Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Microsoft has decided to shut down the not so popular classifieds site expo.live.com. Microsoft launched expo.live.com about 2 years ago to compete with Craigslist and Kijiji.com.
From the site:
Windows Live Expo will discontinue service on 31 July 2008. In preparation, the following features are no longer available:
Create a new account.
Post a ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
AltSearchEngines has written a post on potential acquisitions for Microsoft. One of these potential acquisitions is Trulia.com. Sramana Mitra, the author of this post values Trulia at $150 - $200 million.
Trulia: Real Estate search engine Trulia can be a good trunk to build Microsoft a strong presence in the Real ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I wanted to share some secrets and marketing techniques for Google Adwords. These tips are meant for the moderate to expert adwords user.
If you apply these techniques to your ad campaigns, you will see a dramatic increase in CTR (Click Through Rates) and Conversions. Which means more sales and leads.
There ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
While I was at Google, Larry and Sergey used to always say that out of 10, Google search is a 1. Even though Google is the #1 search engine on earth, there is still so much it can do to improve.
From the FT:
Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, said gathering more ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
If you are looking for foreclosures in California and don't know where to start, check out this foreclosure search engine called foreclosureradar.com.
This site is super easy to use and if you are a real estate investor can allow you to:
Search thousands of new properties entering the foreclosure process
Actively track ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Wow!
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
IceRocket, the blog search site that has financial backing from Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and writer of Blog Maverick, has one of the best blog search experiences I have seen.
I like it better than Google Blog Search and Technorati. If you own a rental blog ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Edgeio.com, the site that was once the edge for classifieds distribution and then fell off the edge of the internet, is now a one page site that offers a few Cape Town rentals.
In February, edgeio sold their assets to Looksmart and Vast.com. I am assuming both Looksmart and Vast didn't ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In the past, domain purchasing companies would buy a domain like homesforrent.com and serve content related ads. These sites have served a purpose by redirecting people to hopefully a legitimate site for rentals. Google even encourages serving ads on parked pages to drive more clicks and users to their final ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Friend Sheryl Sandberg who was VP of Operations and Sales at Google and who started the Google Adwords program, has left Google to be the COO of FaceBook.
From the New York Times:
...Ms Sandberg said in an interview that Facebook's challenges of expanding its operations, revenue and international reach "are ones ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Just like Coke protects its secret formula, Google does the same when it comes to Google's algorithm. While I was at Google, they took every measure to protect secrets from entering or leaving the company. After all, another search engine is just one click away.
Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, was ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Oh the day this becomes a reality. Imagine, Google starts paying college kids to take photos of neighborhoods, and if you want inside your home.
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From Bloodhound.
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
We wrote about Edgeio selling their assets here and here. The final auction of their Adaptive Real Estate Services (ARES) was purchased by Vast, the vertical search engine that will most likely integrate these MLS feeds into their real estate search.
The final price was not disclosed but most likely was ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Ask.com is known for trying to take a different path than other search engines when it comes to UI design and marketing. They have launched a 3d search experience and are experimenting with different home page designs for holidays. The latest awful homepage design is below. I can't even read ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
There are many research tools out there that can track eye movement on webpages. This data is extremely valuable to have because it allows marketers more insight into how their users are moving on their site. Where do their eyes go to? How do they read the page? This, in ...
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