This week we covered how those pink ads are really "pale purple" and are here to stay by replacing the yellow background color on AdWords. Google revamped their dictionary results. Google's Matt Cutts talked about his first spam experience. Google...
Essex mix by local producer airs on BBC Essex BBC News A new Essex mix has been produced by a Braintree-based DJ, Brown and Gammon and is set to air exclusively on BBC Essex Introducing. ...
Sat, July 31st - Funkbox Boat Party W/ DJ Tony Touch & Mr. V PRLog.Org (press release) The legendary mixtape master Tony Touch headlines the first annual Funkbox Boat Party, where he and special guest DJ, Mr. V will have the crowd dancing to ...
Cassette tapes are back in the mix Los Angeles Times Mark "Frosty" McNeill of the LA-based DJ collective Dublab recently revamped his cassette-DJ night at Silver Lake's Hyperion Tavern, which highlights the ...
Pests be gone! Tampabay.com Area DJ's have donated their time to ensure non-stop entertainment. Scheduled to keep things moving are DJs Lesage, Ku, Gimme Samoa, Jaime Fereirra, Mondo, ...
Jeremy Sussman, a Google Local Product Manager has been pretty frank and clear with people in the Google Places forum. In one Google Places Help thread, he said, and I quote: I can assure you that the last thing we...
Tedster started an outstanding thread at WebmasterWorld, something I personally never thought about but is all so valid. All this stuff around having fast sites, cause Google is now looking at site performance and speed is important. It is not...
This week we covered the Google one language per page rule and today I spotted a thread specific to how this works with Google News. A Google News Help thread has Googler Inbal saying you should submit a News Sitemap...
Google will remove search results when a court orders them to do so or when the search result can infect a computer with viruses and malware. We know that. I spotted an interesting and unique thread at Google Webmaster Help...
Here is a little SEO bit that some of the even more experienced SEOs may not have heard of. The order of the meta robots tag is incredibly important. Did you know that the effects are cumulative when it comes...
The online mapping products get cooler almost every day. The latest buzz is around Microsoft Street Slide, which is not live yet, but is currently being developed. Here is a video that explains it better than I can in words:...
Baby Decks DJ for iPad BusinessWeek Tim Mercer is a technology enthusiast, graphic designer, and blogger, whose blog, digital-artist-toolbox.com, offers free resources to the digital artist ...
Aaron Wall posted an example of a large brand manipulating Google through an old spam technique. In short, they were buying expired domains to piggy back off of the link popularity and anchor text of those old domains. Aaron wall...
There are several complaints at both WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums that the Yahoo Search Marketing campaigns are missing all their data. One person received a response from Yahoo, where Yahoo presumingly said: Upon researching your account we found there is...
Wired published an article last night named Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring. Here is a snippet of that article: The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web...
A couple months ago, we wrote on how Google Alerts tweaked their algorithm to be more more quality focused and send out less alerts. A recent Google Web Search Help thread has more on how Google Alerts works from Google...
A WebmasterWorld thread has Zeus, someone well known in the SEO forum space as tracking the image search engines, as not speaking positively about Bing Image Search. The thread talks how Bing is slower than Google to index new content....
A WebmasterWorld thread makes a basic and obvious point that many newbies miss. SEO is not just about technical implementation. You can place your title tags in the right place, have a nice site architecture, get links and so on...
Happily getting stuck in Limbo CNET (blog) New York native Dan Ackerman, a former radio DJ turned journalist, has written about technology and music for publications including Spin, Blender, ...
CRS Agenda At A Glance Revealed All Access Music Group The RADIO and DJ HALL of FAME dinner/inductions unofficially kicks off CRS 2011 on TUESDAY, MARCH 1st. Some of this year's panel's include: “The Digital... CRS 2011 Agenda-At-A-GlancePRLog.Org (press release)
Target Exclusive 'Iron Man 2' Blu-ray Announced High-Def Digest The release will also include a DVD/Digital Copy. Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $34.99. You can find the latest specs for 'Iron Man 2 (Target ...
Digital Illusions Unveils America's First Holographic Nightclub PR-CANADA.net (press release) Custom software allows the DJ to mix in the holographic audio and video with their own mix seamlessly. Ann DeVilbiss, Digital Illusions' owner and creative ...
We have been providing ongoing coverage of the AdSense publisher who was hacked into and had $25,000 or so stolen from him by someone in India. It turned out, after three months nothing has happened. Well, that has changed. Google...
As Google Video continues to scale back the features and options available, in exchange for YouTube, Google recently dropped the "download" button. The download button, which can be seen here, was available on some Google Video hosted files. Now, it...
Devil's Due at Comic-Con 2010 Comic Book Bin ... nice batch of Devil's Due digital comics (as well as my persona project, MerchGirl). Saturday we're teaming with iHeartcomix record label and DJ Franki ...
19 days ago, Google launched a redesign for Google News. Many many many users absolutely hated the design. Last week, Google finally responded with a tweak to the design, giving people a way to show a second column. But many...
On July 15th, DigitalPoint Forums, a forum we cover here often, no longer was showing Google AdSense ads on their pages. Rumors began spreading so Shawn Hogan, the owner, posted a blog post saying A 3rd Party CAN Get You...
Last week, the New York Times wrote a piece suggesting Google's search algorithm should be regulated. Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for half of their...
Rusko calls Deadmau5 a 'skinny little c*nt' inthemix (blog) The beef erupted over the weekend with Rusko throwing the first digital stone on his Twitter account by glibly tweeting “so a dj with a HUGE ego last night ...
DJ Sarah Loves loves kicks The Vine There seems to be a running thread with old school DJs (meaning those that have been around before the advent of Serato, downloading and digital media) that ...
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable, we cover a nice amount of news. Before I forget, I forgot to include in the video portion that Google News changed the redesign a bit based on user feedback. The big news...
Two days ago, we reported some people noticing a new design for Google Images. More and more people began reporting it but no one was quick enough to snap a screen shot and post it. I did some research and...
In April, Google relaunched the Google Local Business Center as Google Places and one part of that relaunch was the release of a FREE Google Business Photo program. The Business Photo program lets you include pictures of your business in...
Folks at WebmasterWorld are discussing a recent link update in their Google Webmaster Tools link reports. Now, we know that Caffeine resulted in the recent spike in links found in Google Webmaster Tools. The first time since then, Google has...
The last time we discussed how to rank in Google Definitions was about two-plus years ago. Although Google has consistently removed the traffic value for third-party sites with Google Definitions, it still can drive some traffic to your site. A...
Yesterday, I received an email from Yahoo that discussed the migration plan for the organic side of Yahoo Search. As I wrote at Search Engine Land, in that email, Yahoo officially confirmed that they will (if not already) that they...
I am shocked, honestly shocked. Google recently redesigned Google News, and based on our poll, 85% hated the new design. I have been tracking complaints in the forums for weeks now and the complaints have no slowed. I really thought...
Google has confirmed a bug that prevents some searchers from using Google search. First reported in a Google Web Search Help thread just about two weeks ago, some users are unable to get any search results at Google. The first...
The Google Maps team has been fielding questions via Google Moderator and has produced currently eight video responses to the most popular questions. This is very similar to what Matt Cutts does on the Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel. Google...
You need a laugh, don't you? Well, I got one for you. Spotted via a Google Webmaster Help thread, one webmaster is asking why his site "went to spam and not showing and ranking." The funny part is not the...
Visiting Google today on any Google property you will find a special Google logo for Josef Frank. It is Josef Frank's 125th birthday, he was born on July 15, 1885 and died on January 8, 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden. He...
WebmasterWorld's moderator, incrediBill, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld noting that Yahoo's URL Ping server seems to have gone offline recently. As he explains, when he tries to access the documented Ping URLs, he gets a dead response. Try it yourself,...
Two months ago, Google began testing a new AdWords type named broad match modifier. It basically allowed you to be "more specific with your broad match keywords, but be more lax than the phrase based match," as I explained then....
Rock impresario says file sharing is inevitable CNET Poppy techno laptop DJ same 4 measures over and over with 1 uninspired interlude in between just doesn't cut it, especially when you aren't even really ...
DJ's' arrive for Sarasota's Vinyl Music Festival WWSB ABC 7 While the dj is playing you will have 3-D glasses and see some of the artists and the work they do using digital technology," says Matt Orr. The parties, ...
POP . . . plus Philadelphia Inquirer Joining him will be Philadelphia DJ Rob Paine. TLA, 334 South St., 9 pm tomorrow, $25, 215-922-1011, www.livenation.com. Grand Theft Audio: This epic indie ...
Ray Kurzweil's Music Revolution IEEE Spectrum (blog) Applications such as "Virtual DJ" and "iRemix" allow users to alter music tracks in real time, automatically splicing in synchronized beats from other songs ...
Borders Crossed, Moved and Defied New York Times She had an old-school DJ, making beats from vinyl on two turntables. El Guincho (Pablo Diaz-Reixa), from Barcelona, has his own hybrid. ...
In pod we trust The Guardian "In the context of blogs and social networking, web mixes are conversation starters," says Philip Sherburne, an American techno DJ and critic based in ...
DJ Nate, “Make 'em Run” MP3 The FADER (blog) DJ Nate is a footwork pioneer and like nine years old or some shit and he is way better at making digital music than old people because he was born with a ...
Google has confirmed a bug where searchers are forced through a Google redirect page prior to ending up on the ultimate search result. This only happens when you search for something with a hash, for example a search on [c#...
Yesterday afternoon, I was using street views to research some locations around my office and I spotted something weird. I was driving up Route 202 and it then appeared that the Street Views camera on top of the Google Maps...
We have been covering the random issue with the AdSense login/logout issues for several months now. It appears some are now saying the issue is resolved. A WebmasterWorld thread has several AdSense publishers claiming the logout bug is resolved. They...
Rae at Outspoken Media compiled one of the best sets of link building interviews I have seen, possibly, ever. She had ten or so link building experts submit one question each and then answer all the submitted questions. The other...
A month ago we reported that France May Fine Google Over Suspending AdWords Advertiser and most recently, Google acquired ITA an online travel booking engine. As I explained in both posts, Webmasters fear that Google continues to get into their...
Calling All Little Monsters!!! PR Newswire (press release) ... "Telephone" and "Alejandro" all remixed by highly acclaimed DJ's and artists. This is the first time this collection will be available stateside. ...
I normally do not do showcase our themes when the search engines do not have special logos or themes. But today is Video Game Day and we have a theme for you. Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com have no special...
COMMUNITY NEWS: NCT, Thursday, July 8 North County Times VISTA ---- The McClellan Senior Center will offer the "Introduction to Scanning and Digital Imaging" OASIS class from 1 to 3 pm July 14 at 1400 Vale Terrace ...
Chiefs get major-league treatment at Wrigley Field Peoria Journal Star Down the ancient tunnel and into the clubhouse, outfielder DJ Fitzgerald sat in front of a locker, a name-plated Cubs jersey hanging in the stall above him. ...
Week in review: Week ending 7 July 2010 Media Update KFM DJ tries his hand at internet radioIn a move likely to instigate a shake-up in the South African radio broadcasting landscape, leading KFM DJ, ...
On July 1st, Google News launched a redesign and to be frankly honest, it seems like it was a major failure. So many complaints, so much hate, so many switchers, all do to this single portal change. I wanted to...
Spotted via a Google Blogoscoped Forum thread, Wildammo.com put together a funny version of Google's favicon. Let's show you their version and then the official one: Look similar? Think the Google designer was taking care of some business and thought...
A few days ago, a Google Maps user asked Google in a Google Maps Help forum if they can add labels or names to bodies of water. The person asked, why are no oceans, seas, lakes and so on labelled...
adAge reports Google may be bringing large banner display ads to Gmail. Google properties such as Google Finance, YouTube and others have fairly large display ads already. Gmail, for the most part, has gone contextual ad based, as opposed to...
Hands-on with Gateway's LT32 premium Netbook CNET New York native Dan Ackerman, a former radio DJ turned journalist, has written about technology and music for publications including Spin, Blender, ...
Behind Bars: DJ Brian Blurr In Utah This Week He has also joined forces with V2 Events in order to launch a new digital record label that they are calling Masv Recordings. "It will be showcasing local ...
If you visit Google today, you will see a special logo or 'doodle' for Frida Kahlo. The logo looks like: Frida Kahlo was a well-known Mexican painter. You can learn more about her at Wikipedia. And you can also see...
A reader, Morgan Chemij emailed me an image of Google testing a new maps position in the Google search results. His image showed a map in the top right position, above the Google AdWords ads, for a search on [florist]....
One of the most basic SEO strategies for content development is the process of determining what people are searching for in your niche so you can target those keywords. When it comes to news sites, even sites with a niche...
If you login to your AdWords account, go to a campaign and click on the arrow down near the tabs, you will find a new option. The new tab option is named "dimensions" and provides a different look at your...
A WebmasterWorld thread reports that some publishers have had their Google AdSense ads deactivated over bogus DMCA filings. DMCA, is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Google has a policy of "removing or disabling access to material claimed to be...
Over the course of five plus years, the topic of link brokerage houses have been a popular topic in the forums. I often try to stay away from the topic, due to it being a very controversial and heated debate....
This is our monthly report on changes that took place at Google over the past 30-days or so. You can see our June 2010 report and see it was all about the May Day update and possible signs of Caffeine...
Search for [how to hack a wireless network] and look at some of the results. You will see a new feature that shows sub-video results with little play icons. The play icons look similar to the play icons used on...
MAGIX Digital DJ 1.0 Techworld.com MAGIX Digital DJ will transform any PC into a professional DJ system, making it easy to create the perfect party mix. To get started, simply point the ...
Peter Case: Recharged and ready to rock Los Angeles Times With old friends DJ Bonebrake of X on drums and Memphis, Tenn., guitarist Ron Franklin backing him up, Case spent a mere two days laying down the 12 tracks, ...