Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped has the scoop about a new search optimization contest from Germany.
The contest is being sponsored by a German computer magazine publisher and will use the nonsense term of “Hommingberger Gepardenforelle.” Philipp goes on to say that Google.de, Yahoo.de, MSN.de and Seekport.de will be the engines used to judge positioning.
Much more in the Google Blogoscoped post: Hommingberger Gepardenforelle.
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