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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Now Notifies Of "Search Customization" & Gives Searchers Control]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62574</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62574</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62574</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google is now showing &quot;search customization&quot; messages to inform searchers when their search results have been modified from &quot;normal&quot; due to a searcher's geographic location, previous query or web surfing and search history.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Needy Karma Turning Off Casual Plurkers?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/61869</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/61869</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:29:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/61869</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The karma system at Plurk is much too needy in its current state. It's no surprise that some sources claim plurks numbers are down. This same piece also mentions that those that are into it are really into it.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51251</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51251</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:47:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51251</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seriously, the entire Firefox+Google love fest is a joke. Let's revisit a little history here. Google fought and fought to pressure Microsoft so that no search provider was the default in Internet Explorer 7, arguing this was the best for consumer choice<br/><br/>27 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48075</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48075</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 11:48:44 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48075</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What we see at Twitter today is a very useful and popular service, but one with very complex underlying technical challenges to overcome.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Slide Caught Posting Fake Positive Reviews For Their Own App]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38552</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38552</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:49:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38552</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The absolute wrong way to market your Facebook App. Not only did they create fake accounts but they did it in the most idiotic way possible. Dumb!!!<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You Want SEO Standards?  Well, Here Ya Go!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/38192</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/38192</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:31:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/38192</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Another great post from SEOHack offering definitive SEO Standards. I think they should be adopted and we can put this issue to bed.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Advanced Search Marketing Conferences: Where are They?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35764</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35764</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:24:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEM Industry</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35764</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search marketing has matured and many search professionals have been doing this for a long time. We need more advanced search marketing conferences.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is There a Black Hole in Sphinn?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31994</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31994</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:44:52 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31994</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A recent post of mine was working its way up Sphinn but when it made it to 21 Sphinns it totally disappeared.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Talking to the Housewife - How to Create Ads in 1979]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25520</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25520</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:02:58 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25520</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I can only imagine how this &quot;guide&quot; would be received today. Fairly interesting look back at marketing in the not too distant past.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Launches Another a4G-Killera4]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/19094</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/19094</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:04:45 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/19094</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Have you seen that new Wikipedia-Killer launched by Google? After how Gmail Killed Hotmail, Orkut killed Myspace, Google Base Killed Ebay, and Google Answers killed . . .umm . . . . itself, I'm sure Jimmy Wales is just crappin' his paints at the awesome killpower of Google in new markets.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Add This to the a4Phrases I Hatea4 List]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17365</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17365</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:07:01 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17365</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One thing I keep reading over and over and over is starting to drive me nuts. It's been a phrase uttered in the SEO sphere as long as I've been doing this junk. And I swear to god if I read it again I'm gonna' climb up a f*&amp;%$@ clock tower and start shooting people wearing purple or something. (warning if you are easily offended by coarse language this will offend you)<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Does Googlebot Try to Find Duplicate Content?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17141</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17141</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:55:31 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17141</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Webmaster Tools seems to show Googlebot actively seeking duplicate content across similar domain names.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Search Spam Is Getting More Dangerous Every Day]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16286</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:58:13 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16286</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Search spam, using techniques that manipulate the search results, is becoming more dangerous each and every day. Some search spammers go as far as hacking sites to inject link spam into unsuspecting web pages. And some go even further by polluting the search results with nasty malware.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What is Wrong with Real Estate Sites?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16148</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16148</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:30:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16148</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Searchers are looking for sites focused on their local area and the local realtors have the detailed knowledge of that locale. So why do searchers have to trudge through the big national sites to get what they want instead of finding their local realtors on the first page of a web search?<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Webmaster Help Group Questions & Answers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15691</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15691</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:49:31 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15691</guid>
<description><![CDATA[One of the problems with the Google Webmaster Help Group is that there tends to be a lot of questions that come up all the time. So with this post I would like to provide some answers to the most frequently asked questions.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Here Is How To Link Bait, But You Already Knew Didna4t You?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14917</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14917</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:10:04 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14917</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This big issue of most companies is that they don't fit &quot;perfectly&quot; into the mold of those link baiting techniques or ideas above. The whole process of link building or link baiting is to think out of the box on how your company can fit into the link baiting box.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Signs You Are a Search Marketing Geek]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12703</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12703</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:19:16 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12703</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Title says it all. As I become more and more immersed in the world of SEO and search marketing I am noticing that it is creeping into every aspect of my life. The following are by no means comprehensive of search taking over your life but they are signals that you may be living the life of a Search Geek.<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GOOG-411 Is Out Of Beta]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9573</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9573</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:55:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9573</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Google Blog announced that GOOG-411, Google's voice enabled search service, is now out of beta. I have not used this service in a while but when I did in the past the results I had with it were terrible. I could not get it to find what I was looking for at all. I need to test it again but if it has not improved significantly I don't see myself using it.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Which Google Products Should A Small Business Use? (Part Two)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/9149</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/9149</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:55:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/9149</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Excellent breakdown that explains which Google tools small businesses should use. Includes information on how each tool works and how they can benefit the small business owner.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Take SEMPO's Search Marketing Salary Survey]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8390</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8390</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:29:12 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>In House SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8390</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The title says it all<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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