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Microsoft Lobbyists Meet to Thwart Google; Politics as Usual Ensues Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 1, 2009 Daily Finance, an AOL site, is reporting that Microsoft's lobbyists hold weekly meetings where the discussion revolves around taking on Google. In attendance are consultants and others who oppose Google. The meetings have become known as "screw Google" meetings by DC insiders. I used to work in politics. I used ... » Continue reading
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Bing Offers Up Image Optimization Tips Posted by Nathania Johnson Sep 1, 2009 Over on the Bing blog, Todd Schwartz is offering up some tips on optimizing your photos and graphics for image search. Schwartz says that Bing's top image developer recommends the following: Name image files appropriately - For improved relevance, make sure that the file name describes the image appropriately. Alternative image text ... » Continue reading
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Google not showing all 10 SearchResults Aug 31, 2009 Has anyone noticed recently that google is only showing 8-9 actual search results for some keywords? I have seen this several times lately. It is like they have started to count Video Results and Shopping Results as part of the normal Web Results. Does anyone know if ... » Join the discussion
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Google Indexed pages fluxuating wildly Aug 26, 2009 I have been logging my new site since it launched. The pages indexed by google (site:mysite.com not the webmaster count) has been fluxuating. It started out with a decent # 5-7,000. Since then it has dropped to 5,000 / 3,000 / back to 5,500 / and now it is at ... » Join the discussion
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Yahoo Directory - what's in store Aug 22, 2009 With my directory listing coming up for renewal, at this point in the company's transition, I am debating on what advantages there might be for listings in the coming year. Isn't Yahoo pulling from Bing now? Even though they weren't giving much if any priority to Directory sites in their own ... » Join the discussion
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