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Firefox
Tops 100 Million With Google's Help
The open source browser that has made a dent in Internet
Explorer's market share recently reached the 100 million
milestone...
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Helping eBay's Finances
Financial results for eBay's third quarter showed growth
in profit and revenues, but earnings for the year...
Google
Backing Pollution Reduction
Google co-founder Sergey Brin will be one of the investors
in Natsource, a fund aimed at helping businesses cut back
on greenhouse gas emissions.
Google's
S.F. Wi-Fi Under Consideration
If San Francisco accepts Google's wireless proposal, the
testing it does on location services might be a model...
Ballmer
Sees Opportunity With Google Users
Speaking at a Gartner conference in Orlando, Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer discussed Vista, Linux, and even managed
to work Google into the talk.
Can I Have My Search Engine Delivered COD?
During lunchtime yesterday, bids for Jux2, a meta-search
engine for sale on eBay (yes, you read that correctly),
jumped from $6,105 to over $25,000.
Yahoo
Flying High After Earnings Report
Yahoo released an awesome third quarter earnings report
on Tuesday afternoon and investors took it to heart.
Search
Blogs With Yahoo
Search Engine Journal posted some code to allow the creation
of a simple Yahoo blog search form, and it really really
works.
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Yes, it's a for-real, honest to goodness update going on at Google, and Matt Cutts wants you to contact Google if you have feedback about it
Editor's Note: Google is dancing like Rick
Moranis and Joan Cusack in My
Blue Heaven. Is Google stepping on your toes? Merengue on
over to WebProWorld
and let us know.
 Update
Jagger is ongoing at Google, and Cutts has confirmed that it
is happening. Got thoughts on the update? Let Google know,
Cutts writes:
I especially
want to hear about webspam that you see in Google. The best
place to do that is to go here.
In the "Additional details:" section, I would use the keyword
"jagger1"; (that's "jagger" and the number one with no spaces
in between).
Commentors on Cutts' blog don't seem to think Google has
done much with the spam reports that have been submitted. "Are
you telling us now that the folks at Googel (sic) Search Quality
Team will pay much attention to "jagger1"; spam reports?"
poster Harith asked.
And what exactly constitutes spam, Andrew from BigMouthMedia asked: "I'm looking at a site which does not need JavaScript in any shape or form and yet has a large noscript area with keyword stuffed, h2 text and plenty of links in there too. It's clearly a SEO attempt but is it spam on the scale that you care about?"
For those of you who, ahem, *inadvertently* had hidden links or text on your site recently and are completely shocked that your site has fallen out of the index, Cutts recommends making a reinclusion request, and has written suggestions on doing so.
"Note that a reinclusion request won't make much difference if our algorithms/scoring are what is affecting your site though," he posted.
Cutts also wrote that Google wants to know if AdSense blocks appear on spammy sites; users can click on the Ads By Goooooogle link to send feedback, and should include spamreport and jagger1 in the comments field.
Feedback about updates should be a two-way street, search expert
Danny Sullivan contends,
as he posts how some advance notice from the search engines
would be appreciated:
I love that we're getting weather reports from Google, Yahoo and others now, but we need them issued ahead of time.
It's like standing outside in the rain then deciding to tune
in your radio to a weather forecast to see if it's raining.
Of course it's raining -- you can feel the drops.
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David is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology
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Search
Helping eBay's Finances
By David Utter
Financial results for eBay's third quarter showed growth in profit and revenues, but earnings for the year will be lower than anticipated.
The online auction company's net income jumped to $255 million for eBay's third quarter, an increase from $182.3 million for the same period in 2004, eBay said in an earnings announcement.
Its revenues were at the higher end of analyst expectations, reaching $1.11 billion for the quarter. Last year's same period revenue was just under $806 million. For the year, eBay has revised its earnings forecast down to between 96 cents and $1.01 per share, where Wall Street had expected $1.03 per share.
In the announcement, eBay's CFO Rajiv Dutta said the company had been focusing on spurring more use out of its US and German customer basis. And by adding reviews on the site, search engines can pick up that information and include it in search results, a way to get free placement in indexes like Google and Yahoo that can help drive traffic to eBay.
Dutta will be changing jobs soon. After eBay finds a replacement for him as CFO, Dutta will become president of Skype, the VoIP provider eBay purchased recently in a deal that could end up being worth $4.1 billion.
About
the Author:
David is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology
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Help With Search Referrals
What do you do when you are expecting (based on past performances)
a certain amount of traffic from search engines and this anticipated
traffic begins to dry up? This is the question being asked by
poster bruceldr,
who happens to be experiencing this very phenomenon. How can
Bruce help his situation? Drop by the
post and see if you can offer any insight.
|| Chris||
Search Engine Referral Drop. Please Help!
We've had a 35% drop in Google referrals over the past 3 months (July, Aug, and September.)
We've had a 35% drop in Yahoo referrals over the same time period, and a 57% drop from MSN.
Our no referrals, direct entry, is growing an average of 16% a month over the same period.
Can you please take a look at the
site and offer suggestions as to WHY this is happening and
what we can do to bring the search engine referrals back up?
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I want to write an Excel or Access file to automatically populate the fields into
a writable PDF file. Is there a way to do this?
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