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Search advertising powerhouse Google (Quote, Chart) suffered a setback Wednesday in its defense of a trademark infringement suit. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has added a new feature to its search engine that allows Firefox users to obtain search results more quickly. Reza Behforooz, a software engineer at Google, announced on Wednesday that the search engine now preloads the top search result into the cache of Mozilla browsers. Read the rest of this entry »

LookSmart yesterday launched five education-oriented sites it is calling “vertical search” applications. The sites divvy up content from its FindArticles.com resource.

The search engine giant Google Inc. today announced it has agreed to acquire Urchin Software Corporation, a San Diego, California based web analytics company. Read the rest of this entry »

A growing number of lawsuits against Google Inc. may dent the Internet search giant’s revenue, the International Herald Tribune newspaper reported Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to recognize talent in basic computer science engineering and to promote research, Google has reportedly announced initiatives in Universities in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Three Indians, including one based in Singapore, are among the top five winners of a contest organised by Google, the world’s largest search engine. Read the rest of this entry »

Ask Jeeves is likely to expand its Irish-based European headquarters despite a $1.96 billion (€1.5 billion) takeover bid which is currently underway for the internet search engine in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

Link Building in Light of VIsion-based Page Segmentation

By Andy Hagans

VIsion-based Page Segmentation is changing the way search engines parse link popularity and relevance. SEO consultant Andy Hagans explains how to incorporate block-level link analysis into a successful link building strategy.

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Jump-start Your Link Building with help of Directory Submissions, Achieve Higher Search Engine Rankings and Attract More Targeted Visitors.

Are you a webmaster looking to market your site on the internet? How can you project your site and stay ahead of the competition?

Most web users find what they want on the internet, through search engines. So, if you own a website, the important factor is to rank high in the major search engines and stay ahead of the millions of other sites providing similar service as yours. If you wish to develop a thriving onsite business, then you should determine how you are going to achieve popularity on the web and attract quality visits.

Or you can depend on directory submission providers, the internet submission specialists, who understand search engines and directories, and have the knowledge of which ones to submit your site to, and how. This is the fundamental step to ensuring your existence on the web, and that those seeking your product, services, or information, and who do not know your domain, can find you. Submit Your Website To The Best DirectoriesPage Rank through these and Improve and Traffic:

From the hundreds of thousands of web directories available,  these providers have meticulously scrutinized and compiled a list of the Best Directories  to submit your site to. As a new user, it will take you months to sort out the best directories and submit to each. These providers, on the other hand, have been doing directory submissions for years and have hand-picked the first-rate ones. Each directory also has its own norms and forms for submitting. You will be able to enjoy much quicker results (just a few days time) because they know directories and their submission rules inside out.

These providers do provide careful submission to ensure that your site is submitted to the correct directories in the appropriate categories. They study each title, description, keywords and category details provided by you. If necessary, they suggest changes and only after the details are finalized, they go ahead with submission.

Though there are a number of free sites that offer to add your site link, it is important to identify the good ones and the ones which are up to date as many sites have significant back log and may never get round to adding your link.

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Link Building for Hilltop

By Andy Hagans

Hilltop and other authority-based link popularity algorithms make it challenging to obtain high rankings for a new Web site. SEO consultant Andy Hagans uncovers link building tactics that can mesh a Web site into its topical neighborhood.
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Yahoo! today announced a new search capability to allow people to find Creative Commons-licensed content. Coming on the heels of Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig’s call to support “remix culture” at the O’Reilly’s Emerging Tech conference, the move is another white hat for Yahoo among the open source/open culture crowd. Read the rest of this entry »

BlowSearch.com, a meta search engine and provider of instant messaging tools, has launched a pay-per-click search engine advertising program. Read the rest of this entry »

Agence France Presse sue Google over Google News. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has opened up its Gmail Web mail service to more users by randomly offering accounts to some visitors to Google.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft to Launch Paid Search Technology Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc. hired a top Microsoft Corp. engineer who was one of the six original members of the team that created the Windows NT operating system, as the company courts talent to compete with Microsoft and Yahoo! Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

Baidu, a Beijing-based search engine company, and U.S. counterpart Google Inc. have released new Chinese-language programs to search the labyrinthine hard drives of computers for users who accumulate so much data and cannot find those data themselves, a Baidu official and local media said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo is hoping to tempt more developers to its search products by providing easier access to its Web service APIs along with programmes and tools. Read the rest of this entry »