Google’s New Jazz UI Live in Canada

As was expected today, Google’s new user interface “Jazz” can now be seen across Google for all users. A select few were... 

Google's New Jazz UI Live in Canada

Microhoo Approved by the D.O.J. and European Commission

After many months of finger-crossing, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the E.U.’s legislative European Commission... 

Microhoo Approved by the D.O.J. and European Commission

Finding Your Blogosphere Footprint

In last month’s post on Improving the User Experience with Site Analytics, we have theorized that producing quality content is not only... 

Finding Your Blogosphere Footprint

Google’s Interest-Based Advertising (Beta)

In light (at least partially) of Yahoo’s new targeting features that were announced earlier this month, Google is quickly... 

Google's Interest-Based Advertising (Beta)

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Google's New Jazz UI Live in Canada

Google’s New Jazz UI Live in Canada

As was expected today, Google’s new user interface “Jazz” can now be seen across Google for all users. A select few were able to view this interface beginning last November, but now it is available to the public at large.
And since we all like pictures, here are some screenshots.
First up is the homepage:

Next we have [...]

Microhoo Approved by the D.O.J. and European Commission

Microhoo Approved by the D.O.J. and European Commission

After many months of finger-crossing, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the E.U.’s legislative European Commission have given the green light to the proposed search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo. It’s been a rough ride between the second and third-place search engines, which even includes some tough words being thrown at each other in [...]

January 2010 PageRank Update

January 2010 PageRank Update

For the second year in a row now, Google has updated the publicly-visible Toolbar PageRank with the change of calendar years. The last update was approximately three months ago in October, so it’s been looking pretty steady with updates in January, April, July, and October. I find that having PageRank updates at regular intervals is [...]

Top Search Queries for 2009

Top Search Queries for 2009

The end of the year is drawing closer and here are some of the top search queries for 2009 across multiple search engines. Last year, names like Britney Spears, Barack Obama, and Miley Cyrus were hot (especially on Yahoo). What thoughts were on the minds of searchers this year?
Yahoo Top 10 Overall Searches
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Google Looking to Crawl AJAX in the Future

Google Looking to Crawl AJAX in the Future

At SMX East on Wednesday, Google set forth a proposal for crawling and indexing content that is dynamically created using AJAX. According to their research, as much as 70% of content on the web today is dynamically-generated (mostly through JavaScript), and this trend is only going to continue. So in an attempt to keep up [...]