Tag: search_engines
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"no banner ads on the Google homepage" – Marissa Mayer
I see the post I published earlier this week wondering if Google were now going to have banner ads on their site after their puchase of a stake in AOL has bee answered once and for all by none other than Marissa Mayer (Google’s VP of Search Products & User Experience). In a post on…
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Are Google selling out?
We’ve all heard the reports that Google are buying a chunk of AOL – no doubt to keep their business and probably to stop Microsoft from buying them up! But now, the latest story to hit the wires (New York Times) is that Google are going to start running banner ads in search results! Google…
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Salim Ismail interview podcast II
As promised, here is the second interview with Salim Ismail – Salim is chairman & co-founder of PubSub and he very kindly agreed to come back on the show to follow-up on some of the things we talked about in the last podcast – if you haven’t listened to the first interview I did with…
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Yahoo! purchase of Del.icio.us confirmed – who is flocking next?
Well, the post I made last night about the Yahoo! Del.icio.us rumours was confirmed this evening when Del.icio.us made the announcement of the takeover on its blog and Yahoo! posted the news also. All day today I was doubting my source ‘cos no-one else picked up the story but, no, it came good. It is…
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Salim Ismail interview coming up
I will be interviewing Salim Ismail, chairman & co-founder of PubSub in the next couple of days. Pubsub is a blog search engine or as Salim likes to say a “matching engine”. I was amazed to learn, from talking to Salim here at the les Blogs 2.0 conference, that Salim lived and worked in Cork…
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How to make your website more indexable by search engines
I see Michael Arrington has a post on TechCrunch today about Dipsie dCloak – this is a product which is supposed to help websites make their content more indexable by search engines. That sounds laudable enough I hear you say – but wait a minute, I know two words which can help you do that…
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Podcasting search engines reviewed.
In my recent podcast with Robert Scoble, one of the issues I raised with him was how much easier text blogs are to index for a search engine, than are podcasts or videoblogs. Robert agreed that this was the case but he made the point that search engines are using link text and the text…
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What exactly is RSS?
Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…