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directory submission confusion
I recently stumbled across my predecessors folder on our intranet, and have been going through his IE favourites. I found a site called search-o-rama.com and on the submission page entered our URL and my email address.
Friendly URLS?
Is there a clean, ideally SEO friendly way of cleaning up messy URLs? Would it be possible to mask that somehow so that it read a little cleaner and possibly included some keywords? Any input is good input and much appreciated.
Ask Jeeves What’s In A Name?
Some speculation around the search engine industry focuses on a possible name change by Ask Jeeves. Many have their thoughts on what the new name might be but this is also a bit of PR for the 4th ranked search engine.
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08.15.05
MSN Local Search Available For Mobiles
 By David Utter
The MSN Search blog has divulged a beta test for a mobile version of its local search function.
A collaboration between MSN Mobile and MSN Search has resulted in the development of a MSN Local Search beta test for mobile phones, according to the MSN Search blog. The service will be available to US customers with Windows Mobile devices; it will also work on phones with WAP 2.0-capable browsers.
Aron Holzman's post describes some of the early beta's capabilities:
You can search for a restaurant, store, school, dentist, museum - basically, anything listed in the Yellow Pages and White Pages.
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Dissecting Technorati Top 100 & Blog Ranking Algorithms
 By Jason Dowdell
About 9 months ago I started working on a document describing the technical differences in blogs versus a standard website. I began that doc in order to determine how a search engine like Google might apply a different variant of it's PageRank algorithm to blogs than it does for websites.
My initial doc isn't worth posting here [unless some of you want it] but there are some others working on similar thoughts and have gone into some great levels of detail to explain their perspectives. One of the best posts I've seen on the blog ranking / popularity debacle we're currently faced with is from Dare Obasanjo's Carnage 4 Life blog.
In his post he pulls in thoughts from a few different folks like Mary Hodder, Shelley Powers, and Danah Boyd.
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Kai-Fu Lee: The Miracle of Google
In a recently translated letter from Dr. Kai-Fu Lee to family and friends, Lee confessed that his move from Microsoft to Google was a matter of following his heart, trading a company he saw as limiting to his contribution to the world for a company that embodies youth and freedom.
The letter, highlighted and translated from a Chinese website posting by Dan Farber of ZDNet, is an impassioned explanation of his flight from Microsoft...
Ask Jeeves What’s In A Name?
Some speculation around the search engine industry focuses on a possible name change by Ask Jeeves.Many have their thoughts on what the new name might be but this is also a bit of PR for the 4th ranked search engine.
Search Engine Roundtable suggested Jeeves was playing the name game so I ran through it once...
Yahoo! Health Taps Celeb Brain Power For Charity
You've been itching to know what Tom Green has to say about health issues, haven't you? Me neither, but Green is just one among several D-list celebrities who've been tapped to participate in Yahoo!'s latest health blog initiative.
Senator Hillary Clinton tops the celebrity health panel, putting the big "D" for Democrat on the D-list, blogging about health on Yahoo! Health, an informational web site picking the brains of health professionals, many of whom hail from Johns Hopkins University...
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