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First Impressions of Microsoft Live

November 2, 2005 Search Engines

Here is a useful summary of Microsoft Live from the Read/Write Web blog by Richard MacManus, and a number of related links for more detail. Looks like the author’s overall impression is positive so far. Tom About the Author: Bill Baker

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A New Way to Find a Job

March 28, 2005 Search Engines

The latest Internet search engine innovation is domain-focused crawlers (i.e., spiders that look for specific information from certain types of websites). When companies combine this technology with a fancy front end to make it easier to find a job, they’ve created a new business opportunity. Think of these crawlers as specialized software that looks only at websites that [...]

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Google Getting Serious About Local Search

March 21, 2005 Search Engines

“SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc. released on Tuesday a free tool that allows businesses to add or update business listing information, such as operating hours and addresses, that appears within its local search results. “Google, the leader in the Web search sector, said its new Local Business Center tool is available to U.S. businesses, [...]

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Search Engine Manipulation – How an SEO Firm Works

March 21, 2005 Search Engines

I read the  ”The Unofficial Google Weblog“ by Brad Hill regularly.  This posting about a WIRED article on how SEO firms try to trick Google struck me as useful. Brad Hill offers the following summary comments about the SEO article in WIRED: Wired: Search Engine Manipulation By Brad Hill “Adam Penenberg explores the techniques used by optimization [...]

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