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Archive for February, 2005

Does MSN Search Favor IIS Hosted Websites?

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

In an interesting article Ivor Hewitt apparently noticed what appears to be a favoring of IIS hosted websites in the MSN Search results pages. In a series of tests, Ivor checked various search terms and the results of Google, Yahoo and others against those of MSN. It appears that there is some sort of boost […]

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Google’s New Movie Operator

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Just when I thought Google was not doing anything good, they announce their new Movie: operator. The Movie: operator will allow you to find movie times in any zip code or city in the country by typing in “Moive:movie zipcode” without the quotes. You can also put a city/state combination in place of the zip […]

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Google Has Your Home Address

Friday, February 18th, 2005

Well, it appears that technology is not always the greatest thing. Google has implemented a new feature wherein you can type someone’s
telephone number into the search bar and hit enter and then you will be
given a map to their house. Everyone should be aware of this! Note that
you can have your phone […]

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Google Images Integrated into Google Search

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

I guess all of the big boys are looking for an edge these days. MSN with it’s commercials every five minutes, Yahoo! integrating XML/RSS results into their search results and now Google has decided to integrate images into their search results. In a recent post on Google’s Blog, Radhika Malpani said that images would now […]

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Yahoo! Toolbar for Fire Fox

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Well, Yahoo! finally realized that Fire Fox is a browser that thousands of people are using. I for one use it now almost exclusively…if they could just fix the copy and paste functions to work with MS products like excel…sigh. Anyway, I for one went to Yahoo! to see if their toolbar would work in […]

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Google’s “Update” Continues

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Well, it has been nearly a week now and it seems there are changes reported just about every second from the SEO forums. Some people got “screwed” and some are elated. Personally, I am happy I am headed up to Vancouver this weekend and then to Whistler. Unfortunately, there appears to be no snow in […]

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Overture Finally Getting Smart?

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Just got a call from some nice girl over at Overture. It appears they are researching potential market demand for an Overture version of Adsense. Oh, what is that you say? Are you asking me if I would be open to using another system other than Adsense to generate revenues? You say you have finally […]

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Gizoogle

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Just when you thought it was safe to search on the web, enter Gizoogle. If you ever wondered what Google searches looked like to Snoop Doggy Dog, then you need to check out Gizoogle. You can search the top ten google results, translate web pages and text, the Snoop Dog way. Pretty darn hilarious.

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Google, Google, Google

Monday, February 7th, 2005

Well, in case you have not heard, Google is on crack. It appears that they have stumped the SEO/SEM community and just about everyone else recently with their latest “update.” I have heard theories from just about every point on the map and they are all different. It seems though, that most people are […]

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Google Video Coming Soon

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

The more I look, the more the big search portals like Yahoo! and Google look alike. Recently, Yahoo! has made their search interface look pretty much identical in feel and functionality to Google’s search. Yahoo now gives you the ability to search for images, just like you can do on Google (and have been able […]

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