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Toys 'R' Us Quits Playing With Amazon
The partnership between Amazon.com and Toys 'R' Us came to an end as a judge ruled in favor of the toy retailer and its desire to end the arrangement.
Microsoft,
EU Feud Heating Up
The long-running antitrust saga involving Microsoft and the European Union took
another nasty turn as both sides engaged in fingerpointing and tossing around
accusations of misconduct.
Sun
Wants To Crown A Duke
Ahead of the Java One conference, Sun has begun accepting submissions to its fourth
annual Duke's Choice awards to recognize creative uses of Java technology.
Senator
Proposes Net Neutrality Bill
Ron Wyden (D-Or) has introduced legislation to prevent telecoms and cable companies
from developing a two-tiered network where fees would be charged to content providers
to prioritize their Internet traffic.
Google
Coos To Analysts, Market Hearts Flutter
Executives from the Googleplex whispered sweetly into the ears of industry analysts
and convinced them growth opportunities do indeed exist for the search advertising
company.
MSN
Travel Embarks Again
The newly relaunched travel portal from MSN will be available as a beta version
as the portal tests out a similar look-and-feel to Windows Live and several new
content providers.
Google
Mini Now Even More Mini
The hardware side of Google now offers a fourth configuration of its Google Mini
search appliance with the lowest price tag yet.
Microsoft
Wants To Own Relerank
A trademark filing by an attorney on behalf of Microsoft for ownership of the
term "relerank," a combination of relevancy and rank. Only $1,995 out
of the Information Technology budget will enable a business to obtain a 50,000-document
version...
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A Few Questions About Google
1. Does IBL from PR4 and above carry more weight? 2. Does the number of years
a URL is registered affect the PR? 3. If there is an age filtering, how long is
the average waiting time? 4. What is a good key word density for Google and do
you get punished if it is over the average?
Help with Google indexing
I wonder if anybody can help me with a problem we are having with a
site getting indexed by Google. Although we still have to develop links, I
think the basic meta tags and seo are okay (but feel free to correct me guy's).
My problem is that after a couple of months even the a basic search for fitbo.co.uk
was not showing. I contacted Google and the emailed me back...
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Stereotypes aside, Kentucky ain't New York. Business, especially e-business, brings
all types to the Big Apple. Mike McDonald and I were just two of those types who
gathered there for the Search Engine Strategies Conference. When we weren't jaw-agape
or horrified by something, we were dutifully taking notes and chatting up attendees.
Editor's Note: Did you attend SES NY? Did you learn anything
valuable? Did you fear for your life? Weave a tale of your experience in WebProWorld.
The plane, a commuter small enough that the external mechanisms are more real than you'd like, landed at LaGuardia sort of pendulum style, bumping the landing gear like a water-skipping rock.
Holding tight during a bumpy landing will exercise your resolve, but riding in a NYC taxi will exercise your intestinal fortitude. One such excursion, after a series of near death experiences for us and those outside the cab, and after a percussive overture of curses and a very loud "Oh my God," the cabbie looked through the Plexiglas window and said, "welcome to New York!"
We checked into an "historic" hotel near the Hilton where the conference was held. "Historic" is code for not enough outlets, creaky cable elevators, and no fan in the bathroom. After settling in, Mike and I hightailed it to the venue where we met up with ToolBarn.com's Brian Mark, who's also a WebProWorld member. It turns out I'm not a very good joke teller. I swear I heard crickets in the Hilton ballroom.
Mike and I attended a slew of great conference sessions hosted by all-star panelists like Matt Cutts, Jeremy Zawodny, Danny Sullivan, Jessie Stricchiola, and Gord Hotchkiss. We learned about copyrights and trademark, Web 2.0, privacy issues, duplicate content, and gained insight into the search world from engineering, marketing, and searcher perspectives. The click fraud session was very enlightening. More on that later as we await our inside contacts for a greater view.
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Monday night, after a comedic bout with some "dancing shrimp" (an artsy collection of king prawn protruding from half a pineapple, the beheading of which further showed my inability to eat correctly in New York), we headed off to the Ask.com party at the LQ Club. Interactive Corp. didn't just retire Jeeves, they encased him carbonite Stars Wars style.
The coolness of that wasn't lost on me though, even if I'm not a dyed in the wool Star Wars fan like Mike. Like I told Nathan Weinberg (who also didn't like my jokes), I was more interested in the "Dirty Redheads." Get your mind out of the gutter. That's a drink (or is it?).
With dirty redheads dancing in my head the following morning, I leapt out of bed to have breakfast with Feedster President Chris Redlitz (that sentence doesn't sound right at all, does it?). We spoke of spam, the future of Feedster, and Google.
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Mike and I were surprised to find ourselves in a hybrid cab with a TV camera in
our faces looking like a couple of redneck doofuses who didn't know what to say.
Look for us on PBS' MotorWeek
television program, if they don't have the sense to leave us on the cutting room
floor.
All in all, I'd call our excursion to SES NY a success. We came, we saw, we were nearly killed. As the plane lifted out of LaGuardia, I watched New York fade into golden strands of Christmas tree garlands, and looked back toward Kentucky, home of horses and bourbon, and less suicidal drivers, where the landscape will tell you, we tend to turn off the lights at night.
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Microsoft, EU Feud Heating Up
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David Utter
The long-running antitrust saga involving Microsoft and the European Union took
another nasty turn as both sides engaged in fingerpointing and tossing around
accusations of misconduct.
The EU threatened to fine Microsoft some $2.4 million per day if it did not provide the information needed by third-party developers to interoperate with Windows products. Microsoft has called out the EU for withholding documents related to the antitrust case, and accused the EU Competition Commission of colluding with Microsoft's competitors.
Just another day in the life of the world's biggest tech company, as AP reported on the latest developments in the EU's antitrust case against Microsoft.
In December 2005, Microsoft made thousands of pages of documents and the source code to Windows Server available to the EU. Now Microsoft is being criticized for releasing too much information and not enough specific interoperability documentation. And the EU is not happy.
Microsoft is equally displeased and its associate general counsel in Europe did not mince words when calling out the EU in the report:
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Stoking The "Content is King" Discussion
When you listen to any of the various SEM experts, gurus, employees and others
in the know (especially the search engine employees), there is a theme about quality
content having as much to do with good search engine placement as any other factor.
Of course, a well put together web site with excellent content that recently launched
is not going to debut in a first position, unless the keyphrases and words being
targeted haven't been invented yet...
Rather, the thinking has to do with the development and presence of quality site
content will then result in more sites wanting to link to yours, because make
no mistake, in-bound links are still the steps used when climbing the various
SERP ladders. Keeping with this theme, take a look at the post below, which talks
about fresh content being very important to the site's search engine presence.
Join the discussion and share your thoughts about quality content and its relation
to strong search rankings.
|| Chris||
Fresh dynamic content boosting SERPs
I've been tracking a few sites lately and scanning their code to determine why they're number #1 on Google and other engines. It seems that a lot of #1 sites contain dynamic content on their landing page which changes daily, if not several times daily.
It doesn't seem like necessarily adhere to WC3 validation, meta tags, alt tags, IBLs, and all the other tips/tricks that SEO's talk about nonstop. In fact, they have very few keywords on the subject except for maybe an H1 tag at the top of the code.
I feel like new, fresh content on the landing page really boosts a site's importance in the rankings. To me it seems like the strongest factor out there at the moment. Any thoughts?
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What do search engines consider as spam? Does keyword counts matter or is everything
based on keyword density?
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