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Recently, a blind search tool was created by Michael Kordahi, a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. It is a unique tool that provides you with the search results for your keywords from all the three leading search engines namely, Google, Yahoo!, and Bing all at the same time but without displaying the...

So by now, you've probably heard about the Microsoft - Yahoo search deal. You may even have read my take that this will be good for advertisers. If not, go back and start there, so we're all caught up.

I got responses from several other search marketers saying the deal looked good from their side...

The following post was written by a well known executive at one of the largest sites on the Internet. The author has requested to remain anonymous - not for dramatic effect, but because of the backlash he would receive from the SEO industry and possibly Google itself. He also doesn’t want his company...

Good news for those of us in the SEO industry as new figures from Forrester predict spend will increase steadily over the next 5 years.

According to the report interactive marketing will near $55 billion and represent 21% of all marketing spend in 2014 as marketers shift dollars away from traditional...

There are over 11,000 registered Twitter applications in development and production, according to a weekend tweet from Twitter CEO Ev Williams.

That is a pretty big number and it shows the vitality of Twitter as a platform.

Assuming most of those apps were created by businesses, it also shows...

Finally Yahoo has found a replacement to its previous CFO Blake Jorgensen who resigned sometime in February this year. The Yahoo Board has just appointed Tim Morse who was previously the CFO of semiconductor company, Altera.

As Yahoo CFO, Mr. Morse will be reporting directly to Yahoo’s CEO Carol...

AOL has just acquired two companies which specialize in providing localized services. First of this acquisition is Patch Media Corp., a local news and information services provider for local towns and communities. The other company which AOL just bought is Going , Inc., a local platform for discovering...

Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools have evolved from being merely the latest annoying fads to nearly essential tools for social and professional networking -- and the blurry and fading border between the two.

LinkedIn has become a mandatory site for those seeking employment and freelance...

We’re rolling out some updates to our crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms over the next few days. During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.

To share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion...