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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

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

Yahoo Pipes Redux

AzAkers — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:37:51 +0000

It’s hard to believe, Yahoo Pipes launched nearly a year ago and sadly I still haven’t put much time into playing with it. [singlepic=132,,,,]I stand firmly behind the excuse that this has been a very active year at work, and the fact that there have been so many new Web 2.0 technologies & sites emerging that it’s hard to [...]

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Yahoo Pipes Redux

Yahoo to support X-Robots meta tags

AzAkers — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:44:05 +0000

In their ever evolving attempt to help webmasters get their deep level & dynamic pages indexed the major search engines (namely Google & Yahoo) have been reworking the way they view and follow Robots.txt files over the past year or so. Earlier this month Yahoo announced some additions to the types tags they will now [...]

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Yahoo to support X-Robots meta tags