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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 ‘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’

A Search Engine’s Homepage The Key to Search Success?

AzAkers — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:04:13 +0000

From the smoke and rubble of the failed dot-com-bubble era emerged 3 contenders for the search crown. (4 if you count that interesting blip on the radar – Ask) Each hungrily stockpiled features and tested innovative ideas in hopes of building an arsenal that would grant them superiority. Like the real life cold-war, smaller web [...]

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A Search Engine’s Homepage The Key to Search Success?

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

SEO Digger Digs It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List

AzAkers — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:27:34 +0000

A friend, (private SEO consultant Matt Lerche), recently turned me on to a website - SEODigger.com - it’s a new SEO tool from the Russian crew that brought us the SEOQuake FireFox add-on/extention (which is now available for IE). The SEODigger.com mole has quickly dug it’s way onto my list of favorite SEO tools. [singlepic=117,,,,] Find which keywords a URL [...]

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SEO Digger Digs It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List