http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - SEO-Related Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 05:30:36 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 05:30:36 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-EC2-Receives-New-Features-from-AWS-111906.shtml Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., announced recently that it had released Amazon CloudWatch publicly, with new beta functions for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This service is meant to monitor AWS cloud resources, and it features Auto Scaling to ensure growing and shrinking of the Amazon EC2 capacity accor... (read more)]]> Tue, 19 May 2009 05:40:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-EC2-Receives-New-Features-from-AWS-111906.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-EC2-Receives-New-Features-from-AWS-111906.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Giorgiana Bursuc) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Behind-the-Scene-Look-at-Google-039-s-Search-Customization-91173.shtml Google has announced that it will provide users with the possibility of customizing their search results depending on three key factors: location, recent searches and web history. The three were also taken into account every time Google returned results to a query but, from now on, people will be given a greater opportunity of pre-desig... (read more)]]> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:06:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Behind-the-Scene-Look-at-Google-039-s-Search-Customization-91173.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Behind-the-Scene-Look-at-Google-039-s-Search-Customization-91173.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Denisa Ilascu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-039-s-Vision-on-Semantic-Search-90691.shtml Search engines are continuously fighting for supremacy and in order to return the most accurate results to queries, the newest technologies must be exploited in full swing. Yahoo!, whose approach of semantic search was rather cautious, explains why this method does have some technical limitations.

"The current generation of search engines is sever... (read more)]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:33:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-039-s-Vision-on-Semantic-Search-90691.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-039-s-Vision-on-Semantic-Search-90691.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Denisa Ilascu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-039-s-Search-Engine-039-s-Optimization-Methods-Revealed-90169.shtml Many wonder what technologies and methods Google employs in order to return such accurate results to the queries. Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, has revealed some of the secrets that make 80% of the people from most countries choose Google to the detriment of its competitors. Information Retrieval, that mostly uses words salience to r... (read more)]]> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:44:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-039-s-Search-Engine-039-s-Optimization-Methods-Revealed-90169.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-039-s-Search-Engine-039-s-Optimization-Methods-Revealed-90169.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Denisa Ilascu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Ranking-Says-No-to-Manual-Adjusting-89666.shtml Google's principle of sharing its developments with the users in a non-technical, easy to understand language, is displayed once again. The Google team decided to reveal the philosophies that stand behind their search ranking system, that probably are what singles them out from amongst the competition. For starters, Amit Singhal, Google Fellow in charg... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Ranking-Says-No-to-Manual-Adjusting-89666.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Ranking-Says-No-to-Manual-Adjusting-89666.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Denisa Ilascu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Heavy-Clickers-an-Advertising-Nightmare-78627.shtml One of the most important sources of accountability for Internet display advertising is being questioned by the results of the Natural Born Clickers survey, conducted by comScore, media agency Starcom USA and behavioral targeting network Tacoda. Click-through rates have long been used as an ad negotiation currency, but the study brings that idea some clou... (read more)]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Heavy-Clickers-an-Advertising-Nightmare-78627.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Heavy-Clickers-an-Advertising-Nightmare-78627.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Vlad Constandes) http://news.softpedia.com/news/CEO-Arrested-and-Jailed-for-Foreclosure-Scam-75237.shtml Following the SEO news for a couple of years (which I'm assuming you have been doing), you must remember that at some point, in August 2005, Google publicly confirmed that they had penalized a site. What was so special about it was that it had been the first time ever when they came clean about it, in a trial against Aaron Wall of SEO Book, who was s... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:18:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/CEO-Arrested-and-Jailed-for-Foreclosure-Scam-75237.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/CEO-Arrested-and-Jailed-for-Foreclosure-Scam-75237.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Vlad Constandes) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Download-Free-Torrent-Files-Using-Google-53947.shtml Google is a search engine that allows you to find anything on the Internet, no matter the format, the type or the content. That's why you're also able to find free torrents and download them straight from Google without having to find alternative sources. The torrent is quite a useful way to download anything because it doesn't need a stand-alone... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 21:06:01 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Download-Free-Torrent-Files-Using-Google-53947.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Download-Free-Torrent-Files-Using-Google-53947.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Kill-My-Teacher-1-Year-In-Prison-53939.shtml A 16-year-old student was arrested after he published a clip on YouTube, asking other members of the online video sharing service to kill his math teacher. The Staten Island boy encouraged users to shoot the teacher in the neck and even posted her name and the home address. The main reason? He failed a test and he decided to take his revenge by asking o... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 20:11:02 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Kill-My-Teacher-1-Year-In-Prison-53939.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Kill-My-Teacher-1-Year-In-Prison-53939.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Three-Two-One-YouTube-53931.shtml A recent report made by the Marketing Profs revealed that YouTube is placed on the 12th position in the most visited Internet domains in US top. Although the online video sharing service was beaten by more powerful and famous brands, YouTube grows up a lot and might become a worldwide name soon. According to BizCommunity, MySpace, Yahoo, MSN, eBay and Live Search are amon... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 20:06:01 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Three-Two-One-YouTube-53931.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Three-Two-One-YouTube-53931.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Use-Google-039-s-Free-SMS-Feature-53874.shtml Google Calendar is now presented as the best way to track you daily activities, a Google employee sustaining the product was recently improved with better notification. Although the SMS feature was quite old, Aarati Parmar Martino, Software Engineer, Google Calendar team, presented it as a new update available for all users. "Many people schedule their d... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 17:51:06 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Use-Google-039-s-Free-SMS-Feature-53874.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Use-Google-039-s-Free-SMS-Feature-53874.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Thailand-Takes-Google-To-The-Judge-53928.shtml The Thai government is now planning to take the search giant to the court after Google refused to remove a clip, which insults the Thai king, from YouTube. The online video sharing service was banned in the entire country on April 4 when YouTube refused to remove the clip. However, the Thai authorities contacted Google several times and finally decided to sue ... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 12:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Thailand-Takes-Google-To-The-Judge-53928.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Thailand-Takes-Google-To-The-Judge-53928.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/USB-Sticks-Attacked-By-Dangerous-Virus-53921.shtml A new type of threat is now aiming to be distributed using the memory sticks connected to the USB ports and installing on the users' computers. The way the virus works is quite simple: it is automatically transferred to an USB stick connected to the computer and then it will install on a new system when the memory stick is connected. Security company Sopho... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 12:34:11 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/USB-Sticks-Attacked-By-Dangerous-Virus-53921.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/USB-Sticks-Attacked-By-Dangerous-Virus-53921.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Bring-Your-Kid-To-Work-53910.shtml Google Seattle recently hosted a special day for the local office, allowing the employees to bring their kids to work. The special event, codenamed Bring Your Daughter/Son To Work Day, was held last Thursday and attracted a huge and loud crowd in the Google office. "Those kids are loud! How about a Bring Your Teenager To Work Day? At least surly teens can be quiet ... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 11:05:24 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Bring-Your-Kid-To-Work-53910.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Bring-Your-Kid-To-Work-53910.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hello-Google-I-Have-A-Problem-53904.shtml The search giant is now encouraging users to contact the company by telephone and talk straight with an AdWords specialist. Google sent an email to multiple AdWords publishers informing them about the possibility of contacting the company by phone, sustaining the service is available everyday between certain hours. David Naylor, AdWords advertiser, posted the Googl... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 10:17:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hello-Google-I-Have-A-Problem-53904.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hello-Google-I-Have-A-Problem-53904.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Volkswagen-to-Google-Oops-You-Caught-Me-Spamming-53900.shtml Google recently informed Volkswagen that their newly released homepage infringes their guidelines because it was discovered that it contains hidden text in the page source. As you might know, the search giant announced the new layout of Volkswagen's page yesterday, sustaining the website is now based on Search Appliance powered by Google. However... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 09:46:04 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Volkswagen-to-Google-Oops-You-Caught-Me-Spamming-53900.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Volkswagen-to-Google-Oops-You-Caught-Me-Spamming-53900.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Simple-Tip-To-Use-A-Different-Google-Design-53895.shtml Google is currently testing a different design for its famous search technology but it doesn't present it on the official site of the engine. Because it is somehow private, the testing sessions are quite difficult to be accessed; so if you want to see them, you must follow some simple steps. Google Blogoscoped recently discovered a new design of the s... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 09:20:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Simple-Tip-To-Use-A-Different-Google-Design-53895.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Simple-Tip-To-Use-A-Different-Google-Design-53895.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Flickr-Won-The-Battle-Yahoo-Photos-To-Be-Shut-Down-53890.shtml Yahoo prepares to announce the closure of Yahoo Photos, the service that allowed users to upload and share their pictures with other Internet users. The service will be shut down in the upcoming months because the company wants to move all the clients to the recently acquired platform, Flick. According to TechCrunch, the migration will be enhan... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 08:54:31 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Flickr-Won-The-Battle-Yahoo-Photos-To-Be-Shut-Down-53890.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Flickr-Won-The-Battle-Yahoo-Photos-To-Be-Shut-Down-53890.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Starts-Paying-Its-Users-53882.shtml The online video sharing service YouTube is now starting to pay its customers using a new partnership program that will surely encourage users to upload their stuff. As usual, the parent company Google wants more homemade content and announced today that a new special program is about to start and that it will bring some considerable revenues for the uploaders. A... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 08:20:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Starts-Paying-Its-Users-53882.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Starts-Paying-Its-Users-53882.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Avoid-A-Google-Ban-53867.shtml The Mountain View-based company presented some new AdSense optimization tips to avoid a potential Google ban that might block your account. As you know, it is very important to configure your advertising account to avoid infringing the search giant's guidelines and receive a ban. Today, the company's employees are trying to promote some simple customizations tricks to ... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 07:18:37 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Avoid-A-Google-Ban-53867.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Avoid-A-Google-Ban-53867.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/One-More-Google-Tool-Available-For-Download-53860.shtml Google released today an improved version of Google Desktop SDK, a developer tool that includes the latest edition of Google Desktop Gadget Designer. This utility helps users build their own gadgets, tiny applications that will bring one more function to the stand-alone product. In the past, Google made several efforts to promote the gadgets, adding i... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2007 06:44:42 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/One-More-Google-Tool-Available-For-Download-53860.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/One-More-Google-Tool-Available-For-Download-53860.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Fights-Against-The-HD-DVD-Key-53839.shtml The Mountain View based company sent a message to one of its users to remove the HD-DVD decryption key posted in his notebook. Because the content of a member's notebook might become available for other registered clients, the search giant sent a message to the user to demand him to delete the serial number. According to Wired Blogs, the company sustained th... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 21:06:04 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Fights-Against-The-HD-DVD-Key-53839.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Fights-Against-The-HD-DVD-Key-53839.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Look-Google-We-Play-Sumo-53829.shtml The two Yahoo co-founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo, decided to perform a demonstrative sumo match to celebrate the Earth Day. Although the reason was quite weird, the two co-founders decided that it's the time to give a little demonstration to the company's employees, playing a funny sumo match. You're probably curios why they chose sumo and not some other sport... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 20:21:01 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Look-Google-We-Play-Sumo-53829.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Look-Google-We-Play-Sumo-53829.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Increase-YouTube-039-s-Loading-Speed-53805.shtml SpeedBit, the famous creator of Download Accelerator Plus, managed to design a new application able to increase the YouTube loading speed and accelerate your clips. SpeedBit Video Accelerator is available for free and is currently downloadable as a beta version. The product works quite simple and it is based on the connection made between your compute... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 18:36:01 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Increase-YouTube-039-s-Loading-Speed-53805.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Increase-YouTube-039-s-Loading-Speed-53805.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Caught-In-Bed-With-Volkswagen-53767.shtml Google recently signed a deal with Volkswagen to provide them Search Appliance for their new version of the website. As you can see if you visit the newly designed webpage, the interface is quite amazing and, according to the Google employees, the search engine is powered by the Mountain View company. Kevin Gough, Sr. Product & Marketing Manager, sustained t... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 17:26:01 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Caught-In-Bed-With-Volkswagen-53767.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Caught-In-Bed-With-Volkswagen-53767.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Wall-Street-Journal-We-039-ll-Buy-It-53851.shtml The Mountain View-based company is now preparing a new acquisition to help the company expand its services into the offline area. Wall Street Journal, owned by Dow Jones, might be bought by the search giant after several companies announced their intentions to acquire the 125 year-old publication. According to Search Engine Watch, Google is involved i... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 15:09:28 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Wall-Street-Journal-We-039-ll-Buy-It-53851.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Wall-Street-Journal-We-039-ll-Buy-It-53851.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Loves-Online-But-Wants-Offline-Too-53834.shtml The Mountain View-based company wants to conquer the entire Internet because it considers the virtual world is still open for other companies. A Google employee recently sustained for Vnunet that Google is not the king over the entire Internet world and a considerable part of the network can be also used by other firms. At this time, Google is regarded ... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 13:51:28 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Loves-Online-But-Wants-Offline-Too-53834.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Loves-Online-But-Wants-Offline-Too-53834.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Launches-Web-Based-Yahoo-Messenger-53796.shtml Yahoo finally launched a web-based version of Yahoo Messenger, allowing the users to communicate with their friends straight from an online page. The product is actually quite amazing, providing an impressive interface bundled with almost perfect functionality. The web-based Yahoo Messenger is probably the most powerful rival for the famous Meebo or othe... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 13:43:00 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Launches-Web-Based-Yahoo-Messenger-53796.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Launches-Web-Based-Yahoo-Messenger-53796.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-To-Partner-With-Its-Enemies-53820.shtml Google might sign a deal with several Belgian newspapers to publish latest news and headlines on the News service, although the company recorded several problems in the past. The Belgian group Copiepresse agreed to have the news indexed on Google's product, but without the cache option that allows users to access older items. The publications sustained they ar... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 12:33:37 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-To-Partner-With-Its-Enemies-53820.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-To-Partner-With-Its-Enemies-53820.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Earth-Gets-Live-Update-After-Oakland-Explosion-53810.shtml The Mountain View-based company was quite fast and managed to update Google Earth and Google Maps quickly to provide the users alternative routes for San Francisco and Oakland. As you might know, a considerable part of an Oakland road was damaged after it collapsed under a huge fire caused by an explosion. Because most of the online maps ser... (read more)]]> Thu, 3 May 2007 11:01:18 GMT Softpedia News - SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Earth-Gets-Live-Update-After-Oakland-Explosion-53810.shtml SEO-Related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Earth-Gets-Live-Update-After-Oakland-Explosion-53810.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa)