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Archive for April 2006

April 25th, 2006

SEO by the Book

A recent Clickz article written by Mike Grehan is titled Does Textbook SEO Really Work Anymore? This article claims that the old-school /classic SEO is obsolete and is being replaced by different metrics used by the different search engines.
I keep banging the same old drum about the basic process of getting Web pages crawled and […]

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April 24th, 2006

Testdrive The New Yahoo Mail Beta

Google Operating System Blog has a tip for Yahoo Mail users who want to try out the new beta interface:
To get Yahoo Mail Beta, just switch your content preference to Germany, France or UK. Then you will be asked if you want to join the beta when you log into your Yahoo Mail. […]

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April 21st, 2006

Google Local Rebranded

Google Local which was merged with Google Maps last October and has been carrying the name “Google Local” is no longer local, it is now “Google Maps”.
From their blog post:
Last October, we merged our local search site with Google Maps. At that time, we thought it was most appropriate to name the integrated product “Google […]

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April 21st, 2006

The Unauthorized Doodle

For those of you who used Google yesterday just to find out that there is an unrecognizable doodle appearing instead of the standard logo I researched the issue and this appears to be Joan Miró’s 113th birthday and is based on his pieces called “The Escape Ladder”, “Nocture”, “The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to […]

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April 16th, 2006

Interview with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt

Gary Price of Resource Shelf has a recap of a recent PBS interview of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt with Charlie Rose.
On Where Google is Going:
Schmidt: Google from my perspective is best understood as a systematic innovation. [Schmidt goes on to talk about Google’s 20% time for engineers.] The primary business of the company is search […]

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April 16th, 2006

Baidu & Intel Partner

Following Google’s switch from Intel based systems to AMD ones, Intel decided to partner with Baidu to develop search applications for laptops, mobile phones and desktop. Along with this agreement they has also agreed to equip all of Baidu’s systems with Intel processors…

According to terms of the agreement, Baidu and Intel will jointly develop search applications […]

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April 14th, 2006

I Shall Call it Gu Ge

So Google has officially launched it’s Chinese name, Gu Ge it’ll be.
Gu who?
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April 14th, 2006

Much Anticipated Google Calendar Launched

The much anticipated Google calendar was launched this week.
From the overview page:
Simplify. Organize. (And relax.) Organizing your schedule shouldn’t be a burden. That’s why we’ve created Google Calendar – our free online shareable calendar service. With Google Calendar, it’s […]

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April 12th, 2006

More News from Today - April 12th

Microsoft Tool Exposes Typosquatters (Threadwatch) -
“includes a Typo-Patrol feature that generates and scans sites that capitalize on inadvertent URL misspellings, a process known as typo-squatting. The tool also enables parents to block typo-squatting domains that serve adult ads on typos of children’s Web sites.”
Microsoft Live Academic to Launch Tonight (Live.com) -
“Windows Live Academic is now […]

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April 12th, 2006

Search users ’stop at page three’

The BBC has a nice piece today about search patterns as shown by recent researches in the US. According to the research:
Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results, says a US study.
At most, people will go through three pages of results before […]

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