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Newsletter Archive: 2008

Firefox Live Search Autosuggestions
The official blog of live search team has announced the official integration of Live Search into Firefox by popular demand. Here is what the team has to say on this issue: For example, start to type "Bruce Springsteen" into the Live Search box...

Date: 2009-01-30

Yahoo Making Money in 2009
Yahoo Makes Money: Fourth Quarter 2008 Segment Financial Results. *United States segment revenues for the fourth quarter of 2008 were $1,338 million, a 2 percent increase compared to $1,313 million for the same period of 2007.

Date: 2009-01-29

Yahoo Changing Advertisers' Accounts Without Permission?
Im not normally one to keep stirring the pot--I usually say my peace and be done with it--but someone over at Yahoo is smoking crack.

Date: 2009-01-28

The Future Of Your SEO Strategy
Well, Microsoft, you just cut 5000 jobs and missed your Wall Street estimates. What are you going to do now? If you guessed they're going to Disney World, youre wrong.

Date: 2009-01-27

Yahoo Search Still Wanted by Microsoft
Well, Microsoft, you just cut 5000 jobs and missed your Wall Street estimates. What are you going to do now? If you guessed they're going to Disney World, youre wrong.

Date: 2009-01-26

Recession Storm Weathered by Search
Depending on who you decide to subscribe to it appears to have been a bit of a mixed bag for search spend during the final quarter of 2008.

Date: 2009-01-23

Optimize Large Sites with Tips from Live Search
If your business has quite a large website, then making sure that it is properly optimized for search engines can be quite a task. However the folks from Live Search are keen to help you out with some tips for optimizing large sites.

Date: 2009-01-22

Google's Secret Weapon In a Plot Against It?
A recent article in Wired called The Plot to Kill Google details some of the major legal and political battles that Google finds itself in with corporations that have a shared interest in the evolution of the web.

Date: 2009-01-21

Preferred Sites From Google
In an effort to move more and more towards personalized results, Google began testing a new feature called Preferred Sites yesterday. The idea behind Preferred Sites is that you can tell Google which sites you trust most and want to appear more often in your search results.

Date: 2009-01-20

What Would It Take To Switch Search Engines?
As we all know, Google is by far the most popular search engine, clearly beating its main rivals Yahoo! & MSN. But what if Yahoo! or MSN provided better search results, would you switch?

Date: 2009-01-19

Google Apps Reseller Program
Google Inc. is launching a formal reseller program for Google Apps Premier Edition. The program will enable the technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to businesses around the world.

Date: 2009-01-16

Content, Advertising, & Commerce With Google
Every listing site or review site has to start off from scratch at some point. Over the past 3 or 4 years it has got much harder to rank thin affiliate database sites, and now that is only going to get harder, with Matt Cutts asking for spam reports on empty review sites.

Date: 2009-01-15

Carol Bartz CEO of Yahoo
The slot vacated by Jerry Yange is now filled by Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! The news is official as Yahoo! has confirmed Carol Bartz as the new CEO, along with making an announcement that President Sue Decker will soon resign.

Date: 2009-01-14

Yahoo Discusses The Use of Reciprocal Links
A majority of search engines are of the view that the process of providing reciprocal links refers to 'spamming.' Yahoo, in their Search Content Quality Guidelines, has also given certain examples of content that they dont want to include in their search engine.

Date: 2009-01-13

Matt Cutts and the Future of SEO
For those that don't know who Matt Cutts is, then I would suggest remembering his name. He is basically the unofficial spokesman for all things Google.

Date: 2009-01-12

Semantic Search Technology With Ask.com
Given the recent improvements announced by Google it should come as no surprise that another search engine has recently announced a raft of improvements to their search experience.

Date: 2009-01-09

Google SEC Speculations
As internet marketers we tend to concentrate on Google and its product set. Makes perfect sense considering Google is google-logothe undisputed King of the Online World. Whats interesting to see is what Google does as a business.

Date: 2009-01-08

Search is Google's Focus in 2009
Googles focus in 2009 will be search, is going out on a limb. It is tough to find anyone else who pins it down so precisely. Many seem to be following the traditional advice on forecasting.

Date: 2009-01-07

Marissa Mayer and Google
In a recent interview with TechRadar. Googles Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, Marissa Mayer hints at the future of search.

Date: 2009-01-06

Survival Techniques for Yahoo
Jawad Shuaib wrote a guest post for ReadWriteWeb today called What Yahoo Must Do to Survive, and I thought it was worth some comments as I have some disagreements with it.

Date: 2009-01-05

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