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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
In the name of Google, and of Microsoft and of Yahoo!… Amen!

This is what the search world looks like since a few years. We fail to talk about something else when it comes to search engines. Even when pretty faces like Powerset and hakia dare to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Google Other
As the search saga continues, rumor has it Microsoft is just about to announce it did a little shopping and acquired Powerset – one of the leaders in natural language search. On the other hand, Microsoft’s future plans of buying Yahoo’s search funct read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Open source could be the last bastion of Web 2.0. Which side of the fence do you fall on? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Other Searching
Raving news about hakia’s so-called “credible online health search” proliferated the Web in April. Since then, a deafening silence threatened to condemn hakia to the darkest corner of the Web, but luckily enough they had some more coverage with the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 7:33 am
Posted By: philbutler 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pronetadvertising.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Case study about Empire Today and Best of the Web on how old school branding techniques like mascots, jingles and logos build brand loyalty among customers who then indirectly promote the brand via user generated content like YouTube and Flickr. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 25, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: philbutler 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.money.co.uk)
Category: Other Social Media
Money.co.uk has apologized for the most talked about linkbait ever, which was exposed by their now ex-marketing contractor, Lyndon Antcliff (Lyndoman). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Google SEO
Being something of a pureist Web 2.0 guy, I have criticized SEO quite a bit in my blogging career. As most of us find out sooner or later however, most professions have varying tiers of professionalism and excellence. This is true of search engine o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Delving into the mysteries of the Web for the 10,000th time, I decided to go all out transparent and also help a friend today. You see, all bloggers and social networking fools use essentially the same strategies to get what they write notices. Whet read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEO done as it should be is a very helpful tool for developers. I recently reviewed an SEO primer in the form of an eBook that is superlatively helpful and most of all honest. Search engine optimization, at least the honest and professional version, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Anyone scanning the pages of my articles these last 2 years will find one overriding common denominator – I admire excellence. This article is about an underlying certainty resident in the world even when considering the most excellent things we fin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Every developer out there want to make a tool that some thousands of users will be enamored with, but few really offer viable solutions. As for business tools, most of these are either so expensive or so complicated to use that few have the stomach read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: News Sites
It is about time someone had the nerve to call BS on TC. We have to expect more from the best or we go nowhere. A recent article on TC did no justice to either the author or a great startup because of shabby journalism from the world's greatest tech read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
"For some, it’s the glory; for others it’s the danger. Still for others it’s the way members of the opposite sex find them a little more appealing."

After reading the above sentence, and you can all enjoy more pearls like this on the Help section read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.profy.com)
Category: Other Searching
Hakia is rolling out yet another aspect of their semantic search technology today. MO (or meet others) exhibits another interesting aspect of "search" by allowing people to meet other people entertaining the same queries. By adding this P2P social e read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.profy.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
When will we arrive at Web 3.0? I really had no idea there were so many theories until I went to my old standby Wikipedia to get some ideas for what we have in store. Over the last year or so I have probably loosely used the term Web 3.0 to describe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 284 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.profy.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Traditional business continues to migrate to the Web. Nike+ has refined consumer engagement to a fine point in creating community enhanced by a high tech tool. Sometimes the most elemental additions can add the most value for users - especially in n read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 293 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.profy.com)
Category: Other Searching
Explaining and understanding hakia and other semantic search engines has been a little more than tough for developers and potential users these past few months. Readers and users are not dense, but perhaps they are impatient and a little ADD. Develo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 293 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
There was an error in submitting this discussion, perhaps discussing usability for new users who are up 18 hours is appropriate? In any event - the learning curve has been surmounted. read more »
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