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Sharing Information With Google Reader

posted by pittfall in tools on May 26th, 2008

Google Reader is a very valuable tool that I am sure many of you are aware of, however, it has offers more than just keeping up with your favorite XML and RSS feeds. It also gives you the ability to share posts from your subscriptions that you find valuable and would be useful to your [...]

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Hilltop: A Search Engine Based on Expert Documents

posted by pittfall in search tech on May 25th, 2008

This paper is being reproduced as a resource to my readers. The document was moved by the University of Toronto after the departure of one of it’s authors as an active professor at the institution. By no means am I trying to take credit from these individuals for the research and subsequent paper below. I [...]

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Google Pushing Local Search?

posted by pittfall in search engines, search tech, seo on May 8th, 2008

Today while doing research for a client, I happened to notice something very interesting in Google’s results.

The given search was for “hampton inn” and further research on other geographically relevant, broad terms returned similar results like “restaurant” and “mcdonalds.”
Entering a city, state or zip code returned the Google map and relevant results based on the [...]

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Meta Tags Constitute Trademark Infringement or Not?

posted by pittfall in news, orm, seo, tips on May 2nd, 2008

A couple of influential court cases in the US have been decided, however, they differ on the overall outcome when it comes to use of trademarked words in META data including keywords constitute trademark infringement.
North American Medical Corp. v. Axiom Worldwide, Inc.
But in this case, I do not think Axiom denied placing those terms in [...]

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RSS Day 2008

posted by pittfall in events on May 1st, 2008

What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website.
What are you planning for RSS Day?

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