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Newsletter Archive: 2008

Does SearchWiki Mean Death of SEO?
According to a report from Danny Sullivan it looks like Googles much talked about SearchWiki is here to stay. Most of the clammer about this new Google feature is focused around users inability to turn it off.

Date: 2008-11-26

SEMPO's State of the Market Survey
The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization has launched its fifth annual State-of-the-SEM Market Survey. SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) recently announced its fifth industry-wide survey in order...

Date: 2008-11-25

Sean Suchter From Yahoo, Heading to Microsoft
Whoever said that it's better to jump out of a sinking ship when you can, probably had this scenario in mind. Sean Suchter, Yahoo!'s former Vice-President of Search Technology, is heading over to Microsoft.

Date: 2008-11-24

Google's SearchWiki
In a report from, of all places, Yahoo! News, Googles new Search Wiki is out and it gets personal. No not like that but it actually sounds like 2 years of yammering about personalization of search may finally be more reality than hype.

Date: 2008-11-21

Google Lively - No Longer Alive
It took two years to develop Lively"the 3D world from Google and less than 5 months for Google to announce it is shutting it down. "Despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, weve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year.

Date: 2008-11-20

Yahoo!'s Biggest Mistakes
Just one day after the announcement of Jerry Yang stepping aside as Yahoo! CEO, Forbes magazine takes a look at the 5 Biggest Mistakes Yahoo! made while hitting the skids as of late.

Date: 2008-11-19

Jerry Yang and Yahoo
One really can't say that the move was an absolutely unexpected, but still amid much hype Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang officially announced his retirement from the position that he had assumed about 18 months ago.

Date: 2008-11-18

9 Proven Techniques to Double Your Sales
This book is a powerhouse of information! Information that will grow your company quickly and profitably. The same techniques and tactics in this book have been used by hundreds of companies to easily double, and even triple their current sales. The book is free, but could be worth thousands, or even millions to your bottom line!

Date: 2008-11-17

More Demanding Google Site Search
In this world, that is full of all kinds of hustle and bustle, people demand speed! It was the game of yesterday years, when people used to wait for hours to get the things done. Now everything is instant! Google has made everything look so simple for us. Everything is available at our fingertips.

Date: 2008-11-14

SEO Starter Guide From Google
Google, via a recent blog post, has recently released their search engine optimization starter guide to the public. Previously a document that first began as an effort to help teams within Google, this document aims to be a guide that we can follow to find tips that could improve our sites crawlability and indexing.

Date: 2008-11-13

Google Reader Translates Feeds
Google Reader premieres a new feature: the ability to translate feeds into your language! Before the party starts, let me just tell you upfront: I have a degree in Linguistics. Machine translation really isnt quite there yet.

Date: 2008-11-12

New Search Engine for Yatinoo
Yatinoo, a trilingual (English, French, Arabic) web-based portal, community, and search engine, has launched their search engine today with new search engine technology.

Date: 2008-11-11

User Behavior Understood by Google
Google is renowned for its intuitive user interface--but a lot of work goes in to making sure that Google understands exactly how its users interact with its pages, as evidenced in a blog post yesterday.

Date: 2008-11-10

Google's Past Week
Well, this has certainly been a busy week at Google. One thing I can say for Google, they are very energetic and were never wanting for good writing material. Yahoogle Deal Abandoned...

Date: 2008-11-07

Google - Yahoo! Partnership Termination
Despite recent clarifications by Google, regarding the ad deal with Yahoo!, Google has finally decided to terminate its advertising partnership with Yahoo! without providing any clear answer!

Date: 2008-11-06

Google, Microsoft and White Space
Look I realize that things are different today. But life goes on in its very own mundane way. So I get to bring to you the news that Microsoft and Google are looking for white space. Huh?

Date: 2008-11-05

Google Universal Search on Steroids?
Another Google Glitch. I nuked a recent post about sites potentially getting filtered because it become somewhat irrelevant and speculative considering Matt Cutts stated the following in a Webmaster World thread today:I don't consider ...

Date: 2008-11-04

Highlighting the New Google Analytics Releases
Google Analytics recently took a huge step forward in the release that they did on October 22nd. I reviewed this with Brett Crosby during an interview recently (that will be published in the near future, but not today).

Date: 2008-11-03

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