Putting a very thin silver lining on the dark cloud of petroleum dependency, Google’s Vint Cerf (who is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet), made a statement at the 2008 OECD Ministerial Meeting in Korea about how high oil prices could be seen as beneficial to the Internet.“Although I’m not happy with [...]
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SenseBot is a search engine that produces summaries of the results that appear when you perform a search. Its a tool that is very useful when you want to make sense of a topic and there’s a deluge of content from the web to choose from. Now, SenseBot has provided a FireFox plug-in that integrates [...]
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A long time aggregator of information provided by third parties, the perfectly named local search engine; Local.com, has launched their own proprietary local consumer ratings and reviews system whcih allows users to create an account and enter ratings and reviews for any business listing that appears on the site. Now, in a Yelp or Yahoo [...]
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
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A lot of people whose websites get banned from Google eventually take the necessary measures to fix the problems on their site and then request reinclusion. Some, however, do not. They just submit that reinclusion request and assume everything is fixed. Matt Cutts isn't stupid, and you shouldn't think that's a way of getting around being deindexed on Google. In a Twitter message, Matt says that you shouldn't lie in your reconsideration requests. He says it makes him angry. Heck, I'd say th
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Is anyone attending Search Engine Strategies San Jose? If so, leave a comment and hopefully I will see you there.If you aren't, it isn't too late to register. Click here to register.
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From September 26 to the 28th, a new conference called Think Tank is taking place. If you haven't signed up yet, I highly recommend doing so for the following reasons:It's not a normal conference - Unlike most conferences, the Think Tank is totally different. It is a full 3 days of fun that take place outdoors in sunny San Diego. Now isn't that much better than being cooped up in a room for 8 hours a day?There are no speakers - This doesn't mean you aren't going to learn anything, you will prob
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If the series of tests that Google engineers are doing on their search portal is any indication of what may soon become of the Google Search, then we might be looking at Social-powered Google search engine in the near future. According to Ben Gomes in a post at the Official Google Blog, they are conducting [...]
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