Fluther, my favorite Q&A site has launched a brand new feature today called "Your Fluther." It lets you follow other people's activity on the site in one centralized,...
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Q&A community Fluther gets personal(ized)
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Google’s ‘Knol’ is direct challenge to media companies
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Google today announced the launch of Knol, a Wikipedia-esque site that hosts articles from contributors. Google hopes the articles become among the most authoritative on...
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Google: Of Course [Our Advertisers] Are Seeking To Hijack Or Divert Consumers [Google Lawsuit]
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American Airlines has dropped its trademark infringement lawsuit against the all-powerful Google Inc. The lawsuit stemmed from the fact the search engine allows search...
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Search giants, law makers looking for some privacy
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The search engines are again under the legislative spotlight. Their powers of data retention are being eroded further. But there’s a deeper problem — take away...
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Google Keyword Tool Now Offers Search Volume
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One of the first successful PPC ad systems was service called Overture. One of the most popular features of this service was a tool called the Search Suggestion Tool....
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Wiki your search with Wikia
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For people accustomed to the cold (if hidden) logic of purely algorithmic search, these are scary options. It means that your search results are, in part, up to the whims...
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Try SearchMe
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July 2008 InfoTip: Searchme.com, Mary Ellen Bates, Batesinfo Likes Searchme.com visual search -- "Searchme is one of the best search engines Ive seen. It also does a...
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Yahoo's BOSS
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Yahoo! Expands Its Open Strategy With BOSS by Paula J. Hane, Newsbreaks (Jul 17) Describes Yahoo's new Build Your Own Search Service and recaps the comments from industry...
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Basic SEO: Tricks and Tips
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I wrote an article recently about what search engines hate the most when they are combing through a site trying to decide whether or not to index it. Well hate was...
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500 RSS Subscribers!
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I’m supposed to be on vacation but figured I could sneak in a quick post given AAN reached the 500 RSS subscriber mark for the first time! I guess it shows that...
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Online Video in OZ - YouTube dominates, MSN Video and CNET TV up
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Last week in our search press release we highlighted a 16% increase in traffic from search engines to video websites year-on-year in June 2008 by Australian Internet...
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Search Engines vs. Social Media
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I do have websites with traffic based on social media, others based on search engines and others combined. I have been doing a lot of research and comparisons between all...
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SEO: putting headline writing in reverse!
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Headline writing is something written about ad nauseam, especial in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) circles. But as I was reading my way through a few SEO articles, one...
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visual comparison of online censorship
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a visualization that allows users to quickly identify the most significant differences in content between 2 lists of Web pages, meant to help comparing the effects of...
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5 Questions with Ask Italy's Antonio Gulli
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"Pisa?" I've had friends react, "Why do you guys have an office in Pisa?" As easy as it would be to joke about frequent "business" trips...
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People Augmented Search Engines
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In Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search , Danny Sullivan comments "I think there is some potential to tapping into a social network and applying it to search....
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Domaining
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"Domaining" means buying and selling domains for profit. It's only tangentially related to affiliate marketing in some instances, but in other instances it's extremely...
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Goal Attribution to Organic Keywords - Google Analytics Tips and Tricks
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In April I wrote a blog post to show you why some of your keywords show 0 Visits and 0 page views in your Google Analytics Report. In this post I am going to show the...
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Subjectivity Is The New Objectivity
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by David Cushman, Peterborough, UK My buddy BadgerGravling pointed me at this from Chris Hambly (note, no search engines were employed in the creating of this linkage…...
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Give Me Some Skin: Ask Gets More Personal
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So. You're reading the Ask.com blog, which means you've been to Ask.com, which probably means you've seen our Skins feature. Introduced when we launched Ask3D last...