Google Movie Search
Google started to bring in new features rapidly, another new search option is the
movie: and then movie title or actor.
For instance you try searching for the move the
matrix you'll find lots of reviews now. Ratings and more search options within the results or the frequently mentioned terms.
One feature I like a lot is that you will be able to find this movie at theaters near you.
Lycos is expected Wednesday to launch a niche search product -- a dating search engine -- with a paid inclusion model, in which dating sites pay per-click, per-acquisition or via another model when they get referrals.
The site, which simultaneously searches personals ads from multiple online dating sites, is the first of what could be many niche search products from Lycos.
Picsearch announced today that it has entered into an agreement to supply the new MSN Search service with image search services. This means that MSN consumers may search for electronic images on the Internet using technology made available by Picsearch.
The new MSN Search, launched on February 1, delivers the information consumers are looking for online more precisely through a combination of up-to-date resources and search tools that make it possible for consumers to tailor their search to their needs. With a database of hundreds of millions of images Picsearch forms part of this integrated service.
Google Catalog Search applies Google's search technology to thousands of scanned mail-order catalogs, from industrial adhesives to designer clothing and gourmet food.
Whether you publish business or consumer catalogs, Google Catalog Search extends the reach of your marketing efforts to millions of new customers.
Inclusion in Google Catalog Search is currently free for publishers. There is no obligation and nothing you need to do other than provide Google with copies of your catalogs. You just simply send them your catalog and it will be included in the catalog search.
I think it's a great feature, especially for business 2 business. You can 'scan' quickly through various suppliers and order a catalog of your needs.
The New York Times Company reached a deal to buy About.com from Primedia for $410 million.
The purchase adds an alternative content model to the New York Times Company's online news properties, NYTimes.com and Boston.com.
In a statement, the company said it was motivated by About's profitability and growth, and said the purchase would diversify the company's online advertising base.
The Times said it wanted About.com to extend its reach among Internet users, diversify its online advertising inventory and add pay-per-click ads.
Adding About.com's 22 million monthly users to the Times Company's 13 million will form the 12th-largest entity on the Internet, according to Nielsen//Net Ratings. The Times will market its other digital properties to those 22 million users.
About.com will operate as a separate business division.
Here it is, the new toolbar from google, still in beta.
With various new features like: a
SpellCheck when typing in webforms,
WordTranslator translate English words into other languages,
AutoLink turn street addresses into links to online maps, wow!
You can quickly search images, groups, directory, news and froogle.
The only thing i'm still missing is related sites, like the alexa toolbar.
Download the new and improved
toolbar.
Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates said Tuesday that the company will ship an update to its browser separately from the next major version of Windows.
A beta, or test, version of Internet Explorer 7 will debut this summer, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect said in a keynote address at the RSA Conference 2005 here. The company had said that it would not ship a new IE version before the next major update to Windows, code-named Longhorn, arrives next year.
Update:
Screenshot of IE7 in Longhorn
Microsoft said the new version will be far less vulnerable to the bugs that make its current browser a favourite of tech-savvy criminals.
Article at BBC
Is your homepage layout effective? What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience?
Some study shows that only 4-5 people out of a thousand click a banner ad. So to get the visitors attention is critical when designing a website.
Most visitors will leave your page within 30 seconds of visiting, so to get them to read articles or even click on your banners is recently small.
Good content is one thing and design a website that looks good and is readable is another thing. The article written at poynterextra.org is great, they observed 46 people for one hour and looked at their behaviour.
Lots of powerfull tips about human behaviour visiting websites.
Yahoo released a firefox extension of the Yahoo toolbar. Firefox a gaining more and more users every day, with over 20 milions downloads now!
Users of firefox know there's a search option build in for amazon, google, yahoo and more but the Yahoo Toolbar adds more new functions to firefox. Now waiting for Google to present their firefox extension.
I personally like firefox for it's speed and clean design, using it together with IE. You'll find more info about firefox at
spreadfirefox.comYou can enhance the firefox browser even more, find plugins and more at
mozdev.org
How to check your SERP (search engine results page) or how i call it, search engine return position. If you are monitoring your keywords serps you don't want to search the engine through all pages over and over again. A great tool by googlerankings shows you exactly on what position your keyword is!
Even more exciting is the Ultimate SEO Tool, also on googlerankings, here you can analyse a certain page and find it's keyword positions.
For Yahoo there's a site to check your serps at
yahoosearchrankings.com also worth looking at.
I can also recommend to check
mcdar.net this great site can check various data centers of google to search for your serps and check your PR (Pagerank) BLs (Backlinks) and from your competitors! Loads more SEO Tools can be found on this site.
At digitalpoint there are also great keyword seo tools to be found,
Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool it uses your google api-key to track and store your keywords serps!
With one of my sites i joined the sevenseek directory, it's a directory set up by the guys from v7n.com. A standard script and transformed to the directory as shown. The look and feel comes from exactseek but with a higer pagerank and a cleaner design.
I joined the "web directory" section and it has a pagerank of 6/10. So a life time link on a pr6 page for $40 is a done deal if it tranfers pr.
The page i'm on is not in google's cache and doesn't show up at the backlinks, so i doubt if it's worth the money.
The discussion about paid directories has gone mad around several forums, is it still worth submitting to the directories? I think there's still future for web directories if there's more content to the topics. Most of the directories so only links, anchor and description.
I get some hits a day from sevenseek, so it's still a good resource for me.
Update: 15 februari 2004, the category i'm in is cached by google! Looks promising.
A great new feature from the mighty google, google maps enables you to search and find a location in the us.
A zoom function to streetlevel detail, reloading of maps works very quick. There's also the posibility to create a route between two directions.
I found this site some time ago, a website with 99 best seo (free) tools! It publish links to seo internet tools for optimizing your websites and move your search engine position higher. You can also suggest your own best tool.
A great resource!
I found this great resource site while surfing the web.
At marketingterms you'll find an clear explaination of all marketing terms involving the internet. It's well setup so you'll the meaning of the marketing term you are looking for quickly.
The alexa custom toolbar is of great usage. It comes standard with related links of the website you're visiting, a direct link to the amazon shop and you'll be able to see the history of a webpage.
There is a search option in the toolbar that uses
google as search engine. You'll be also able to see the alexa rank, a traffic estimator for that site. There's also additional information about the websites. Download the toolbar
here.
If you are looking for free content to your HTML pages i can recommend ezinearticles of
goarticles. These sites are great resources for finding content.
For seo (search engine optimalisation) you'll to add content to your pages. The spideres will love your new free content. Add frequently new content to your site and it will go up in the search engines.
I recently started out using the Coop Ad Network, the main idea is that you can make a pool of advertisements with keywords you want to target. (Ads)
With a small amount of weight in the network it will only work in a niche market. With 'big' keywords you'll need to have lots of weight. The keywords are displayed across the network and will be spidered by the search-eninges.
The weight is calculated to the amount of pages and the pagerank. After a couple of weeks you'll see some major changes with some keywords. It works great, especially with keywords you're stuck with low-serp. I can recommend using the coop.
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Everyone is having a weblog, so why don't i start one.
Here it is:
Find What i Write a weblog about many interesting internet things, tech news, se optimalisation, se news and more.
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