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Archive for April 2007

April 4th, 2007

No More IBL Checks on MSN’s Live.com

When researching one of the fundamental building blocks of good ranking, a thorough backlink review is a must, and this past week MSN said “No More IBL Research on our Engine.“
For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may […]

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April 4th, 2007

Microsoft Responds to Pre-Populated Search Box

Last week we wrote about MSN UK pre-populating its search box with different terms. In its official statement MSN states that the terms listed were “of-the-day” terms with no preferences towards one term or another.
Your comments on the initiative were pretty unequivocal - ‘Every time I log in, ‘The Apprentice BBC’ is in my search […]

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April 3rd, 2007

Google Searching, For a Snake…

The recent search news from Google do not involve new tools or services from the company, not even a complaint about the company’s offerings. It is a search for a 3-foot python snake who has suspected to have invaded the company’s New York offices…
“What you have heard is in fact true and not an April […]

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April 3rd, 2007

Search Engine Downtime

A recent report published by Pingdom shows website downtime for the top sites of the net as ranked by Alexa. Since several of those are search engines I figured some of you may find it interesting.

The figures displayed show downtime in 2007, and it seems as if Google’s YouTube and Blogger.com are the worst […]

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April 2nd, 2007

Google Rumored to Join the DoubleClick Race

Last week, the rumors across the web linked Microsoft to a $2 billion bid for the ad network DoubleClick. Today, new rumors tie Google to the bid race as well. Google’s spokesman said the company does not comment on “market rumor or speculation.”
If this is true and Google will win this bis it may get […]

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April 2nd, 2007

Google Gives in to Political Pressure

Last Friday, in an open letter to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, Brad Miller, D-N.C., chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, accused Google of “airbrushing history” by showing pre-hurricane imagery of New Orleans in it’s mapping service, Google Earth.
In his letter, Miller wrote, “Google’s use of […]

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April 2nd, 2007

Google to Sell EchoStar Satellite TV Ads

Google is about to expand its video ad inventory. Forbes reports today about a recent agreement between Google and EchoStar, a satellite TV provider with 13.1 million subscribers, reveals that Google will be taking over the sales of some of their ads.
Under the partnership announced Tuesday, Google hopes to prove the automated formula running its […]

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