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Newsletter Archive: 2009

Google Still Hiring
Last weeks news of Google letting 200 sales and marketing employees go certainly raised eyebrows. Many are wondering whether the search giant is getting leaner and meaner or if they are being dinged by the current state of the economy.

Date: 2009-03-31

Microsoft to be Riskier than Google
It seems that Microsoft is quite happy with its underdog status when it comes to search engine market share. Two separate Microsoft employees have recently talked up their third-place position in the search engine market, happily letting Google take the number one position.

Date: 2009-03-30

Cutts and Submarine Crawling
Then youre way ahead of the curve and understand what Matt Cutts is talking about, late in this video, on getting crawled and indexed more rapidly and deeply.

Date: 2009-03-27

Google Hijacking Content?
Theres been a fair amount of buzz going around today about the 2 New Improvements at Google, one of which (as noted by the Author Ori Allon and Search Engine Land), if not both, are related to the Orion acquisition back in 2006.

Date: 2009-03-26

Yahoo CEO Appoints CMOs
Yahoo has announced the official appointment of Elisa Steele as Chief Marketing Officer, raising the question: Is Yahoo looking to run another companys playbook?

Date: 2009-03-25

Yahoo Search Marketing With New Features
Yahoo! has completed a major upgrade of their search advertising solution by adding a number of new targeting options. The new targeting enhancements improve the following features: Geo-Targeting, Ad Scheduling, Demographic targeting...

Date: 2009-03-24

Google, Big Media Publishers Need More
In Advertising Age there is a report of the rumblings of the media giants and their apparent slighting at the hands of Google. The attitude of the article, which comes from one of the standards of the traditional media industry, is certainly protectiv...

Date: 2009-03-23

Live Search Accelerators - Internet Explorer
On Thursday, the Internet Explorer team announced the release of Internet Explorer 8. The best feature of this explorer is its Live Search Accelerators, which is believed to make web surfing faster and easier.

Date: 2009-03-20

Google Doesn't Care About Social Media?
Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield issued a report yesterday about the MySpace/Google ad deal concluding that Google doesnt care about social networking.

Date: 2009-03-19

Brittin Will Take Over Britain
Days after Tim Armstrong left head of sales position to become AOLs new CEO, Google is doing the executive shuffle. Leaving his 3 year role as Vice President for the UK, Ireland and Benelux, Dennis Woodside will take over Armstrongs role"though he wont get the same "Senior VP and President" title.

Date: 2009-03-18

SEO Samba's Michel Leconte Interview
Last week I had the opportunity to catch up with Michel Leconte, CEO of SEO Samba. During our chat I was able to get Michel's insight into SEO Samba's Organic Search Management platform - check out our conversation...

Date: 2009-03-17

Microsoft Fails to Win Search Race
Microsoft is sure making a lot of news in search these days. As reported here earlier the new look search of Kumo is lurking about although Microsoft is acting like Kumo is some kind of hallucination that deserves a homepage.

Date: 2009-03-16

AOL's new CEO, Google's Tim Armstrong
Tim Armstrong, (ex Google executive) replaces AOL CEO Randy Falco, who was on the job since November 2006. Armstrong was associated with Google since the year 2000 and it is not the first time when AOL has recruited a Google executive for its chief positions.

Date: 2009-03-13

Google Knows Things About You
Obviously if you use are a user of Google services you are sharing a lot of your search behavior among other things with Google as well. The E-Justice blog has published an interesting post on 25 Surprising Things That Google Knows About You.

Date: 2009-03-12

A Search Engine to Rival Google?
It's coming up to a year since I interviewed someone over at Hakia.com, a semantic, natural language based search engine. Now it seems another contender to the throne is making considerable noise in Britain where London-born scientist ...

Date: 2009-03-11

Cutts Re-Explains Keeping Less Links
It was not long back when we had covered that Google can crawl more than 100 links per page, but still it is not in a favor of a document with more than 100 links.

Date: 2009-03-10

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Date: 2009-03-09

Twitter & Google and "Nofollow"
While were busy discussing whether Twitter can become the next big search engine, or if Google can figure out how to tap into the fresh micro-content being churned out every second, were missing one crucial element thats preventing both sides from achieving their goal.

Date: 2009-03-06

Matt Cutts: Brandy Update
I mean 'Vince's Simple Change'. Hey kids... Matt put up a vid as part of the grab bag series and focuses on the 'Brandy' update (funniest name I heard so far, going with it).

Date: 2009-03-05

Google Analytics Individual Qualification
Google has been making quite a few changes as of late. They have been halting development or simply analytics-scrren-shotending projects like Google Notebook, Google Video and Google Catalog Search to name a few.

Date: 2009-03-04

Microsoft Leak: Live Search Rebranding as Kumo
UPDATE: Is this a re-brand of Live Search to Kumo or is Kumo just being used as a staging site? It seems that if Microsoft just wanted to test a new interface, it could do that without using the Kumo brand.

Date: 2009-03-03

Microsoft Live Search Experiments
The current hot topic related with SEO industry seems to have a very deep relationship with Googles algorithm changes that favors big brands, but it looks that Microsoft Live Search has some other plans in mind.

Date: 2009-03-02

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