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Yahoo Turns Off Their Own Search Results And Turns On Bing’s Results

August 25, 2010Search Engines
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As of today all Yahoo organic search results are being delivered by Bing in US and Canada. This morning when I was checking my Twitter feed I came across a tweet by Barry Schwartz about Yahoo Finally & Officially Gave Up On Search.  After reading his article at Search Engine Roundtable I quickly opened up [...]

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Kumo.com, can it take Mircrosoft above third place in Internet Searches?

March 5, 2009Search Engines

Satya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for Microsoft’s online services division sent an email Monday to Microsoft employees encouraging them to begin testing the revamped search service that has been dubbed kumo.com.  The testing of Kumo is only available on the internal network at Microsoft. Mr. Nadella stated that he feels 40% [...]

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Yahoo Adds Traffic Reports to Online Maps for Major Cities

May 7, 2008Search Engines

Want to know what the traffic snarls will be before you leave for work or head home from the office?  Go to http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic. Color-coded icons on the maps for the 70 top metro areas of the U.S. will indicate the severity of any accidents or road impediments along the route.  And in the top 20 [...]

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Can Your Customers Find You in a Local Search Engine?

April 21, 2008Search Engines

Whether it’s daytime … or late at night …  … businesses MUST be findable on the web! The young folks (in their 20s) expected both places to be easy to find in Google and, once found, provide them quick access to location and related information about the business hours, foods served, the need for a reservation, the [...]

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Amazon's A9 Launches Visual Yellow Pages

April 21, 2008Internet Marketing

   “A9′s new offering works much like other online Yellow Page directories. You can search by business name or category, and get a list of results that are near your current location, with each identified with an icon on a map. Click on a listing for a business, though, and the results are very different [...]

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Answers.com – Yea! – real answers, not just search listings

April 21, 2008Search Engines

Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on more than a million topics.  I’ve seen sites like these before, and the results typically were useless.  However, I think these guys are on  the right track. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links [...]

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Search Engine News and Search Engine Articles

April 21, 2008Search Engines

The RSS links for your RSS reader are below. Note: These are RSS feeds, not webpages. Internet Search Engine News Search engine articles http://www.isedb.com/news/rss/1 Internet Search Engine News Daily Search engine news http://www.isedb.com/news/se/news_xml.php Search Engine Watch Blog: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/blog.xml If that’s too much trouble for now, just go to http://4webresults.com/seo and read the most recent articles on [...]

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MSN Released Their New Search Engine

April 21, 2008Search Engines

Though search traffic from Google still far out passes MSN for my site and nearly all my clients, It’s looking to me like MSN searches are starting to increase. We’ll just have to wait over time and see. The one advantage MSN has over Google is that it’s search shows up on all new PCs [...]

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MSN is gunning for Google

April 21, 2008Search Engines

Go take to a second peek at MSN’s new search technology Curious what is under the hood? They claim a new algorithmic search engine with a few more features and a bigger index than the first beta. MSN WANTS feedback to make it better, so give it a spin and tell them what you think [...]

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Microsoft's New Search Engine Testing RSS Features

April 21, 2008Search Engines

But back to RSS feeds. If you’d like to set up an RSS watch feed using MSN’s search engine or MSN News, follow the instructions at: http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/11/351064.aspx Keep in mind this is all alpha code as indicated in the blog article.  Right now you have to manually add ‘&format=rss’ to the url you create and [...]

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