Bill Gates Confirms New MSN Search is Coming Soon

According to CBS MarketWatch reports that Microsoft will unveil a new look to its MSN Search service next month. The new MSN Search has been highly anticipated to challenge Google and Yahoo dominance. In Sydney, Australia, Bill Gates told reporters, "The format of the site will change and so will the quality of what you get." Calling the state of Web search sometimes "terrible," the world's … [Read more...]

According to CBS MarketWatch reports that Microsoft will unveil a new look to its MSN Search service next month. The new MSN Search has been highly anticipated to challenge Google and Yahoo dominance. In Sydney, Australia, Bill Gates told reporters, “The format of the site will change and so will the quality of what you [...]

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June 30, 2004 | 1 Comment | Read Story

.com Not Listed in Regional Yahoo? Don’t Despair!

If you’re a non-American business with a .com web address, and your regional Yahoo ranking is important to you, then my story might interest you. Recently my copywriting website dropped out of Yahoo’s Australian rankings. For quite a while, it had been at number 1 for my primary keywords “advertising copywriter”, “copywriter”, and “website copywriter”. [...]

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June 29, 2004 | 4 Comments | Read Story

How To Stay One Step Ahead of the Google Dance

It’s taken you 6-months of hard work, constant changes, reading every shred of information on search engine optimization strategy not to mention thousands of dollars trying out web optimization tools and services. Finally, you have a page rank of 5, you are listed in the top 10 on your major keywords, and you are seeing [...]

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June 29, 2004 | 6 Comments | Read Story

Hiring a Search Engine Marketer

Many website owners put the cart before the horse- anxious for search engine traffic and rankings, the first thing they do once their site is complete is buy a “submit to 1,000 search engines for $29″ service. Unfortunately, what they receive is a tenfold increase in e-mail spam but no increase in search engine traffic. [...]

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June 28, 2004 | 2 Comments | Read Story

AOL Acquires Advertising.com

Advertising.com (formerly TeknoSurf), a darling of the online targeted advertising industry, is being bought by AOL. Cheers to Advertising.com, they filed IPO not too long ago and if you want anyone to acquire your company, it’s a money bags like AOL. AP Wires Report: Time Warner Inc.’s America Online unit, said Thursday it signed a [...]

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June 24, 2004 | 5 Comments | Read Story

Business Executives Not Happy with Search Engine Productivity

According to a survey released by FIND/SVP, 84% of business executives feel that Web searches — using the generally consumer-centric search engines now available –take longer than they should due to poor results. It is estimated that the loss of productive time using search engines to conduct online research cost businesses $31 billion last year. [...]

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June 24, 2004 | 2 Comments | Read Story

Ask Jeeves / Excite Boost Email Offerings

First Google GMail announced their 1GB of email storage space. Then Lycos joined in, launching a paid service with the same storage AND then along came Yahoo, with MSN’s Hotmail making their enhanced email storage announcement last night. Now Ask Jeeves has gotten into the kick of things with their offering of 125 megabytes of [...]

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June 24, 2004 | 3 Comments | Read Story

MSN Hotmail Rumored to Be Upgrading

An alledged internal memo from Microsoft has been leaked to the press and unveils that MSN has some big changes planned for HotMail in the upcoming months. The release is supposed to be released to the public soon, but Search Engine Journal investigative scouts found out from undisclosed sources that MSN is planning to beef [...]

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June 23, 2004 | 3 Comments | Read Story

Google to Reveal Some of its Code

The Age reports that Google is preparing to publicly release some of its underlying software code only months before it undertakes a multibillion-dollar stock-exchange float. Wayne Rosing, the company’s vice-president of engineering, told students while on a recruiting drive in Melbourne last week. “There have been a lot of conversations in the company in the [...]

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June 22, 2004 | 3 Comments | Read Story

Google & Overture Provided Conversion Tracking

When you set up a direct response online ad campaign, you want to be able to measure its success. Success would be defined by the number of sales, leads or transactions that are completed on your site in comparison to what it cost you to garner those transactions. The ability to track the productivity of [...]

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June 22, 2004 | 3 Comments | Read Story