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Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about the future of our information consumption. Are we going to be using search in a different way or usi...

Retrevo Says Google Update Pushed Bigger Brands Up

Consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo was among those sites hurt by Google's recent algorithm update. The company tells us that bigge...

AdSense and Its Relationship to Search Rankings

Many of the lower quality sites Google targeted with its algorithm update...

Mobile Editing In Google Docs Expands To Cover 45 Languages

When Google introduced mobile editing in Google Docs last year, many people applauded. Lots of people probably didn't, though, considering the advance was English-only and...

Google Game Developer Central Launches

Games make people happy. They also, as anyone who's seen a guy glued to a controller or a mob the morning of a major release can attest, make people willing to sacrifice l...

Calacanis on Google Algorithm Aftermath and Impact on Mahalo

As previously reported, Mahalo is reducing its staff by 10% as a r...

Google Picked For Royal Wedding Site Hosting Duties

Months ahead of the actual wedding date, the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton has generated all sorts of media attention and page views, with people all over the wo...

Yahoo Search BOSS Documentation Released to Developers

Last month, Yahoo announced pricing info and search advertising/branding polic...

Yahoo May Sell Yahoo Japan Stake To Softbank

To avoid any sense of false hype-building, we'll admit right now: Softbank has already denied any involvement. But rumor has it that Yahoo is in discussions to sell its st...

Google Update Costs Mahalo Employees Their Jobs

Google's recent algorithm update, aimed at content farms, has done more than harm content farms. Some...

Major Real Estate Firm Switches To Google Apps

Chalk up another win for Google Apps. Fairview Cadillac, a real estate firm with 1,800 employees and a portfolio worth over $19 billion, is switching to it, and an exec ha...

Bing Shopping Gets Natural Language Price Constraint Feature

Bing has announced a new natural language search feature for Bing Shopping results. With the new capabilitiy, users should be able to use words like "under $100" or &q...

Google Buys Technical Tool Firm Zynamics

Google and/or users of some of the company's many products may soon be a little safer. A company called Zynamics announced today that it's been acquired by Google, and Zyn...

Adobe to Help Search Marketers Keep Paid Campaigns From Cannibalizing Organic SEO

Back in the fall of 2009, Adobe announced it was acquiring web analytics...