A recent announcement by Yahoo press center states that they have joined the OpenSocial Foundation. Open Social is a Google initiative that already includes MySpace and other social networks and is a nonprofit organization to promote a universal standard for applications on social-networking sites (OpenSocial.org).
Google also officially welcomed Yahoo to the foundation on their official [...]

I recently discovered (shame on me!) that Yahoo Site Explorer allows a webmaster to actually tag an inbound link to their site as ’spam’ and reject it as being counted as inbound link weight. Well, I checked to see if Google allowed this same feature within their Google webmaster tool and fair enough they did [...]

Some of you may or may not know, but their is a search engine war going on which has been hotting up the past 6 months.
Google, although dominating the search market is also aggressively acquiring the online ad display market.
Stats released today from ComScore shows that Google is still growing in search share which increased [...]

The is a continuation of an earlier post I made that introduces the new Yahoo! Open Search system.
Yesterday, the Yahoo Blog was updated with some more info on how the Yahoo! Open Search system works with a nice example to illustrate what they mean.
Amit Kumar, Director of Product Management at Yahoo! Search published a nice [...]

Yahoo! just announced the new approach they are about to implement for returning search query information. This is quite interesting and actually makes a lot of sense to me. I applaud them for the foresight they are displaying and really hope with this new implementation that they can re-gain some of the market share lost [...]

Today, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft (MSN/Live)  and Ask are all announcing cross-host submission for easier management of sitemaps. This will make it a lot easier for webmasters to manage multiple sitemaps.
Here is how it works:
For those of you not familiar with sitemaps, a sitemap is a file that contains the URLs for the pages on [...]