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Facebook Closes In On 500 Million Use...
Written by firstrank on May 19, 2010
In early February, Facebook announced that it had 400 million users, and while nothing's certain at this point, it looks like an announcement regarding the next big milestone may be just around the corner. A new report has indicated that Facebook expects to lay claim to 500 million users in June.
Nick O'Neill wrote earlier today, "Facebook is working on plans for their 500 million user celebration, projected to take place at some point before the end of June." He also wrote, "We've spoken with multiple sources that have informed us that plans are underway for the big 500 million user ...
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Google Officially Rolling Out the New...
Written by firstrank on May 05, 2010
Now Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience has officially announced the new design, and included the following video:
Mayer says, "We’ve added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Over the past three years, we've launched Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared, and it’s those three technologies that power the left-hand panel."
Update 4: According to Brad Stone with the New York Times Bits Blog, Google is rolling out the new SERP design gradually right now (Tuesday and Wednesday).
Update 3: More people ...
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Facebook Is Top Search Term In March ...
Written by firstrank on April 29, 2010
Facebook ranked as the top search term in March across all three major search engines, according to a new report from Hitwise.
Yahoo related terms accounted for six spots while MySpace terms accounted for four searches across the search engines. Other search terms that were among the top 10 searches for all three search engines include YouTube, Facebook login, craigslist, and Yahoo Mail.
eBay was the top paid search term across the three search engines in March, according to Hitwise. Overall, eBay related terms accounted for eight searches across the three top 10 lists. There were six other terms that accounted for ...
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Yahoo Search Results to Include More ...
Written by firstrank on April 25, 2010
Yahoo has launched a pilot program called "More Sponsors" in which it will add links at the bottom of Yahoo search results for more PPC adds. When a user clicks on one of the links it will bring up a page with nothing but sponsored search ads.
The feature is supported by Yahoo's Search Assist features (the search engine's suggestions feature). "For example, the consumer might type in 'Hawaii vacation,' and Yahoo! might suggest vacations packages or resorts," explains Laurie Sullivan on Yahoo's Search Marketing blog.
The More Sponsors feature will appear on Yahoo Search to begin with, but Yahoo will spread ...
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Yahoo’s Head Of Advertising Pla...
Written by firstrank on April 25, 2010
Although it's hard to imagine that any company keeps all its employees forever, it looks like Yahoo continues to be worse than average in terms of retaining important people. This afternoon, a report revealed that Bill Wise, who is in charge of Yahoo's Advertising Platforms business, will leave the same as so many before him.
Wise started at Yahoo when the company acquired Right Media in 2007. Prior to that, he served as Right Media's president, the CEO of Didit, a senior vice president at Ask, and a vice president at DoubleClick (among other things), which makes for a tough-to-match resume.
Yahoo's ...
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Google Has Updated It’s PageRank To...
Written by firstrank on April 04, 2010
Good News for SEO/webmaster that Google has accomplished a PageRank update across the web on 2nd April. 1strank.in got 1 more PR Now it id PR :3 and Many of our supervised websites got new PR too :), having a positive effect on the SERP Rankings on 02 April 2010.
PageRank algorithm was created by Larry Page :
PR = 0.15 + 0.85 ( PR(Backlink 1)/TotalLinks(Backlink 1) + PR(Backlink 2)/TotalLinks(Backlink 2) + … + PR(Backlink X)/TotalLinks(Backlink X) ) ...
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Google Removed Limit Off AdSense Cate...
Written by firstrank on April 02, 2010
Recently, Google has announced “Category Filtering” feature for it’s AdSense users. In this feature they were allowed you to limit number of categories you can filter from your sites. Now Google removed limit from “Category Filtering”. Now user can filter as many of the 11 available categories.
"The category filtering feature allows you to prevent ads that fall into specific categories like 'religion' and 'dating' from appearing on your pages," says Arlene Lee of Google's Inside AdSense team."You can filter categories by visiting your Ad Review Center, located under the AdSense Setup tab. Click the ‘change’ link to view available categories ...
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Google Introduced “Ad Innovatio...
Written by firstrank on April 01, 2010
Today Google has Introduced new site showcase its latest innovations in advertising.
"The principle behind the advertising products we build at Google is simple: ads are information," says Vice President, Product Management Susan Wojcicki. "But the type of information that ads provide is getting more varied and inventive all the time, and as a result ads are getting more interesting, social and useful."
Bookmark it if you r Google Advertiser ...
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Now You Can Block Particular Categori...
Written by firstrank on April 01, 2010
IF you have got frustrated with unwanted Ads which are showing your website. Well I have a Good news for you, Google Ad-sense got it’s new feature called "Category Filtering" where you can block specific categories of ads from appearing on your site or blog using the Category Filtering feature in your Ad Review Center.
You can block ads from up to eight of the following categories:
Cosmetic procedures and surgery: Includes lifts, suctions, lasers, hair removal and restoration, tattoos, and body modification.
Dating: Includes dating services and ...
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Facebook Overthrows Google As Number ...
Written by firstrank on March 16, 2010
Last Week Facebook.com beat Google.com in terms of visits according to Experian Hitwise.
Facebook.com received 7.07% & Google.com received 7.03% online visits.
“The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame. Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week” Explained Heather Dougherty. ...
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