Technorati Reignites WTF Service

Just a quick update on a story we covered yesterday.  Technorati's Digg-like service Where's the Fire (or WTF), which disappeared after reports of its existence surfaced, is back up and running.

A tab on the page lets you scroll through pages of the topics that are getting attention on the service.  As of this writing, everything from Flickr to Hillary Clinton to Windows Vista are getting attention at WTF.

We'll have to keep an eye on this service to see if and when it starts to become a widely-used service.

Yahoo Is More Popular Than What?

According to an article at Slashdot, Google Trends shows the term "Yahoo" is a popular query on Google's search service.  In fact, Yahoo beat out another popular three-letter term to become the most widely-searched term on Google's network.  But, according to the article, the same is true at Yahoo.  But when you do a search at Yahoo for "Google", Yahoo throws a second search box up on top of the search results (see image below).

More StumbleUpon Traffic

Yesterday I talked about a post at Search Engine Journal that dealt with the benefit of using StumbleUpon to get linkage and drive traffic to your site.  SEOmoz has a similar article that shows StumbleUpon as the number one referrer for a post they submitted to several sites.  In fact, the social networking-like service sent over 13,000 visitors to the site.

Have you installed the StumbleUpon toolbar and started using the service yet?

NASDAQ Proposal For Google Finance

A few weeks ago we covered an announcement from Google concerning a proposal by the New York Stock Exchange that would allow live, streaming stock prices into Google Finance.  Today the Official Google Blog announced that a similar proposal had been made by NASDAQ.

All we're waiting for now is SEC approval.  Come guys… pick up the pace!