Posted by Vijay on July 1, 2008 ·
Google and Yahoo! improved their indexing algorithm with the help of Adobe to crawl flash sites. Adobe will now provide optimized flash player to Google and Yahoo! to index SWF file content.
All flash files, flash menus, banners and flash sites with textual content and links can be crawled and indexed [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 18, 2008 ·
Comscore released list of ‘Top 50 web destinations in US‘. For the first time in history Google ranked number one in the ‘Top web destination’ list in terms of monthly unique visitors.
Google reaching monthly 141 million users in US while Yahoo is now at second place with 140.6 million [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 12, 2008 ·
We heard thousands of news and articles about Microsoft and Yahoo! merger. All ended without any outcome. Microsoft finally decided not to go for Yahoo! acquisition.
Posted by Vijay on January 31, 2008 ·
Google increased their hold on search market from 70.5% to 76.6% and performed almost outstanding compared to their fiscal growth target and previous year results. On other hand Yahoo is giving up to compete with Google and analyst have suggested that they are outsourcing the search part to third parties.
Yahoo [...]
Posted by Vijay on December 5, 2007 ·
This is the time to review the top trends in search in 2007. Major search engines like Yahoo, Google and Ask released list of top queries of the year 2007. You can get idea of what’s hot in search right now and major events that happened in year 2007.
Top fastest growing queries in US on Google:
1. [...]
Posted by Vijay on October 5, 2007 ·
There is an interesting discussion of The Hindu publication with Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of the research at Yahoo! on Search engine strategies.
According to Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo is focusing more on fulfilling the user requirements rather than surfing the user in the universe. The statement [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 5, 2007 ·
There is a hot deal going on between two giants Microsoft and Yahoo!.Microsoft and yahoo! held informal deal talk years ago but was not a good success.
Now its seems that Microsoft is in hurry to acquire Yahoo!.
Yahoo! search giant has a tough competition from ‘Google’. Sources said that
this [...]
Posted by Vijay on April 9, 2007 ·
YAHOO AUSTRALIA has released its first stand-alone search project through which users can perform Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube and Yahoo search queries simultaneously.
Alpha is similar to Google’s Co-op and makes it possible to search all of your favourite search engines from a single page.
The site [...]
Posted by Vijay on February 6, 2007 ·
To encourage the best practice YPN has updated their program policies which now require that no more than three ad units appear on a single page at one time. You can see the updated policy here
This is the same maximum that AdSense allows on a page at any given time
Those who are using YPN need to republish [...]