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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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A diamond mine, just waiting for you to harvest626 - November 19, 2004 - 9.13 AM EST Quiz: Can rich media overtake search before 2010? Here's a little quiz for you! The following article from eMarketer is, in my opinion, a bit 'slanted' towards the people that think rich media will be all the rage in a few years. Personally, I don't necessarily agree on that, although the fine people at eMarketer seem pretty bold on the subject. Your opinion counts, and I certainly would like to hear from any of you, either for or against, or what you think could or might happen instead. Just drop me a line. Article: Posted on Businessblog™ 625 - November 18, 2004 - 6.30 PM EST Scoop: This just in, Google again... Google just opened a new office down the road from rival Microsoft's headquarters as it seeks to lure local engineering talent. Alan Eustace, vice president of engineering at Google, said that the only reason to start a remote engineering office is to hire really talented people, that the Seattle area has an amazing amount of technical talent, but that in some cases Google has had difficulty hiring people, because they did not want to leave the Pacific Northwest for California's Silicon Valley. Posted on Businessblog™ 624 - November 18, 2004 - 12.05 PM EST Download the Free Rank for $ales Toolbar Most major search engines now have their own search toolbars. It was only a question of time before Rank for $ales came up with its own version of a powerful, yet simple to use search toolbar. The Rank for $ales search toolbar features:
The Rank for $ales Search Toolbar is free to use and downloads in just a few seconds. Simply click here to try it. Once you've used it, we think you will adopt it. Posted on Businessblog™ 623 - November 18, 2004 - 11.59 AM EST Ask Jeeves to launch desktop-search feature Ask Jeeves plans to launch a desktop-search feature in December, a company representative said. Desktop search has become the latest battleground among leading search players, with Google, Microsoft's MSN division and Yahoo all working on products. But if desktop search catches on among users, it's unclear how it would affect the webmasters and marketers vying for top rankings. While Emeryville, Calif.-based Ask Jeeves hasn't provided many details, its product appears likely to follow the approach of other Web search engines by combining hard-drive results, such as from e-mails and files, with its core Web results. Posted on Businessblog™ 622 - November 18, 2004 - 8.05 AM EST Google sees slower growth Google warns that increased competition could see revenue gains at a slower pace in the fourth quarter. Search engine Google has seen share prices more than double since its August initial public offering, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that while it believes revenue will continue to grow, the growth rate will not keep accelerating as it has been. Posted on Businessblog™ 621 - November 17, 2004 - 3.41 PM EST Google now accessible from a simple cell phone Google now works with inexpensive cellphones, not just the more costly ones with Web access and more features. Over the last month, the popular search engine company has quietly turned on a new service that lets people search on newer cellphone models to get snippets of information by sending short text messages to a special five-digit number, 46645, which spells GOOGL on a phone keypad.
Posted on Businessblog™ 620 - November 17, 2004 - 2.29 PM EST Dulance launches its comparison shopping service Dulance announces the launch of its comparison shopping service in RSS (Real Simple Syndication) format. Dulance is the first search engine to use RSS technology to facilitate reserve price shopping. The new feature effectively transforms any third-party RSS reader into a personal shopping agent. Posted on Businessblog™ 619 - November 17, 2004 - 11.27 AM EST Indexing sites in Flash still a big challenge Despite some improvements done recently to help the indexing of websites with Flash technology, there are still many major roadblocks left. For sites designed using Macromedia Flash technology, most major search engines are anything but friendly. The major crawlers (spiders) used to discover content rarely dig deep into Flash, often missing pages or, worse yet, ignoring those sites altogether. But a pair of Web designers detailed a new approach in optimizing a Flash site on Tuesday at the WebmasterWorld.com World Search Conference here to change that. Posted on Businessblog™ 618 - November 16, 2004 - 10.32 AM EST Google provides targeted advertising to Buy.com Buy.com and Google launch an advertising partnership that delivers Google AdWords to Buy.com's customers.
As part of the agreement, Google's targeted, text-based ads appear on Buy.com's website through the Google AdSense program. The partnership between Google and Buy.com furthers both companies' mission statements, which are customer-centric," stated Neel Grover, president of Buy.com. Posted on Businessblog™ 617 - November 16, 2004 - 8.52 AM EST iPod-like devices and Google Monday was a day when Silicon Valley's heaviest hitters put aside their business plans and day-to-day worries and riffed on the future of technology, innovation and U.S. competitiveness. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt imagined a personalized iPod-like device, and Intel President Paul Otellini looked forward to the day when wireless technology will finally make high-speed Internet ubiquitous. Posted on Businessblog™ 616 - November 15, 2004 - 3.43 PM EST Internet advertising to reach $9.4 billion in 2004 As reported on the CNNfn website, Dow Jones will buy MarketWatch, owner of the financial news site CBS MarketWatch, for $519 million. That deal is being billed as a way for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal to expand its online audience and capitalize on a revived Internet ad market. Executives at Dow Jones are not the only ones taking notice. The Internet is now the nation's fastest-growing advertising medium, with sales expected to reach a record $9.4 billion this year -- up 16 percent from the bubble days.
What's more, Internet research firm eMarketer expects companies will nearly double their annual Web ad spending by 2008. Posted on Businessblog™ 615 - November 15, 2004 - 2.57 PM EST AOL improves its Google-powered search features AOL is still using Google, but it is gradually integrating its own services and its own content inside its search results pages. One good example was found on searching for ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’. AOL Search gave information from Moviefone like Movie Details, Buy the DVD, Find the Best Price, and even trailers and clips. Posted on Businessblog™ 614 - November 15, 2004 - 1.22 PM EST Blinkx launches Smart Folders Blinkx just launched a new version of its search engine, which now creates special folders in users' computers. The new feature, called Smart Folders, is the highlight of Blinkx 2.0, the newest version of this internet and desktop search tool, which is available as a free download from the start-up company's website at http://www.blinkx.com.
Blinkx 2.0 also has a feature called SIS, an acronym for the phrase Stuff I've Seen, which maintains a record of viewed files. Blinkx 2.0 also adds support for querying peer-to-peer networks. Posted on Businessblog™  Sponsored by Hébergement de sites Web au Québec Sponsored by Canadian Local Search Engine Sponsored by Starflix Sponsored by Marketing Trends.org Sponsered by Brazilian Web Hosting.com Sponsered by Internet Trends.org Sponsered by SEO Radar Hosted by Sun Hosting Sponsered by Web Hosting Review Guide Protected by Proxy Sentinel™ Traffic stats by Site Clicks™ Driven by escalate Sponsered by Blog Hosting.ca Serge Thibodeau Live is listed in Global Business Listing This blogging site was designed by GCIS Graphics and logo done by Montreal Web Design Blogging software provided by Businessblog Developed on the Web Services™ development platform Serge Thibodeau, Live is a GCIS Web property Partner: Internet Search Engine News.com Sponsor: Link Rent Sponsor: Press Broadcast.ca Sponsor: Avantex Sponsor: Internet Services Broker Sponsor: B. Price W. H. Sponsor: Wholesale W. H. Sponsor: Canada Web Hosting Sponsor: Tech Blog Sponsor: Bloggers.ca Copyright © Serge Thibodeau 2004. All rights reserved. All views and opinions expressed on this blog are those of Serge Thibodeau only and are not representative of any company listed. All slogans, trademarks, text or logo representation used or referred to on this blog are the property of their respective owners. | ||||||
