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MSN has launched the “new” Live Search portal to address four main areas of concern:
Relevance (why you use the search product)
Speed (patience is a virtue, but not what users really want in search query results)
Streamlining Concept (better usability)
High-Interest Content (universal search product anyone?)
The MSN team claim that this is the biggest update since the launch [...]
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Can the Open Directory be back?
Just yesterday I posted on the fact that the index page of the open directory, also known as DMOZ, had fallen from Google search results and I mused about the idea that the directory may have died or at least in the eyes of Google.
No dice!
It reminds me of the [...]
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Just about four weeks ago I posted about the plight of a fellow blogger named Shoemoney and an alleged extortion attempt by a proclaimed editor of the directory. Now, I have not been exactly defending the open directory in its value with the major search engines like Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo (in alphabetical order [...]
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Google has launched a social bookmarking service aptly named Shared Stuff quietly.
But the news is out:
Google Shared Stuff - Google Blogscoped
Google Launches Google Shared Stuff - Search Engine Land
Google Shared Stuff is Delicious - Marketing Pilgrim
Google Wants You To Share Stuff - TechCrunch
Google and Being Social - John Battelle’s Searchblog
Here is the best description [...]
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BlogRush is a new portal with a widget to drive traffic from to your blog from other blogs that are in the same vertical as yours.
BlogRush (still in beta) is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need:
More Readers For Their Blog.
By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, [...]
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