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An impactful story that shows that in a fast Web 2.0 world dominated by superfluous applications and services, there are still services that bring value in our lives. read more »
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PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets. read more »
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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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Does a "social search engine" like newly launched Delver have a chance of becoming the new IT? Google's Joe Kraus does believe that social is "the new black" but how can a social startup compete with Google? Maybe the competition is out of the quest read more »
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Aside misinformation regarding Yahoo! Search and Microsoft, what else is wrong with The Telegraph? It occurs to me that the purpose of the Telegraph.co.uk article mentioned in the opening of this entry is to promote search engines affiliated with th read more »
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Dawud asks an interesting question: Can permission marketing be seen as interruption marketing? He thinks so, so do I. Read why. read more »
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Community is one of those Buzz words we have all come to love and hate at the same time. I suppose we could loosely define FriendFeed and Profilactic as communities, but I think they are really just TV sets into some activities of friends. SecondBra read more »
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Yahoo! announced not long ago the release of the new Yahoo!Search open platform. What happens next? What are the impacts on SEO and which other search engines can compete with Yahoo!Search in the future? read more »
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Is it time for one site to be everything to everyone (in a similar fashion that Yahoo or AOL was 10 years ago)? We are all now forced into situations where time and the efficient use of it have become acutely important. read more »
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The Experian widget is the culmination of one stage of Loux’s plans for versions of this “3 Deep” tool, but it was not exactly an easy sell. It is difficult to express how a simple widget can convey user data, Experian credibility and an extremely v read more »
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One site that we have found very useful in the submission process is Tube Mogul. TubeMogul is the video equivalent of SocialPoster, but the big difference is that TubeMogul has a dashboard that lets you know how many people viewed your video across read more »
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Awesome new firefox extension by Aaron wall at SEObook for checking organic rankings across search engines. read more »
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Why big brands should leverage social media and what do they have to watch out for, if they decide to jump on the social bandwagon. What are the slip falls, what are the dangers, the do's and don'ts, the possible rewards. A very detailed and compreh read more »
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How Disney used MySpace to successfully market its move Step Up 2 the Streets read more »
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A WebmasterWorld thread tipped both Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Roundtable (that's me) off on the fact that Google has added an additional quality score factor to the AdWords ranking algorithm. read more »
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Yahoo!'s MyBlogLog has a questionable "help" section where the company considers necessary to mock religious beliefs. A joke is a joke, true, but is the Help page of a site with millions of users the best place for jokes with religious connotation? read more »
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A host of startups have addressed the need for people to aggregate and manipulate links in the last two years. From social bookmarking sites to browser extensions, links have been perhaps the most acted upon element of Web 2.0. However, I think what read more »
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