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Recent reports indicate that Google gets ready to set up shop in Singapore. Google has yet to confirm the reports, but it seems that Google plans on building the first research and development center in Southeast Asia. Google’s director of Southeast Asian operations Richard Kimber told The Straits Times newspaper why Google would [...] Tags: Google Singapore, Richard Kimber, Southeast Asia

Yahoo may soon file opposition to AOL’s Instant Messenger trademark at the U-S Patent and Trademark Office (also known as USPTO). Yahoo’s Attorney David M. Kelly filed four separate requests for additional time to investigate the claim. AOL has used the term “Instant Messenger” since 1997, though several adversaries disputed the term “Instant Messenger” as [...] Tags: AOL, Instant Messenger, Trademark, yahoo

Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, said the company received a much-needed wakeup call from Google. The billions in search advertising revenue that Google was raking in every quarter made Microsoft realize they hadn’t paid enough attention to that market. Ozzie told analysts and investors at a Goldman Sachs conference Microsoft would not copy Google’s [...] Tags:

Fans of Digg have more topics to dig into today. After what Digg’s Owen Byrne described as “tons of stories submitted” and “countless requests” for these new topics, the site has added two for Diggers to enjoy. A ‘US Elections 2008′ topic is now part of Digg’s ‘World and Business’ category, while ‘Microsoft’ has a dedicated [...]

Yahoo presented its new ranking model to the search community three weeks ago. This model came with new advertising grouping, geo-targeting, and quality score features. ComScore stared measuring the week ending in February 4, 2007 before Panama’s launch. ComScore looked at the sponsored search click-through rates before Panama, and then the click-through [...] Tags: ComScore, Measurement, Statistics, Yahoo Panama

SEOmoz.org’s Rand Fishkin recently blogged about sitemaps. Sitemaps sit on your server and assist search engine spiders to crawl and index your site. Fishkin believes sitemaps may hurt your SEO efforts. SEO personalities RustyBrick and David Naylor support Fishkin on this concern. Google’s Central Product Manager Vanessa Fox does not consider [...] Tags: Rand Fishkin, SEO, seomoz, sitemaps, Vanessa Fox

Online auction sellers, take notice. The IRS may start asking eBay and other auction sites to report the gross sales their users make each year. People are supposed to report the income they earn from their online sales, and the IRS thinks not everyone may be doing so. The San Francisco Chronicle said President Bush [...] Tags: Advertisers, Auction, eBay, Google, IRS, Mobile, Search, Sellers, South Korea, video

Major media companies see piracy on YouTube as a critical issue, and they want Google to treat it that way. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters that the company would soon have anti-piracy tools available, and that addressing those concerns was one of Google’s “highest priorities.” But those tools may not be the ones Google had [...] Tags: Audible Magic, Media Companies, Piracy, YouTube

MyBlogLog has banned one prominent S-E-O for publishing problems that he’s found with their service. Jeremy Schoemaker of the ShoeMoney blog showed how easily MyBlogLog members could pretend to be other people when visiting other MyBlogLog member websites. Even though the method for doing this used information the service makes easy to find, they considered it [...] Tags: Andy Beal, Jeremy Schoemaker, Marketing Pilgrim, MyBlogLog, Shoe Money

A survey by Captivate Digital shows that half of all Irish companies don’t place in the top five search results for keywords in their categories. This reduces the companies’ possibility of consumers discovering their products or services. The survey estimates around 75 percent of internet users depend on search engines like Google to [...] Tags: Ireland, Irish, Search Engine Optimization, SEO