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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://royal.pingdom.com)
Category: Google Other
Google owns a whole bunch of domain names other than the obvious ones like google.com, blogger.com and gmail.com. The folks at Pingdom decided to find out which ones, with some truly surprising results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.indeed.com)
Category: Searching
Job search engine Indeed.com has created the first "job search by salary" for ALL jobs.

The vertical search engine is pushing innovation to offer this service by estimating salaries despite that most job listings don't provide a salary. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.google.com.au)
Category: Google Other
The core technology that powers gDay™ is MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).

Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysmblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
YSMBlog: Following the auction model, we are changing the way we set the minimum bids required to participate in a Sponsored Search keyword market. In the next several weeks, we will start calculating a variable minimum bid for some of the keywords read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Microsoft
This morning, I made a very educated guess that Microsoft may begin to get cold feet over their Yahoo bid considering how desperately at least some executives at Yahoo want to find an alternative deal.

This afternoon, confirmation from The Guard read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fakesteve.blogspot.com)
Category: Microsoft
Fake Steve Jobs: The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.investors.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies fueled by online ads could well suffer in a recession, analysts say, but they expect the online ad market might hold up better than other media. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://gigaom.com)
Category: Yahoo
Sramana Mitra summarizes several opportunities Yahoo could capitalize on to remain viable and competitive. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Searching
A new study from the University of Southern California’s Center for the Digital Future has found that a growing number of people no longer believe that search results are reliable and accurate. - TechCrunch read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google has been indexing pages faster in what looks like an attempt to provide some semblance of real time search queries on particular topics, and while this has become more than evident today, it’s also raising some serious questions on Google’s p read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 242 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Searching
A super categorized roundup by Kevin Newcomb at Search Engine Watch. Different than the popular my-favorite-blog-posts that are hot this week, Kevin takes us through the most significant news of the year topic-by-topic. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 245 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlereader.blogspot.com)
Category: Google
From the Official Google Reader Blog:

We'd hoped that making it easier to share with the people you chat with often would be useful and interesting, but we underestimated the number of users who were using the Share button to send stories to a li read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 250 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.centernetworks.com)
Category: Searching
Apparently Jimmy Wales was cornered on IRC today and made the following statement about the launch of Wikia Search. The quote was posted on the Unofficial Search Wikia blog. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 251 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Searching
This is big news in the vertical search space. From TechCrunch:

Discount travel site Kayak has acquired rival SideStep for $200 million.

SideStep and Kayak are the two leaders in the discount travel search space (along with Mobissimo and Far read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.time.com)
Category: Searching
Vertical search engine Indeed.com was selected as one of Time magazine's Top 10 websites of 2007.

Other selections: include #1 Lemonade, AskSunday, wink, techPresident, goodreads, menupages, DontForgetYourToothbrush, VolunteerMatch, and FatSecr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 262 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Alley Insider's Henry Blodget says that layoffs would be good for Yahoo and "Demonstrate that CEO Jerry Yang can make the tough, unpopular decisions necessary to get this company humming again. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 279 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google
Froogle version 2007 for the holidays?

From Philipp Lensson: Google on their global homepage replaced the top-left link to Google Video with a link to Google Product Search, the former Froogle. These navigational links are not consistent througho read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 300 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other
It is alleged that Yahoo's actions have lead to the imprisonment of a dissident... and they now admit it. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 309 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.exposureonline.com)
Category: Link Building
While the debate over paid links has been raging for months now, I haven't ever seen any estimations on what percentage of SEOs actually buy links.

Do you buy links? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 320 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.centernetworks.com)
Category: Networking
CenterNetworks' Allen Stern: LinkedIn is taking the smart road and opening up their system to applications that expand their mission. LinkedIn is a business networking tool, period. And it should stay that way. While the Scobles of the world have le read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Bill Hartzer analyzes an online reputation management survey by The Creative Group.

"Results from a new survey reveals that half of all employers surveyed said that they search online for information about prospective hires at least some of the t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 327 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.liveside.net)
Category: Microsoft
via LiveSide:

Larry Hyrb, known to the Xbox Live community as "Major Nelson", revealed that he will be in a meeting next week with Ray Ozzie, among others, to talk about the future of Live Services at Microsoft. Major Nelson asked on his blog fo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 332 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.calacanis.com)
Category: News Sites
I know, Calacanis taking the opposition point-of-view again! But he's got a point here: TechMeme Leaderboard ugh.... this is going to make things worse.

"I don't think it's TechMeme's fault, but I do think that the tail has started wagging the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.mediapost.com)
Category: Social Media
Everyone wants to be social these days. Given the hype around social networks and social bookmarking, it's little wonder that search wants to be social too. The problem is that when you refer to "social search," the odds are that whoever you're talk read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 338 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://uk.blognation.com)
Category: Social Media
...a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday. What I like about this Facebook app is there is nothing to download or install, no registration and best of all, all of your friends in Facebook can use it instantly. read more »
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