The exclamation point Alibaba put on search by redesigning the Yahoo China homepage doesn’t mean the company has given up on being a portal.

Even though Jason Calacanis didn’t show up for the Earning From Search & Contextual Ads session as scheduled, attendees made do with the likes of Google, Yahoo, the New York Times’ About.com, AOL, and JenSense discussing the topic.

While users of Internet Explorer still have to be concerned about CSS exploits affecting a newly-discovered problem with the browser, Google Desktop is no longer open to attacks via that flaw.

Along with a discussion of the Silicon Valley primer to working at the technology company, Google revealed the combination of terms that will keep someone from being hired.

Metadata won’t be enough for fulfilling user needs with podcast search; the next generation of that search will feature voice recognition.

I am at SES Chicago along with some of the WebProNews team. At 2:15 AM this morning I got a call from Orbitz saying that our American Airlines flight from Lexington, KY was canceled. After a bit of work on …

The use of news search SEO and marketing has grown significantly in the past 2 years.

The Les Blogs 2.0 conference in Paris formally starts today and runs until Tuesday evening.

The rise of online advertising available from the search engines parallels their rise; at SES Chicago, speakers from Yahoo, Google, and other firms discussed the world of contextual and non-search ads.

A flaw with Internet Explorer’s handling of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) could lead to information theft from Google Desktop and other programs.

We probably won’t see any samurai coders or requests for more cowbell, but two weeks of webcasts could be very beneficial to developers working with MSN’s tools.

In 2004, 91% of the traffic generated for Galleon’s 84 websites came from page one of search engine results. This was a third straight year for an increase in page one referrals since Mark Neal and his team at Galleon began tracking this type of data in 2002, when page one traffic steered 86% of searchers their way.

Google gets the roundtable treatment from SiliconValley.com this week, with lots of all-star talent talking about a variety of topics surrounding the search engine.

Good article in the Financial Times last week about Yahoo and what the company is doing in the face of the growing and stiff competition in the search business by the likes of Google and Microsoft.

Anyone who follows the buzz on the Internet knows bloggers can get real nasty real quick. They quickly attack groups, businesses, etc. with blinding speed and sometime with blinding inaccuracy. At the first day of the SES, Jason Lee Miller sat in on one session covering reputation monitoring and management.

The When 2.0 Conference at Stanford on Tuesday, December 6th should be the place where Google debuts its online group calendar.

When officials for the hurricane ravaged city announced a plan to deploy wireless Internet across New Orleans, BellSouth rescinded a donation offer to the city in response.

How many e-mail messages do you receive in a week? How much of it is spam?

As search engines build up their capabilities for indexing and delivering video, a session at SES Chicago detailed how to get videos properly noted by various engines.

In the “technical” world of search engine marketing, we often get so tied up in optimizing our pages, getting our databases crawled, determining what’s happening with Google’s latest update, and building our link popularity that we think in much too linear a fashion.

The likes of Yahoo, Google, and MSN dominate search around the world, and a session at SES Chicago gives some insight on how publishers can take a shot at being more of a search presence globally.

I’ve been using the Google Analytics service for a few weeks on this blog … and I give it two thumbs up. We would love to try this out at our more popular sites such as WebProNews, but unfortunately Google …