Earlier during January, Wikipedia announced that all external links on its websites shall be hyperlinked with a NOFOLLOW tag in order to put a curb on spamming. This means that getting referenced on Wikipedia will not add any ‘Google juice’ to your website, and hence shall not in any way, help in increasing your PageRank. [...]

It makes a lot of sense for small businesses to enter online. The extremely cheap setup cost, coupled with a wordwide audience and a 24X7 open shop makes it an attractive proposition. There has hence been a spurt in the number of online stores ever since the WordWideWeb started. But the business model in which [...]

This week, Jennifer Slegg, author of the blog on Contextual advertising, JenSense announced after her conversation with Brian Axe, the Senior Product Manager of Google Adsense that here on, Google Adsense can be used along with other contextual ads, though under certain specific restrictions. This is indeed a very interesting development since Google had been [...]

In a book titled ’101 Best Dotcoms’ published in 2000, I found an interesting line from the author which went like this: ‘Amongst your favorite search engines like Yahoo, MSN, Askjeeves…‘.Google was simply missing, although it was launched more than two years prior to this. This line, in no way decreases the credibility of the [...]

What is the next generation image search going to be like? StockPhotoTalk, in an article on a similar topic hints at image search engines like YotoPhoto and Pixsy that help provide copyleft images and images from those places on the internet which are usually not spidered by the traditional search engines from Google and Yahoo. [...]

You might have noticed slideshows of pics on Flickr. There is an easy way, as Paul Stamatiou tells us in his blog. For this, first tag all the photos that you want to display on your blog with one specific ‘tag’. Once you do this, the next step is to insert the following code inside [...]

Bloggers often tend to tweak the blog template that they find online, and those who are not well-versed with CSS and HTML codes atleast try changing the default colors so that their blog gets a unique look. But, the sad part is that the color codes in HTML are mentioned in six digit hexadecimal codes [...]

IMvite was launched as a free to use website to view TV channels online. Now, the website has improved further upon this service to now allow users to view TV online while chatting with friends. IMvite has come up with a TV messenger, which can be downloaded to simulataneously use AOL, MSN and Yahoo messengers [...]

Yahoo India has now a new feature to help you create a backup of your important SMSes. To avail the SMS Backup service, all you need is a Yahoo email id. Though the registration is free, this Value Adding Service(VAS) charges rates based on your network provider. HOW IT WORKS: You specify the mobile phone [...]

Bloggers typically require quite a bit of research before making a post. For example, if I were to write about ‘Google acquires YouTube’, I would have to search Google News for looking up the exact value of the deal, search Flickr for a Google/YouTube logo, search Wikipedia for the history of the two companies, etc. [...]