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The grim economic outlook isn’t getting any better today.
Microsoft has announced that it will be lay off up to 5,000 people over the next 18 months.  This represents about 5 percent of their total workforce. Of that amount, 1,400 people will be losing their jobs today.
Microsoft also says that it will continue to [...]

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Efficient Frontier has just released a search engine ad share report for the 4th quarter of last year. They found that Google held onto its 76% market share while Yahoo actually gained 3%.
Here are additional trends they found:

Large vs. Small Advertisers: Small advertisers in the U.S. accounted for a greater [...]

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It’s true.  According to Search Engine Land, this story is particularly interesting and goes back quite a few years.
Here’s how it happened. When the Googlebomb campaign started back in December 2003, people were told to use the words “miserable failure” and link to Bush’s biography here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
That page started ranking very [...]

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It would appear that the Microsoft layoffs we first discussed in this post back on 12/22 maybe coming to fruition.
In fact, rumor has it Microsoft may cut as much as 17 percent of its work force (a total of about 15,000 people) within the next 2 weeks, according to Fudzilla.
Among the departments likely [...]

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Google still reigns supreme, accounting for 71.97 percent of U.S. searches in the four weeks ending Nov. 29, 2008. Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask.com came in at 17.70 percent, 5.45 percent and 3.35 percent, respectively, according to Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool (via MarketingCharts).
The other, smaller 43 search engines accounted for 1.53 [...]

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If you are like me and are looking for a better way to get organized, you are going to love Digsby.
I just downloaded this little app and took it for a test spin.  It’s free…and it is powerful.  So what is it?
Simply put, Digsby lets you combine ALL of your e-mail notifications, instant messenger accounts [...]

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The Live Search Blog has announced that they are testing a new robot. The new crawler is called msnbot/2.0b and will be added to the current crew LiveSearch spiders, which are now known as msnbot/1.1.
The new spider is being tested but it is expected to replace the old spider eventually. The [...]

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Everyone wants to have their site rank well in Google.  It’s only logical…not only can Google send you a butt-load of free traffic, it’s also highly targeted and it’s one of the best ways to drive business.
The problem lies in that the exact same strategy is being used by thousands of your direct competitors. This [...]

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REMINDER: Only 2 more days until Monty’s Trick or Treat (10/31/08).  It’s going to be 100% free.
Google executives are said to be panicking in the streets this morning, after comScore revealed that their search volume share dropped a MASSIVE 0.10 percent, from 63.00 percent to a whopping 62.90 percent. Forget saving the world, they’re just [...]

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First things first.  I just got back from a two-week vacation at the beach with my wife and kids and I’ve never felt better.  I can’t remember the last time I actually went away for two weeks straight…it felt great!
As soon as I got back, I got myself a new Sony VAIO so I could [...]

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