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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 12:38 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 24, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Other Searching
Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 12:03 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: Other Searching
Ann Smarty asks what should the image search look like? The image search giants (Google images, Yahoo images and even Flickr) represent rather a poor example of image search usability (to my mind). Luckily we have a number of good examples (still no read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 1:25 pm
Posted By: Kalena 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viperchill.com)
Category: Other Searching
Online reputation management issues can really affect a persons life as there are a lot of ways your reputation can be damaged. Glen shows examples where women have taken reputation management into their own hands after their men went looking for ot read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 5:10 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Other Searching
If you haven't heard of human powered search engine, Stumpedia, you might want to give it a whirl. It is essentially a human-powered search engine with a social aspect to it. Stumpedia allows content producers to submit and profit from their work an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 10:39 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Other Searching
There are 3 major parts to what a search engine does. What are some of the problems facing crawling programs? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 5:24 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.prweb.com)
Category: Other Searching
Stumpedia.com - A community built and driven social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. It will not depend on bots, algorithms, or company insiders to make decisions on the relevance an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 1:28 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: Other Searching
Webmasters, SEO's, Site authors need to understand the crawling process to better optimize their site's content. This is a comparison of Hoobastank's "Crawling in the Dark" to the crawling process. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 4:55 pm
Posted By: SiteMost 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
This is one of the simplest, yet most effective ways I've seen the Long Tail concept explained graphically. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 1:47 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Searching
After a month of delay, China’s top search engine Baidu finally launches its Japanese portal. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 6:28 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-space.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Searching
With more universal search results showing up in Google and the other engines, the importance of optimizing for universal search will be one of the main areas of focus for online marketers in 2008. Having said that, how can site owners and businesse read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 11, 2008 - 9:44 am
Posted By: tnash 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: Other Searching
Wikia Search might suck in SEOs eyes but what about the average user say an 11 year old? 10 Users try out the new search engine with fairly obvious results! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 12:47 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
"If Search Wikia ultimately does gain traction and can live up to its guiding principles, we may yet see the emergence of a truly useful alternative search service. Just don't hold your breath for that to happen any time soon." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 1, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 186 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Other Searching
Bill Slawski discusses the prevalence of malicious software and the percentage of pages that deliver these foul attacks.

Are there reliable applications to identify embedded malicious code on web pages? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 6, 2007 - 8:25 am
Posted By: Wiep 212 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.halfagain.com)
Category: Other Searching
With the right touch, keyword research can provide insight into our values, our culture, what we like, what we dislike and the ‘human condition’ as a whole. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 28, 2007 - 12:47 am
Posted By: seobook 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Danny does a great rundown of how vertical search is being integrated into the core search services. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 23, 2007 - 1:30 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Searching
Black Friday, like many other traditional shopping trends, has made its way from the brick and mortar chaos to online shopping chaos. Hitwise reports that this year, websites and online stores advertising their Black Friday sales online has grown 45 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 5:33 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Other Searching
Excellent thread at Cre8asite Forums asked if SEOs make for better searchers.

I thinks o. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 13, 2007 - 8:00 pm
Posted By: mattstoddart 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.linkworth.com)
Category: Other Searching
Is it time for a new search engine? Who could actually compete with G? Why, Danny Sullivan, of course! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2007 - 1:12 pm
Posted By: xDFuNK 297 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.entrepreneur.com)
Category: Other Searching
Go beyond Google and get vertical. These specialized search sites will help you find the business information you need--fast. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 26, 2007 - 7:37 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 343 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Other Searching
For the past few months I've been using a Netvibes widget that allows you to compare image search results in a nice AJAX interface. Ask is the clear winner on a search for "blue buy now button". read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 13, 2007 - 8:17 pm
Posted By: Caydel 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.caydel.com)
Category: Other Searching
Barry Schwartz ranks highly for 'fat hairy naked man'. I happen to rank highly for 'kill people for money'. What about the rest of you? read more »
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