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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2008 - 8:54 am
Posted By: iBrian 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google SEO
David Harry covers a variety of patents Google have for social profiling - while illustrating the massive intrusion into privacy.

However, the suggestion is that this could be a way to monetise social media, but there's no getting around user int read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 6 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: News Sites
Apple stock tanks on CNN blog report about death of Steve Jobs...

Bloomberg seems blocked from submission, so here's the URL:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atekONWyM7As&refer=home read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.google.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google covers 10 years of Google, from starting with Backrub, to a camera-free Radiohead music video. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brandrepublic.com)
Category: Google Searching
Brand Republic gets big business to comment on how much Google has changed their own marketing landscape. Worth a read on how corporations really are getting it. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
How often do we have to see major brands mess up because they can’t even be bothered to test they work in Firefox? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://technology.timesonline.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
April Fools? Apparently not - The Times reports Google wants floating datacenters powered by wave power... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketwatch.com)
Category: Google SEO
Tribune said that publishing of an old news story that cratered UAL Corp.'s stock price earlier this week was because of a repeated technology failure at Google Inc.

Note: They failed to control their content, and blame Google for it? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketwatch.com)
Category: Google Other
The Justice Department reportedly has asked a top litigator to review evidence in what could become an antitrust case against Google Inc. on its search-advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ft.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: Google SEO
For massive sites with a tier one level of Google trust, there is virtually no benefit to linking to any external sites without a link condom. That whole “link out to authority sites” mantra of yesteryear’s SEOs does not apply to black holes. The dy read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google as a brand is limited to the search vertical - anything outside of that has never become a market leader.

It’s hard to be optimistic about the future take-up of Google Android and Chrome - because these are products outside of Google's bra read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ft.com)
Category: Google Other
The mobile industry gives Android a cold reception, citing a failure to engage consumer and use a proven technology model.

There's also a video interview with Eric Schmidt on the page. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google Other
Overshadowed by the Chrome launch, a quite product release for a "zero billion dollar market" - but yet another way in which Google aims to integrate itself into corporate behaviour. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theadminzone.com)
Category: Other Searching
Cuil - the latest supposed "Google Killer" - is having problems with its Twiceler crawler allegedly ignoring robots.txt, generating random URLs to crawl, and crashing large websites. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
A computer containing a million bank customers' personal data has reportedly been sold on an internet auction site.

- Yet another example of the issues relating to protection of data. Not directly search-related, but the impact of stories like th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo! is a company that could offer so much more to users, but so far, it’s allowing itself to slowly implode, and that’s going to be of benefit to nobody. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
I have a very good team under me, and often find myself taking it for granted that they know how valued they are.

When I realise this happening, I make a point of thanking them for their great work on an individual basis. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Other Search Marketing
"I can promise you that even in highly competitive markets, with a little creativity, there is still a lot of low hanging fruit of opportunity in this area." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: SEM
"a recession is likely to hit traditional media marketing harder than internet marketing, and I predict the economic downturn will be a turning point that will see budgets shifted more quickly from offline to online markets." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Jim Boykin's SEO Class in Edinburgh just finished - but you can get an overview of what was covered here. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.securitywatch.co.uk)
Category: Other Social Media
In theory, it will do a lot to keep out the forum spamming scum. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Last month I had to settle £8k over copyright infringement. This week my solicitors are taking against action against Google for defamation.

There are risks and liabilities with every content development model everyone needs to be aware of. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
There is no greater marketing tool than passion - a belief in that what you are doing is right.

It doesn’t matter whether your approach is sales, publishing, or general brand building - passion like laughter is infectious. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 6:39 am
Posted By: iBrian 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Media are a gamed community that exists to serve self-interested parties, and truth has never gotten in the way of a good story.

When search marketers complain about others manipulating the web and or media, at best it can be described as hypocri read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
How Yahoo is slowly but surely killing its income, and going the way of Looksmart. read more »
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