Spokeo is a new kind of profile aggregator. It gathers information from social networking sites, but instead of aggregating info from your various profiles, like MySpace, Last.fm or Ma.gnolia, it scoops up info on all of your contacts from a wide variety of sites.
The people at Spokeo call their service a friend tracker. […]

Matt Cutts of Google posted a blog entry asking SEOs how they want Google to handle the NOINDEX meta tag. If you use the NOINDEX meta tag now, Google won’t show the page in any way in the Google index.
Matt asks SEOs if this is what they want and the poll currently shows us […]

Yahoo Sued Again for Assisting the Persecution of Chinese Dissidents from the Epoch Times reports Yahoo is being sued once again for allegedly leaking personal information and aiding the Chinese Communist Party in Internet censorship and the persecution of dissidents.
The China Democratic Party, China Social Democratic Party and the New People’s Party filed […]

Yesterday, I kept noticing Twitters of YouTube problems. Soon after, the BBC reported YouTube outage blamed on Pakistan. It appears that the recent Pakistan ban of YouTube not only caused Pakistan ISPs to block YouTube but also spread worldwide and stopped users from even the United States from accessing YouTube.
How so? The […]

Google takes UK’s top brand spot from the BBC reports Google took the BBC’s top spot in a Superbrands survey of the top brand in the UK. In fact, Google is the only company established after 1990 that is found within the top 50 brands in this survey.
Microsoft secured the second position of this […]

Hackers turn Google into vulnerability scanner from Techworld reports a group of hackers named Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) launched a search tool powered by Google to help see if your sites are vulnerable to a hacking attempt. The tool is named Goolag and by typing in a domain name it may […]

Here is a new image, video and music search engine from Sweden that converts online files for you.
By Pandia Guest Writer Lars Iselid, Internetbrus.com.
On February 21st the Swedish company Munax launched the multimedia search engine Playaudiovideo.
Unlike Swedish Picsearch which is focusing on pictures and video, Playaudiovideo also includes music. Much of the content is […]

When Google announced its Knol project in December many analysts said that the search engine giant went one step too far by effectively entering the turf of content producers. What kind of effect will this super-secret project have on search engine optimization practices if and when Google opens the service to the public …
Innovative […]

Last Monday, in a SEL post discussing the click quality by engine, I mentioned in passing an 89% drop-off between ‘phrases tested’ and ‘phrases actively generating good clicks’. Specifically, we posted 176,903 terms en route to discovering 20,152 active good terms for a client.
Today I’ll revisit that drop-off and analyze […]