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<title>Sphinn / perkoch / Voted News</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:53:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google adds free online eroom collaboration tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31601</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31601</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:53:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31601</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has added an online collaboration eroom tool to Google Docs, once again challenging Microsoft with a free service. No wonder Microsoft needs to team up with Yahoo! That might be the only way to stop Google from creating an online technological lock-in similar to the one Microsoft has had in the OS arena.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PicSearch : Intuitive Relevant Image Search Engine]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17916</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17916</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:48:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17916</guid>
<description><![CDATA[PicSearch is a multi-language, image search engine that rivals Google's and Yahoo's image search service, with a database of more than 1.7 billion images.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dark Side of SEO (Search marketing ads we would like to see 2)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14911</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14911</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:47:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14911</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We want search engine marketing campaigns that really tell you what it is all about. Here is one on black hat SEO.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Find your inner Google! (Search marketing ads we would like to see 1)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/14826</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/14826</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:28:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/14826</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The ads of search engine marketing companies are generally boring. What if they managed to capture current cultural trends in a creative way? Here is one (not too serous) suggestions.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google is introducing sorted search results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13631</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13631</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:58:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13631</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, we haven't seen this feature before. Google is now -- sometimes -- sorting out recipes when you do food related searches.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Google a tax avoider or a tax evader?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12035</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12035</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:41:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12035</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Norway lets Google Ireland bill its AdWords customers, and is therefore not taxed buy the Norwegian authorities. But isn't this what the global web-economy is about?<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Pulls AdWords Advertising From Orkut]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8105</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8105</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:27:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8105</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So how are they now going to generate revenue?<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top five sites with Web 2.0 social media coverage]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8070</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8070</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:42:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8070</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Our favorites are Read/Write, Mashable, CenterNetworks, Pronet Advertising and Somewhat Frank. Any others?<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Upcoming workshop on European search technologies]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6570</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6570</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:25:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6570</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I got the information on this one from JCP Consult. This could be a good place to gather intelligence on the next generation of European search engine technologies.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rand Fishkin is Brilliant or Linkbaita4s Characteristics]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6094</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6094</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:52:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6094</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gabriel Goldenberg considers five pieces of linkbait and analyze what they have in common in an effort to help you design better linkbait for your own site, and thus help you garner links, traffic and sales.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Live Search 2.0 Launching This Month]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5478</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5478</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:47:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5478</guid>
<description><![CDATA[More personalization in new Live Search.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crazy Questions at Google Job Interview by Make Money Online with Tihomir Nakov]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5116</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5116</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:00:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5116</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?These are apparently questions asked by Google in job interviews. This certainly explains a lot.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Myspace Partnering with Google to Boost Profits From P2P Transactions?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4087</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4087</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:05:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdWords</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4087</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A partnership with Google may be in the works to regulate and monetize from peer-to-peer transactions which Myspace says, &quot;have to be fun, safe, and secure.&quot; Says Pablo Palatnik at Search Engine Journal.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HTC Insider Confirms Existence of the Google Phone]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4070</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4070</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:16:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4070</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google is currently assessing over twenty HTC models and refining its final handset design and will create a special version of Google Maps, compatible with built-in GPS, and compatibility with Gmail and the calendar app. Or so they say...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fanpop, a growing Web 2.0 community]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3937</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3937</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:09:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Bookmarking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3937</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fanpop has gone beyond being a mere bookmarking community with web directory features. There is now discussion forums, video and image uploads and more. The fanpoppers are now discussing whether Fanpop should go in the same direction as Facebook, allowing  more personalizable profile pages.This article also discusses the demographic background of Fanpop users (young cohorts) and whether it is possible to use it in search engine marketing.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sphinn button]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3486</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3486</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:05:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3486</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Would it be possible to make the Sphinn button clickable? The reason I ask is that I have seen several users clicking on the  button to cast a vote and not on the &quot;Sphinn it&quot; text link below (heck, I was one of them myself in the beginning). Sphinn may be loosing some votes this way.<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3476</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3476</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:40:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Display Advertising</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3476</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nielsen has decided to make his banner ad usability findings public.The findings are not surprising. For instance: banner blindness is real. The studies also show how users don't fixate within design elements that resemble ads, even if they aren't ads. However this does not apply to text ads. He also discusses banner ethics:&quot;Most of our eyetracking findings on Web advertising present no ethical dilemmas. For example, we know that there are 3 design elements that are most effective at attracting eyeballs:    * Plain text    * Faces    * Cleavage and other &quot;private&quot; body parts &quot;<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hakia, a meaning-based search engine]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3380</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3380</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:54:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3380</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Pandia takes a look at Hakia, a new meaning-based, &quot;semantic&quot;, search engine that also tries to breath new life into the concept of natural search.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Finally! The Sandbox Debate is DEAD and the SEO Guru Killed it.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3308</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3308</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:16:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3308</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO Guru Massa is happy to announce that his brand new site is not stuck in the Sandbox. Q.E.D.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rumor: Was the Gdrive Release Canceled?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3307</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3307</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:10:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3307</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's plan was to give users access to an on-line hard-drive (a bit like Apple's iDisk) and let them store files there. Google employees have been using it for quite some time, but the official launch has been delayed.I have also noticed that Google is no longer leading the storage race as regards email. A free Gmail account lets you store 2.9 GB of mail, Microsoft Live Hotmail 5 GB, while Yahoo! claims it allows unlimited storage!Is Google finding it hard to cope with demand or are there other technical difficulties stopping them from letting us use more of their server space?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Say hello to Think - the Google car]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3074</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3074</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:26:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3074</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This story has next to nothing to do with search, but Google is definitely part of it, and given that Th!nk is a Norwegian car, I thought I should tell you the story.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exploiting webmaster vanity in search engine marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2950</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2950</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:31:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2950</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How do you get the attention of busy webmasters and bloggers? Link to them, and you may even get a link back.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care - New York Times]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2947</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2947</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:56:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2947</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Both Google and Microsoft now plans to deliver advanced search tools for health information.I wonder if they have though through the legal ramifications of this. You know, &quot;Mum suing Google for medical misinformation&quot; and that kind of thing.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using honey pots and sleepers to get higher search engine rankings]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2941</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2941</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:49:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2941</guid>
<description><![CDATA[All right. This isn't a fresh article, but then again the main point of the article is to think long term when developing a site. A post that does not reach the digg front page, may actually lead to more traffic than a &quot;digg rocket&quot; in the long run. An article covering a narrow topic may, for instance, be found far out in &quot;the long tail&quot;, but it will rank well in the search engines for the relevant queries, leading to a steady flow of visitors. If you think ad views, these visitors are actually more valuable than the diggers.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Overview of online search engine marketing training]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2762</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2762</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:34:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2762</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We are expanding on our section on online courses for search engine marketing training. If anyone provides such training, do not hesitate to contact me.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Proposed: Google Should Stop Displaying Toolbar PR]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2493</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2493</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:44:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2493</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's Adam Lasnik asks for advice over at Webmaster World:&quot;And the idea of removing PR from the toolbar... this raises some interesting questions.PageRank is an important signal and remains one of many effective measures of quality, but admittedly it's often viewed and used/abused in ways that run contrary to the interests of searchers and webmasters. Still, a lot of folks find the PR information useful; it provides a great incentive to try out our toolbar and explore its other features as well.Given that many of you aren't so fond of PR info in the toolbar, I'd love to know what feature you [i]would[/b] like to see.Mandatory criteria:- Would have to provide actionable info for webmasters- Would need to be useful and interesting for the 99.9% of users who aren't webmasters &quot;Found via SE Roundtable.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple's iTunes Store  is bleeding link love]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2462</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2462</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:47:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2462</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While developing a mini-site for Lucifer Was, a Norwegian prog rock band, we found it sensible to link to various online stores that have the bands albums for sale.Apple's iTunes is one of them. iTunes is, as most Sphinners will know, a piece of software, not a web site, and should as such lay outside the realm of SEO.However, you can link to songs and artist found on the store (right click on any link inside the store to find the URL). The URLs lead to a generic web page containing javascripts code that (1) checks out whether the &quot;clicker&quot; has iTunes installed. If the answer is yes, the script will open iTunes and the relevant page within iTunes. (2) If not the script will display the regular HTML found in the page. This text promotes iTunes and iPods and encourages you to download the program.Given that more and more online bands and artist link to iTunes pages, Apple will get an increasing amount of targeted link love, with anchor text proudly displaying band and album names. And it is all waisted on a generic redirect page.To me this is just another example of companies not combining search engine marketing competences, general marketing and ICT development.Apple could  -- without spamming the search engines -- use content from the iTunes band and album presentations to generate open web pages, and lead these links to those pages. Hence our links to iTunes presentation of Lucifer Was should go to an open iTunes page presenting the band. They could then add download buttons to that page.Think about it: Thousands and thousands of pages with relevant, original,content, just waiting to be spidered.Ah, well. (And for those who wonder if Lucifer Was is yet another Norwegian suicidal satanist black metal band: It is not. The band leader , Thore Engen, is actually a Christian. The name of the band refers to the Lucifer myth, a major theme in his lyrics. The name has lead to some controversy, though, which proves the argument that you can never be too careful when selecting a brand or band name.)<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Are there free online encyclopedias that can compete with the Wikipedia?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2357</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2357</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:16:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2357</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have taken the time to search for serious alternatives to the Wikipedia, and have to conclude: there are none. Nor is it reasonably to expect that any alternative volunteer based project is going to succeed. The attempts that have been made so far, have failed.My question is: Do you think it would be a viable options for some of the professional encyclopedias to open up their full text to the public? Is there a business model there?Britannica have more than 120,000 articles, all of it high quality linkable, lovable content - a search engine marketer's wet dream.Britannica actually did open up its full text to free on-line searching, between 1999 and 2001. It then then closed it again, probably because of falling sales of CD-ROMs and printed volumes. But that was before the success of Google AdWords. Would a combination of context sensitive text ads and video ads do?<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Googlea4s desperate gamble]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2178</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2178</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:07:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2178</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The author of SEO Theory discusses the major challenges facing Google. For example: &quot;Now Google has made it almost mandatory for pages to get at least some internal PageRank so that they can rank in search results, thus forcing Webmasters to seek links for precisely the one reason Google says it doesn't want people to seek links: to acquire PageRank.&quot;<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Danny Sullivan Code (or While Waiting for Dan Brown's next book)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1986</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1986</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:24:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1986</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I believe Danny argued that the name Sphinn is a variant of Spin, the spin.com domain being taken. This can obviously not be the truth, and is just another example of how people in high positions try to fool those less fortunate in life.There must be a hidden and more sinister reason for choosing this name, and this post will reveal it all.Danny argues that Sphinn is to be pronounced /spin/ like in English &quot;spin&quot;. But if that was the case, why did he choose to replace P with Ph?Ph is not a representation for F. It clearly represents the Greek letter PHI (), a labio-labial or bilabial fricative found in ancient Greek, which in modern Greek and English is pronounced as F. Hence the proper pronunciation of Sphinn would be /sfin/ (cp. Phillips).The great social anthropologist and historian Dame Francis Yates have argued that Sullivan has chosen this spelling because of its connotations with the Norse word &quot;finn&quot;, which means &quot;find&quot; in English. Hence it is interpreted to be a reference to search as in search engine. This is a clever ruse to throw the ignorant off the track, and proves that Yates is part of a greater conspiracy. Her studies in renaissance occult Hermetism should give the reader an indication of where we are heading./sfin/ clearly does not mean anything in English, which proves that the PH is really a secret code meant for a secret society. PHI is a symbol for the golden ratio 1.618... in mathematics, art, architecture and is given profound weight in occult societies. The golden ratio is, for instance, found in the pentagram, which is found in both the American, Soviet and Chinese flags. The Freemasons uses the pentagram, which proves that we are talking about a global conspiracy here. As to the meaning of the word &quot;Sphinn&quot; it may be interpreted to be a variant of the word &quot;sphinx&quot;. According to the Wikipedia there was a single Sphinx in Greek mythology, a unique demon of destruction and bad luck, which most likely indicates that the word serves as a reminder of future events to the initiated.The word &quot;sphinx&quot; comes from the Greek  - Sphigx, apparently from the verb  - sphiggo, meaning &quot;to strangle&quot;. This conspiracy is out to strangle the freedom of the world and Danny Sullivan is part of it!Sphinxes normally tell riddles, and the name of this site clearly represents such a riddle, meaning that it points beyond the immediate announcement of death and catastrophe. The numerological value of SPHINX is 90, S19P16H8I9N14X2490 is a sacred number found among the descendants of Jesus (the Merovingans and the secret society of Prieure de Sion) and points to the 90 aeons of time of which our time is the final. Divided by ten you get the sacred number nine, which has profound importance among the Illuminati.It cannot be a coincidence that the numerical value of the name DANNY is 57D4A1N14N14Y24In 1957 the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jimmy Hoffa and charged him with bribery. Hoffa was a leader of the Communist-Capitalist Wall Street led conspiracy, and this was considered a huge setback which they have sworn to revenge.Moreover, 5+7 is 12. 12 in this context points to the heathen Zodiac and the 12 daemons that rule this world.To further proves this point PHI is also part of the the name of PHI DELTA KAPPA, one of the fraternities depicted in the 1978 movie Animal House, which starred John Belushi, a secret member of the Freemasons.It should also be noted that SFIN is the acronym UK Parliament Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure. Danny now lives in the UK, which is clearly part of a greater plan to undermine British democracy.All this should serve as a wake up call for all concerned citizens. And there is unfortunately more to come. Another of the sites devoted to search and search engine marketing is called Pandia, a reference to the Greek goddess of light and enlightenment. This is clearly a thinly veiled reference to Lucifer, the fallen angel of light. Say no more!<br/><br/>23 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exhaustion Leads to Nostalgia: How Far into this Vortex Are We Willing to Go?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1717</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:08:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Andrew Goodman has an well written rant on Sphinn and other social media over at Traffick. At the moment of posting the link to the article is dead, but it shows up in the site's web feed.&quot;Are we self-referentially Diggifying ourselves into a huge hole of sophomoric irrelevance?&quot; he asks.His argument is that Sphinning stories is similar to lurking. It's passive - not constructive. He points to Rae Hoffman's comment about Sphinn being a popularity contest. Andrew says:&quot;...of course Sphinn is a popularity contest! But unlike Rae, I don't seem to think it's &quot;whining&quot; to point out that it's not the kind of popularity contest that results in a useful experience for any reader outside of the self-reinforcing circle. I never cared who Dugg what article to the top, and how it was done, either. I didn't know anyone with a full-time job who really partook of the exercise.&quot;Andrew is clearly worried about Sphinn becoming just another source of link bait, with insiders soliciting friends for votes (giving Jill W. as an example!):&quot;But the increasing and well-placed focus on the community and the wisdom (or at least comprehensiveness) of crowds means potentially one major loss: an abdication of editorial voice.&quot;Maybe we can never return to an era of just a few authoritative voices in any industry, Andrew concludes: &quot;But isn't it just a little bit troubling that the A-Listers of today are so often devoid of substantive editorial authority beyond merely being passionate champions of the echo chamber itself?&quot;Andrew definitely has a point, and much that is written in SEM blogs must be considered repetitive link bait. Still, the fact that a sites like Sphinn and Digg represent popularity contest mash-ups do not necessarily mean that  the blogs that deliver content to these sites lack an editorial voice. Sphinn's siter site Search Engine Land certainly does not, and if Jill is guilty of exploiting the potential of Sphinn listings, the articles she links to contain both analysis and original opinion.My problem is a related one, though: The Diggs, Sphinns, Wikios and Techmemes of the world is leading to a serious information overload. In spite of their objectives, they are not able to sort out the best analysis of what's going on in the world of search engines.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ChaCha Search - Is People Powered Search Better? -]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1716</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:02:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
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<description><![CDATA[SEO by the Sea takes a look at this alternative search tool and its patents: &quot;I've performed a few searches, and the results seem relevant, but one thing that stands out is that sponsored results are mixed in with regular results.&quot;<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ResearchBuzz   ::  Gigablast Posting Index Numbers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1714</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:51:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1714</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gigablast now indexes 12,643,911,680 documents according to Tara.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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