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Search giants, law makers looking for some privacy


The search engines are again under the legislative spotlight. Their powers of data retention are being eroded further. But there’s a deeper problem — take away personal data and the future of web applications is imperiled…


Customized search with Yahoo! Search Gallery


In a style similar to Google’s Sitelinks, Yahoo! Search Gallery offers customized search results. The difference is, Yahoo! are letting you create your very own search results from the websites you like most…


Google to revive Jaiku micro-blog with Social Network smarts?


I like Jaiku, though I suspect many of you have never heard of this smart micro-blogging platform. But if there’s any truth in recent talk, you might be seeing a lot more of Jaiku…


Grabbing SEO by the Long Tail


Search Engine Optimization is in simple terms a methodology for word relevance and word use. Of course, there’s a lot more to SEO, but for the most part, that’s the story so far. However, to rank highly for those words you know are relevant to you, it help to rank for more distant phrases and even questions…


SEO for URLs and externally linked files on websites & ‘blogs


Google is a reader of websites who’s best kept happy with sensible structure and strong content. Google will read almost anything — or should I say almost any file…