Entries from November 2004

Loren Baker, Editor

NuSearch Offers Java Enhanced Search Engine

November 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

NuSearch Offers Java Enhanced Search Engine
Once you perform a search on NuSearch, you’ll see that there is a slight difference with other search engines. NuSearch utilises a Java (TM) Applet which is embedded in the web page which users do have to opt-in to download. NuSearch kind of reminded me of a mix between […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Sortprice Shopping Search Engine Includes 1000 Merchants

November 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

Sortprice Shopping Search Engine Includes 1000 Merchants
SortPrice.com announces reaching 1000 merchants with over 10 million product listings which ranges from small retailers to industry giants including companies such as Target, Buy.com and Office Depot. Launched in 2003, SortPrice.com was created to provide free listings for merchants and an easy to navigate and user-friendly interface for […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

MSN Search Engine Uses Basis Technology for Natural Language Processing

November 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

MSN Search Engine Uses Basis Technology for Natural Language Processing
Basis Technology announced this week that Microsoft Corp. has chosen the Rosette Linguistics Platform to support Web searches in its new MSN search engine. The companies have entered into a multi-year agreement in which Microsoft has the option to utilize all of Basis Technology’s linguistics software, […]

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Domain Popularity By Alan Webb

November 30th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | No Comments

Domain Popularity By Alan Webb
This article was contributed by Alan Webb from ABAKUS Internet Marketing, a long time friend of mine in this industry with a unique grasp of the International Search Marketing Industry. A buzz phrase for some time now in SEO circles has been ‘Link Popularity’. Rightly so as well.
Google were the […]

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Blogs – Diamond in the Rough for your Marketing?

November 30th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 8 Comments

Blogs – Diamond in the Rough for your Marketing?
Blogs are a potential diamond in the rough for your website’s marketing campaign. They offer readers a goldmine of insights, provided by business leaders, market leaders, innovators, philosophers, marketers, political commentators, and many other opinion makers who never before have enjoyed such easy access to a […]

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Sushubh

Kazaa Court Trial Brings File Swapping to the Judge

November 30th, 2004 by Sushubh | No Comments

Kazaa Court Trial Brings File Swapping to the Judge
Kazaa has had a bumpy ride in the last couple of years. While Kazaa is dropping down users’ popularity ratings (because of the high rate of bad files), it is high on the “potential list of companies to sue” of big music companies.
And the latest trial will […]

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Content Management Systems and SEO - A Powerful Mix

November 30th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | No Comments

Content Management Systems and SEO - A Powerful Mix
Search Engine Optimization revolves around providing useful, unique content on your website and making sure that search engines can find and understand it easily. ‘Organic SEO’ as it is called, puts emphasis on optimizing hundreds of keyword rich content pages as ’spider-bait’ for search engines, with Google […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Domain Hijacking - Major Issue for Search Engines and Optimizers

November 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

Domain Hijacking - Major Issue for Search Engines and Optimizers
I have yet to discuss the topic of domain hi-jacking through the use of redirects in detail. Please do not expect me to detail how to accomplish such a hi-jacking of a domain name, that will just make things worse. But this has been a larger […]

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Yahoo Search’s Slurp and How to Write for It

November 29th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 3 Comments

Yahoo Search’s Slurp and How to Write for It
As the world’s second most popular search tool, Yahoo moves a tremendous amount of traffic and is a very credible alternative to Google. Yahoo receives over 2.76 billion page views per day from hundreds of millions of unique users. It boasts over 157 million registered users enjoying […]

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Dark Side of Kazaa and Other P2P File Sharing Programs

November 29th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 7 Comments

Dark Side of Kazaa and Other P2P File Sharing Programs
P2P file sharing programs are free. Period. But there are P2P scam sites out there that want you to pay them instead. P2P scam sites are rogue companies that have set up shop to fleece unsuspecting music downloaders looking for file sharing programs by charging a […]

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