Yahoo Farechase - Cheap travel search engine The Search Engine Weblog

Yahoo! Recently launched its web-based travel search engine called FareChase. This search engine is designed to help you locate the best airfares and hotel rates on the Internet. I tried searching for a flight from San Francisco California to Miami Florida and it definitely saved me a lot of time and money by providing comparative options from different airlines. The cheapest I got costs USD246 per person from american airlines. A [...] Read More


SEO: What The 'Near' Future Look Like The Search Engine Weblog

In 1997, Google is nowhere to be found. The domineering search engine then was Yahoo and Altavista came close behind. As I retrospect, the web was not as congested as it is today. As such, fine-tuned metas were enough to get improved search engine rankings. Eventually, the web became more cutthroat and webmasters found ways to manipulate the metas to form part of top search engine results. That was the time [...] Read More


10 Reasons Why Search Engine Marketing Job Is HOT! The Search Engine Weblog

Are you unemployed or underemployed? Why not consider a search engine marketing job? Search engine marketing service is one of the most in-demand professions these days. Why? Here are the top ten reasons: 1. The search engine industry is on fire. In fact, the bubble is growing bigger and stronger each day that a lot of enthusiasts are now lured to make their own. Major search engines - Google, Yahoo and MSN [...] Read More


Sponsored post: Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo® Web 2.0

Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo® is the premier event for search engine marketing and optimization. It is the leading global conference & expo series that keeps you informed about search engine advertising, including optimization and marketing issues. A number of upcoming events will teach you everything you need to know from the top experts in the field, along with information from representatives of the search engines themselves: SES Travel Edition [...] Read More


Uptake.com - a comprehensive and intuitive travel search engine Wandalust

Uptake.com, the travel search engine formerly known as Kango, is working towards more comprehensive and intuitive search results for travellers. Uptake believe that there is a demand among travellers for a single site where they can access user generated reviews and content gathered from a multitude of online sources. Uptake doesn't just aim to collate all this information it's crucial that this information is organised and searchable in an intuitive [...] Read More

No to Google's Chinese name Guge The Search Engine Weblog

No to google's Chinese name "guge" is the cry of a group of chinese fans of google. They created a site called noguge.com which is aimed as collecting suggestions on alternative names. Personally, the first time I heard about the name "guge" was about a few weeks ago. My first impression about this is that it sounds like a 2 year old struggling to pronounce the word "google" and ending up [...] Read More


HP preloads Baidu for Chinese Market The Search Engine Weblog

The number 1 chinese search engine Baidu has struck a deal with HP to pre-load its search engine to all HP machines for China starting Oct 2006. Good for Baidu, bad for Google. Google however had a similar deal with Dell. So where's yahoo and msn? They shouldn't discount China in their plans as China is the main battle ground in Asia due to the sheer number of people in [...] Read More


Google's Recent PageRank Penalties The Search Engine Weblog

You might be wondering why the sudden drop in PR for a lot of the websites out there. This drop is the most serious PageRank Penalty I've seen so far. The sites that are mainly affected are the ones that are selling links. Matt Cutts has been vocal about their opinion about paid links and thus now, it seems that they've finally updated their algorithms and put penalties on such [...] Read More


Where Chinese History Comes Alive Hidden Travel Gems

Those of you whoa re frequent readers of this blog know that I am a (big) fan of Time's China Blog. Perhaps I am living vicariously through the blog's writers, who have the enviable task of, well, hanging out in China and writing about it. (I know there is more to it than that. I'm sure there are ulcer inducing deadlines and censorship to deal with.) The latest place profiled [...] Read More


New Chinese Technology Blogs Launched Creative Weblogging

Here at Creative Weblogging you will find a global network of blogs. There are sites written in English, and also in German, French, even a bit of Spanish now and then. You will also find sites in a language spoken by over 1 billion people -- Chinese. So, allow me to introduce two new Chinese technology blogs launched so far this year: GeekerVision is a technology image and video blog. Geeker is [...] Read More

Bulding Pages for Web Traffic The Search Engine Weblog

If you want to get more traffic to your site you have to follow certain principles. Building new web pages onto you site is one of the best ways to get more traffic to your site. You should have a page built for each keyword you want to target to your site. This is key because search engines are looking for pages that are titled and about a certain keyword [...] Read More


The Benchmark of Link Building The Search Engine Weblog

Websites are only as good as the number of visitors they attract. Basically, every website needs visitors to be successful in marketing and selling products and services. Therefore, without web traffic the site is dead. The essence of yielding good website traffic points to some crucial things and one of it is building effective link. Link building services are the reliable ways to be successful on the web. Doing business [...] Read More


10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic The Search Engine Weblog

I wasn't suppost to write my blog post yet but this is something I had to write quickly before I forget as I feel that you will benefit a lot from this. Randfish of seomoz created another very good article. I can't help but share this very informative article to you guys. This is not about SEO but more on traffic Building. He created a list of 10 very good strategies [...] Read More


Submit Links to 34 Sites at Once The Social Networking Weblog

Do you love submitting your favorite articles to sites like Digg, Reddit and Del.icio.us? Now you can send your links to these and 31 other's all at the same time. Using SocialPoster you just add the URL of the article you want to add, create a title, enter in some good keywords and write a description of the article. Then choose the sites you want to submit the article to. On [...] Read More


Smartphone and OS Traffic stats. for February 2009 The Smart PDA

Admob, the popular mobile advertising company has released Smartphone and Mobile operating system web traffic for the month of February 2009. Some noticeable stats are given below: 1). Apple iPhone was the No. 1 having 33% traffic followed by Nokia N70 and Blackberry 8300 according to Worldwide Smartphone traffic stats. 2). Apple iPhone was also No.1 having 49.5% traffic followed by Blackberry 8300 and Blackberry 8100 according to US Smartphone traffic stats. 3). [...] Read More

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Now that the dust has settle for Apple's announcement of it's new tablet computer, the iPad, it has become clear that the iPad has its distractors. Of course, that was predictable. The Geeks off the world either love Apple or hate it. But some of the complaints have merit...

There are a number of featrues that this first iPad lacks. Michael Arrington compares the new iPad to a stone age tool on five features and concludes that the iPad has a touch screen - that that's about the only difference. Wired's Charlie Sorrel looks at ten features he thinks consumers will whine about. TechThinker has its own list of eight disappointments. From a computing point of view, the idea of not having an place to plug in an SD card or a USB drive would bother me, but I suppose there's always cloud storage. Not being able to multi-task or run multiple apps at once would require profound changes in my computing habits.

On the other hand, Ben Elowitz (cofounder & CEO of Wetpaint) thinks the iPad will kill Amazon's Kindle. Louis Gray also gives it a thumbs up.

So now, the big question... What will iPad version two look like?

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A Securities and Exchange Commission says that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to steadily sell off up to 10 million shares of Google stock over the next five years. At today's prices, that about five and a half billion dollars worth of stock.

Techcrunch brought the SEC filing to my attention.

Technically, the sale would mean that Page and Brin no long had a controlling interest in Google.

They would continue to be the largest shareholders, but would not be able to control the outcome of any shareholder vote as they do today. They, of course, could decide to stop selling just short of losing control. They also could probably find the other 2 percent of votes if they ever need it from CEO Eric Schmidt or a collection of other Google employees and loyal investors.

It will be interesting to see if the sale makes any real, practical difference in the way Google operates.