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The new Yahoo Web Rank™ Toolbar

March 19th, 2004 by rankforsales | 1 Comment

In case you haven’t noticed yet, Yahoo has been hard at work lately. If you missed it, Yahoo now has its own toolbar. In a similar fashion the Google toolbar works, Yahoo just introduced Web Rank™. Web Rank™ happens to be Yahoo’s new search engine algorithm, as well as the name it gave its new toolbar.

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Quigo closes $ 5 Million round of financing

March 5th, 2004 by rankforsales | 3 Comments

Quigo announced yesterday it closed a $5 million round of venture funding as the New York search startup prepares to take on Google in the contextual advertising market.

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Finding high tech companies and startups

March 4th, 2004 by rankforsales | 2 Comments

A consulting firm called CHI Research makes finding high-tech companies and start-ups its business. Two years back, when I asked CHI to share its top 10 tech-stock picks with BusinessWeek readers, half the names on the list were new to me.

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Blogging for Busine$$

February 29th, 2004 by rankforsales | 2 Comments

People are always asking me how to be a blogging bigshot, and/or what will be the Next Big Thing in blogging. I don’t claim to have any very special expertise in that area, but I do have some thoughts. In fact, I have some thoughts that combine the two subjects.

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AOL To Buy Ask Jeeves?

February 25th, 2004 by rankforsales | 1 Comment

“Part of the exodus has been partly AOL’s own doing. Through its relationship with popular portal Google, AOL has “alerted users to what’s existed beyond AOL,” said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Schwab SoundView.

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