...
Written by firstrank on September 17, 2009
Google Acquires reCAPTCHA. It provides CAPTCHAs to over 100,000 sites on the web. CAPTCHA is seen when you are signing up for services or buying products online and guards against spam. Google will use reCAPTCHA to detect fraud or spam. It will also help Google to improve the quality of its book- and newspaper-scanning project.
Luis von Ahn, co-founder of reCAPTCHA, and Will Cathcart, Google Product Manager explain:
Since computers have trouble reading squiggly words like these, CAPTCHAs are designed to allow humans in but prevent malicious programs from scalping tickets or obtain millions of email accounts for spamming. But there’s a ...
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Adobe Acquires Omniture for $1.8 Bill...
Written by firstrank on September 17, 2009
Adobe Acquires Omniture for $1.8 Billion
"Adobe customers are looking to us for solutions to deliver engaging experiences and more effectively monetize their content and applications online," says Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe. "This is a game Shantanu Narayenchanger for both Adobe and our customers. We will enable advertisers, media companies and e-tailers to realize the full value of their digital assets."
Adobe says the deal will enable advertisers, ad agencies, publishers, and e-tailers to achieve greater ROI from their digital investments while improving the end users' experience.
Adobe software competes with big brand product like Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Apple ...
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Read News Fast with Google’s Fast F...
Written by firstrank on September 15, 2009
Google launched Fast Flip in Google Labs
Reading news online is hectic because media rich pages include lots of files, images and it takes longer time to load. Google has got the solution for it which is Fast Flip. It gives you experience like you are reading magazine.
A Quick Description about FastFlip from Krishna bharat (Distinguished Engineer, Google News)
Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top ...
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Yahoo Sells $150 Million Shares of Al...
Written by firstrank on September 15, 2009
Yahoo acquired 1.14 percent stake at alibaba.com. Reports prepared by Reuters, says that yahoo will sell the stake at 4.0-6.4 percent discount on alibaba.com.
Yahoo still holds 40 percent stake in alibaba’s parent company, alibaba group co-founded by Chinese entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack M.
Yahoo paid more than $1 billion in 2005 as part of its investment into Alibaba Group.
Vice president at Alibaba Group John Spelich said, "We are pleased to learn of the Yahoo! decision because having broader ownership of Alibaba.com with increased liquidity and support among institutional investors is what Alibaba.com hoped to achieve when it released the ...
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Twitter announces new terms of servic...
Written by firstrank on September 13, 2009
Yesterday, twitter.com/1strank and all twitters got mail from “Biz Stone” regarding the new terms of services of twitter. Some issues like advertising, tweet ownership, APIs and Spam.
"The revisions more appropriately reflect the nature of Twitter and convey key issues such as ownership. For example, your tweets belong to you, not to Twitter," says Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone.
With regards to advertising, they're leaving "the door wide open." Stone says they want to "keep their options open." So nothing concrete there.
As far as APIs, Stone says developers using Twitter APIs authorize Twitter to make content available. There is a separate set of ...
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Social Media Optimization For Your We...
Written by firstrank on September 12, 2009
Social Media Optimization is a technique which is increasing popularity through online communities or networking. There are different techniques such as RSS feeds, viral marketing, social bookmarking buttons, image and video sharing websites and blogging.
SMO is an essential part of Online Management Reputation (ORM) and Search Engine Reputation Management (SERM) for those who care about their online presence.
Origin of Social Media Optimization: It was first introduced by Rohit Bhargava.
He Explains the Original Five Rules of Social Media Optimization.
Increase your linkability.
Tagging and bookmarking.
Reward inbound links.
Help your content travel.
Get Communities Connected.
By joining, conversing with the communities. Participating in communities helps your ...
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Landing Page Optimization
Written by firstrank on September 11, 2009
Landing Page Optimization is nothing but a webpage optimization. It displays Search Engine Result Pages or advertisement.
Content of landing page is to be more informative from visitor’s search criteria. Try to track new user of your landing page and what are they searching for etc.
More Specific Content gives you higher rating, response.
First Impressions always count for web.
Researchers say “It takes less than 50 milliseconds to decide if you like website”.
Multivariate landing page optimization (MVLPO) is for visual elements (graphic, text etc) on a webpage.
The Experimental design of MVLPO was performed by moskowitz Jacobs Inc. in 1998 as a demonstration project ...
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The Concept of Real time search is ve...
Written by firstrank on September 10, 2009
The Concept of Real time search is very promising. Real Time Search means what people are talking about on the internet. Still there is lots of work to be done in Real time search result to bring result by time and date.
Again the basic concept that content is king will help you to bring your site or blog to the top.
Consider the following tips:
Write an article on particular topic that people are interested to talk about. Include keywords naturally in your article title and content. What I have seen, lots of people bookmark your title.
According to me users are not ...
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