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YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos

Posted By: avi 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.wired.com)
Category: Video Search

"YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos" read more »

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Ballmer: 'We are done' with Yahoo acquisition idea

Posted By: avi 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Yahoo

Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said all acquisition talks with Yahoo! Inc. are ``done,'' even after Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he would step down. Yahoo fell as much as 13 percent in Nasdaq trading. read more »

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Yahoo And Google Now Let You Opt Out Of Ads

Posted By: avi 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing

"All of a sudden, Yahoo and Google want to make it easy for you to opt out of their ad targeting on both their sites and across the Web." read more »

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Search Challenges Email As Most Popular Daily Online Activity

Posted By: avi 107 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Other Searching

A Pew Internet Project finding released today reports that "In the six year span between January 2002 and May 2008, search use increased by 69%, while Email use grew only 15% during the same period." read more »

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Google Reveals CTR Average by Industry

Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Posted By: avi 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google AdWords

Shimon reveals some data which should help you gauge your CTR's based on the average in your vertical. read more »

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Site Going Down for Maintenance? Avoid One Large Brand's SEO Blunder

Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 6:36 pm
Posted By: avi 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google SEO

Shimon Sandler outlines a perfect example of how one major brand's website outage is feeling the aftershock in the Google SERPs. read more »

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Making the Most of Stop Words

Posted By: avi 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: SEO

A primer on keyword stop words, how the engines treat them, and how to optimize your content with stop words in mind. read more »

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Google Releases Urchin Version 6.0!

Posted By: avi 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.urchin.com)
Category: Google Other

Today Google opened up their free 3 month test drive program for the long anticipated Urchin 6.0 beta. Sorry, no Mac version yet! read more »

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PPC Campaign “Kick-off” Templates

Went Hot: December 6, 2007 - 3:13 pm
Posted By: avi 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Paid Search

Here’s two downloadable PPC Campaign kick-off spreadsheets that will help you kick-off your client's campaigns smoothly. Especially, if they are transitioning the account to you. read more »

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Google Building Blocks Toolkit

Posted By: avi 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google

Another unusual piece of Google schwag. read more »

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SES New York 2007: Late Night Brawl w/ Hilton Security Caught On Cam!

Posted By: avi 462 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stay-out-of-trouble.com)
Category: Water Cooler

Those of us who partied late night that night should remember this hilarious clip. Ahh, the memories! read more »

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Toolbar Search Suggestions affecting Traffic

Posted By: avi 488 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: SEM

Have you noticed the Search Suggestions as you type your search query? My guess is, yes. Both Google & Yahoo are doing this. MSN is doing it, but it looks like they are behind G & Y! read more »

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