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SEOmoz Does Cartoon of SES Chicago

The creative team over at SEOmoz have published a great comic recap of Chicago SES. Capturing with cartoon irreverence many of the…

By Frank Watson · 15 Dec 2006

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Wikia to Offer Free Web Hosting

Wikia, the for-profit company set up in 2004 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikia will be launching a free…

By Amanda Watlington · 14 Dec 2006

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How The Digg Editorial Process Differs From Search Engine Editorial Process

Todd Malicoat has a write up called The Search Marketer’s Guide to Digg, where he explains the difference between the Digg.com editorial…

By Barry Schwartz · 30 Nov 2006

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Google’s Consumer Packaged Goods Blog

Threadwatch reported that Google launched a new blog at https://google-cpg.blogspot.com/. The blog is named the Google CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) blog. What…

By Barry Schwartz · 08 Nov 2006

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Next Up For Sale, Digg.com

Techcrunch reports that Digg.com is looking to sell the property for $150 million. Digg’s recent discussions to sell included negotiations with News…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 Oct 2006

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Google’s Blogspot.com Down, Blogger Content Inaccessible

It seems like most of the morning, Google’s Blogspot service that hosts Blogger blogs has been down. For example, I have been…

By Barry Schwartz · 12 Oct 2006

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Url.com – Results Ranked By Users

The ability to rank or rate results delivered by search engines is slowly becoming more commonplace, and I’m noticing that one or…

By Phil Bradley · 11 Oct 2006

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Digg To Change System To Stem Gaming; Top Digger Quits

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, wrote that the Digg.com algorithm for ranking top stories on the home page and other category pages…

By Barry Schwartz · 07 Sep 2006

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New Engine ‘ChaCha’ Offers Real-Time Answers From Live ‘Guides’

Part Wikipedia, part Yahoo Answers and part About.com, ChaCha is a new search engine with a compelling hook – real-time results from…

By Greg Sterling · 04 Sep 2006

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Understanding Digg.com

Valleywag has an excellent Cheatsheet on What is Digg? Basically, if someone asks you what is Digg, just send them there. It…

By Barry Schwartz · 31 Aug 2006