Google and Yahoo have announced big changes that will impact your small business web site. Several weeks ago Google announced the latest version of its' Panda Update — a filter designed to penalize “thin” or poor content from ranking well — has been released. If you see some change, good or bad, in your web traffic or your search engine rankings you know where it came from.  What Google is working towards, based on user (and webmaster!) feedback, is to  identify low-quality web page content more precisely . With that accomplished, there will be a greater diversity of high-quality small- and medium-sized sites in search engine results. Meanwhile, Yahoo announced that it is closing the Yahoo directory after 20 years of operation. Sure, they will have the Yahoo search engine available but no longer will they be maintaining their own directory of web sites and blogs. Over the years I have been comparing the search...

Can't please all the people all the time - especially with technology. Apparently, hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users are upset about the changes made to Yahoo Mail (TM). Most are complaining that the useful features have disappeared and now Yahoo is looking and feeling like a Gmail knock off. I guess if you can't beat the #1 email service you just got to imitate 'em - right? One writer on the tech site ZD Net has called the redesign a 'disaster' that has left many users questions whether they will keep using Yahoo or flee to other online email services. The biggest complaint has been the elimination of a feature that allows users to open search pages and emails in individual tabs - something that distinguished Yahoo Mail from its biggest competitor, Gmail. Another complaint is the the "print" button has been taken away or hidden very effectively. Source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2460096/Yahoo-Mail-users-furious-Marissa-Mayer-l...

Google rules the West but Japan still prefers Yahoo: Map reveals how different internet giants dominate countries across the globe Google has become so much a part of everyday life many people now use the brand name as a verb for searching, but a new map highlights exactly how far and wide the site spreads across the globe.   The map, created by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, used data from millions of people's browsing history worldwide and shows Google as the most popular site, in 62 countries.  Facebook was the second most visited site globally, in 50 countries, while the third place site - China's  Baidu search engine, was popular in just two countries. To work out the number of visitors, Dr Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata from the institute combined the number of estimated average daily unique visitors, with the estimated number of page views for that site from users in a particular country, for a particular month.  The data show...