Archive for January, 2011

My Life With Google Voice Number Porting, Six Months In

2011/01/25

Finally, anyone can port their mobile phone number to Google Voice. I’ve been doing so for the past six months.

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Weekly Search & Social News: 01/25/2011

2011/01/25

Hello and welcom back to ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘. While there was a lot of good posts last week, there was also a fair bit of drama, animosity and oddities as well. I found it kinda odd since the search world had been fairly calm the last few months

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Keep My Opt-Outs Google Extension Worries AdSense Publishers

2011/01/25

Google says, “Keep My Opt-Outs is an extension for users who aren’t comfortable with personalization of the ads they see on the web. It’s a one-step, persistent opt-out of personalized advertising and related data tracking performed by companies adopting the industry privacy standards for online advertising.”

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And The Academy Awards Oscar Nomination Goes To … Google & Bing!

2011/01/25

When I started seeing tweets about Oscar nominations, I realized the Academy Awards nominee list must be out. Good time to test how well the search engines are doing listing them! Would Google beat Bing

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Bing’s New Top 20 Popular Images: Cute Squirrels, Jesse James, and Todd Palin

2011/01/25

click to enlarge Bing has introduced a new search landing page that highlights the most popular image searches of the day. Click to read the rest of this post..

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Cute Squirrels, Bing’s Top Image Search For Today

2011/01/25

Bing revamped their image search landing page to include the top searches for the day, grouped by pictures.

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Browsers To Offer Official Behavioral Targeting Blocking

2011/01/25

Yesterday, Google and Firefox announced new tools to block behavioral targeting across the web. Behavioral targeting are a form of ads that use your online behavior to target specific ads to you, as you browse the web. Google calls these interest based advertising but most of the web calls them…

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Twitter Killer? Why Your Business Should Make a Facebook Group

2011/01/25

Facebook launched their newer version of Facebook Groups back in October 2010.

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3 SEO Myths Busted!

2011/01/25

When it comes to Search Engine Optimization there exist nearly as many myths and misinformation about SEO as proven techniques that help you to improve your rankings. What makes it even more complicated is that a lot of the myths cannot be confirmed or disproved, simply because the algorithms of search engines are highly kept secrets and no one knows all the factors that are taken into account when raking a site.

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Why You Shouldn’t Rely On (Toolbar) PageRank

2011/01/25

*After months of waiting webmasters are excited to finally see the Google toolbar PageRank update. Now, take it easy.

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