Source: news.searchenginestoday.org

As many had expected, Flickr has added geo tagging search functionality to its service.

Integrating geo-location data on Flickr is done through the Organizer, under the Organize tab. In addition to the “Your Sets” and “Your Groups” tabs in that area, Flickr will add a Maps tab where you can drag photos into a Yahoo Map area.

A marker will appear that shows the number of photos included with that marker. Once you have a location you can use the Organizer to search your photos and then drag them individually or by sets into the map.

Flickr users can search for photos by location in the Explore area. Set the map to a location (world down to street level) and type in a search query. Markers will appear on the map with photos that contain that query in the tags or description of the photo.

The geo-tagging features are Ajax driven. They integrate Yahoo Maps and Yahoo Search and include the following features:

1) Drag-and-drop photos onto a location where they are automatically tagged with location information (city/state/country) as well as latitude and longitude.

2) Create a map-based view of all their photos or specific photosets, to share with friends, family as well as the Flickr community at large.

3) Browse photos on a Yahoo! Maps-based page with easy navigation controls.

4) Search and browse the more than 200 million photos on Flickr by location, enabled by Yahoo Search technology that combs through photos to provide users with the photos they want.

5) Flickr users can now search by tag, text, time, group and location – e.g. find photos taken at the In-and-Out in Mountain View in the last 20 minutes.

6) Add or leverage the Flickr database and GeoTagging functionality through Flickr Open APIs for third party developers.

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From: eweek.com

Mark Cuban—self-dubbed "blog maverick" and owner of both the Weblog search engine IceRocket and the Dallas Mavericks—has warned that those who use Google’s free Blogger service under the Blogspot domain may soon be kicked out of IceRocket’s search engine due to the insufferable amounts of blog spam the free service produces.

"Anything that has ever been spammed about is spammed in monstrous proportions in the blogosphere because it’s so easy to do," Cuban wrote in a recent blog.

"Any traditional spam keyword will get you thousands if not more than 100,000 results, and there are a ton of spam words you can think of," he said.

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