Yahoo! has officially announced the launch of some new features for site explorer.
Today, we launched a new version of Site Explorer that addresses some of the Top Rated suggestions from our users. The key features are:
Popular PPC search engine Overture's keyword tool might be out of commission. However, Wordtracker has recently launched a free version of keyword tool which gives results as deep as hundred words and shows estimates of daily search volume. It gives results without any error. The timing of Wordtracker is simply great and is definitely going to work in their favor.
In December we reported about the online video tutorials launched by Gareth Davies of GSINC Ltd for beginner SEOs. It was a helpful of 6 videos which covered title tags and research on Google.
Now we have the second installment, "ECommerce Rocks," which "focuses on improving performance for ECommerce websites." The videos covers 6 Important Pages For Your Website and 6 Mistakes ECommerce Sites Make. GSINC is a specialty consultancy working in the fields of website promotion and search engine optimization.
Kevin Gibbons reports that the Google AdWords Qualified Professional logo has been malfunctioning since the beginning of this week. The logo is used by companies or individuals as a certification of their having met the requirements to be an AdWords Professional. By clicking on the logo, you can view the AdWords page which verified the authenticity of the claim.
Recently, Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page as well as YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley discussed about the future of newspaper. But didn't say anything about the rumours that have been running for quite some time about running BBC content on Google Video.
For the past one week there is a discussion going on at WebmasterWorld Forums regarding non- proper working of Live.com Page Submission Tool. However, the page posing problems for some users were working fine for some others. Even though users are entering the right code, the page is not accepting it. Also the blocking of cookies is not solving the problem.
New Media Age magazine is reporting that four employees at Google have left the company to begin their own SEO firms. The interesting part is that all the four workers are members of team led by Matt Cutts which primarily deals with fighting spam and exploits. Since some time now there was discussion going on among SEOs, asking “what would happen if Matt Cutts quit Google and joined an SEO firm?”. Seems like Matt Cutts juniors are initiating the move.
Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool will not work once Yahoo! stops supporting it and moves to the new Panama tool. However, Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool will have some important and valid historical data. There are reports from DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld Forums that the tool is not working. In addition the related tools are also showing errors. The tool of DigitalPoint in Overture column is showing "No data for phrase".
There is a very interesting revelation from the report released by Nielsen//Netratings on the market share of search engines for December, 2006. The report indicates that Yahoo! is growing at a faster pace than Google. In December 2006 3.035 billion searches were done on Google, showing an increase of 22.6% from last year. This figure stands at 1.412 billion searches for Yahoo!, an increase by 30.1% from December 2005. In the last year Google got 560 million users more compared to 330 million users acquired by Yahoo!. However, if you see the data in terms of percentage of growth, Yahoo! is ahead of Google.
The famous trademark entrepreneur Leo Stoller has been sued by Google, alleging that he owns the trademark of Google. Stoller has been charged for RICO violations, unfair competition and false advertising. Though Google has filed a case but it will be an uphill task for the company to prove charges against Stoller. The trademark law has no provisions which could penalize untrue claims of trademark ownership. Google has charged false advertising claims under Lanham Act and this may also be not easy for the search engine giant to prove as it is not included in the trademark-licensing business. On the other hand Leo Stoller is vowing to destroy Google by the case and claims that stock price of the company will come down to below $5.
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