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Newsletter Archive: 2009

More Money, Fewer Answers
Everyone is staring hard at Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, and I mostly like what I see, with one exception. I've written before about the search engine conflict of interest between highlighting their own properties and providing the truly best answer.

Date: 2009-06-30

Twitter Search a Challenge for Google Search?
The other day, June 25, 2009, when the news broke that Michael Jackson had died, many people went online and went over to Twitter. We searched. And we searched for news about Michael Jackson.

Date: 2009-06-29

Yahoo Rebranding by Bartz
Since taking the helm at Yahoo in January, CEO Carol Bartz has consistently emphasized one of Yahoos greatest strengths: its brand. But now they may be changing all that"literally.

Date: 2009-06-26

Google Search Results Shortcut: Local Search
PIts no secret that everyone wants to be on the first page of Google, but with many different ways to achieve this - whats the best solution for your business?

Date: 2009-06-25

Cuil Hype Halts
Proving that hype will only get you so far"without substance"Cuil is going from Google killer to Google beggar. According to IBD, the start-up is turning to the search engine that it vowed to topple"asking Google to provide ads on Cuils pages.

Date: 2009-06-24

Bing Market Share Continues to Grow
The latest data from comScore is out " and its looking very positive for Bing. According to a recent press release, Microsoft has seen gains in U.S. search share during the second week of Bings debut.

Date: 2009-06-23

To Follow or to NoFollow
At SMX Advanced in Seattle last month, Matt Cutts made his intentions clear when he advised SEOs not to waste too much time on internal page rank sculpting using the nofollow tag and instead concentrate on spending that time on creating useful content.

Date: 2009-06-22

Bing With More Good News!
Alright - I'm actually starting to get tired of reporting on good news from Bing and there's now a part of my looking forward to slamming them for some stupid mistake they're making but today is not that day.

Date: 2009-06-19

Search Engine Tug O' War
Like the phony war that marked the early months of World War II, the search engine wars have been pretty much lacking in combat.

Date: 2009-06-18

Ask.com Database, 300 Million Q&A's
Got a question? Well, according to Ask.com, they have the answer. Well, apparently they now have the answers to 300 million questions. Ask.com has unveiled a database of 300 million Q&A pairs.

Date: 2009-06-17

Click Fraud, Lawsuit and Bing
So you thought the search engines had click fraud under control to a degree? Has Googles See No Click Fraud, Hear No Click Fraud approach made you curious but you just figure its part of the search marketing landscape so get used to it?

Date: 2009-06-16

Bing Google Competition
Microsofts Bing.com has a few features that make searching more convenient. Especially for someone that uses Search Engines as much as I do. When you scroll over a video result in Bing, the video will start playing in the same preview size.

Date: 2009-06-15

The Good and Bad of Bing
Poor Bing.com. It seems that for every good news I read, I read something equally pessimistic. Its gotten to the point where I think of Bing as the Grand Old Duke of York (bear with me if youre not English-born): The grand old Duke of York...

Date: 2009-06-12

Words About Bing from Google and Yahoo
Surprise, surprise: already this week, weve seen Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz dinging new rival Bing in an interview with Fox Business Network. But apparently theyre not through.

Date: 2009-06-11

Bing Could Pay Off for Advertisers
Its been almost two weeks since Microsoft thankfully retired the Windows Live Search brand and instead started asking us if we Bing.

Date: 2009-06-10

Bing Leaves Yahoo In the Dust
It is really early in the Bing v. All Things Search battle there are claims that Bing has passed Yahoo Search to claim the number 2 search spot (of course, that tiny dot on the horizon is Google which isnt even bothered by this).

Date: 2009-06-09

Google Page Speed Tool
We recently asked our readers why they use the Google search engine. The most popular response was because its the easiest to use, with Googles speed being a key factor. How is it that the Google search engine can run so fast?

Date: 2009-06-08

Google Squared
While Bings busy launching its new decision engine and Wolfram Alpha tries to wow us with its computational prowess, Google has publicly launched Google Squared.

Date: 2009-06-04

SMX Advanced With Matt Cutts
Sitting at SMX Advanced listening in on a Q&A Session with none other than Matt Cutts: PageRank Sculpting - You won't get a penalty BUT it's not as effective at gearing pages to rank and receive PageRank as it used to be.

Date: 2009-06-03

More On Microsoft's Bing.com
Microsoft designed Bing.com to help you overcome search overload and make faster, more informed decisions when searching online.

Date: 2009-06-02

Thoughts on Microsoft's Bing
Yesterday I shared some somewhat random thoughts on Microsoft's new search engine Bing (see the post on The Bing Bang). A lot of these thoughts came up in conversations with the press, some of which were going on while I was still trying to access the latest demos Microsoft was uploading.

Date: 2009-06-01

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