Search Engines

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I have to admit I am partial to Google. Yahoo has been nothing but arrogant with me. Google provides a better search service and is beginning to provide other services as mentioned in the article. If you like spam, support Yahoo. They host many spam and even worse phishing sites but refuse to correct the problem, unlike their competitors. Yahoo also bought a great online resource called Broadcast (made Mark Cuban a billionaire in the process) and proceeded to ruin it. They morphed it into Launch which is almost useless.

So IMHO Google deserves their future dominance. Well, they deserve it until they “dis” me.

Here is the article:

Google is already the dominant search engine handling half of the searches worldwide. According to a new book by author Stephen Arnold, Google may become the most dominant tech company in the world.

Google has already challenged both Microsoft and Yahoo for the email business providing a lower cost alternative with its gmail. They also offer a free service called Froogle that searches for products sold online. For instance, if you are looking for a motorcycle, Froogle will list the prominent vendors and their prices.

Not only does Google provide the most relevant word searches, Google has also cataloged the image world, providing image searches. Google is becoming the leader in news searches, providing relevant data on news stories. If you have ever tried a simple web search for a news item you know how difficult it is to find that story.

Since news stories are “new”, they have few links to them. For example in a regular web search the news would be buried on page 5000. Google News solves that problem by bringing content from various news organizations together.

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What search do you use?

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[Evil Ash]

Does anyone remember when Altavista was a free internet service and they had that free long distance phone pad that you could put on your screen and as long as you had a mic you could make long distance phone calls for free. Eventually they became a regular old search engine and I've been using them since.
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There are no mistakes made on the way to the inevitable - Me

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[Fnord Fred]

Altavista's always been good to me, But I'll use Google too. Just depends on what I'm looking for.

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Google and Sun - a partnership to kill Microsoft or a deal with the devil?
October 8th 2005

As you have probably already heard, Google and Sun have partnered up to distribute the Google Toolbar with Sun’s Java. While this may seem like a minor deal in the grand scheme of things, upon further reflection I find this could be the deal which will ultimately break Microsoft.
While the implications could be huge and far reaching, only Google knows for sure what it wants. We can speculate however and that’s what this article is all about. Is such a deal good for Sun (and Google) or is it a pact with the devil?
At first glance, such a deal doesn’t seem like much. After all java to most people is just a plug in for your Internet browser. What good would such a deal be to Google? Well lets take a look at what Java can do. The following is taken straight from Sun’s website:

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The Good and the Bad of SEO – From Googles Mouth!

I recently had the opportunity to ask questions of some Google staffers. There were some questions I felt I needed to get verification on, so when I had the opportunity via a conference call I took it.

In this article I highlight some of the points made during the call so you know what Google thinks.

You know its bad when you take time from your holidays to come into work to attend a conference call. But that’s what I did a few weeks ago. You see I had to because I was going to have the opportunity to ask some Google employees specific questions on things that I’d been pretty sure about, but wanted to hear it right from the horses mouth.

The call lasted less than an hour, but in that time I found that there were many things I figured were indeed true. So lets start with the most obvious:

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Reverse Engineering Google Business Strategies

What’s in a name? That’s a good question. Some feel that the name that you are given at birth provides and accurate description of who you will turn out to be.

So I began to wonder, does a domain name say as much about a future site as your name says about you? I decided to take a look at some of the domain names registered by Google to see if I could get an idea of what the company may be up to in the future and came up with some interesting ideas which I will share with you here.

Etymology is the study of the history of words. And through etymology you can find out just what your name means. I looked my name up and it means “bright fame.” I guess that’s not too far from the truth

In any case, I took some time one day to see if I could track down some of the other domain names Google owns.

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Interesting! You can also discuss Google as an Investment. However, I think that Google is most likely not going to use these domains. It's primarily to keep someone else from registering google-domains, for example, and then selling domains without any affiliation with Google. If Google went into the domain registration business, they would likely follow Yahoo and use domains.google.com as the primary address.

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Are You Marketing Your Website?

October 31st 2005

Now that your site is built, you’ve sent out postcards, emails and a newsletter announcement. So now what?

Please don’t abandon your website. You need to monitor the returns on your investment. So here is a simplified list of tasks you need to perform to keep your marketing efforts up-to-date.

For Your Website

1. Check your website statistics on a weekly basis.

2. Keep an eye on your competition’s activities.

3. Keep a list of keywords and search terms handy and test them periodically in your site.

More on this:

Are You Marketing Your Website?

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Many newbie internet marketers fall for the deceptively simple 'turnkey' website or internet marketing system. Unaware, they buy a turnkey system, perhaps even with a year of hosting, and expect the money to come pouring in within 30 minutes. The hours pass, and the days pass. They realize there was something not included in this 'turnkey' system: customers or a way to get them.

Ewen Chia recognized this problem and developed a brilliant system for the newbie marketer: a turnkey website with what might be called a traffic generation laboratory. The system itself is monetized from front-end to back-end, and the ad copy is superb, ensuring high conversion.

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Email Management and Email Archiving


The necessity for better email management and email archiving grows everyday. Email (electronic mail) changes and evolves with technology. In order to understand the email management technology that will be best for you or for your business let’s take a step back and look at the origins of email itself.

Where Did Email Come From?

Believe it or not, email actually existed before the Internet did. The use of email began as early as 1965 when users of mainframe computers (huge computers that are used to store massive amount of data such as census reports, etc.) would share time on one computer because it was impossible to buy lots of little personal computers as there were none. These mainframe computer users would leave electronic messages on the computer for other users who would be using the same computer at another time. In a way, it was like simply leaving a note on an office desk for a co-worker, but the message was electronic and thus did represent an early form of electronic mail.

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How to Use Blogs to Market and Promote your Website

Many search engines rank websites according to the quality and quantity of incoming links to it. There are many link sharing programs where you can join and provide links to others and they provide links to your web site.

Google and other search engines have learned how to discount these link programs and some have even refused to index a site that uses a sharing. This basically makes these programs counter-productive. Why join a program that will cause your site to never show up on a search engine.

There is an alternative. It does require work. One method is to sign up with various weblogs and create your own blog with links pointing back to your site. Some PR sites (like PRweb and WebPro News and Promotion World) are nearly useless unless you pay for their services. Your articles can be difficult to find and you are only given one non-relevant link.

There are a few Blogs that allow you to edit and use your own relevant keyword links. I recommend Xanga and Myspace. Google Blogger is also an excellent source for adding relevant incoming links to your site. This website also offers an excellent opportunity to promote your website. You can customize your own blog using Best Syndication’s Blog site.

How to Use Blogs to Market and Promote your Website

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Will Google Music Search Affect Some Affiliate Websites?

Google is offering a music search feature. The music box feature is prominently placed above the regular search results. Google calls this area their “one box” area where information such as weather, movies or books are prominently displayed.

"When we did log analysis, we found a surprising number of users doing queries on Google for music," said Marissa Mayer, Google Product Manager. Yahoo has offered a similar feature for music.

The “one box” area will provide information about the artist, a few albums and a picture. Not all artists have popped up in our searches. No box popped up in our search for Aerosmith or the Rolling Stones at this time. Madonna popped up in the “one box” area though.

Will Google Music Search Affect Some Affiliate Websites?

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Google Page Rank and SEO - Try ‘Linking’ With Reality
December 15th 2005

Google Technology

I have been using the services of a wonderful facility, which has taken almost all of the work out of my ‘Linking Program’ (if you have a website that relies on Search Engine traffic, I really do hope you have one!). The facility is named linkmarket.net. Don’t worry, I am not affiliated in any way and I don’t get any type of reward for referrals, but I do refer people because it is really such a wonderful facility and it’s free, unless you choose to ‘upgrade’ to paid membership, which I am seriously considering doing, in light of the behavior I have observed recently.

I know there have been a fair number of articles on the Internet and on this particular website regarding ‘linking’, it’s importance, how to do it and what not to do. This article is kind of a plea. I’m pleading with people who don’t realize that linking to every single website that’s willing to link back, can be a DISADVANTAGE rather than do them any good at all.

Firstly, the way linkmarket.net works is simple but, as I said, wonderful. You join (free at first, with some minor limitations). You supply your website details, including your category, site name and description and you are listed in their directory. You then have the ability to peruse their directory and select websites with which you would like to arrange a reciprocal link (if you’re a paid member, the Google PR and Alexa ranking are displayed ­ very handy!). It works like this: