The Search Engine Blog

Quintura presents search results in a Web2.0 site cloud to help you narrow down your search by presenting related words. You select the words you want to add or remove from a search. It’s been an interesting search alternative for some time and now you can add this search to your blog. It’s not always […]

A terrific new tool is available to obtain some interesting link data from the Yahoo! API. While there are still bugs in this new tool, it does provide a new look at data and even allows you to download the information in CSV format.
Link Diagnosis - examine your link competition

Have a brand that has fans, or could have fans. Create a FaceBook ad page and make “friends” with people loyal to your brand. Yup, it costs money, but it is a great way to market to people who forgot how to have face to face conversations and now give word of mouth advertising through […]

Ok, I’ve been bad. I’ve been using this and never blogged about it here. StumbleUpon has made a brilliant addition to their community bookmarking, tagging service. You can now see on search results what others have bookmarked and commented upon. Information from your StumbleUpon friends can be viewed and you can discuss web pages with […]

Taptu has launched what they are touting to be a new kind of search. Called Socal Assisted Search, their service for mobile phones includes playable audio and video.
Taptu Launches New Type of Mobile Search

The New York Times premium content is now free. The Times used to charge for access to what it determined to be free content. People searching for news would hit the password roadblock and leave, moving on to another source. With all the content and traffic that the Times has, they can most likely make […]

Uploading your original content to Facebook makes it theirs. Ah yes, many a social network does this including your favorites, Google and Yahoo. Use free online services and your work is no longer your own. Yet another reason not to use these services for special content. Get your own server for original content that you […]

It’s definitely not a new frontier, but there is another person search in town. Spock is now public and promises a smarter search than Google. So far I’m not convinced, but then it’s still beta. There is an option to invite people to be listed so feel free to invite yourself if you aren’t paranoid.
Spock

A competitor to Craig’s List? EBay launches Kijiji in the US. Kijiji is already a leading classified service in other countries and EBay has quietly unleashed it in the United States. It’s odd considering EBay also owns 25% of Craigslist, but the Internet knows no bounds in oddities.
PC World - EBay Launches Kijiji Classifieds in […]

Used properly, Flickr’s photo sharing service can net you a bit more site traffic. Check out this how to in order to learn how to link the picture description text to your site.
Using Flickr in your SEO & Traffic Building Strategy