I recently glanced at our SEO videos subdomain and was disappointed with the layout and formatting, so I spent the last couple days adding videos, categorizing them, and adding introductory text. With that subdomain only having 1% of our overall traffic, it hints at how bad the old formatting was. Please let me know what [...]

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Continuing from previous search stats from Hitwiseand Compete, comScore is now out with search engine share in the United States for March 2008. Similar to Hitwise, Google hits a new high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit new lows. But in terms of raw searches, Yahoo and Microsoft showed gains.
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TechRepublic asks “Will the Google revolution engulf IT departments?” Each time I write a newsletter, about 80% of the items are about Google. They keep innovating faster than other companies their size. Here are some examples of things they have done over the last ~ 2 months.

Changes organic search results based on prior search query.
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Cuill, the stealth search startup backed by former Google, AltaVista and IBM search experts, has completed a second round of funding to the tune of $25 million. The round was led by Madrone Capital Partners and follows on a first round of $8 million from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners. From the release:
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Google has announced that AdWords is no longer a requirement for Website Optimizer. In fact, you can now go to google.com/websiteoptimizer and register, for free, to use Website Optimizer, even if you do not have an AdWords account.
Now, you can use Website Optimizer to not just A/B test your AdWords landing pages, but also [...]

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