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Newsletter Archive: 2006

Microsoft's Mistakes Proving Costly
The wizards of Redmond turn thirty this year. Officially founded in 1976, Microsoft appears to have lost its edge as it enters its third full decade.

Date: 2006-03-31

Where to Look for a Qualified Audience
Simple, cost-effective and targeted, LookSmart's 181 vertical search sites deliver to advertisers, consumers that are not only more qualified, they're ready to buy.

Date: 2006-03-30

Windows Live Search Enables Macros
They call it "rolling your own search" and an easy process to create a macro illustrates the process of setting up a lengthy query as a one-click bit of functionality.

Date: 2006-03-29

SEO for MSN
This is article one of a four part series on optimizing your website for the "Big Three". Part two will focus on Yahoo!, Part three will focus on Google and part four of this series will explain how to perform SEO on your website to attain high rankings across all three major engines.

Date: 2006-03-28

Yahoo Builds Tools For Toolbar
Updates to the Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox provides tabbed browsing to users of IE 5 and 6, and several improvements based on user feedback for the Firefox version.

Date: 2006-03-27

CoffeeCup Drinks Print Ads On Google's Tab
The search advertising company's attempt at auctioning off space in a number of magazines largely failed to deliver significant returns to Google.

Date: 2006-03-24

EBay Extends RSS Syndication To Search
Though eBay has maintained RSS feeds for its Stores, official announcements, and discussion boards, users really wanted to see them create RSS feeds for search terms.

Date: 2006-03-23

Google Shares Reader, Globalizes Desktop
A pair of Google's products recently received tweaks to make them more useful to their users, with the ability to share lists from Google Reader, and enterprise and new language options for Google Desktop.

Date: 2006-03-22

Catching Up: New Google Stuff
Google just (and I mean just) launched Google Finance. Finance is barely a search engine, focusing far more on content, namely stock market stats and aggregated information.

Date: 2006-03-21

PodZinger Debuts Video Podcast Search
The podcast search engine just added video podcast search to its existing full-text podcast search service online.

Date: 2006-03-20

Google, AOL Need More Time To Consummate
The billion-dollar investment Google will make with AOL has proved complex enough to require Google to move the anticipated completion date for the deal to the second quarter of '06.

Date: 2006-03-17

How The Other Half Search
MarketingVOX has details of a new report from the Luxury Institute which outlines how the rich use the web.

Date: 2006-03-16

Xoogler Unearths Old Google Top Ten
Doug Edwards was the man behind the creation of a five-year old Google document called "10 things Google has found to be true" and referenced that in response to Danny Sullivan's recent Google love/hate lists.

Date: 2006-03-15

Doodle Your Search Query
DMNews has word of a new search engine that utilizes pattern recognition. With 3D-Seek, simply use the blank "canvass" interface to draw the product you are looking for.

Date: 2006-03-14

Google Adds Demographic Targeting To Its Contextual Ad Network
Many marketers will likely find Google's new demographic features interesting and useful. The big question is: when will Google add such capabilities to Search campaigns?

Date: 2006-03-13

Goodbye Jeeves, Hello Watson
I'd never heard of Watson, but the search tool is using Ask's retirement of Jeeves in a clever viral marketing effort.

Date: 2006-03-10

Google Writes A Check To Writely
Jen Mazzon today confirmed on the Google Blog rumors of Google acquiring the online word processing service Writely.com.

Date: 2006-03-09

Google Sitemaps :: Are They Or Aren't They Lucrative SEO Tools?
Google has had a feature out for some time which allows webmasters to create a sitemap file to help Google's crawlers find and index content.

Date: 2006-03-07

CBS Content Playing On Blinkx
Don't call the lawyers, though; CBS has approved this deal with Blinkx.tv, which makes localized content like news, weather, and entertainment available from CBS TV websites to the Blinkx search engine.

Date: 2006-03-03

Google Mini Now Even More Mini
The hardware side of Google now offers a fourth configuration of its Google Mini search appliance with the lowest price tag yet.

Date: 2006-03-02

SES NY: Duplicate Content Jeopardizes Your Site
Those all-important search engine rankings you desire for your website could be in peril if you utilize duplicate content that runs afoul of search engine guidelines.

Date: 2006-03-01

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