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Before They Were Social

{ Posted on Mar 20 2010 by admin }
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Would Twitter have the success it has now if it wasn’t at Twitter.com? What about Digg, or Facebook, or MySpace, or Yelp? Before social networks appeared at those domains, there were other pages at those locations. I ...Read More »

Playing the Odds: How Probable Meanings May Influence Search Engine Rankings

{ Posted on Mar 19 2010 by admin }
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When someone types “George Washington” into a search box, they are probably more interested in the Revolutionary War general and President than some random George in Washington. A search for “Washington Hotels” is more likely looking for lodging in ...Read More »

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Patents on Interpreting Dynamic Page URLs

{ Posted on Mar 16 2010 by admin }
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Three patents granted today to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all describe how each of the search engines might take a close look at page addresses, or URLs on dynamic web sites. I wrote about the patent from Microsoft back when it ...Read More »

SEO for Government: What Does Your Local Government Web Site Offer Visitors?

{ Posted on Mar 13 2010 by admin }
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I’ve been asking myself how local governments could use their websites to help them govern more effectively and save money. The question led to this post. Building Bridges in Communities Reading through one of the local weekly papers in my ...Read More »

Will Google Bring Us Tabbed Windows on TV?

{ Posted on Mar 11 2010 by admin }
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There’s been some recent news about the possibility of Google working with the Dish Network to bring searches for television programming and YouTube videos to TVs, reported at places like the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ article tells us ...Read More »

A Time and Season for Search: How Data Mining Can Influence Search Advertising

{ Posted on Mar 10 2010 by admin }
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With more than 3 billion search queries a month, a search engine like Yahoo might be tempted to take a close look at, and analyze the data it receives in its search logs. That data might tell it what ...Read More »

Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta Descriptions for Page Summaries in Search Results

{ Posted on Mar 05 2010 by admin }
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A misconception about web pages that lingered for a long time on the Web was that most people who visit your web site will enter your site on your home page. Another one is that the meta description you ...Read More »

How a Search Engine Might Choose Text for Quicklinks or Site links

{ Posted on Feb 28 2010 by admin }
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Sometimes when you search at one of the major search engines, you’ll see an extra set of links showing up under one of the listings in those search results. Referred to as either quicklinks or site links, most often those ...Read More »

Apple Streaming Media Patent Filing Hints at New Approach for iTunes Store

{ Posted on Feb 25 2010 by admin }
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A new patent filing from Apple may be a sign of changes to the way Apple presents music recommendations at the iTunes store. That change was hinted at last December when Apple acquired the streaming music site, Lala. The patent ...Read More »

How a Search Engine Might Weigh Pages with Relevant Annotations Higher in Search Results

{ Posted on Feb 24 2010 by admin }
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One of the words that often appears when someone describes how search engines work is relevance. A search engine attempts to show searchers web pages and other results that might be relevant to the words that they used when they ...Read More »
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