Google is making a major promotional push for iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), with the new artist themes section. If you go to the Google home page, you will notice a special logo that looks like the logo on the...
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Over the past few days, many webmasters and SEOs have been noticing an update to the PageRank score found in the Google Toolbar. Usually PageRank updates aren't that noteworthy, but it seems something is different about this PageRank update
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Toxigon has a very cool photo of a vending machine in Google's Japan office. Since I'm not sure who took this photograph, I'm showing you a small size image here: The large size image is on the Toxigon website. Are...
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A WebmasterWorld thread reports from dozens of Webmasters that GoogleBot, Google's web crawler has not been crawling as many documents as they have in the past. Many webmasters are noticing reduction in crawl rates as much as 90-percent, relative to...
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Blogs started off a few years back when people wanted to share something about them with the world, and slowly blogging took the shape of a revolution. Probably it was one of the most happening changes that have taken place after the introduction of Internet. Now the blogs are used for many purposes. From personal [...]
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Court documents cited by the Wall Street Journal (also CNET) show that Microsoft has set aside $1.5 billion to retain Yahoo employees in the event of a successful takeover. This is apparently not tied to the generous "poison pill" severance packages that Yahoo put in place in the event of a Microsoft acquisition.
The statement was made by Microsoft attorneys in the context of a court hearing filed by pension funds invested in Yahoo. The suit alleges that Yahoo's directors breaded their fiduciary duty in not responding "in good faith" to Microsoft's offer.
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As the phenomenon of local business ratings and reviews becomes more "institutionalized" and important, efforts are popping up to help businesses cope and/or take advantage of the trend. Merchant Circle is one business in the local space that has positioned itself as a platform for SMB "reputation management" as well as marketing.
Local search provider Yelp has now added tools that make it easier for local businesses to communicate with reviewers and to gain perspective on activity on their profiles.
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