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Reasons for Google's Buyback
According to a report that appeared in the Associated Press, search engine Google is preparing to buyback 23.4 million shares and options that the company may have inappropriately issued. In a filing done through the SEC, Google states that the buyback window for current and previous employees will close on December 30th.
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Date: 2004-11-30
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HP's New Enterprise Products
HP has some new products and solutions that automate the link between business processes and information technology (IT), allowing for IT resources to be delivered to meet shifting business priorities.
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Date: 2004-11-30
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Here Comes Bloghorn!
Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft's MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week.
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Date: 2004-11-30
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Google Rated Best for Globalization
In 2003, Byte Level Research published a report that rated how successfully companies had developed Web sites for international markets, an emerging practice known as "Web globalization."
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Date: 2004-11-29
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Mamma.com To Acqurie Copernic
Mamma.com has signed a letter of intent ("LOI") whereby Mamma.com would acquire all of the shares of Copernic Technologies for a combination of cash and shares of Mamma.com.
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Date: 2004-11-29
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Ebay Introduces Gift Wizard
Just in time for holiday shopping, eBay introduces a free gift recommendation tool that provides shoppers suggestions tailored specifically to people on their shopping list.
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Date: 2004-11-29
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Stealth Hyperlocal News Network Targets Newspaper Monopolies
A stealth project called Pegasus News plans to launch a beta test in Dallas in late 2005 to distribute local news content and advertising via the web, e-newsletters, RSS feeds, a daily print edition, SMS messaging and other mediums, according to an inside source who contacted me.
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Date: 2004-11-29
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Blogger Puts Himself Up for Auction on eBay
The recently held US Presidential Elections have effectively proved that blogs can be one of the most effective ways of getting your message across. And, it is not only politicians, activists and hobbyists who are using to spread their messages but companies like Sun, Microsoft, Audi, eBay, Google and Monster are using blogs as marketing tools.
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Date: 2004-11-28
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A Very Froogle Friday
Karen Padham, Froogle Product Manager, wants everyone to include Froogle in the day after Thanksgiving shopping tradition.
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Date: 2004-11-26
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SEO Is Bunk
I find it ironic that SEO firms are drawing moralistic lines in the sand. As I have stated my controversial opinion here before, SEO is bunk. "White Hat", "Black Hat", whatever, it is bunk.
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Date: 2004-11-25
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Google Euphoria Continues
Just when you though Google's stock was heading for sub-$150, Goldman analyst Anthony Noto initiates coverage on Google with an "outperform" rating and a price target of $225.
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Date: 2004-11-24
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gdSuite: a Google Desktop add-on
gdSuite is a Desktop Search client. This means that you can use gdSuite to search for files, e-mails, web pages you've viewed, AIM conversations you've had, and, in the near future, Trillian chats and Gmail.
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Date: 2004-11-23
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Podcasting Resources
Over the weekend I had a chance to delve more into podcasting. I listened to some various podcasts and I must say that I was very impressed by the quality.
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Date: 2004-11-22
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iProspect Jumps the Gun
We were a little perplexed when we saw iProspect's announcement that all of their PPC staff had been given the new Google Advertising Professionals certification.
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Date: 2004-11-22
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Blogging Think Tank Gets Good PR
Did you know that The Public Policy Institute of New York State, a nonprofit think tank, has launched a new weblog focused on economic issues in upstate New York and related policy questions...
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Date: 2004-11-19
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Yahoo Talks Turkey
The Yahoo search blog team is already in Thanksgiving holiday spirits. In their most recent blog post they discuss how searches are spiking for Turducken, Tofurky and other bird related items.
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Date: 2004-11-19
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AOL Enhances Security
America Online has launched AOL 9.0 Security Edition which includes a comprehensive suite of safety and security features.
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Date: 2004-11-18
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24/7 Canada Takes on Airports
24/7 Canada announced an exclusive Web advertising representation agreement with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), Canada's leading international gateway.
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Date: 2004-11-18
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Racially Offensive Search Terms To Be Banned By eBay
Internet auction house eBay has announced that they will be taking preventative action against users searching for racially sensitive items. Any search conducted using any keywords that Ebay identifies as racially derogatory will be met with a pop up informing the user about their error.
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Date: 2004-11-18
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Sun Shines in 2004
In 2004 Sun Microsystems rolled out the most innovative systems portfolio in the company's 20-plus year history.
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Date: 2004-11-18
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CDW to Spotlight Customers with Blogs
CDW's Brian Reich writes on his personal blog that his company plans to use blogs to take customer case histories - a major thrust of many tech PR campaigns - to a new level using blogs.
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Date: 2004-11-17
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Cameraphones Concern Corporate PR
Picturephoning reports The Consumer Electronics Association has published a set of guidelines meant to defuse growing efforts to restrict the use of cameraphones equipped with digital cameras.
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Date: 2004-11-17
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Microsoft's Agreement with ScanSoft
ScanSoft and Microsoft announced an expanded worldwide agreement that authorizes Microsoft to deploy ScanSoft text-to-speech (TTS) technology in Microsoft server application product lines.
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Date: 2004-11-17
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eBay on Pay-Per-View
LodgeNet is offering pay-per-view, in-room video sessions of the popular eBay University training program in more than 250,000 guest rooms across the United States.
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Date: 2004-11-17
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Broadcast Advertising Effects Diminishing
The 30-second commercial is dying, according to In-Stat/MDR, and while its death is not imminent, they believe that both broadcast networks and the advertising community are faced with the stark reality of a future without it.
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Date: 2004-11-16
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Jupitermedia's GEMS
Jupitermedia Corporation's JupiterWeb online media division has unveiled a series of innovative new marketing programs that guarantee tangible, measurable results for clients.
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Date: 2004-11-16
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Oracle Exec Switches Companies
Jonathan Colehower, most recently vice president of supply chain management at Oracle, has been named senior vice president for corporate strategy and marketing at Optiant.
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Date: 2004-11-16
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Microsoft Focuses On India Industry
Infosys, with headquarters in Bangalore, India, and Microsoft announced a new information technology (IT) transformation initiative designed to help clients improve business performance and build competitive advantage.
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Date: 2004-11-15
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Yahoo Unveils New Mail Enhancements
Recently Yahoo unveiled some new features for their email service, Yahoo Mail. Some of the new features include improved search, Address AutoComplete, and full implementation of DomainKeys.
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Date: 2004-11-15
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AOL Enters Agreement with Kayak Software
America Online and Kayak Software Corporation, created by the founders of Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity, announced a multiyear marketing and technology agreement in which AOL will make a minority investment in Kayak.
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Date: 2004-11-12
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Oracle's Peoplesoft Offer to be Discussed
Glass, Lewis & Co., an analytical research and proxy advisory firm providing services to institutional investors that collectively manage more than $6 trillion, will host a special Proxy Talk conference call for Glass Lewis clients and other invited institutional investors on Monday, Nov. 15 at 4:30 p.m. (EST) to discuss Oracle Corp.'s tender offer for PeopleSoft.
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Date: 2004-11-12
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Branding with Pay-Per-Call Television Advertising
Who wouldn't want to advertise on television and only pay for results? Many advertisers who have used popular pay-per-click programs on the Internet are now discovering that a similar model exists on television known as pay-per-call advertising.
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Date: 2004-11-12
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SEMPO Research Survey
SEMPO is pleased to announce the launch of a research project being undertaken to identify the size of the SEM/SEO services market space, identify the in-house resources being deployed towards search engine marketing, and identify the amount of PPC/PI spend managed by both service companies and advertisers.
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Date: 2004-11-12
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Intel Gets New CEO
Intel's board of directors has elected Paul S. Otellini, currently president and chief operating officer (COO), as its next chief executive officer (CEO). Otellini, 54, will succeed Craig R. Barrett.
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Date: 2004-11-11
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MSN Debuts Beta Version of New Search Service
MSN today debuted a beta version of its new MSN Search service, providing consumers with more useful answers to their questions and more control over their search experience, which results in faster access to the information they are seeking online.
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Date: 2004-11-11
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MSN Launches Search Blog
Keeping up with the Joneses has become old hat in the search engine industry. In fact, it could be argued that other companies following the lead of a successful venture or idea have driven the growth of the search industry. With this in mind, to coincide with the launch of their search engine, MSN Search has also introduced a blog to keep readers abreast of upcoming developments and innovations.
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Date: 2004-11-11
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iEntry Launches South African Search Engine
Yesterday not only saw the announcement of MSN Search, there was also an announcement from iEntry concerning the launch of a search presence targeted towards South Africa. The search engine, called SearchZA, is the most comprehensive method of searching sites using the .ZA domain.
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Date: 2004-11-11
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Adobe's New Ad Campaign
Adobe unveiled its "Simplicity at Work" ad campaign, designed to increase Adobe's visibility as an enterprise software player and drive demand for Adobe Intelligent Document Platform software.
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Date: 2004-11-11
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InfoSpace's Dogpile to Add Topix.net Headlines
Topix.net announced a deal with InfoSpace to add Topix.net's news headlines to InfoSpace's Dogpile metasearch service, and also to help Dogpile's new IntelliFind technology determine when news content is likely to be relevant to users' Web search queries.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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White Hat SEO Automation
The search engine optimization industry is often divided into two camps. "White Hat" SEO's attempt to work within the rules and goals of the search engines.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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Dogpile's New Enhancements
Dogpile has launched significant enhancements to its metasearch platform. Dogpile's new IntelliFind technology utilizes sophisticated query intelligence to assess the likely intent behind every entered query, enabling Dogpile to return more relevant results from a wider array of content sources.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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Ask Jeeves Taps Optimost
Optimost has added a new premium product offering, allowing clients to optimize key web and landing pages based on a variety of audience segments - such as specific keywords, ad banners, traffic source and more.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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The PayPal Story
Fifty-six million people use PayPal to send and receive money through the Internet, but few of them know how close the popular payments service once came to destruction.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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SEO Pressure on B2B Companies
Oneupweb published a research study showing that 46 percent of BtoB Magazine's Top 100 Advertisers showed only nominal search engine optimization or ignored it all together.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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MSN Set To Launch Search Services
On Thursday, November 11, Microsoft is preparing to launch their search presence to the public… again. A version of their search engine has been available on search.msn.com and on their sandbox site for some time now. This "release" is expected to be a media blitz that will announce MSN Search to the general public.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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Microsoft to Sponsor XML Conference
IDEAlliance announced that Microsoft has signed on as the "Elite Sponsor" of XML Conference and Exposition 2004, being held Nov. 15-19 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. The annual event is the world's largest XML trade conference.
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Date: 2004-11-10
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Gmail Now Offers POP Access
Seemingly answering the cries of Gmail users everywhere, Google has announced a new feature for their growing email service. The new addition will allow members to use POP access to check their mail
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Date: 2004-11-10
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New Toolbar from SEO, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization, Inc. unveiled a first-of-its-kind toolbar that provides instant access to detailed information on backward links to any website for all the major search engines, giving marketing professionals a powerful new aid in their efforts to maximize company Web rankings.
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Date: 2004-11-09
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AOL Latin America's Third Quarter Results
America Online Latin America's net loss applicable to common stockholders for the quarter ended September 30, 2004, narrowed 17% from $28.6 million to $23.6 million and cash used in operating activities declined 67% from $9.5 million to $3.1 million from the same period a year ago.
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Date: 2004-11-09
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Marcel Media's New SEO Services
Marcel Media, a Chicago-based interactive marketing agency, announced today a suite of services designed to help companies drive qualified leads, gain web traffic and win new customers by assuring top level listings on search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
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Date: 2004-11-09
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Atlas Search Focuses on Marketing Strategy
At AD:TECH New York, Atlas DM released two cases studies demonstrating the success agencies and direct advertisers are having with Atlas Search, the industry's first integrated search marketing and online campaign management system.
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Date: 2004-11-08
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SEO Company Wins AMA Award
Prominent Placement, Inc., a leading Atlanta search engine optimization company, received AMY Award accolades from the American Marketing Association (AMA) for the firm's strategic Internet marketing campaigns for clients CompuTaught and The Banker's Exchange.
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Date: 2004-11-08
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First Web Analytics Best Practices Group Launched by Omniture
Omniture launched the industry's first-ever web analytics Best Practices Group, chartered specifically to enable customers to realize the full potential of their web analytics implementations, through customized training, hands-on support, and innovative application of best practices and principles.
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Date: 2004-11-08
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SEM Company Evolves to Meet Market Demands
IMPAQT announced its evolving business model to meet increasing market demands. IMPAQT's comprehensive offering will now include campaign consulting, search management tools, custom application development and proprietary research, enabling IMPAQT to offer clients solutions at all points of online search initiatives.
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Date: 2004-11-08
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Tygo.com's Flat Rate Placement
Tygo.com is making big waves in the search engine world. They have been quoted as being the "most popular" search engine that offers a low cost advertising program that is extremely attractive to small business owners, start ups and individuals or anyone who wants low cost effective advertising.
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Date: 2004-11-08
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24/7 Real Media's Third Quarter Results
24/7 Real Media's revenue for the third quarter, ended September 30, climbed 72.9% to $20.8 million from the $12.0 million reported in the same period in 2003 and rose 6.2% sequentially from the $19.6 million reported in the second quarter of 2004.
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Date: 2004-11-05
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MSN to Launch Movie Channel
Microsoft will launch its movie channel for MSN® Direct, which allows movie buffs to view show times and movie listings for selected theaters directly on their Smart Watch.
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Date: 2004-11-05
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Amazon Joins the Fight Against Hunger
Amazon has joined forces with Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading antihunger organizations, for a special holiday program called "Baking from the Heart" to help raise funds for the fight against hunger.
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Date: 2004-11-04
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Interest in Better Desktop Search Swells
Interest in a better and integrated desktop search product is swelling, and it may add a new dimension to the features that end-users demand. According to IDC, software vendors must decide whether desktop search should be a standalone product or a necessary feature.
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Date: 2004-11-03
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Microsoft's Impact on Business Continuity
SupportSoft revealed further results of a national survey conducted among IT management in which 50% of those surveyed said that they expected the migration to SP2, Microsoft's recent, major upgrade to Windows XP, to have a negative impact on business continuity at their company.
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Date: 2004-11-03
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Copernic Initiates European Market Penetration Strategy
Copernic and its international business development partner Contraco initiated a European market penetration strategy by announcing German, French, and Dutch versions of the award-winning Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) product, with an Italian version soon to follow.
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Date: 2004-11-03
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Yahoo Preparing To Enter Desktop Search Too
When dealing with Internet technologies, following trends seems to be the norm. What one company does successfully, the others will probably mimic in some shape or form. With this in mind, Yahoo has also announced that they too will be releasing a desktop search utility in the near future.
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Date: 2004-11-02
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Get Your Blogs Organized
Software developer, Stardock Corporation has released Blog Navigator which is designed to assist users, who enjoy reading blogs, to easily read and organize them.
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Date: 2004-11-02
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Boston SEO Firm Grows by 100%
The recent buzz surrounding Google's IPO and its surging stock price has brought attention back to a very hot sector of Internet marketing known as search engine optimization (SEO).
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Date: 2004-11-01
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AOL's Election Resource
America Online wants every November voter to be a part of the most informed and engaged electorate in American history, which is why the company created a free election resource online that has generated more Web traffic than both the presidential candidates' own Internet sites.
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Date: 2004-11-01
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Holiday Search Engine Ads
As search engine advertisers get ready for the 2004 holiday season, what they write as their paid listings will affect the number of shoppers who visit their web sites.
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Date: 2004-11-01
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SearchGuy.com Goes Mobile
SearchGuy.com has launched the much anticipated SearchGuy Mobile technology. This new technology will allow users to browse the Internet from any Palm Pilot or Blackberry device, as well as Internet enabled mobile phones.
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Date: 2004-11-01
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A PPC Case Study
Founded in 1995, AllMed Healthcare Management, an independent medical review organization, has grown rapidly since 2002 by investing in Sales & Marketing.
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Date: 2004-11-01
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Google Corrects Gmail Exploit
Search engine Google has fixed a security flaw that was occurring in their email service, Gmail. The company did not reveal the nature of flaw, only that they had corrected it.
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Date: 2004-11-01
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Google Desktop Search Coming To Mac
With the successful launch of their Desktop Search utility for Windows machines complete, Google has set their sites on bringing these same capabilities to the Mac community. This indicates a Mac version of Google Desktop Search is forthcoming.
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Date: 2004-11-01
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