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Dave Pasternack from the SEM/PPC Firm Did-I could not resist it.
 
He had to post at his DMNews.com Blog the story titled “An SEO critic answers his critics“, which is in fact a direct sequel to his post “Troubled times for SEO firms” from about a month ago.
 
The original post was stirring up a lot of things […]

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Gaia, which bills itself as “an attempt to reverse engineer famous Google Earth and implement its functionality in open, portable, customizable and extendable way,” recently published the cease and desist letter it received from Michael T. Jones, Chief Technologist for Google Earth.
Mr. Jones writes that he and his team “are concerned that you may not […]

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Google has reached a settlement in its copyright suit in Belgium with with news photographers and journalists. The NY Times (reg req’d) carries the Bloomberg story:
Google, the world’s most-used Internet search engine, reached a settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists yesterday in a copyright dispute over how Google’s news service links to newspaper content.
The […]

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Last Week in China - Baidu, Blogger and a China Summer Ends
Some of the more noteworthy news tidbits that happened in China last week.
Baidu wins lawsuit over MP3’s
A bit more than a week ago Chinese search engine Baidu won a MP3 copyright infringement case lawsuit, brought to court by 7 of the world’s largest music […]

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In an effort to take advantage of the online Black Friday sales currently going on which mirror the in-store sales, I tried to cruise over to Walmart.com and see if I could purchase the Sony PSP for the advertised price of $169.
Because of the popularity of online shopping and Wal*Mart television ads publicizing the ability […]

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Yesterday’s Thanksgiving was a good one with about 15 family members, a pit smoked turkey, an accompanying Butterball, two pumpkin pies, and all of the trimmings. If you’re like me, you probably tried to sample everything on the table, they devoured the smoked turkey, only to end up dozing off by halftime of the Cowboys […]

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AbbreviationZ is a directory / search engine of categorized acronyms and abbreviations which helps Internet users figure out what’s behind those niche abbreviations found in different business sectors.
During my experience as an advertising agency account representative, I was exposed to numerous acronyms & abbreviations from clients who would regularly use such industry jargon in their […]

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The Thanksgiving PR train rolls on as AOL Search has sent out their list of the most popular Thanksgiving oriented search terms over the last month. AOL notes that Turducken has ‘flown the coop’ as the popular turkey-duck-chicken meal did not make this year’s list:
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and Americans are heading to the grocery store […]

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Google Webmaster Tools recently introduced the Google News Sitemaps for news publishers who are indexed within the popular Google News service. David Stansbury of KB3KAI.com has put together a Google News Sitemaps Wordpress Plugin for blogs (or sites) which use Wordpress as their CMS to manage news stories.
Google announced their new Sitemaps for Google […]

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After my blog post “A True 2nd Tier PPC Click Fraud Story” last week did I get contacted by Miva and had some email conversation and a phone call will them. I offered them to respond to the items stated in my post and also to the comments made by readers of Search Engine Journal. […]

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