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Improving your first page of search results

Via Gerry McGovern If your customers can’t find what they want on the first page of results, very few of them will go to the second page. More people have reached the top of Mount Everest than have been to … Continue reading

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Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation

Via Mashable December 24, 2008 – 9:04 am PDT – by Dan Schawbel> Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Brand monitoring … Continue reading

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The Future Of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook)

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 28, 2008 If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would … Continue reading

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Twitority Ranks Tweets and Keywords By Authority

Via PR 2.0 By Brian Solis As online conversations continue to gain in prominence and relevance to any customer and market-focused business, it becomes critically important for marketing and service professionals to listen. It’s the listening that serves as the … Continue reading

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BackType Launches Google Alerts For Blog Comments

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on December 18, 2008 BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Today … Continue reading

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ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which … Continue reading

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Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 20, 2008 We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for … Continue reading

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Social Mention is Twitter Search for the Whole Social Web

Via Mashable September 23, 2008 – 12:02 pm PDT – by Paul Glazowski 7 Comments Searching for things through a service that scours multiple engines is one thing. Searching for things through a service that scours certain aspects of the … Continue reading

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Powerset Adds Key Features to Microsoft Live Search

Via Mashable eptember 17, 2008 – 12:13 pm PDT – by Paul Glazowski Add a Comment In late June, Microsoft was said to be prepping an acquisition of the semantic search startup Powerset. On August 1st, the two were officially … Continue reading

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