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Archive for February 2006

February 14th, 2006

Engines Celebrate Valentine’s Day

Surprisingly, Google did not show up for the party and stuck with the Torino 2006 doodle. Yahoo and Jeeves, however, did show up. This may quite be Jeeves last dressup before stepping down…
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February 13th, 2006

Google Gets the Time’s Cover

Google is the cover story behind this week’s Time magazine. The title reads Can We Trust Google With Our Secrets? or  “An inside look at how success has changed Larry and Sergey’s dream machine. Can they still be the good guys while running a company worth $100 billion?” Some interesting stuff there that only time […]

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February 13th, 2006

SEO Scam Company is Booted From Google

Traffic-Power.com aka P1, is officially booted from Google. This company who has been consistantly scamming people and employing un-ethical seo for several years now, has finally made it to Matt Cutts shit-list, as he posted in his blog:
I can confirm that Google has removed traffic-power.com and domains promoted by Traffic Power from our index […]

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February 10th, 2006

Google’s Snack Room

As posted in the DigitalForums this is supposedly what the Google snack room looks like…
[Hat tip to Barry]

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February 10th, 2006

Next Time You’re in Cali (Maps Included)

Valleywag has recently posted a list of top ranked CEO’s and VC’s in California with their address, and even the value of their homes…
Looking for directions? Map is linked. This way, next time you’re around there is no excuses. Just don’t you stop by to say hello, Kapish?

The man
The pad
The price

Eric Schmidt
CEO, Google
366 Walsh Road
Atherton, […]

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February 10th, 2006

Google Marks Paypal as the next Target

As an attemp to expand beyond search and create a concept worth-while that will last over time, Google has been developing their own Internet-payment service, reports the wsj.
For the last nine months, Google has recruited online retailers to test GBuy, according to one person briefed on the service. GBuy will feature an icon posted alongside […]

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February 6th, 2006

The Affect of a Top Level Domain on Ranking

The question “I have a question regarding search engines and top level
domains. Do you think that search engines look at this when they rank
the site? Is it possible that .com has bigger value and caries more
weight than, let’s say, .net or .cc (my […]

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February 6th, 2006

Bob Massa Interviewed, Great Weekend Read

Not a lot of names come to mind when considering the beginning of the net in general and Internet marketing in particular. One of the people who do come to mind is Bob Massa, who broke all the rules when sueing Google for […]

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February 5th, 2006

Using Special Character ★ to Improve Clickthrough Rate

A site’s title line can make a huge difference when trying to capture search engine traffic. Keyword stuffed title lines may help with your ranking, but when it comes to getting people to click on your site out of a list of 10 […]

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February 2nd, 2006

Google, a Great Roller Coaster

The Google-ride has taken a sharp drop today with the announcement of it’s 4Q earnings. Like every good roller coaster ride, the drop which came in the afterhours trading ended at 12% drop.
No they did not miss earning expectations by a penny or two, they actually did good on that with $1.29 Billion. However, they […]

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