| Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates where Google for the first time in years revealed its AdSense revenue sharing percentage, apart from this it empowered Analytics opt-out option. While Yahoo is busy forging deals with Nokia and Koprol for boosting its mobile activity, as well as many more interesting Search Engine Optimization news from across the web… | |
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Google Silently Acquires Online Travel Guide Ruba To Improve Navigation Service Community site Ruba evidently has something different under its hood from the countless other travel guides on the web and that is apparent from this blog post, Google has acquired online travel guide and community Ruba is a visual travel guide and tour review site that provides travelers… Read More |
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Facebook Founder Admits To Blunder–Considers Changing Privacy Settings
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges that the social networking service has made blunders, and that it is considering to carry-out sweeping changes to its privacy settings in a bid to pacify criticism from users and regulators that the current controls are too complex… |
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Google Unwraps Its AdSense Revenue Sharing Black Box
Google, which has faced disapproval from publishers that its AdSense program is not transparent enough, has finally unwrapped the way it splits advertising revenue with search and content publishers, who run Google ads on their own sites… |
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Yahoo And Nokia Forge Global Alliance On E-Mail, Chat And Maps
Web pioneer Yahoo Inc. and cell phone maker Nokia on Monday announced an alliance that will empower the Finnish phone giant providing map services to Yahoo customers on both PCs and mobile devices, while the Sunnyvale Internet company provides mail and chat services for Nokia… |
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Twitter Kicks Third-Party Ads Out Of Its Nest To Maintain Quality
With more than 60 million follower, Twitter distinctly is a flourishing social media platform, and until recently, it permitted third parties to use its APIs to build programs that drop ads into tweet streams. But, suddenly third-party ad networks have been officially banned… |
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Google Allows Users To Opt Out Of Web Analytics With New Add-On
In a move to cool down growing concerns about privacy, Google on Tuesday unveiled a novel concept for web users who are interested in avoiding its popular “Google Analytics” tool used by publishers to track traffic and trends on their websites can now easily do so… |
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Yahoo Acquires Indonesian Location-Based Mobile Service Provider Koprol
Barely days after Yahoo’s futile attempt to snaffle New York-based Foursquare for more than $100 million, and just a day after announcing a new mapping alliance with Nokia, Yahoo on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Koprol, an Indonesian Internet service that lets people use mobile telephones to instantly connect with nearby people and places… |
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Amid Backfire, Facebook CEO Overhauls Privacy Settings
Amid escalating criticism from users, privacy advocates and lawmakers alike — that the world’s largest social-networking site Facebook lacks competent privacy controls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday overhauled its privacy controls to fend off dissatisfied users… |
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Yahoo Makes Content Deal With “Farmville” Developers Zynga For Social Gaming
Internet pioneer Yahoo seems to be on a tear has agreed to a deal with Zynga, makers of the monumentaly popular Farvmville and Mafia Wars games on Facebook, the alliance will see Yahoo integrating Zynga games across Yahoo’s broad range of sites and service offerings… |
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Google Announces Chrome Stable For Linux, Mac
Google has moved the latest version of Chrome 5 for Windows out of beta and also announced stable versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux, and upgraded the browser for the first time with many new features… |
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Facebook Acquires ShareGrove, Promises Superior Chat Features Facebook, the globes’ largest social networking leader, fresh from its preferential privacy revamp, is continuing its business as usual opened up its pockets this week in order to stack up its arsenal with a company called ShareGrove, a small US startup that provides… |
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Google Adds Mysterious Location History Dashboard To Augment Latitude Google is watching you… In what initially appears like some hair-raising “big brother” style innovation, search engine giant Google on Wednesday said that it has unveiled a new feature which allows users to view their “entire life’s travels” based on users’ cell phone, Wi-Fi usage and GPS data, and analyzes patterns from that data… |
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Sony To Expand eReader Business Around The World To Challenge Apple Sony Corp said on Thursday that it will expand its eReader digital book instrument into several new international markets this year. The company plans to hit the Asia-Pacific market with launches in Japan, China, and Australia, and further spread out throughout Europe by reaching countries such as Italy and Spain, as well as introduce a platform for… |
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Yahoo Homepage Chief “Tapan Bhat” Leaves The Company Another longtime Yahoo executive “Tapan Bhat,” who has been with Yahoo for more than five and who has extensively managed the Internet giant’s most important homepage, late last week announced that he is quitting the company, according to an All Things Digital report… |
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Yahoo Integrated More Facebook News Feed Features InTo Email Since last December, Yahoo is continuing its love affair with a treasure-trove of Facebook-related features added to Yahoo! Mail, another move towards deeper integration; now, the company rolling out a new feature that would allow Facebook enthusiasts to view, comment, and integrating Facebook news feed items directly into Yahoo Mail, actions that will… |
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Google Moderator Now Available For All YouTube Channels Google has unleashed a full-fledge version of its Moderator service for all YouTube users, which empowers channel owners and viewers to comments on published videos and other relevant topics on channel pages… |
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Search Engine News Updates: May24-31-2010
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