Its Halloween and everyone’s searching for Halloween costume ideas. Meanwhile, Yahoo has released its most popular Halloween related search trends for the season.Its interesting to see what people are searching for, have to say some of them are absurd. Top Searched Adult Halloween Costume Ideas on Yahoo! 1.     Star Wars 2.     Vampire 3.     Pan Am Costume 4.     Superheroes 5.     Cat Woman 6.     Eighties 7.     Indian 8.     Wizard of Oz Most… Continue reading

Looks like its strike one from Yahoo to the big G, this time. Yahoo has just launched their live cricket score updates on Yahoo search, where any search related to cricket (actually, almost any search) will give you the live score card right within the results. Not just that, Yahoo also provides cricket fans with upcoming cricket match schedules and player profile information. Sweet! Google, on the other hand dedicated… Continue reading

Yahoo says its new. “Okay…so that means better search results and better algorithm ?” “Well.. not really. We’ve just added a few frills here and there, polished it a bit..and voila ! The all new yahoo search for ya !” That’s an imaginary conversation but quite likely true. The search results haven’t improved any bit ! They still suck. Intelligent Sorry to say that Yahoo, but couldn’t find any improvement… Continue reading

Yahoo has launched a whole new set of features to its search engine. Starting from “Search by source”, “Search Pad”, “Related Concepts”…and a lot of other features, Yahoo is now all set to combat BIng and Google. The most noticeable features are the 1) “Search by Source” feature, where you can get narrowed results from popular sites like Wikipedia and other related sites to your search term. 2) “Related concepts”… Continue reading

Yahoo’s architect Vik Singh has been selected as one among the top 35 Young Innovators by MIT, for his contributions made to Yahoo BOSS. Congrats Vik !

If you didn’t know, Vik is the brain behind the BOSS Mashup Framework and TweetNews. Here’s an interestng interview with Vik.

You can congratulate Vik at his personal blog here or at his Linked In profile here… Continue reading

Okay, this is exciting news. The better guys teamed up, Bing and Yahoo, so we are looking at narrowing down on the competition, hopefully a bigger and better No.2 player to Google.

Bing, with its recent launch and buzz sure is turning heads and this time was successful enough in convincing Yahoo that they should work together.

Carol Bartz CEO Yahoo and Steve Balmer CEO Bing signs… Continue reading

On May 27th 2009, Yahoo Image Search had introduced “Copyrights search” on images. But unfortunately, Yahoo had only access to the copyrights information of images hosted on flickr, their own company. But when Google does it, they do it in style ! Google went a step ahead and now lets you search images that are available for free across the web. This is the official news piece. Today, we’re launching… Continue reading

Google have been suggesting time and again that providing a sitemap with the proper information is probably the best method to ensure that all the pages in your site are indexed on Google. There are many ways to create a sitemap too. Here is a collection of al the sitemap generators we could find on the internet.
Gsite Crawler
Gsite Crawler Features
Capture URLs for your site using… Continue reading

Gone are the days when SEO Tools was al about page rank checks and keword density checks. Today we have seo tools to analyze backlinks, wikipedia links, digg submissions, delicious bookmarks, neighborhood ip checks and all that external seo metrics.
Here’s a list of twelve such free tools that you can use to analyze the stats of your site.

SEO Digger [ Keyword Research, Rank Checker ] -… Continue reading

Been speaking to a young blogger who asked me, “Isn’t all blogspot blogs owned by Google, so why don’t they promote it up the SERPs?”We’ll I’d be running out of job in that case, and I’m glad it’s not. But the answer is that Google wants an accurately indexed data that’s completely based on relevancy. It does want to show up the most relevant site/sites based on a keyword, be… Continue reading