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Archive for May 2006

May 26th, 2006

Free SEO Training From SEO Guru Dan Thies

Just a quick note that SEO guru, Dan Theis will be holding a free training session / conference call this coming Tuesday, May 30th. The session it titled Boiling SEO Down To The Essentials and can be of great benefit to new SEO’s as well as veteran ones who like to be “in the know”.
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May 26th, 2006

Duplicate Content Analyzer

Duplicate content is a growing problem which designers and seos deal with on a daily basis. It seems as if  you can go unnoticed for as your site doesn’t rank, but once ranked it gets scraped and duplicate versions of your content start to appear across the net.
A new tool called Site Wide Duplicate Content […]

By Gilad -- 2 comments

May 24th, 2006

Click-to-Play Video Ads Introduced by Google

A new ad format had been introduced to the world by Google for Adwords (and Adsense) clients, video ads on a “Click-to-Play” basis.
In the coming days, we will be adding click-to-play video ads to the line-up of text, Flash and image ad formats currently supported by the Google content network. At launch, video ads will […]

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May 22nd, 2006

Google Services, What do People Really Use

While Google keeps on introducing more and more services, the question that comes to mind is, which of these services do people really use?
This question is discussed in a recent HitWise blog post and shows some interesting numbers based on the top 20 domains:

As you can see, search still captures 80% of the visitors, and […]

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May 19th, 2006

Google’s P0rn & Racism in Brazil (isn’t Google’s Problem)

A while back we reported about a Google being Google Sued Over Child P0rnography in the US. The same this had aparently happened for Google in Brazil, this it is due to it’s Okrut platform - Brazil’s largest online community.
“Orkut has become a paradise for pedophiles, who solicit sex with childen and distribute pornographic material,”
And […]

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May 19th, 2006

Larry and Sergey on Dilbert

Earlier this week Dilbert had featured Google’s Larry and Sergey…

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May 19th, 2006

Google VP Marissa Mayer on Innovation in Google

Google VP Marissa Mayer had recently given a lecture at Stanford on innovation and the source for ideas in Google.

Marissa Mayer Video
She gives a pretty good rundown of the different sources used and developed by Google. The video’s length 49:26 minutes but may make a good weekend source for ideas…
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May 16th, 2006

IE7 1 - Google 0

After a debate and complaint sent by Google to the DOJ about the legality of Microsoft bundling their own search into their own software comes the response from the DOJ which concluded that Microsoft’s search feature “respects users’ and OEM’s [original equipment manufacturers] default choices and is easily changed.”
Microsoft’s new search tool ‘respects’ users’ choices: […]

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May 16th, 2006

Windows Live Keeps on Scoring

The new Windows Live search platform had scored with another major site.
This time it is MSNBC.com which added a full site search. For example, if you run a search for topics in the news like Britney Spears, you’ll see a split screen listing “Most Recent” and a “Full Search” breakdown.
Implementation was pretty simple for our […]

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May 11th, 2006

Whose Choking Google?

In a recent eWeek article by Ben Charny titled Is Bigdaddy Choking Google?, the author gives a good rundown of the issues and difficulties webmasters have been dealing with since the rollout of Google infastructure “BigDaddy”.
Google’s search engine, once a clean, lean indexing machine, from a Webmaster’s perspective has been slipping badly lately.
Starting about two […]

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