Google released this week Google Buzz, “a new way to start conversation about the things you find interesting.”  The system was built from scratch so it would integrate seamlessly with Gmail and allow Gmail users to share updates, photos, videos and links either privately to their existing email contact database or publicly.
Google Buzz attacked Twitter’s [...]

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Microsoft has found a way to make SEO research fun. Page Hunt is the new online Silverlight game that Microsoft has invented to help improve search results through Bing. The information collected from the game will be used to help researchers improve the Bing search platform to get better page results.
Here is how the [...]

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Last month it was Bing; this month it’s Search Pad. As the traditional search underdogs like Microsoft and Yahoo! battle it out with the search engine monopoly Google, the online world is experiencing launch after launch of new search engine platforms and tools and exciting, innovative features.
Tomorrow, Yahoo! is due to go live with a [...]

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When it comes to search ads, 2009 is shaping up to be almost Dickensian in nature, as prospects look equally bleak and uplifiting.
According to an online survey conducted by Microsoft (which maybe should be taken with a grain of salt), a majority of small businesses don’t engage in paid search marketing and of that [...]

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