Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
In another move to try and keep visitors on their website, Google recently announced that they have started hosting their own news using the AP and three other sources.
This change is expected to hurt media sources that traditionally have received traffic from the search engine giant. This in turn is ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
The time in between Google PageRank has now reached a record of 120 days. In and of itself, this wouldn't be a particularly significant event. But with no PageRank being updated and comments made by certain Google employees, there could be a reason to think that maybe Google ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Today Earthlink announced that they are pulling out of a deal with Google to provide free wireless internet to residents and visitors in San Francisco, California.
Earthlink Chief Executive Rolla Huff told Mayor Gavin Newsom during a telephone call "they were not going to be able to fulfill their end of ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
From the local webmaster to the heads of multi-national corporations, fear and distrust, and sometimes even outright hatred of Google are growing. It's not hard to understand why. The company has had a meteoric rise to prominence which has catapulted them to the forefront of the search engine ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
In China, Baidu is the Google of its' peers. Google would like to change that fact, and they're reaching out to partners to help accomplish their goals. Google has partnered with CDC, the parent company of China.com, to try and put a dent into Baidu's business.
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Mankind has a number of remarkable tendencies, including the one to forget our own history, even if we lived through it, and to instead assume that things have always been the way they are, and will always stay the way forever. In this article, we plan on looking at ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
That's what Wall Street has been trying to figure out, ever since Google announced it would be running new video ads on YouTube. The basic consensus seems to be that ads might not generate significant revenue this year, but the numbers should be impressive down the road.
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
I admit that I'm getting might be bored with the subject of SEO. It doesn't really matter, either, because I'm a peripheral figure at the edge of the SEO industry, and not someone who dabbles in the Art for a full-time living. But I have to admit the ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I happened to catch a discussion about this recently where the parties involved concluded that it was nearly impossible to rank for terms in Google. I consider this to be complete hogwash. Of course most new sites are pretty undeserving of keyword rankings, and for some of the ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
It turns out that Google has even more market share than what was previously expected. comScore has added in some visitors that weren't being counted in the past, and it makes the picture of Google as the dominant search engine even more impressive.
The comScore qSearch 2.0 service will now ...
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