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Twitter and the Wild West
Posted by Byron Gordon Jun 12, 2009
Trying to keep up with the latest Twitter applications can be daunting. Dozens of new Twitter apps have come out over the past year. Twitter knew that making its API freely available would actually provide leverage for its own survival and keep the excitement flowing about this powerful social media …
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Follow Search Engine Watch on Twitter
Posted by Kevin Newcomb Jun 12, 2009
It’s #followfriday on Twitter, that day when you spam your followers with lists of names you drop to impress them…or something like that. In theory, the idea is good: share some of your favorite Twitterers with your followers, assuming they’ll like what they have to say too. In practice, it …
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AOL Goes for Local with the Acquisition of Patch and Going
Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 12, 2009
AOL is making local a core part of their business model. And it’s a worthy goal. Local searches grew 58% in 2008 and $103 billion will be spent on local advertising (both online and off) this year. Still, the local search niche has a bit of an identity crisis. We’ve seen …
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9 More Google Updates to Shake a Stick At
Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 12, 2009
At the end of last week, Google released so many updates, we had to consolidate them into a single post. This week, the Google factory is busy pushing out a bunch of new tweaks and launches you’ll want to know about: Webmaster Tools released a slew of updates in the past …
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$14 Million For CircuitCity Domain, Brand = Good Link Buy?
Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com Jun 12, 2009
Aaron Wall does a great analysis of the smart play by the company that bought the CircuitCity domain and brand out of bankruptcy as the new high end link buying procedure. The site is well ranked for many many keywords and with the recent boost of brands in the Google algorithm …
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Yahoo! Contributes to Development of Semantic Tagging Format
Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 12, 2009
If you’ve ever used tagging to bookmark or organize content, you know that there can be many different tags associated with a variety of terms and topics. Mustang could be a tag for a car or a horse. Columbus is a city but also a historical figure. Los Angeles could …
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Bing Adds Translation Instant Answer
Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 12, 2009
One of the great things about Live Search that has carried over to Bing is Instant Answers. There are shopping, travel and sports Instant Answers. Now, there are translation Instant Answers. Type in the word or phrase you would like to have translated followed by the language. For example, I typed …
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Will New CFO Morse Answer Yahoo’s SOS
Posted by Frank Watsonhttp://www.kangamurramedia.com Jun 12, 2009
Yahoo announced the appointment of a new CFO today – Tim Morse “will be responsible for the company’s finance, investor relations, and mergers and acquisitions groups. He will commence employment on June 17, 2009 and will assume the responsibilities of CFO on July 1, 2009,” the company stated. The new SOS …
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