Archive for July, 2007

Google Global Firefox Extension

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 13th, 2007.

Google has its local pages which it is serving depending on visitor’s geographic location. Consequently, both organic and paid search results differ if you are searching on, let’s say, www.google.com or local www.google.co.uk.
If you need to know what Google results are served in different countries or you have an International or geotargeted Google AdWords campaigns [...]

unavailable_after META Tag

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 13th, 2007.

The “unavailable_after” tag will allow instructing Googlebot when to stop crawling certain pages. This tag will be very convenient when you have a limited time offer promotional page. With this tag you specify a date when the promotion expires and instruct Google not to crawl this page anymore. Or you can use it if you [...]

Yahoo launched Suggest Search feature

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 12th, 2007.

Yahoo launched a “suggest search” feature that automatically prompts users with suggested search queries as they type.
This feature is supposed to reduce the number of words the users need to type in when performing queries, thus reducing the time needed to find what they are looking for.
Previously it was available to users of the Yahoo [...]

Search Engines share - June 2007

by rudibela ~ July 11th, 2007.

Compete issued the search market share report for June 2007. The report is showing MSN/Windows Live Search dramatically gaining a number of searches since last month.
The search market share trend is based on the ISP data, traffic panel data and toolbar tracking information that Compete gathers.
After a constant climb since October last year and reaching [...]

Google acquired Postini

by Sasa Bogdanovic ~ July 10th, 2007.

Google announced yesterday the acquisition of Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions.
Postini’s customer base consists of more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. The services of Postini include message security, archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement used to protect a company’s email, instant messaging, and other web-based communications.
Under the [...]