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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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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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Let’s face it.  The economy stinks.  Layoffs are running rampant, job losses just hit a 34-year high, and venture capital may soon be drying up.  What could possibly bring a smile to your face on this chilly Sunday morning.
How about a free PR6 backlink?  Hopefully, you have already read our previous strategy for [...]

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Along with killing Lively and axing SearchWiki, it appears Google has also pulled the plug on SearchMash.
SearchMash was an experimental, non-branded search engine that Google used to play around with new search methodoligies.  It debuted in October 2006 and was released to the public exactly one year after. Some people actually traded in Google Search [...]

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