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Archive for June 2006

June 28th, 2006

GBuy, Not Out but Already Attractive

GBuy, the new payment platform from Google is about to roll out at any time and while many don’t even know what it is all about, there is a growing trend of people who would trust it with their business.
Barry mentions of a DigitalPoint Poll which asks Are you going to make the switch to […]

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June 27th, 2006

Demographics Prediction Tool

In an attempt to gain more advertiser popularity, Microsoft’s adCenter Labs has been working hard on many unique tools to help with the process.
This one, which I found today, tries to predict the demographics based on a site or a search query, so for example, for this site:

Interesting results there, the tool itself can be […]

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June 26th, 2006

Google Egypt as a Middle East Center?

Last week Loren reported that Google is about to open a main marketing & sales operations for the Middle East in Cairo, Egypt. This center will join the R&D lab, as well as a Hebrew speaking center, that they opened in Israel a while back.
This decision comes as a surprise to many who have expected […]

By Gilad -- 1 comment

June 21st, 2006

Google Scores a Multi-Year Agreement with Adobe

What used to be a Yahoo property, Adobe Reader which included Yahoo Toolbar as an option to install, has been captured by Google on a multi-year agreement redistribute Google Toolbar with most free Adobe products.

Adobe and Google team up for Toolbar [Google Blog]
Adobe Bundles Google Toolbar [Google Operating System]
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June 21st, 2006

Which Engine do Microsoft’s Employees Use?

That is the question asked by a pose made by Andre Whitchcock, and which is presents Company Intranet Stats and is titled “Tracking Search Engine, OS, and Browser Stats in Major Technology Companies“.
The stats are aparently collected from the Google Analytics stats of his website and paint a pretty interesting picture: Microsoft employees prefer Google […]

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June 20th, 2006

Google UI Experiments

Google has aparently ran just another UI test. This time it was noticed by Cristian Streng who also got a few screenshots. It looks like a “click for more” big “+” button which allows expandable results:
Search for “Hotels”:

Search for “Google”:

Google testing More Info button in SERPs [mobileweb20]
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June 16th, 2006

MSN “Hand Crafting Results”

This is an interesting story that involves MSN “hand crafting” their search results to better relevancy.
A recent MSN job ad reads:
Hand crafted results
When all else fails, and the ranking algorithms do not pass the confidence threshold, we fall back to delivering handcrafted results. Working on a team of approximately 132 other handcrafters in 26 worldwide […]

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June 13th, 2006

Poorman’s Cloaking Script

I know that this is more of a programming aspect, but it can be useful for SEO as well.
While registering some expired domains today, I needed a quick method to:
1. Track the visitors.
2. Recognize whether or not it is a search engine.
3. Redirect search engines to a different site.
This is what I came up with […]

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June 12th, 2006

Hidden Treasure in Expired Domains

A while ago I ran into a database of expired domains. This database is active and updates on a daily basis so I found myself spending the past few days going through thousands of domain names in markets I promote looking for domains with traffic / backlinks which I can benefit from.
So far, I must […]

By Gilad -- 2 comments

June 7th, 2006

Ask - Weather Search

With summer right around the corner, Ask adds a weather search as a part of it’s “Smart Answers” which appear at the top of the page. This is a very useful feature, it has a “ºF | ºC” option on the top right corner for quick conversion and gives an array of results, for current […]

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