Archive for December, 2008
December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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Rumor has it Google VP Marissa Mayer will be leaving the company in 2009, Gawker reported.
Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, joined Google from Stanford’s graduate computer science department in 1999 as the company’s first female engineer. She also is a part-time introductory computer programming teacher at Stanford and has been given the Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award.
In a recent interview Mayer seems to contradict these rumors when she talked about the future of search and Google. “We think that when you look at the winning search engine in 2020 and what traits it’s likely to have, we think the one thing that will be true is that it will understand more about you the user.”
Mayer was the keynote speaker at SES San Jose 2007 and is one of the more public faces of the company. She has worked with many of the company’s newer products and has been known as a long time advocate of the minimalist homepage.
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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Touted as a possible Google killer when it launched July this year, Cuil has had a disappointing start.
Traffic numbers reflect the company’s lack of stickiness following its launch. TechCrunch sees it as flat lining.
Interesting that Business Week has it amongst its most promising start ups of 2008.
Kevin Ryan gave us a thorough examination of the problems with Cuil and DaniWeb did an interesting analysis of their search results in comparison to Google.
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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If you’re considering drastic changes in the volume of pages on your site, you might want to reconsider. In today’s By the Numbers column, “Use Caution When Growing Your Site,” Eric Enge explains how user experience combined with the infamous Google sandbox could derail your best of intentions.
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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TimesSquare.com is offering a free, live stream of the most famous New Year’s celebration in the world. It will begin the stream at 4pm and last until 12:15am. Mogulus will provide the streaming technology.
This way you can enjoy Times Square without being surrounded by thousands of drunk, screaming people, having beer poured all over you and not having access to public bathrooms.
Or, if you prefer, you can go to Times Square and use your Wifi-enabled device to access TimesSquare.com (provided you can grab a Wifi signal) and be completely ironic with yourself.
No matter how you ring in 2009, and to our friends our the globe who already have – Happy New Year!
Related Reading:
Live from San Francisco, It’s YouTube!
Yahoo Wins Gold Medal for Online Olympic Traffic
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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2 days ago, I joined Adgitize. It’s an alternative advertising platform for bloggers like me. Bloggers in Adgitize network can SHARE advertising, earning revenues and raise blog traffic growth. The best part is, Adgitize has a one of it’s
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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I’m a big fan of The Soup (Fridays, 11pm 10pm EST), an E! network clip show that makes fun of the entertainment industry. It’s where I first learned that the camera-shy Amish were selling fireplaces that you can roll around the house (only 2 per household!). It’s also where the whole Cameron Mathis’ thong-no-wait-it’s-a-tshirt scandal erupted.
So when I was reading The Soup blog featuring a YouTube video about the Amish fireplace (here’s visual proof, click to enlarge)
and the copy below included a link about the Cameron Mathis situation, naturally, I clicked on it. Here’s what I found:
In case you can’t read that, it says:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by E! Entertainment Television
That’s right. E! linked to a YouTube video which it had YouTube take down because of its own copyright.
Give it up, E! YouTube had 100 million unique visitors in October. Don’t you want people watching your network? Ok, at least The Soup?
Related Reading:
YouTube Doesn’t Change The Way We Think – It Matches the Way We Think
Online Video Wins the 9-5 Hour, Weekdays
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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Small business owners can make it big on the web, but they must understand how online retailing works. In today’s Big Biz column, “Taking a Small Business to the Big Time Through Search,” Aaron Shear shares how site usability, store credibility, and the right keywords can make or break an e-commerce effort.
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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To buy a link or not buy a link? That is the question that keeps going and going with no good answer. In today’s Au Natural column, “The Paid Links Debate Rages On,” Mark Jackson offers up some frank talk on the pros and cons of purchasing links.
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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(IMG)http://www.adolu.com/v/vahanga.com-pr3.jpg(/IMG) my PR increased from 0 to 3:rolleyes:
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Discussion Forums]
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December 31st, 2008 at 06:29pm
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I’ve registerd with Twitter a long time ago. But I haven’t maximize it’s full potential. I’ve read on a few blogs saying that it’s a powerful tool. So I did do some some readings and research. It’s kinda fun actual
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