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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 3 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 3 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 10 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 10 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 21 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 58 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 58 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 71 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 79 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 84 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 101 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 Posted By: iBrian 108 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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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk)
Category: Other Search Marketing
While there a number of high profile business/marketing blogs, there are still plenty of others that can deserve some attention for their gems. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Other
BBC: Investors are looking to wipe-out Yahoo's board of directors, over unhappiness relating to the failed Microsoft deal. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
All your friends data is now belong to us. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.news.com)
Category: Other Social Media
"Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community," Farmer wrote in a blog post Tuesday. "Starting in March I began noticing that the level of activity in the Facebook developers forum was dropping sharply." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.business-roadmap.co.uk)
Category: Networking
There are no guarantees to success through networking but through the old adage “it’s not what you know it’s who you know” where networking can really work. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
Google desperately wants access to future wireless broadband networks of all stripes and sizes,but it wants to avoid having to build and operate its own. Deals like this show that it is willing to pay to play. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google is like Venice: powerful and defensible; Webmasters are like Constantinople: a power in decline to Venice. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
The BBC claims applications can easily harvest user data from Facebook. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcblog.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
This is getting truly sick, when Amnesty International is hacked for Viagra.

This isn't a matter of ethics - it's selling your soul, big time.

Let's see this disgusting process killed. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Google AdWords
Trademark exclusion was a basic tool to also prevent widespread defamation.

Now that Google Adwords is about to remove that, I'm preparing to contact my lawyer. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Google
Google's webmaster guidelines in entirety can be summarised in just 3 words:

Good User Experience

Mainstream SEO needs to build around that principle - even when buying links. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google.co.uk has gone black to support Earth Hour - but Google.com is no longer accessible.

Typing Google.com in the address bar automatically redirects to .co.uk - but the link on Google UK to Google.com results in a redirect error.

Google.co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: iBrian 211 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to https://partner.microsoft.com)
Category: SEO
"The Microsoft ISV SEO Service is a cost-effective marketing solution that can help you appear more prominently in free search results on the major search engines. And thus help you attract more prospective customers. The service can also help you i read more »
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