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The First Decade with Google - 1998 - 2008

posted by pittfall in fun, search engines, tools on September 6th, 2008

Google hits 10 years old today, Happy Birthday… glad to see you make it out of beta!
Then

Now

The Company
Google Inc. was founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page to make it easier to find high-quality information on the web. The company is based on three years of research in web search and data mining [...]

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A Compendium of Google’s Chrome Browser

posted by pittfall in news, search engines, search tech, tools on September 6th, 2008

What a whirlwind of activity that has surrounded the launch of a new browser. I don’t remember any browser getting this amount of buzz than Google has with Chrome. I really wanted to start posting information on Monday afternoon when the info leaked out and the firestorm got started. But I wanted to see how [...]

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Yahoo! Calls It Quits on Another Social Portal

posted by pittfall in smo, tools on August 31st, 2008

Mash has fallen!

I posted about Yahoo! Mash last September when it was released in private beta and only available through an invitation. Now, Yahoo! will be scraping the fledgling social site, never having a real understanding of it’s true potential.

In my first post about Mash, I posed the question:
Can this give Yahoo an edge in [...]

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Useful Tools for Blackberry

posted by pittfall in search tech, tips, tools on July 19th, 2008

Recently I switched from a Palm Treo to a Blackberry Curve because it offers functionality that helps me stay connected when my laptop is closed, I’m on the road, etc. It definitely offers more than the iPhone and Palm for business applications. A few of my finds (thanks to some friends) that I think are [...]

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Google Out to Destroy Keyword Estimation Tools?

posted by pittfall in search engines, sem, seo, tools on July 9th, 2008

Google has always offered very valuable tools to advertisers, one of which that is extremely useful to organic keyword research, the Google AdWords Keyword Tool for discovering and building a keyword list. The only limitation is that it expressed search volume and search volume trends as a green bar. This was a great way to [...]

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