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Entries from May 2007

Carsten Cumbrowski

Xing Marketplace Beta

May 22nd, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 3 Comments

I received yesterday an email for Xing, the openBC (open Business Club). Xing.com is a business networking service like LinkedIn. I wrote during the last 6 months or so two pieces about the two services and compared the offers and features.

The email I got from Xing was an invitation to become part of the beta […]

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Arnold Zafra

Google Bans Term Paper & Essay Writing Ads

May 22nd, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 37 Comments

In a move to lessen if not prevent plagiarism among university students, Google is banning advertisements by essay writing companies and services from its advertising fold. The ban on these kinds of advertisements came after numerous complaints have been filed by university authorities who have numerous incidents of students submitting unoriginal or copied essays and […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Search & Social Networks Will Challenge Television for Advertising Dollars

May 22nd, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

Given Yahoo’s rumored offer of $1 Billion to buy the Bebo social network (and the previous reports of Yahoo wanting to buy Facebook), the success of MySpace and Google’s acquisition of YouTube, it can be said that the online media giants have their sites set on the world of social networks and user generated content.
Pair […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

SEO Clinic : Free SEO from Industry Experts

May 22nd, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

Search Engine Journal’s SEO Clinic will be back in action next week after a month or so off and we are looking for more sites, businesses, and organizations which are interested in participating in the program.
SEO Clinic is a transparent list of SEO recommendations and How To’s which are provided to sites which serve […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Fooooo! Japan’s Video Search to Make International Splash?

May 22nd, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

Japanese video search engine Fooooo.com has expanded into the International scene with new video search versions in English, Russian, Chinese and French.
According to Motoko Hunt of Multi-Lingual Search, Foooo launched its beta version in March of 2007 and now searches over 28 million videos from sites such as YouTube.com, Google Video, DailyMotion and Ask.jp […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google Trends Adds Hot Trends

May 22nd, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

Google Trends has added a new featured dubbed ‘Hot Trends’ which allows Google Trends users to see some of the most Trended terms on a daily basis, with historical daily data.
The Google Trends homepage features the hottest trends of the day, which seem to be terms which experience some kind of research peak in Google […]

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Arnold Zafra

Google Opens Online Security Blog

May 21st, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 1 Comment

To foster discussion on trends, interesting findings, and other efforts related to online security, check out Google’s Online Security Blog. For its inaugural post, the blog discusses the issue of Malware:
Malware — surreptitious software capable of stealing sensitive information from your computer — is increasingly spreading over the web.
Users who have unsecured browsers and plug-ins […]

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Greg Sterling

Google Neighborhood Search

May 21st, 2007 by Greg Sterling | 1 Comment

Trulia has it, Yelp has it, Ask.com has it (there may be others) and now Google has it: neighborhood search capability. The benefits and rationale behind this are obvious — aligning the capabilities of the engine to the way people actually think and live in the real world. It’s absolutely essential for real estate but […]

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Leif Nissen

Performancing Metrics Review : Rivals & Compliments Google Analytics

May 21st, 2007 by Leif Nissen | 3 Comments

Some of you may know of Performancing as being the community for bloggers that Nick Wilson (formerly of Threadwatch) started a couple of years ago. Performancing has however, gone through many changes over the past few years; from blog ad network to now an important part of SplashPress Media. Did you know however that Performancing […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google Targeting AdSense Arbitrage Accounts?

May 21st, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

The rumors were heating up over the weekend that Google may be taking steps to curb or shut down the amount of arbitrage which is currently occuring with Google AdSense accounts.
Basically Google AdSense arbitrageurs find inexpensive ways to attract targeted traffic to websites which are designed for high Google AdSense click thru rates. So, […]

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