Pixsy Corp. is set to launch Friday StarHabit.com, a photo and video search engine that gives priority to the freshest celebrity content on the Internet.
StarHabit uses Pixsy to aggregate thumbnails of content from popular popular celebrity blogs such as TMZ.com, GoFugYourself.com, Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood.com and more sites.
“StarHabit is unique in that we are the largest aggregator of photo and video content from RSS feeds,” Norlin said. “If you look at all these popular celebrity blogs, you can tell that people are addicted to this stuff.”
“We put all of this material in one place and make it browsable and searchable,” Norlin said. “If a Mel Gibson thing would have happened while StarHabit was operational, we would have had that news within minutes.” StarHabit provides easily used tools to let consumers save their favorite celebrity photos, videos, content providers, categories and searches. The Washington Post
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Google Inc. is making out-of-copyright books available to download free of charge. Consumers will be able to use Google’s Book Search service to download a PDF files of the books available for later reading.
“Public domain books include both well-known classics and less well-known books on every conceivable subject,” said Sidney Verba, director of the Harvard University Library, a partner in the Google Books Library Project, in a statement. “Since people can search the full text of these books, they can find previously buried information about historical events or people, places of interest and matters cultural or scientific. What has been tucked away in large research library collections and available only to a few, can now be discovered and read by people everywhere.”
Copyrighted books will not be available for download but Google displays basic bibliographic information and, in many cases, small snippets of text surrounding a search term.
There is no easy way to find a list of these books but if you select the “Full view books” option below the search box on the Google Book Search home page and do a serach. Click on one of the books that comes up. Over the right hand-side, in the column just below the title, you should see a “Download” button. That will let you download the book in PDF format. Search Engine Watch, The Wall Street Journal.
EBay is hoping its new partnership with Google will help it find new ways to make money from Skype, its Internet calling service.
Tests by several companies indicate there is a group of advertisers, including mortgage brokers, who are willing to pay $8 to $15 for each call from a Web searcher, roughly 10 times more than they will pay for a Web site click.Source: International Herald Tribune
EBay is hoping its new partnership with Google will help it find new ways to make money from Skype, its Internet calling service.
Tests by several companies indicate there is a group of advertisers, including mortgage brokers, who are willing to pay $8 to $15 for each call from a Web searcher, roughly 10 times more than they will pay for a Web site click.Source: International Herald Tribune
Apple Computer appointed Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt a seat as the eighth director on the board of Apple Computer, the computer company announced Tuesday.
“We think Schmidt’s insights and experience will be very valuable in helping to guide Apple in the years ahead,†Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a statement.
Source: Forbes.com
Yahoo Real Estate site is getting a range of new features including current U.S. home valuations and aerial neighborhood views.
The new site will provide users access to data on 3 million real estate listings, and comparative data on up to nearly 50 million homes from online property research start-up Zillow.com. The Washington Post
Google will supply eBay Inc with Web search advertising outside the United States, and the two will cooperate in “click-to-call” ads to allow consumers to call merchants and advertisers directly.EBay said that for international online text advertising it had agreed to rely exclusively on Google instead of existing partner Yahoo Inc, which in May struck a deal to handle all of eBay’s U.S. ads.
This article describes numerous ways to avoid making common mistakes when choosing keywords for your website. It provides webmasters and business owners with the knowledge of how to use the selected keywords to perform better in search engine result pages.
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Google launched a free packaged business solution for enterprises today including online chat, email, calendars, and hosting. Called “Gmail for Your Domain†(a ghastly name that is only slightly better referred to as “Google Apps†within the actual admin area) this application package will allow a business owner or administrator to create a separate account per employee.
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