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Download Google Chrome

AzAkers — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:15 +0000

It’s available! You can Download Google Chrome right now! I announced late last night that Google had prematurely leaked their announcement of the new Google Chrome open source web browser, and now it’s available again for download. Download it, install it, and get started exploring one of the hottest products Google has ever developed. Featuring [...]

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Download Google Chrome

Google Chrome: Open Source Browser From Google

AzAkers — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:16:09 +0000

In case you’ve been under a rock all week-end, and haven’t heard – Google ‘leaked’ some material outlining a lot of detail about their yet-to-be-unveiled open source web browser dubbed Chrome. The official Google Blog post about Chrome indicates that the early release of the material was accidental and not intentional, but either way the [...]

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Google Chrome: Open Source Browser From Google

Introducing Pixlr: The Best Online Image Editor Yet

AzAkers — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:55:48 +0000

Pixlr “has it going on”! I’ve checked out a lot of online image editors, and I’ve not found one I like better than Pixlr. Simply put – Pixlr is the most visually stunning & practically effective online image editor available today. Pixlr is the most visually stunning & practically effective online image editor available -AzAkers [...]

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Introducing Pixlr: The Best Online Image Editor Yet

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a Much Needed Makeover

AzAkers — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:33:46 +0000

Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a Makeover Way back in September of 2005 Yahoo introduced Site Explorer to us happy little webmasters. Over the years Yahoo has made little improvements including Dynamic URL Rewriting back in 2007. Today Yahoo introduced a new look & feel for Site Explorer. They mention that it is much more than [...]

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Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a Much Needed Makeover

How I Won My Free ShoeMoney T-Shirt

AzAkers — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:17:58 +0000

Free ShoeMoney T-Shirt I commented. I know right, not really much to the strategy. But then again, that’s the beautiful simplicity of a comment contest. It’s a great way to promote activity on your blog, and reward not only frequent visitors, but new visitors as well. Each day ShoeMoney.com is selecting a random visitor who [...]

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How I Won My Free ShoeMoney T-Shirt

X-Ray Firefox Extension Updated for Firefox 3

AzAkers — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:23:54 +0000

X-Ray Firefox Plugin Did you ever wish you had X-Ray vision? I remember seeing the ads in comic books when I was a kid. Those evil advertisers – Cashing in on keyed up adolescent boys by suggesting that for a mere $1 they could sneak a peak at a shapely silhouette. Oddly enough, I was [...]

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X-Ray Firefox Extension Updated for Firefox 3

Search Spotlight on 2008 Olympic Games

AzAkers — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:19:25 +0000

The 2008 Olympic Games are well under way now and the blogosphere and news channels are abuzz with Olympic-mania. News of a violent murder tops today’s news, but there’s plenty of regular Olympic drama unfolding as well. What’s in the pipeline today? A Greek runner test positive and is excluded, some swimmer (Phelps) beats his [...]

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Search Spotlight on 2008 Olympic Games

Microsoft Live Search Coming to Facebook

AzAkers — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:51:34 +0000

Microsoft, desperate to secure real estate for their paid search ads, strikes a new deal with Facebook, the industries quickest growing social platform. Under the new arrangement, Microsoft will trade it’s exclusive global advertising placement on Facebook for having Windows Live Search integrated into the Facebook environment. Facebook user search queries will generate search results [...]

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Microsoft Live Search Coming to Facebook

Microsoft ‘Buying Yahoo – A Tactic, Not A Strategy’

AzAkers — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:51:28 +0000

Microsoft struggles to convince analysts and investors it still has a plan – a solid strategy for building search market share. Most remain unconvinced. I noted earlier this month that Microsoft, despite it’s varied and familiar tactics, has failed to gain market traction. Rather, Microsoft has gradually lost credibility and usage in the search marketplace [...]

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Microsoft ‘Buying Yahoo – A Tactic, Not A Strategy’

The Pylon Initiative : The Expanding Typography Lexicon

AzAkers — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:02:33 +0000

I just love typography and the depth to which one can obsess about the nuances of type face, kerning and stroke weight. I’ve always been envious of the clever way that designers incorporate typography into their design. Due to the small number of cross-platform web friendly fonts we see less typography creativity online than in [...]

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The Pylon Initiative : The Expanding Typography Lexicon

Google Usage Still Rising, Yahoo Steady, MSN Falling

AzAkers — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:10:45 +0000

It’s no secret – Google is the most widely used search engine in the marketplace. Hitwise has tracked search engine usage over the years (amongst other things) and their data shows a steady increase in Google usage. [ 2007 hitwise report with 2006 data ] Who is Losing? So with Google’s increase in popularity who [...]

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Google Usage Still Rising, Yahoo Steady, MSN Falling

Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?

AzAkers — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:06:42 +0000

As SEOers we’re constantly weighing the value of one phrase against another to determine which phrases to write & optimize around. There have been a number of tools out there which have helped us in our quest to find the best phrases – in fact we’ve probably all used the now defunct Overture Tool, or Word [...]

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Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?

Google Improves on Robots Exclusion Protocol

AzAkers — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:48:14 +0000

You may remember when Google took a step towards transparency in early 2007 when they started laying out tips on the ‘how’ & ‘why’ of using a robots.txt file in their January post “Controlling how search engines access and index your website“, followed by “The Robots Exclusion Protocol” in February, and another mid-year follow-up that [...]

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Google Improves on Robots Exclusion Protocol

Google Crawls Javascript, News at 11!

AzAkers — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:12:58 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed – Google is crawling JavaScript these days. Yah, I know. Just when you think you’ve pretty much got it all figured out, Google has to go and mix it up a bit. With their continued shift toward more intrusive crawling, Google has been striving to pierce the JavaScript veil and [...]

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Google Crawls Javascript, News at 11!

CapitalOne Leads the Swoosh Comeback

AzAkers — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:46:21 +0000

Rarely do students of branding and logo design get such a brilliant real life example of ‘what NOT to do’ in regards to logo design. [ AzAkers ] CapitalOne, the folks who brought us that catchy, albeit overly-curoious tagline “What’s in your wallet?”, have unveiled their new & “improved” logo (as of January 30th). While [...]

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CapitalOne Leads the Swoosh Comeback

3 Reasons Why Xerox’s New Logo Is Just Fine

AzAkers — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:27:07 +0000

I love it when a well known company announces a revamped logo! The design blogs go crazy. For just a few brief paragraphs, we get the opportunity to rant about the butchering of a well known corporate logo, or rave about the beautifully executed modern interpretation of a stagnant brand. For a brief moment we are free to [...]

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3 Reasons Why Xerox’s New Logo Is Just Fine

The AdSense Rule Change Buzz

AzAkers — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:33:54 +0000

In a stunning blow to AdSense publishers everywhere, recent news of the upcoming Google AdSense’s rule changes is sweeping the web. It looks like EVERYONE is ranting about it since EVERYONE in the AdSense publisher community (albeit some more than others). Being a passive publisher myself I only became aware of the changes today reading [...]

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The AdSense Rule Change Buzz

Ad Intelligence: Microsoft adCenter Add-in Released!

AzAkers — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:00:48 +0000

Finally! Intelligent, actionable keyword data strait from a reliable, accurate and transparent source - right at our fingertips! In a bit of science-fiction inspired uber programming and marketing genius, (tomorrow) Microsoft introduces the Microsoft adCenter Add-in which is sure to impress even the most seasoned search engine marketer.

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Ad Intelligence: Microsoft adCenter Add-in Released!

Web CEO : Free SEO Software

AzAkers — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:49:27 +0000

Let me start off by saying it’s been a long time since I’ve used Web CEO software myself, so I can’t give this much of a review yet. (Being a part of a top digital marketing company has it’s advantages, including a lot of proprietary tools) However, when I saw it offered for free I though it [...]

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Web CEO : Free SEO Software

DavidAirey.com – back online!

AzAkers — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:04:33 +0000

I posted recently about how logo designer David Airey’s website domain name was hacked and ‘stolen’. I’m happy to post today that the site has been returned to it’s rightful owner and as David writes – a Collective effort restores David Airey.com - it is thanks to the awesome efforts of the community-at-large that David’s domain name has [...]

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DavidAirey.com – back online!