Microsoft Has a Secret Search Contest in Australia and They are Giving Away an iPod

Microsoft Live Search's Australian partner ninemsn is reportedly having a contest right now to promote the use of Live Search, and among the prizes of the said contest was none other than an iPod Nano. The contest goes something like this. Everytime you conduct a search using ninemsn's live search, three cards from a set of five cards will flip open to reveal a secret prize. If three of the … [Read more...]

Microsoft Live Search’s Australian partner ninemsn is reportedly having a contest right now to promote the use of Live Search, and among the prizes of the said contest was none other than an iPod Nano. The contest goes something like this. Everytime you conduct a search using ninemsn’s live search, three cards from a set [...]

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Pagination and Duplicate Content Issues

Very often with large dynamic sites webmasters just can’t do without pagination. Apart from usability here they come across another serious issue: duplicate content. The thing is that all pages normally have identical titles and meta description and while some SEOs think it’s not an issue at all (as search engines “don’t see identical titles [...]

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Build Your Reputation, Traffic & Links via Social Media Q&A Sites

Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. Often times many people have questions that their close friends or family members aren’t best equipped to answer. Traditional search [...]

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How to Find Your Website Duplicate Content Issues

We keep hearing about website internal duplicate content issues but many of us are sincerely unaware of the fact that that’s what our own website also suffers from. Why? most of the websites are made with the help of third-party site creators that create duplicate URLs to same content and we don’t know about that; [...]

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Google Wants to Index and Organize Web Images

Yesterday, we told you that Google will be making Flash contents searchable in cooperation with Adobe. Now, we found through a video interview with R.J. Pittman, Google’s Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, that Google will also be working on image processing technology to effectively search and organize the web’s trillion of images. [...]

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Microsoft Acquires Powerset Semantic Search Technology

The power of excellent public relations and positioning a company as an alternative to the technological norm has paid off for Powerset, the semantics oriented search technology which launched its limited public testing application in May which lends a new way to semantically navigate Wikipedia. Rumors began spinning around the blogosphere last week that Microsoft [...]

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Top Tools for Domain Name Brainstorming

It’s getting even harder to make of a good short relevant domain name. Hence the web-based tools allowing you to find one are numerous. This time I will review mostly the ones that check the domain name availability dynamically and also provide you with some tips to advance your search. Dynamic domain name availability checkers [...]

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Google and Yahoo to Make Flash Content Searchable

Both Google and Yahoo in coordination with Adobe is finally making it easier for webmasters to make Flash contents on their site searchable by search engines’ crawlers. Where as before, webmasters have to do some special arrangements with their Flash content to make it indexable by the search engines’ crawlers. For Google, their search engine [...]

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