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<title>Sphinn / billslawski / Voted News</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:24:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Visual Comparison of Search Results: A Censorship Case Study]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:24:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.  Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out differences in search result sets from one country to another.  These differences may be the result of censorship, or could be caused by other factors, such as a preference for showing shopping or local results.  Very interesting tool, regardless.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buried: The Rise and Fall of the Self-Moderated]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60059</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60059</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:44:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60059</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is Digg too large a community for the level of moderation that it has?  Raises questions about the sensationalism of titles, the narrowing of focus of submissions, and the squashing of commentary.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spammers and Scammers on Social Networks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60056</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60056</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:12:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60056</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What kinds of dangers might lurk on social networks when people set out to use them for nefarious reasons?  The article explores a scam that happened on Plurk and Twitter, but raises questions about how any social network can be abused.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Responsibility and the Small Business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59712</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59712</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:21:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59712</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The growth of the social web, increases in search engines understanding sentiments and opinions in reviews and user created content, and greater scrutiny of misleading business practices urge businesses to become more socially responsible.  What steps are you taking with your business to treat all of your stakeholders more responsibly, including your customers and your community around you?<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Representing Your Business on the Social Web]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47968</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47968</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:49:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47968</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Linkbaiting false stories, using sockpuppets in social voting networks, engaging in comment spam and forum spam, being solely self promotional in venues where self promotion is frowned upon?Small business can benefit from engaging in conversations within their markets.  But, what responsibilities do merchants have when they venture into social networking and blogging, in entering into the conversations that people are having about those markets?<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo on Web Mining and Improving the Quality of Web Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35295</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35295</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:13:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35295</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Yahoo patent application strangely strays away from processes involving search engines to explore Web Mining. It focuses upon analytics involving specific queries from search engines and site search, and how those can be used to improve the content, navigability, and structure of a web site.In doing so, it offers some nice suggestions and examples to people who might want to improve their web sites.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Social Art of Creating Titles]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/33633</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/33633</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:05:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/33633</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What makes a title a good one for the personalities that you see in a social setting? In your personal networks? An insightful and fun exploration on the topic of creating page and article titles for the many people you may find in different social atmospheres.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO = Content, Site Architecture, Traffic & Popularity]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/32740</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/32740</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:27:20 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/32740</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A nicely done high level overview of search algorithms and the role of SEO in optimizing sites.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You've got Mixx in My Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31667</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31667</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:41:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31667</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mixx shares the news that just about anything you could do on Mixx, you can now do in Mixx on Facebook.Good move, bad move?  I don't know.  But it's interesting to see social sites being social like this.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tips to StumbleUpon Success]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28349</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28349</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:34:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28349</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Stumbleupon is a great way to discover new websites, and the lessons learned, and shared, in this article about SU are helpful and insightful regarding stumbleupon and social networks in general.<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dona4t Get Too Comfortable at the Top!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25419</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25419</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:19:14 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25419</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Does the evolution of search and the web point towards search engines favoring sites that update and change frequently,and follow the conversations between site owners and their audiences?Nice discussion of the topic.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spurring Discussion (Posts) on Sphinn]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25143</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25143</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:07:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25143</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A quick run through the &quot;Hot Topics,&quot; the &quot;What's New,&quot; and &quot;Sphinn's Greatest Hits&quot; shows that news posts outnumber discussion posts on a grand scale.I think it's great that news posts are so popular, I wondered if discussion posts could gain in frequency with some minor changes to Sphinn.I do believe that the architecture of a social site can influence how it is used, and that there might be some way of calling more attention to discussions.  Since Sphinn allows both News posts and Discussions, it seems like discussions were envisioned to be part of the site, perhaps on a greater manner than they are now.One change that might make a difference is having a  comments box for news stories and a comments box for discussions.  Presently, comments for both inhabit the same area on the pages of Sphinn.Anyone find that thought interesting, or have some other ideas on how to spur on more discussion posts?Thanks.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Learning SEO Tidbits: Did you know?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24717</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24717</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:25:41 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24717</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I like looking at primary resources like patents and white papers.  I also like exploring the history of the Web and the .net to understand those better.SEO is constantly changing, as noted in the article, and 1998s SEO has evolved a great deal since those days.  Looking back at that history, and understanding the changes since then can provide a lot of insights that you might not otherwise perceive.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dropped Search Engine Rankings]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24701</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24701</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:08:57 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24701</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are a number of reasons why rankings within search engines may decrease.  Some of them might not be that obvious.  Provides a number of things to explore, and resources, to understand why rankings may have dropped.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Power To The Dojo]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23724</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23724</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:03:16 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23724</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kim offers encouragement to people considering the Search Marketing industry, and thinking about entering into jobs in the SEO field.What would you tell someone contemplating becoming an SEO?<br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Google Approach to Indexing and Stopwords]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23640</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23640</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:04:47 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23640</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Frequently used words, or stop words, were often ignored in search engine indexing, but sometimes they can be  significant to a search, like one for the opening line of a Shakespearean soliloquy, &quot;To be, or not to be?&quot;  If using compression intelligently in an index can mean more precision in results, and make phrase searching better, without sacrificing speed or disk space used (and perhaps even reducing the use of disk space), that can have some interesting implications.<br/><br/>54 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:32:24 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data. A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes aim at Random Surfers, Unguided Teleportation, Block Level Approaches, and the Equality of Links, from people who know PageRank very well.<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Search Really Works: Meta Keywords]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22745</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22745</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:56:38 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22745</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ruud dives into how search works, with a review of the usefulness of meta keywords and how off page factors act as meta data.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22306</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22306</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:42:36 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22306</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This long New Yorker article provides some intriguing insights into the leadership, operations, and ambitions of Google.  Lots of great quotes from many conversations with people inside and outside of Google.One of my favorite passages:&quot;What sets Google apart, Schmidt told me in another conversation, is that although people like him always assumed that 'Google would be an important company, the founders always assumed that Google would be a defining company.' He remembers a day in 2002 when he walked into Page's office and Page started to show off a book scanner he had built. 'What are you going to do with that, Larry?' Schmidt recalls asking. 'We're going to scan all the books in the world,' Page replied.&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Store Shelves, and Museum Interiors]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21282</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21282</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:04:06 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21282</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Real picture taking robots, coming to stores and museums near you?  Plus, how well can Google really understand text within images?  Possible very well.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do Search Engines Hate Blogs?  Microsoft Explores an Algorithm to Identify Blog Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19956</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19956</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:48:48 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19956</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From the patent application:&quot;Search engines are increasingly implementing features that restrict the results for queries to be from blog pages.&quot;Do you think that search engines purposefully push down search results from blogs?<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Patent on Anchor Text and Different Crawling Rates]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18143</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18143</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:10:56 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18143</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How does Google mine anchor text from links, and what kind of text around links might it also use to determine relevancy for pages being linked to?What role might PageRank play in a page being included in a Base, Daily, or Realtime crawling process, and what other factors might be involved in how quickly pages are recrawled?Might anchor text pointed to duplication pages influence the relevance of the canonical versions of those pages?A newly granted patent from Google explores those topics.<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What every SEO should know about Personalized Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15011</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15011</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:42:47 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15011</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A thoughtful and helpful look at how personalization in search may impact search results, and an exploration of a handful of the key metrics involved in that personalization.Very nicely done.<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Color Me (Socially) Green]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12518</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12518</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:07:08 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12518</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People are talking: Carbon offsets, plug-in hybrids, species extinction, debt-for-nature swaps, urban sustainability, permafrost meltdowns, carfree days.Links to Green Communities and Social Networks, so that you can join in on the conversations.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdWords, Geotargeting Myths]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11656</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11656</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:56:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11656</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Merjis Internet Marketing Blog explores the spread of &quot;wildly inaccurate information&quot; from Google and other commentors on geotargeting, and some of the experiments they've conducted involving those myths.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Windows of Opportunity: Topicality, Regionality, Seasonality and the Small Business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10948</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10948</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:44:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10948</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An exploration of some areas that a small business may be better able to take advantage of in their marketing and search optimization related efforts than a larger business.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Using Maps API Key to Extract Content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10752</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10752</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:46:53 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10752</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Mendez uncovers a method that Google may be using to discover new pages - through following the use of mapping data in Google's Maps API. Gets you wondering how else they may be collecting information that doesn't seem quite obvious on its face.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live Search Adds Auto Spell Correction and Stemming]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10749</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10749</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:30:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10749</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This morning, the Live Search team announced a couple of additions to their search service, in the first part of a two post announcement - Auto Spell Correction and Stemming.  They explain the additions in terms of how they help to &quot;meet the intent of searchers.&quot;  I'm looking forward to seeing what else they've added in part 2.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Thoughts on a GPhone: Privacy and Targeted Ads]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9513</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9513</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:09:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9513</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Call the theatre, and choose a menu option to hear information about &quot;Finding Nemo&quot; or &quot;American Gangster.&quot; Your choice could determine the targeted ads that you might be shown on a web capable handheld. Make calls to lots of folks with Italian last names, and you may start seeing ads related to Italy.A Google patent filing describes some possible ways of collecting information from smart phones, PDAs, and VOIP using desktops, to use to target advertising, including looking at call history, and doing a reverse lookup on calls made, as well as collecting information from menu choices made on voice menu systems.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Expanded Broad Match Corrupted - Stop Using It!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9199</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9199</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:18:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9199</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Around August 20, 2007 many clients' Google AdWords accounts saw their cost/conversion skyrocket - in one particular case we saw it was over 100% increase. It was caused by a corrupted &quot;Expanded Broad Match&quot; algorithm.&quot;Why does Google refuse to allow opt out for &quot;expanded broad match&quot;?  Does it have to do with pressures applied from Wall Street?<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Yahoo Approach to Avoid Crawling Advertisement and Session Tracking Links]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7489</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7489</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:48:56 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7489</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo's Slurp visits my sites frequently.  Much more often than Googlebot, or msnbot.  I thought Slurp was just being friendly.  Now I believe that Slurp is doublechecking all my links to find transient ones that it doesn't have to index.  A Yahoo patent application explains how.  An added bonus in the patent filing is the first indication on paper that I can recall of Yahoo doing some kind of segmentation of pages like Microsoft's VIPs.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should a Small Business Blog?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7382</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7382</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:12:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7382</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm sure that many of the ideas in this post are probably familiar to the many bloggers who post here.  I'm curious though as to some of the things that you might tell people who express an interest about blogging for their business.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[20 More Ways that Search Engines May Rerank Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6171</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6171</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:21:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6171</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last October, I wrote about &quot;20 ways search engines might rerank search results.&quot; It was Sphunn a couple of days ago (thanks, Dave), and Danny pulled it from the &quot;what's new&quot; section, because, like, it's not new. :)I vowed to write a sequel in the sphinn comments to that one.  So here it is.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Usama Fayyad Discusses Yahoo Advertising and Social Media]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5595</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5595</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:23:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo Paid Search</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5595</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A recent presentation at KDD 07 with Yahoo's Chief Data Officer, Usama Fayyad, describes some interesting Yahoo case studies on advertising that are definitely worth watching if you use paid search.  The one on Harris Direct provides some intriguing numbers showing the effectiveness of combining a brand building banner ad campaign with search-based ads.Some nice insights involving Flickr and Yahoo Answers are included in the same presentation.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Gpay Not a Paypal Competitor After All]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4439</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4439</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:32:24 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4439</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The question is, though, will they launch it.  The Google patent application highlights a method of using text messaging to make offline payments directly to merchants, or even through vending machines.The patent filing includes screenshots of Gpay interfaces.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Staying at the Paris Hilton: Untangling Location Searches and Searcher Location]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2953</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2953</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2953</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo explores methods to figure out a user's intent in location-based searches, and to identify the location of searchers, in a patent that was granted yesterday.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Triggers Local Search Information to Appear in Web Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2719</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2719</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:13:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2719</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've been hearing that local search results appearing in search engine Web results pages have become pretty popular since being introduced.How might whois data play a role in whether contact and address information is displayed in search resuls?  What special challenges might large sites, or businesses with many locations face in having that contact information shown?  A new Google patent application considers those issues and others.<br/><br/>27 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Going Supplemental with Google's Extended Databases]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2471</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2471</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:44:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2471</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How does Google estimate the number of results for a query?When and why do you get that message at the bottom of SERPs, that tells you to click upon it to see more results?  How does a standard index, cache, and extended index work together to provide results to a searcher?I've walked through, and summarized, the processes described in a couple of Google patents to see how and when expanded database results might appear with standard index results.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The SEO of Everyday Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1973</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1973</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:08:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1973</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Often contact pages, directions pages, and other mundane &quot;everyday&quot; pages are overlooked when it comes to optimizing a site.  Yet, those pages may present opportunities for organic and Universal Search results that can't be matched by other pages on a site.  These are pages that small businesses could be taking advantage of, but often don't.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Patent Granted on Semantic Units (Meaningful Compound Words) -]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1400</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1400</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:54:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1400</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Google patent granted this week, and filed in 2000, describes a reranking process for semantically meaningful phrases appearing in search queries.  This isn't the phrase-based indexing that some have blamed a -950 penalty for, nor the Infoseek phrase-based indexing technology that Google acquired in 2005, but it does seem like a sensible way to do some reranking of results when there are semantically meaningful relationships between words which appear in a query together.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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