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Search Engines Helping with Tsunami Relief Effort

December 31, 2004 By

Search Engines Helping with Tsunami Relief Effort As the tragic news of the December 26th Tsunami spreads across the web, so do initiatives by those who are working to help the tsunami relief effort. Along with blogs and other popular sites, search engines have also played their part in helping to raise money. Google has put a link on its home page to relief groups, and America Online is … [Read more...]

Search Engines Helping with Tsunami Relief Effort As the tragic news of the December 26th Tsunami spreads across the web, so do initiatives by those who are working to help the tsunami relief effort. Along with blogs and other popular sites, search engines have also played their part in helping to raise money. Google has [...]

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Yahoo’s URL Normalization Issues

December 31, 2004 By

Yahoo’s URL Normalization Issues Yesterday I wrote on the topic of URL Normalization: Is a Trailing Slash the Same Page, discussing how search engines normalize a URL and what are the SEO implications. Today I found an interesting real life case of the issues with URL normalization with our friendly search engine Yahoo. The Yahoo [...]

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Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay

December 31, 2004 By

Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay Microsoft’s technology for identity-management on the Internet in the form of Passport took another major beating today when eBay announced that they are discontinuing their support for it. Users of eBay would not be able to use their Passport Ids to login to eBay starting late January. This news comes [...]

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Gmail Rounds Out 2004: Giving Away 12 Free Invites

December 30, 2004 By

Gmail Rounds Out 2004: Giving Away 12 Free Invites As Gmail rounds out the 2004 year, I will be giving out 12 free gmail invites to those who leave a comment with their full name and valid email address. If the email address is invalid then you will not get the invite. Invites are sent [...]

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Opera, Mozilla Ready for Prime Time

December 30, 2004 By

Opera, Mozilla Ready for Prime Time Early Internet surfers, which of course means something less than a decade ago for most of us, will remember the days when Netscape was the only real browser in town. For those who don’t remember, there was a time when Netscape was for sale in the computer stores, for [...]

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Tsunami Blogs Rally Support for Disaster Victims

December 30, 2004 By

Tsunami Blogs Rally Support for Disaster Victims Bloggers are rallying for support and providing coverage of the devestation across Asia and the Sub-continent. The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog is providing news and coverage from the Region The Command Post is providing coverage on how to donate to those in need in the Region. [...]

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Linking Schemes for Achieving Google Rankings

December 30, 2004 By

Linking Schemes for Achieving Google Rankings Google slowed the spread of selling PageRank when they penalized SearchKing and also brought about a keen eye on link spamming. Google stands behind the branding / marketing angle of letting the democratic nature of the web determine relevancy, but just like all other engines they hand edit at [...]

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Dear Santa, An SEO’s wishlist for Google

December 30, 2004 By

Dear Santa, An SEO’s wishlist for Google Dear Santa, I would like to assure you that my colleagues and myself have all been reasonably good this year. I would like to thank you in advance and on behalf of my colleagues for all the candies and toys I know will be found in our respective [...]

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Search Engines are Ready For Broadband

December 29, 2004 By

Search Engines are Ready For Broadband The past year saw immense growth in the search sector. Search is bigger today than it was twelve months ago in every respect. With the Internet becoming a larger part of people’s lives and broadband access becoming the norm around the world, 2004 was the year that big-business fully [...]

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Yahoo Stealing the Top Search Engine Result?

December 29, 2004 By

Yahoo Stealing the Top Search Engine Result? Over at SEO Chat a member is complaining about Yahoo! including a relevant result to a Yahoo property at the top. Do a search on Beatles at Yahoo and you will see under the sponsored ad, a Yahoo Shortcut. The Yahoo Shortcut for this result leads you to [...]

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