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Hello, I am Serge Thibodeau and I am a search engine optimization expert. My company is Rank for $ales and this is my personal search engine blog. This is where I give my personal comments, some general observations I make about the search industry as a whole, interesting SEO articles and topics that will interest anybody that owns a website and wants it to rank higher in the major search engines. This blog is updated daily and is said to be addictive. Welcome to Serge Thibodeau, Live. |
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Blog archives for September 2003 September 30, 2003 HP has proven one more time what I've been saying for years Wow! Anybody interested in landing pages really ought to carefully read this great case study on personalized Web marketing landing pages that Marketing Sherpa just completed on Hewlett Packard. For those that would like to know what are landing pages and how to use them effectively in any serious Web marketing campaign, please click here. September 29, 2003 Verisign hit by class action suit I think pretty much everybody saw this one coming. Read it all here. September 24, 2003 Google ready to dance yet? Andy Beal at Search Engine Lowdown thinks Google may have started to dance and I think he might be right. Like Andy, I did notice some changing Page Ranks too and the number of backward links has certainly changed also. Let's just hope this ride won't be "too bumpy". Ladies: ready for a slow? :-) September 23, 2003 Verisign in the news again Verisign jolted the whole Internet community last Monday by launching a new "service" that searches for ".com" and ".net" Web addresses that are misspelled or have not yet been registered, and redirects them to a VeriSign Web page that includes options and pay-for-placement topic links. While VeriSign says it is offering a convenience for people who previously received an error message, Internet users have cried foul, claiming VeriSign is overstepping its authority and hijacking certain common Web searches. VeriSign now is saying that it will ask "outside experts" to review its controversial new service that captures mistaken Web searches, after being hit with two lawsuits and strong opposition from the body that oversees Internet policy. Read it all here. September 19, 2003 This is really exciting After 4 years of R&D, IBM has successfully developed a new search engine called Web Fountain. I think this is really a good idea, as it will create even more competition within the search industry, as it pertains mostly to corporate "search appliances", in a style sililar to Google's offering earlier this year. Read this interesting article here. September 18, 2003 Well it's about time, finally! Spammers out there, don't expect any sympathy from me or from every online soul I know for that matter! After years of filling our in-boxes with your unwanted email junk, you had it coming... Read it all here. September 17, 2003 Now this is a real cool idea! I really tought this was worth mentioning:- Google's got a new programming contest going. Registration for the Google Code Jam ( http://www.google.com/codejam/ ) starts on October 1st. Participants will be asked to solve coding problems within a certain time period. There will be two rounds. The top 25 performers in round 2 will be invited to the Googleplex to participate in the Championship Round. First place winner will receive US $10,000. WooHoo! Thumbs up Google! September 14, 2003 News: Class action suit settled by LookSmart Search company LookSmart has settled a class action lawsuit brought against them on behalf of customers who paid for site submission before the Directory converted to a paid listings model in April 2002. September 9, 2003 Rumor Mill The rumor mill has picked up dramatically in recent months as recovering equity prices and a rise in M&A activity lead analysts and investors to speculate on the next big merger. Among the rumors circulating trading floors today are 1) YHOO for FWHT, 2) VRTS for MERQ, 3) JPM for COF, 4) MSFT for ISSX. Obviously, rumors come and go without a deal ever actually materializing. But since these rumors usually move the stocks they are associated with -- whether we report them or not -- we have decided to report them. For what it's worth, our checks with contacts suggest that the MERQ rumor
seems the most farfetched. With respect to the ISSX chatter, one contact says
that on a scale of 1 to 10, the possibility of an ISSX/MSFT deal comes in at a
4 on his scale. September 8, 2003 This article is right on the money Strong competition for specialized search engines September 7, 2003 Happy Birthday Google! That's right: today is Google's 5th birthday. Hard to believe that just five years ago Google actually started it's life in a garage... Google is another success story, similar to other success stories that have started in... a garage! Here are interesting links you might find of interest on the Google story and how founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page started it all, from a simple research project initiated at Stanford University. Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Search Engine New Google algorithm may speed up indexing 
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