Archive for May, 2007
European Yahoo advertisers were updated to Panama Platform today. US publishers have been using Yahoo Panama sponsored search starting from October 2006 and today Yahoo officially notified European users via email about the advertising system upgrade.
Those European advertisers who were not updated automatically are encouraged to request for an upgrade at Yahoo Upgrade Center.
Hope Europe will appreciate Yahoo Panama system as US did!
May
Want to Find the Information You Need in Seconds? Help Google to Refine Image Search!
Google makes substantial efforts to improve their Image Search engine. The system already can define the faces in search results and users could use a special attribute &imgtype=face at the end of the URL to be showed faces only.
We believe that quite soon the attributes for other categories will arise as Google is encouraging its users to take part in Google Image Labeler initiative – “a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google’s image search results”.
This “game” is pretty funny and we hope the data collected via it will be used effectively and help to improve Google Image Search significantly!
The SimpleSEM Search Engine Speakeasy has finally arrived. After many days of coding issues, we got the Forums section up and running smoothly this evening. I am very excited and have anticipated this moment for a while now, as the new site release came before any added functionality.
Please give us your feedback and ideas - we want to keep this as engaging as possible as well as informative.
Cheers,
Jeremy
It was reported lately that Yahoo put links to the third-party sites from their home page. Previously Yahoo used to link to content published on the sites of Yahoo company network but the screenshot provided by Michael Arrington at TechChrunch shows that Yahoo’s started experimenting with linking outside their property sites.
Dear SimpleSEM Readers,
As you can probably see we had a major re-design happen this weekend. Things are still a big “buggy” and I’m doing my best to work out all the kinks (had very little sleep last night).
This is the new SimpleSEM v2.0 - we are completely changing the focus of the Blog and will be featuring more hints, tips, and recommended best practices weekly. The SEO and SEM Services sections are also going ‘under the knife’ as we are drastically changing the way we perform PPC management / consulting (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO). You will also notice we have dynamic machine translation in 14 different languages! It’s not perfect, but we want to be able to help educate as many people as possible Worldwide.
Thank you from the entire SimpleSEM staff for your ongoing patience and understanding during this code transition, and feel free to report any bugs to jeremy at simplesem dot com. The goal is to be 99.995% complete by June 1st, and finish with the seo services / sem services content ‘re-write” next week.
Have a great Memorial Holiday!
Cheers,
Jeremy
Google announced a new search feature implemented in their search engine. Using Google Translate a query could be inserted in your native language while the search would be conducted in the language you specify. The results returned would be translated back to your native language.
Google has just launched the “Hot Trends” feature to Google Trends. The home page of Google Trends now shows 10 hottest queries of the day. What makes Google think that a particular query is hot? It is not stated but the guesses are that the queries are chosen if a sudden rise in query popularity occurs.
