| Dec. 9 | Facebook Gives Users New Tools to Control Their Information Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
"Facebook will be rolling out easy-to-use tools to empower people to personalize control over their information—based on what the content is, why they are sharing it, when, and the audience they seek to reach." |
| Dec. 8 | Google Chrome Extensions Now Available Posted in HTML and Browsers by Prominentum
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| Dec. 8 | Google Invents PlaceRank for Google Maps Posted in Local Search by anallawalla
"'PlaceRank is like PageRank for places. It tries to figure out how prominent a place is based on factors such as references on the Web, reviews, photos,' said John Hanke, VP of Google Earth, Maps, and Local." |
| Dec. 7 | Citysearch and Twitter Team Up to Offer Business Tools Posted in Local Search by phranque
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| Dec. 7 | Yahoo Releases Ad Interest Manager (beta) Posted in Yahoo Corporate by engine
"Ad Interest Manager is a central place where Yahoo! visitors can see a concise summary of their online activity and make easy, constructive choices about their exposure to interest-based advertising served from the Yahoo! Ad Network." |
| Dec. 5 | ALERT: Google Changes Default Search to Personalized Posted in Google Search News by incrediBILL
Under cover of a Friday, Google has switched the default search behavior to their so called "personalized search" that tracks users via cookies or their MyGoogle login. This stands to change everything from the way SERPs have worked for 10 years on Google, to how users find things on the web. This could be the biggest change to the Google search engine ever. |
| Dec. 4 | Bingathon Challenge Update : Use Bing For A Month Posted in Webmaster General by httpwebwitch
Users switch to Bing for the month of December and share their experiences. |
| Dec. 5 | JQuery Wins "Open Source Application of the Year" Award Posted in JavaScript and AJAX by httpwebwitch
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| Dec. 5 | Google AdWords Product Extensions Posted in Google AdWords by netmeg
"AdWords product extensions are available to all U.S. advertisers." |
| Dec. 5 | Yahoo! and Microsoft Finalize Search Agreement Posted in Yahoo Corporate by bill
Almost 6 months after the initial announcement the deal is finally complete. |
| Dec. 4 | Google Steps Up AdWords Account Closures Posted in Google AdWords by mortgagemax
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| Dec. 3 | Google Launches Public DNS Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
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| Dec. 2 | Bing Gets Mapping Enhancements, Local Tweets, and 'Entity Cards' Posted in Microsoft Search Bing.com (formerly Live.com) by engine
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| Dec. 2 | Facebook To Remove Regional Networks, And Adds More Privacy Options Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
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| Dec. 2 | New Region Tags in Google SERPs Posted in Google Search News by Receptional_Andy
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| Dec. 2 | Taking a Break From PPC Posted in Ecommerce by jsinger
"We start PPC, stop it, start again, time after time and I never see much difference except in the buckets of ad cash we save whenever we stop." |
| Dec. 1 | Google Clarifies "First Click Free" Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
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| Dec. 1 | URI Shortener Makes Partnerships To Protect Users From Malicious Links Posted in Foo by engine
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| Dec. 1 | Microsoft Offers Microblogging Service In China Posted in Asia and Pacific Region by engine
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| Nov. 30 | CSS, SEO and Semantics Posted in CSS by Mostever
"I was reading up on some SEO techniques and got to thinking about my new found love for CSS." |
| Nov. 30 | comScore: 2009 Black Friday Sales Up 11pct on 2008 Posted in Ecommerce by engine
"For the holiday season-to-date, $10.57 billion has been spent online, marking a 3-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year." |
| Nov. 27 | Amazon Versus Wal-Mart Retail Battle Posted in Ecommerce by Digmen1
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| Nov. 27 | Some People Are Too Clumsy To Use Computers Posted in Foo by httpwebwitch
"I swear! It's like they are just pressing random keys and clicking on things all over the screen in a blind panic." |
| Nov. 26 | Facebook Gets Tough On Providers Not Following Its Policies Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
"These providers have violated our policies and/or principles." |
| Nov. 26 | CSS + Data URIs = Fewer HTTP Requests Posted in CSS by SuzyUK
"We all know, that Page Speed is a hot topic right now..." |
| Nov. 26 | ICANN: Harms Caused by NXDOMAIN Substitution Posted in Domain Names by engine
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| Nov. 26 | How To Build Traffic With Twitter Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by ogletree
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| Nov. 25 | Proposal To Preserve Shortened URLs In The Event Of Failure Posted in Webmaster General by engine
"Companies participating in the archiving project will periodically record the short addresses they generate, along with the original sites they point to." |
| Nov. 25 | Google Experiments With New Ad Formats Posted in Google AdWords by engine
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| Nov. 24 | Opera 10.10 now available Posted in Opera Browser Usage and Support by bill
The latest version of the browser has Opera Unite built right in. |
| Nov. 23 | Microsoft and News Corp To Consider Web Pact? Posted in Microsoft Search Bing.com (formerly Live.com) by engine
"Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to 'de-index' its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry." |
| Nov. 23 | LinkedIn Opens Up API to Developers Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
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| Nov. 23 | Google To Acquire Teracent Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"Teracent's technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time - tweaking images, products, messages or colors." |
| Nov. 23 | Link Building According to Bing Posted in Link Development by martinibuster
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| Nov. 23 | Speeding Up A Site - Server Side Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum by wheel
"Members discuss advanced methods of speeding up site performance such as efficient software, hardware strategies, and database optimization." (subscription required) |
| Nov. 21 | Google Patent - Artificial Anchor for a Document in the SERPs Posted in Google Search News by tedster
"How would you feel about Google adding an artificial page fragment anchor, so that they could send users to the specific part of a page that was chosen in the snippet, for instance?" |
| Nov. 20 | Bing SERPs Update Posted in Microsoft Search Bing.com (formerly Live.com) by MLHmptn
"WebmasterWorld Members are noticing updates to Bing SERPs." |
| Nov. 20 | Twitter Adds Geotagging API Posted in Community Building and Social Networks by engine
"Today, the Geotagging API is officially available." |
| Nov. 20 | Did Microsoft Bing Just Learn How to Handle 301s Correctly? Posted in Microsoft Search Bing.com (formerly Live.com) by steveb
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| Nov. 20 | Google Disabling Accounts Due to FF Tamper Data Plug-In? Posted in Google AdSense by dthamu
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| Nov. 19 | Google Chrome OS Source Code Released Posted in GOOG : Google Finance and Business Operations by engine
"Google is about a year away from releasing Chrome OS. There will be no beta today, and no products to announce, but the main news is that the "code is fully open," he said, allowing Google developers to work on the project hand-in-hand with the community." |
| Nov. 19 | Entrepreneur Success Rates: Online vs. Offline Posted in Ecommerce by Makaveli2007
"WebmasterWorld members discuss what makes online and offline serial entrepreneurs successful, and what we can learn from their success." |
| Nov. 19 | Promotional Discounts That Work Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters Forum by wheel
"WebmasterWorld Members discuss a promotional discount that appears to generate sales that would not normally have been there." (-subscription required) |
| Nov. 19 | Internet Explorer 9 Preview Posted in HTML and Browsers by bill
At the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 day two keynote, Microsoft president Steven Sinofsky showed off a very, very early version of Internet Explorer (IE) 9. |
| Nov. 18 | 'Speed of Site' May Become Ranking Factor in 2010 Posted in Google Search News by anand84
"For my entire online career I've felt that page speed is an important and almost secret weapon. Now it's becoming an open secret, apparently. I'll bet lots of people will still ignore it." |
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