Category Archives: Search Engines

Yahoo and Bing Come Together For a Better Search

Google has really been giving the search world a one-two punch with daily developments for user interaction. Both MSN Live Search (now known as Bing) and Yahoo have re-invented their search platforms, but Google is still on the up-and-up and maintaining firm control in the search market. To cut costs and raise revenues the two other search engines have joined forces. Now that they have gotten together, what shall we call this duo? YaBing!? I hope it catches on!
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Google Pagerank Algorithm Has More Than One Use

The New York Times produces an annual list of the year’s best ideas. This year’s, “The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas,” included a study that used Google’s Pagerank Algorithm to create an extinction model. The purpose of the study was to build a model that would measure how much the extinction of a species would [...]
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Google Chrome – The Other Web Browser

This blog post is an outcry of some sorts to Google.  It’s about my mixed feelings regarding Google Chrome. I think Google Chrome is a great browser once you really start using it. At first glance, it seemed a bit bizarre compared to other browsers as far as appearance but the more I used it, [...]
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Save with Bing Cash Back

MSN created the necessary hype when they re-vamped their MSN Live Search and launched Bing “a first ever decision engine”. Even with all of its prime time and internet marketing, as far as search engines go, Google still reigns supreme. Search engine marketing experts all agree that to knock Google off its high-horse is going [...]
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Yahoo and Bing Teaming up Against Google

In a move to take some of the momentum away from Google, Microsoft has re-entered their negations with Yahoo. It could potentially “give Microsoft roughly 30 percent share of the online search market.” (AdAge, http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=138138). For those of us in the search industry, this is some very significant news. What does this mean to internet marketing? and Will we have to make added effort in diversifying our PPC accounts? More importantly, will we no longer only worry about how visible we are in the eyes of Google?
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Bing Adds Farecast Technology to Their Search

Have you seen the commercials for Bing’s new Farecast Technology feature? I liked the new look of the new MSN search when Bing was released by Microsoft. However, even though the search results are more organized , half of my search queries are images.  Bing has not been able to match up to the abundance [...]
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Where Did Bing Come From and Where is it Going?

Lately you might have heard some hype or seen internet ads and even some TV commercials promoting a new search engine called Bing. Bing is a search engine, but it’s not necessarily new. Bing is actually the search engine formally known as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search which is powered by Microsoft [...]
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How Do I Get to the Top of Google?

I want to go back to some basics in SEO today. We usually deal with more advanced aspects of online marketing. However, recently we see more and more that basics really do matter when it comes to new websites and URLs.
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Was Google Down or Hacked Yesterday?

When I tried to access Google yesterday at about 10:30 AM EST in Miami FL, it loaded very slowly and none of the links were functioning. I experienced the same slowness on Gmail and Adwords. I have been using Google since 2001 and this is the first time this has happened.
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