We've had incredible success not just with our own site, but with many clients'
sites. See our Internet
Marketing track record and testimonials. To achieve these high rankings
for competitive phrases we use a combination of what is known as On-Page Optimization
and Off-Page Optimization.
Both of these assist in what is known as "Natural" search engine
marketing - or search engine placement (Most of all, though, they help to drive
relevant traffic to your website!
This thread started out with a bit of a weird post, but took a turn for the better by the third post as the purpose and intent of Alt attributes were further discussed. Plus I got a chance to say "make your site be the best it can be for your users and the search engines" again! :)
Okay, so Nick does not like promoing threads he starts, but having used a CMS that I liked but didn't spider worth a darn, I found this list of CMS scripts that will spider well very useful.
A very nice tip from *nix expert littleman. Heres what it does:
It is just a way of turning off the ping response, but it is an essential step if you want to keep your *task* server hidden. Doing such a thing on a public web server would be nearly meaningless because all one would have to do is make requests to standard ports and see if anything happened.
Not much info for SEO but interesting Linux resources in this thread nonetheless. With more web developers and SEO's thinking about switching from Windows to Linux, for security concerns this is a good thread to read.
Search Engine Roundtable
Search Engine Marketing 101 - Read This First (Thursday, October 14, 11:36 PM EST) Interested in learning more about SEO/SEM, but don't know where to start? An excellent must read discovered over at SEW Forums, relating to what you should know when you get into search engine marketing. Nacho, a moderator at SEW forums,...
Google Releases Desktop Search Beta (Thursday, October 14, 08:10 PM EST) I am sure you know by now that Google released Google Desktop Search, this obviously impacts Microsoft's Desktop Search but not yet Apple. For a comprehensive review (more comprehensive if your a subscriber) see Danny's article for more resources please...
Block Analysis with Image Retrieval (Thursday, October 14, 02:24 PM EST) What are some of the methods to combat the issues with linkage data, that search engines often depend upon for ranking one page over the next? If you're reading this blog, you most probably know all too well about how...
SuperPages.com Reviewed at SEO Chat Forums (Thursday, October 14, 01:32 PM EST) To be honest, I was one of the first to sign up with the online yellow page giant, SuperPages.com. My experience...Very little transparency as to impressions, click throughs and leads captured. Why? Maybe because I was one of the first...
Expired Domains - Who's Getting Adsense Rich On Them? (Thursday, October 14, 07:49 AM EST) There is an interesting discussion at Cre8asite forums, I hadn't seen before in a search engine related forum about the number of companies that are buying up expired domains and putting Google adsense ads them. Google has a page for...
Win a Gmail Invite: Click Search Engine (Thursday, October 14, 05:23 AM EST) It has been a while since I gave out Gmail Invites, so here is a new contest. First three correct answers emailed to barry.schwartz@gmail.com. Question is: Which search engine uses or used click data as a factor to determine the...
SEO Book.com
Google Desktop Search (Thursday, October 14, 03:56 PM EST) Google launches Google Desktop. Google Desktop is personal computer hard drive search appliance software.
Search Engine Guide Daily News
Google Launches Desktop Search - Exclusive Review (Friday, October 15, 02:58 AM EST) Source: Search Engine Lowdown - While many of us have been distracted with rumors about a Google browser, Google has quietly been working on the beta version of their desktop search (previously code-named "Puffin") and today they launch it, in...
Google Desktop Search Launched (Friday, October 15, 02:51 AM EST) Source: SearchDay - Google released a new Google Desktop Search tool today that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances...
A Closer Look At Privacy & Desktop Search (Friday, October 15, 02:49 AM EST) Source: Search Engine Watch - A new era of desktop search is being ushered in. With it comes some new issues about search privacy. If you've protected your data the way you always should, no problem. If not -- it's...
SEM: Still an Adolescent? (Friday, October 15, 02:44 AM EST) Source: iMedia Connection - Only when advertisers integrate their search strategies with the rest of their media tools will SEM realize its true potential. Today, at most companies you can only find search in its own silo. Synergies that could...
You've Got Mail, But Too Few Ads (Friday, October 15, 02:39 AM EST) Source: BusinessWeek - AOL execs say they will soon throw open the site to the nonmembers to gin up even more ad sales. Says Mike Kelly, president of AOL Media Networks: "Our goal is to get a fair share of...
Google unveils desktop search (Friday, October 15, 02:26 AM EST) Source: News.com - Application lets people retrieve e-mail, office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages viewed, all via the browser....
AOL launches new portal, tests desktop search (Friday, October 15, 02:24 AM EST) Source: News.com - Search feature will allow members to find photos, music and MS Office files stored on PC drives, in a challenge to Google and Microsoft....
Making It to Page One (Wednesday, October 13, 11:44 PM EST) Source: eMarketer - Oneupweb analyzed the main corporate sites of the first 100 companies in the Internet Retailer magazine list of Top 300 companies to determine the level of effectiveness with which each company has used SEO. Oneupweb finds that...
Search Marketing 2004: What's Right, What's Wrong (Wednesday, October 13, 11:24 PM EST) Source: SearchDay - Danny Sullivan's wide-ranging keynote address at Search Engine Strategies San Jose prodded several raw nerves in the industry, sparing neither search marketers nor the search engines themselves, reports Andrew Goodman....
Clickfraud: Whose Problem, FTC, Search Engines Or Advertisers? (Wednesday, October 13, 11:23 PM EST) Source: Search Engine Watch - This issue is one that will only grow, as more money is spent on search and contextual advertising. If the FTC doesn't step in, if the search engines are unable to police better, rest assured...
Yahoo! Googles Up Some Fine Results (Wednesday, October 13, 11:16 PM EST) Source: BusinessWeek - The megaportal partially cashed out its holdings in the search engine, boosting already impressive quarterly earnings....
Google Print Opens Wide to Publishers (Wednesday, October 13, 11:13 PM EST) Source: ClickZ - Google is inviting publishers large and small to provide books to be scanned and included in the Google Print service for free. Books are accepted if they have ISBNs and are in any form of English (American,...
Lycos Debuts Social Sharing Platform (Wednesday, October 13, 11:08 PM EST) Source: ClickZ - Lycos today announced the beta release of Lycos Circles, a "social sharing platform" that focuses on helping users keep in touch with people they already know, rather than on meeting new people....
Search Engine News Journal
Google for your Desktop Search (Thursday, October 14, 06:40 PM EST) Google for your Desktop Search
Google has been working on this one since some time now. We speculated in May that Google would be getting on with the Desktop Search in the coming months, and it is finally out in a beta release today. It is called Google Desktop Search and ...
Looking at Yahoo Local and Google Local (Thursday, October 14, 06:29 PM EST) Looking at Yahoo Local and Google Local
I love New York City. More than any other city on the planet, New York is exciting, expansive and always interesting. As Earth's unofficial capital city New York is home to many of the world's largest entities, some even bigger than Donald Trump's ego. ...
Google Desktop Search Has Launched (Thursday, October 14, 03:05 PM EST) Google Desktop Search Has Launched
Google quietly launched its Google Desktop Search today and a slew of bloggers have tested it, reviewed it, and are currently testing it, including yours truly. Google Desktop is a frightfully fast application which searches desktop documents, web browser history, and chat room conversations (in AOL's ...
Google Wants to Improve Web Browsers (Thursday, October 14, 01:48 PM EST) Google Wants to Improve Web Browsers
Google yesterday responded to the buzz over Gbrowser.com, the mythical Google powered web browser that bloggers and forums have been buzzing over. In a statement to the Indian press, Google said that it was engaged in developing technology that was aimed at bringing about improvements ...
Expired Domain Names - Who’s Getting Rich On Them? (Thursday, October 14, 01:27 PM EST) Expired Domain Names - Who's Getting Rich On Them?
There is an interesting discussion at Cre8asite forums, I hadn't seen before in a search engine related forum about the number of companies that are buying up expired domains and putting Google adsense ads them. Google has a page for domain parking ...
Search Engines and The Meta Description Tag (Thursday, October 14, 01:21 PM EST) Search Engines and The Meta Description Tag
The keywords and phrases you use in your Meta description tag don't affect your page's ranking in the search engines (for the most part), but this tag can still come in handy in your overall SEO campaigns. What Is the Meta Description Tag?
The Meta ...
MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing
Google Desktop Launched (Thursday, October 14, 03:21 PM EST) Google finally launched its secretive desktop search effort, formerly codenamed Puffin and now dubbed Google Desktop. It allows searching through documents such as Microsoft Office files and other...
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Current VC Hype: Addressable TV (Thursday, October 14, 02:36 PM EST) Applying internet-like targeting to TV ads is becoming a more popular venture capital play. Cable vendors say they will provide addressable advertising sometime between 2006 and 2008. In one...
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AOL to Bow Desktop Search Agent (Thursday, October 14, 02:26 PM EST) AOL appears ready to launch its own desktop search application, one that will reportedly allow for searching not only on the web, but also through a users own Microsoft Office documents, as well as...
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Click Fraud May Spawn Advertiser Suits (Thursday, October 14, 02:03 PM EST) SearchEngineGuide points to a SearchEngineWatch comprehensive media review of the topic of click fraud, the practice of creating meaningless clicks in order to bilk advertisers out of PPC fees....
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FTC Declines DM News FOIA Request (Thursday, October 14, 01:36 PM EST) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proved cagey again when faced with a Freedom of Information Act request from DM News requesting information about the parties accessing the no-call registry....
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Coming: Game Previews for Potential Sponsors (Thursday, October 14, 12:58 PM EST) A U.K. firm plans to come out with a guide to upcoming video games for advertisers, affording them the opportunity to pick out which titles they might want to sponsor. Cocojambo plans to release the...
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Lycos 'Circles' Moves Portal to Social Network Structure (Thursday, October 14, 12:43 PM EST) Lycos announced it is delivering on plans to move from portal to a "Lycos Circles" social network structure, providing blogging, networking, and publishing tools to members so that they can better...
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JibJab Creator: We Just Wanted to Break into TV, Movies (Thursday, October 14, 12:40 PM EST) In an interview with CNET, JibJab co-creator Gregg Spiridellis talks about how the "This Land is Your Land" and "DC" animations were inspired and developed. It turns out that the endeavors have...
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Abacus Enters France (Thursday, October 14, 10:38 AM EST) DoubleClick's consumer data division Abacus launched a division in Lille, France, seeking to gain as clients French catalog and direct marketers. The move is most notable for its boldness in...
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San Diego's E Factor Opens Up Boston Office (Thursday, October 14, 07:50 AM EST) E Factor, the San Diego-based interactive marketing agency opened up an East Coast office in Boston. Clients include Wells Fargo, Gateway, Borland Software and a division of GE. BtoB Online reports.
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Russian Advertising Site Provides English Edition (Thursday, October 14, 06:11 AM EST) A Russian trade site on media and advertising launched an English language edition (www.media-online.ru), which keeps track of major media developments globally, with a special emphasis on...
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Current VC Hype: Addressable TV (Thursday, October 14, 02:36 PM EST) Applying internet-like targeting to TV ads is becoming a more popular venture capital play. Cable vendors say they will provide addressable advertising sometime between 2006 and 2008. In one example, Grey Ventures hopes to capture "a little of that" $50 billion in overspending on relatively untargeted TV advertising with an investment in Visible World, a company that can parse out TV ads into many versions to be sent to different types of audiences. MarketWatch reports.
FTC Declines DM News FOIA Request (Thursday, October 14, 01:36 PM EST) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proved cagey again when faced with a Freedom of Information Act request from DM News requesting information about the parties accessing the no-call registry. The FTC has previously avoided a similar one from the American Teleservices Association (ATA) by first saying that it would cost more than a million dollars to process, and then later denying the request outright. This time, the FTC told DM News that some of the names were individuals, and they could not provide that sort of personal information. When DM News suggested the Commission black out any information deemed personal, the FTC declined. DM News reports.
Abacus Enters France (Thursday, October 14, 10:38 AM EST) DoubleClick's consumer data division Abacus launched a division in Lille, France, seeking to gain as clients French catalog and direct marketers. The move is most notable for its boldness in directly facing Europe's extreme privacy laws in the very market most in a tizzy about personally identifiable information. Abacus already operates in Britain and Germany.
San Diego's E Factor Opens Up Boston Office (Thursday, October 14, 07:50 AM EST) E Factor, the San Diego-based interactive marketing agency opened up an East Coast office in Boston. Clients include Wells Fargo, Gateway, Borland Software and a division of GE. BtoB Online reports.
Russian Advertising Site Provides English Edition (Thursday, October 14, 06:11 AM EST) A Russian trade site on media and advertising launched an English language edition (www.media-online.ru), which keeps track of major media developments globally, with a special emphasis on Russian companies. A quick perusal shows it to be well translated, often updated and much more comprehensive than typcial media blogs.
ABAKUS Search Engine Marketing SEO Blog
Google Desktop (Thursday, October 14, 02:29 PM EST) Thats what i call news...
desktop.google.com
AOL Desktop Search Here...Maybe? (Thursday, October 14, 06:33 PM EST) According to CNet.com, AOL is testing a new search engine that scans for files on a PC's hard drive, mirroring a similar product unveiled this week by Google.
AOL's desktop search was not developed in-house but is powered by a third-party's technology
More Google Desktop News (Thursday, October 14, 03:38 PM EST) SEL readers know that I am a big fan of Bambi Francisco and that will only increase now that she has featured WebSourced in her story on the Google Desktop.
By being the search engine for a user's desktop, Google potentially increases the viewing time
Google Launches Desktop Search - Exclusive Review (Thursday, October 14, 02:00 PM EST) At Digital Life today, Google will announce the launch of Google Desktop, their long awaited desktop search technology. While many of us have been distracted with rumors about a Google browser, Google has quietly been working on the beta version of their
Another Fake SEO Forum (Thursday, October 14, 01:45 PM EST) The creators of the fake SEO forums - the ones that only ever have good stuff to say about SEO spammers TrafficPower/1P.com - are back with a new fake forum to be aware of.
http://seo-professional-forum.com/
SEMPO Blog Glitch (Thursday, October 14, 01:40 PM EST) Meanwhile, there has been a flurry of activity at the SEMPO official blog. Unfortunately, I think it may just be one big glitch...
"West Hollywood, California (PRWEB) October 14, 2004 — Famed California candlemaker and seller ILLUME today announced the
Yahoo's Results Ignite Search Engine Stocks (Thursday, October 14, 01:24 PM EST) According to Bambi, Yahoo's recent growth in search advertising has positively affected a lot of other companies in the search space.
Paid-search volume expanded in the mid- to high-single digits, said Mark Rowen, an analyst at Prudential. That's a big
Google Weblog
Google Desktop (Thursday, October 14, 02:51 PM EST) Google Desktop Search Download: Search your own computer. Requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+....
The Unofficial Google Weblog
Google Launches Surprise Release of Desktop Search (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Perhaps motivated by groundbreaking work at Copernic and Blinkx, and without question hoping to gain first-mover advantage over Microsoft, Google has released its beta Desktop Search tool. Though the new feature (it cannot properly be called a "program," as I describe below) is in beta, today represents a confident and smoothly operating release. Desktop Search embeds on the Google home page for those who have installed it (see the graphic below), on equal footing with Web, Image,
Google Desktop Search is now available (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Google has released a public beta of their long-awaited desktop search tool (code-named Puffin) at Digital Life today. Search Engine Lowdown has a very thorough review already posted so rather than duplicating their fine work, I will work with the beta for a short while and share some impressions. A couple of immediate thoughts: I'm disappointed that Gmail is not supported in this first release I'm even more disappointed that there is no image search, especially
Froogle U.K. Opens (Really, This Time) (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Despite our announcement of September 30, the U.K. version of Froogle now, really, truly, straight-from-the-horse's-mouth, launched today.
Web 2.0: Search Summary (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Link here for O'Reilly's brief wrap-up of the search panels and discussions at Web 2.0.
Google Print: What Do Authors Think? (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) As Google gears up its book-scanning service, called Google Print, more publishers are coming to the table with donated books. This shows progressive thinking on the part of participating publishers, and the opportunism necessary to take advantage of shared AdWords revenue from ads associated with displays of their book pages. But what about authors? Are they left out of the equation? Well, yes. Author contracts generally make no mention of ad revenue derived from electronic display of books,
Kanoodle Launches Ad Partnering; Distinguishes Itself from AdSense (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Kanoodle has taken a directly competitive stance against Google AdSense in its launch of BrightAds, and syndicated partnering program that invites Web publishers of all sizes to run Kanoodle contextual ads. (Kanoodle's corporate partners include CBS MarketWatch and USA Today.) BrightAds distinguishes itself by remedying what some observers think are drawbacks in the AdSense program: Ads are chosen for distribution based on topics, not keyword mining. In this respect, BrightAds is similar
Legendary Value Fund Manager Owns 20 Percent of GOOG (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Bill Miller, whose Legg Mason value fund has beaten the SP500 for an unprecedented 13 years, disclosed that his fund own 12 percent og GOOG's Class A shares. Legg Mason had a team of people looking at Google for a month, he said. Like other investors, Legg Mason was scaled back and eventually received only 80 per cent of its allocation. Mr Miller, who bought companies such as IBM and Dell in the early 1990s, said: "This is a business that we believe will grow. We have a strong idea
Google Ramps Up Book-Scanning Program (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Google has issued requests for books to dozens of publishers, as it ramps up its Google Print program. Google Print seeks to include millions of scanned books in a searchable database. Scanned content will not be incorporated in the main Web index, but Web search results will include booko content above the Web listings--similarly to Google News or Froogle results thast sometimes appear above listings now. Eventually, Google might spin off the book database to its own engine, but that particular
"Can't Find on Google": A Resource When Google Is Stumped (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Google doesn't always come through with difficult search tasks. That's when Can't Find on Google comes in: the site lets users describe unsuccessful searches, and invites suggestions and solutions from readers.
Web 2.0 Search Panel (MP3 files uploaded!!!) (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) I'm taking some notes on the search panel at Web 2.0 conference, but I thought I would give you the MP3 file and some photos first. Here is part one in MP3 format, and here is part two. This page will be updated with the second MP3 file and some more notes. Search is a Platform. Where is it Going? Steve Berkowitz , Udi Manber , Louis Monier , Christopher Payne , Jeff Weiner
Google vs. Yahoo!: Local Search (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Yahoo! has moved its Yahoo! Local engine out of beta, and has launched a nationwide ad campaign to establish its competitive place against Google's still-beta local search engine. (Historically, Google keeps services in beta nearly forever--long past their turning points as legitimate, even essential, destinations. Google News and Froogle are both still lingering in beta.) Analysts believe Google must respond to Yahoo! challenge. The question is: Which local engine is better? My personal
New Gmail Features (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Gmail has been updated with significant new features: Auto-forwarding of received mail Saved drafts of letters in progress Contact information can now include on-email information wuch as phone numbers An Atom feed for the Inbox Interestingly, not every account has been upgraded. My main Gmail address, bestowed on the first day, does not show the new features. It still displays ads on the right side, too, not on the bottom--a change that was introduced about two weeks ago. But my
Yahoo spiders more than Google on individual HTML pages? (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Ever wonder which one of the two search giants spiders more of an individual HTML page? According to ResearchBuzz, it's Yahoo. If you search Yahoo for aardvark apple zither zephyr originurlextension:html...you'll find that filesizes are listed with search results, and the filesizes listed are well over 150K -- I see page sizes of over 800K listed here! At least one of the pages listed, at 173K, appears from its cache to be fully indexed.. Searching Google for the same query,
Potential Google Employee Problems (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) A Reuters article explores the difficulty of holding on to stock-rich employees. One analyst estimates that about 1,000 Google employees hold shares worth $1M, and 400 to 500 employees are worth $5M on paper. Leaving the company to spark their own start-ups, or even to retire, is one danger. Raiding the company to staff those startups is another problem. Google needs to keep a strong sense of mission flowing within the plex, not to mention the comfy perks.
BW: Google Needs a Browser (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) While many spread rumors of Google's browser development, Business Week weighs in with a stronger opinion: Google must develop a browser to cultivate more revenue-bearing traffic and forestall the eclipsing effect of Microsoft's imminent awakening to the search field. "Consider that in the past two weeks people downloaded 2.5 million copies of an open-source browser built by a little-known outfit called the Mozilla Foundation. That shows how much demand there is for an
Google Music On the Way? (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Although a bit speculative, John Rhodes puts together an argument for why Google will dominate the music search space. John starts by providing a brief overview of the enabling technologies / barriers to entry (my words) that he believe will be critical to the success of music search online. Among the technologies he lists are BitTorrent, RSS, Audio Blogs (as demonstrated on NPR), Podcasting and Speech-to-Text conversion. Assuming the technology described above works, and it does, then Google
Yet More Competition for Google (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) The search field is heating up all over. Google is facing stiff challenges from Yahoo!, FindWhat, Blinkx, Copernic, and many others for dominance on the consumer end and the business end. Now, Vivisimo, long respected for its folder-organized search results, has rolled out its technology into a new engine with a new (unfortunate) name: Clusty. For "clusters," get it? No, not Crusty. Horrible name notwithstanding, Clusty (god, I hate typing it) is a thing of beauty. Narrow your search
Froogle U.K. Opens (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Without fanfare, Google has launched a British version of Froogle. The flagship U.S. version of Froogle started about two years ago, though Google's placement of Froogle on its home page earlier this year brought the product-based search engine to wide attention for the first time.
Google's Response About China (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Google responds, on their blog, to the criticism they have received due to the omission of banned news sources in the PRC. I though that this was worth mentioning, particularly due to the last line in the second paragraph (emphasis mine) as it reveals to a significant degree, what this is really about. As I see it, this pretty much makes google a spin machine for the government of the PRC. Thoughts? Google is committed to providing easy access to as much information as possible. For Internet
The new Clusty metasearch engine (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Vivisimo is testing a new metasearch engine with clustering.
Google launches Froogle UK (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) A British version of Google's shopping search engine.
Google censors sites in China (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Pandia argues that Google has an obligation to help the democratic forces in China by including censored sites.
Looksmart buys Furl (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) On the bookmark and article management tool.
Wotbox search engine goes local (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Wotbox adds a large number of national versions of its search engine.
Seth's Blog
Just ask Dave! (Thursday, October 14, 07:57 PM EST) Dave Lennox is the guy whose voice answers the call handling center at Lennox. He also appears in their ads. "Hi! I'm Dave Lennox!" Dave always talks in exclamation points. I just discovered that Dave Lennox died more than fifty...
The most important book of the year (Thursday, October 14, 10:35 AM EST) You'll hear more about this from me closer to January once the embargo is lifted, but I think you should pre-order this right now: Amazon.com: Books: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Malcolm Gladwell (he of Tipping Point...
Online Marketing Blog
Google Desktop Search (Thursday, October 14, 03:02 PM EST) Today Google launched it's desktop search tool. Very much like the tool offered by Blinkx, except its from Google! Maybe Google is not working on a browser and it was the desktop search all along. I've downloaded it and it's going through about an hour indexing process right now. After I try it out for a while, I'll post again on how it works. From Search Engine Lowdown.
ADV: RSS2WAP.com (Friday, October 15, 02:55 AM EST) Read your RSS feeds from WAP mobile. Free online RSS to WML conversions at RSS2WAP.com.
Stuntdubl Land Internet Marketing
Today's Big Google News - Gotta Cover Stories on Google (Thursday, October 14, 03:47 PM EST) Okay, so this is same story is probably on just about EVERY other SEO news report for today, but hey...It's Google! This is the media darling, and everyone watches their every single move. Why? Probably because they are getting closer to watching OUR every move. I have been assimilated and I now have Google desktop search on my laptop. I really hope G never becomes partners with M$...that would definitely be evil.
Google Desktop Personal Search (Thursday, October 14, 02:43 PM EST) Google has released the first beta for local desktop search. Weighing in at 400k and requiring 500MB of disk space, the desktop search can index Outlook email, excel files, history pages visited in Internet Explorer 5+, AOL messages, power point, and more.
Only available in Windows XP and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and above.
Spotted by Andy Beal.
Search Engine Positioning and Web Marketing News
Google Desktop is Here! (Thursday, October 14, 03:31 PM EST) The BIG news of the day is that Google attacks your desktops with Google Desktop. Google desktop will use the Google brand name to help you find files and documents on your PC. Some may view this as a natural...
As many of my regular readers may have noticed, there has been a huge drop in postings recently. Why, do you ask?
Not enough time. I have too much on my plate these days to be able to keep at this like it requires.
So, Jason and I are looking for a new person to take this blog over. Interested?
Drop us a line and let us know why. You might find
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