Entries from September 2005

Loren Baker, Editor

Google Debuts Chris Rock’s Show and Flash Video

September 27th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

Google Debuts Chris Rock’s Show and Flash Video
Google Video showcased its changes to the service this week while using Chris Rock’s stardom and launch of a new sitcom to declare, like Yahoo, Google is serious about airing content on Google Video. Recently Yahoo has fortified itself as a web based media channel with its announcement […]

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Barry Schwartz, Rusty Brick, Inc. and SERoundtable

New Google Duplicate Content Filter

September 27th, 2005 by Barry Schwartz, Rusty Brick, Inc. and SERoundtable | No Comments

New Google Duplicate Content Filter
Cornwall at ThreadWatch has the scoop on New Duplicate Content Filter at Google? He reports on a really long WebmasterWorld thread that I wasn’t yet able to read. In that thread he reports Caveman posting in msg # 171;
There are cases where established site homepages and subpages are holding their ranking […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Health Pricer Shopping Engine - Spotlight #10

September 27th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

Health Pricer Shopping Engine - Spotlight #10
The 10th installment of the Spotlight of 500 Search Engines is a comparison shopping engine targeted to the vertical market of health and wellness. HealthPricer reviews different products and compares their prices. Brian Smith, who interviewed the people behind HealthPricer feels that they have an uphill battle do to […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

FeedShot RSS or Atom Feed Submit Service

September 27th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

FeedShot RSS or Atom Feed Submit Service
Want to get your blog or site’s RSS feed submitted to 18 different blog and feed search engines in one click of a button saving you about an hour or so of work? Well I just read on ThreadWatch about a new service called FeedShot that’s submitting your feed […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

White Sony PSP - Looks Like Big iPod

September 27th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

White Sony PSP - Looks Like Big iPod
Last month I wrote about how the Sony PSP commercials in Japan feature Google’s search engine in the PSP browser. Well, the commercials are still airing but now with a White Sony PSP.
Sony, which is getting its o-shiri kicked in the portable music playing market, has released […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Infospace Launches GPS Based Mobile Local Search

September 27th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

Infospace Launches GPS Based Mobile Local Search
InfoSpace is introducing a group of mobile local search products that mobile phone carriers can integrate to enable subscribers to search and find nearby restaurants, movie times, maps and driving directions. Infospace provides nearly half of the mobile content sold in North America and brings content and services to […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Jobster Network Integrates Job Search Engine

September 27th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

Jobster Network Integrates Job Search Engine
On Wednesday Jobster.com will be officially launching its Jobster search engine. According to Jobster, the launch of their new job search will be the final step in integrating WorkZoo.com’s technology into the Jobster interface.
Jobster acquired WorkZoo in July due to its search popularity, which was around 600,000 unique searches per […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

PubSub LinkRanks Measures Blogs, Links, and RSS Feeds

September 26th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

PubSub LinkRanks Measures Blogs, Links, and RSS Feeds
PubSub today announced the release of LinkRanks, which PubSub dubs”the Blogosphere’s most comprehensive tool for tracking the popularity and influence of blogs and websites”. LinkRanks provides detailed data that bloggers and feed publishers can use to actively monitor the results of their publishing efforts, and gain insight into […]

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AaronWall

MSN to Debut Paid Search Ads Today?

September 26th, 2005 by AaronWall | No Comments

MSN to Debut Paid Search Ads Today?
I believe it is going to be a limited beta test open to select advertisers, but… From the Internet Herald Tribune: “Microsoft will unveil on Monday its own system for selling Web advertising as it struggles to compete with Google and Yahoo in the expanding Web search business. The […]

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RobSullivan

Server Issues Can Affect Search Engine Rankings

September 25th, 2005 by RobSullivan | 4 Comments

Server Issues Can Affect Search Engine Rankings
I was recently helping someone troubleshoot some server and SEO problems and it struck me that I should write an article about this and other issues. Because sometimes when you run into a brick wall and can not figure out why your site is not getting listed or […]

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