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Google, EarthLink Pair On Two-Tiered WiFi
The two companies submitted competing bids during San Francisco's call for wireless
broadband proposals, but have now teamed on a single proposal that will two tiers
of service.
Yahoo
Answers With Improvements
If you've got questions, the users at Yahoo Answers don't have blank stares; they
may have answered your question already, and the Yahoo Answers engineers have
made it easier to find that answer with the wonders of Ajax programming.
Blog
Readership Down, Influence Up
Nearly ten years after blogging began in earnest, the readership of blogs among
Internet users ranks well below other activities those users do online regularly.
Injunction
Pending Against Google Image Search
"In spite of the huge
benefit search engines like Google provide", US District Court Judge, A Howard
Matz has ruled that that images drawn from a pornographic, membership based site
Perfect10, might violate US copyright laws.
Google
Research Steps Up To Blogging
Google breaks out the Ph.D. Googlers, equips them with titanium slide rules, and
sends them out to throw down with Mensa. Now that would be something to see on
Google Video, or during the Google break...
IBM
Subpoenas Microsoft About SCO
The long legal feud between IBM and SCO over alleged infringement of source code
owned by SCO took a dramatic step in its discovery phase.
Why
Google and Yahoo Both Love eBay
eBay Inc. is the number one and number two sponsored link advertiser for both
Google and Yahoo!, reports Nielsen/NetRatings. Dwarfing other advertisers in the
top five, eBay and eBay's Shopping.com...
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Automatic
Keyword Updating
I have long searched for a tool that can automatically update my Google adwords,
based on the average position that they are in. I have been using a product lately
called AtlasOnePoint... Its absolutely brilliant for Yahoo, because the overture
system gives you the bidding landscape...
Will two domains to
one IP affect SEO?
I have a website that has two domain names a .co.uk and a .com pointing to the
same server, both configured in the DNS to point to the same IP address. What's
more is that both point to a secure https server. I am right to be worried that
the search engines will penalise me for duplicate content.
Yahoo and Google Alerts
I use Google and Yahoo news alerts to help me follow search industry news as it
is released. I use the the keywords "SEO," search engine optimization", online
marketing" and "search engine marketing" for my alerts. I wonder if anyone else
does the same and if so what keywords do they use for the alerts?
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Any minor excitement over Microsoft's Office Live beta and its free page-hosting
option just evaporated, as Google now offers an easy-to-use web page creator and
100 MB of storage space.
Editor's Note: Will Google Pages convince you to publish a
site? Is it a nice take on an old idea, or a rehash of other services? Discuss
it at WebProWorld.
The latest free service from Google (beta, naturally) has arrived.
Called Google Page Creator, the service
provides a simple, visual approach to page design.
That WYSIWYG approach to web page design has made products like Macromedia's Dreamweaver so popular with the highly visual-oriented people who work in design. As elements of a page are created, the service auto-saves them, providing a safety net for the new user.
Presently, Google supports Internet Explorer and Firefox as the browsers of choice for Page Creator. If someone happens to be an avid user of another browser, a humorous message appears on-screen:
Our programming wizards tried their darndest to get Google Page Creator to work with as many browsers as possible. But alas, even the most expert practitioners of web sorcery must sleep now and again, lest their JavaScript magic run dry.
Sites created with the tool take the site name of http://username.googlepages.com. Within the Page Manager Settings, the site name can be changed from the username default; users who post content unsuitable for minors must check a box in Settings signaling this, per the terms of service.
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Other content, like images, can be uploaded via the "Uploaded stuff" box on the right side of the page. Once those images have been uploaded, one can click on a page in the Manager to edit it directly.
Yahoo
Has The Answers
If you've got questions, the users at Yahoo Answers don't have blank stares; they
may have answered your question already, and the Yahoo Answers engineers have
made it easier to find that answer with the wonders of Ajax programming.
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The page editor maintains a small number of commonly used markup tools available
by clicking their buttons. These fifteen buttons primarily focus on text, along
with buttons for inserting images and hyperlinks.
I inadvertently discovered by logging into Page Manager from two different browsers that Google enforces some basic version control by locking a page that is being edited. The new browser can break that lock and edit the page by clicking a link.
One issue I noticed while testing this with a 1024x768 resolution setting in my monitor: in the Page Manager, an option to Edit HTML appears at the bottom of the markup tools on the left side of the page, below the Normal formatting button.
I only noticed this by accident while the tool loaded, because after the Page Manager loads, the Edit HTML link gets pushed below the bottom of the screen. While the page being edited does scroll vertically, as it should, the frame containing the tools does not. This happens in Firefox 1.5 and IE 6, so anyone who isn't using a greater resolution than 1024x768 probably won't see Edit HTML.
It is in beta, of course, and this little issue will likely be fixed in short order. Page Creator does provide a straightforward way for someone to create a site that isn't a blog (yes, it's true, not every site is a blog) and work on it from any computer.
About
the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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Injunction
Pending Against Google Image Search
 By
Jim Hedger
For years, the major search engines have been building membership lists by offering
a diverse range of services to registered users.
Yahoo and MSN, for instance, have offered email accounts to registered users for several years. The major search engines are working to brand user experiences on as many levels as possible and claim memberships as indicators of user loyalty.
The membership race heated up dramatically over the past two years with the introduction of Google's wide array of membership driven services.
A study released Tuesday by Boston based marketing firm Compete shows that search engine users are a fickle bunch but if being part of a branded club is a measure of loyalty, Google has again beaten its competitors.
The study, Searching for Loyalty, examines the search habits of people who have declared themselves "loyal" to one brand or another. Every user tends to start their search with their preferred search engine. Compete's study shows how many searchers ventured beyond their search engine of choice and how many used one brand exclusively over others.
Google, by far and away, gets the most loyalty from its users. Predictably, Yahoo
and MSN follow in second and third respectively but there are many surprises to
be found moving down the list.
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About
the Author:
Jim Hedger is the SEO Manager of StepForth Search Engine Placement Inc. Based in Victoria, BC, Canada, StepForth is the result of the consolidation of BraveArt Website Management, Promotion Experts, and Phoenix Creative Works, and has provided professional search engine placement and management services since 1997. |
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Preventing Search Ranking Loss When Moving A Site
One of more precarious tasks, when it comes to search marketing, is initiating
drastic changes with a site that ranks well. File relocation, going from static
to dynamic pages, and switching domains are just a few of the site alterations
that can cause havoc with already established search engine rankings.
In our spotlight post, the poster responsible is considering a DNS change and
is wondering how this will affect the site's search performance. Since this isn't
the same as changing domain names (where 301s can be employed), what steps need
to be taken to ensure a drastic drop doesn't happen? Share your thoughts at WPW.
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Can a DNS Transfer Hurt Search Rankings?
I'm going to be transferring my site to a new server over the weekend and I'm worried about any repercussions that I may encounter by doing so.
For example, does Google or any search engines check the DNS in any way?
I've made same minor SEO changes and changed the coding on the site from javascript function calls to php includes. However all the files are still named the same. Do you think this will cause any problems?
I've already backed up the SQL database and all the emails, but is there any common problems I should be aware of or prepare for before I embark on this adventure?
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