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Google Content expands

Posted on 20th May 2008 at 9:10 am by Christopher Tate

As of yesterday, Google Content Network has added new advertising partners in North America.
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Monkeying about with search

Posted on 19th May 2008 at 11:45 am by Christopher Tate

Yahoo! have launched their new SearchMonkey open development platform. How will this affect how search results are shown to the world? Read on...
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Get 'Social' with Friend Connect

Posted on 15th May 2008 at 10:46 am by Christopher Tate

Google has released a number of widgets under the banner of Friend Connect, giving site owners the chance to add social features to their web pages.
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Google SiteLinks search boxes revisited.

Posted on 12th March 2008 at 10:46 pm by Manley

Last week we were observing search boxes within Google SiteLinks.

Now that Google has announced that this feature is fully rolled out across Datacenters, it is worth looking at why some sites have them and whether they are a feature that is worth having.
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Google testing site search boxes within SERPs.

Posted on 4th March 2008 at 1:29 pm by Manley

For selected searches Google are inserting a site search input box within the SERPs.

This is only appearing for major organisations and even then, only those who have very distinct, unambiguous names.
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Manual removal of dangerous cults?

Posted on 26th February 2008 at 9:51 am by Manley

At the end of last month a group called Anonymous successfully produced a Google-bomb, targeting the Church of Scientology.

Now the SERPs have changed .

Is this the algorithm working or are we seeing an instance of manual review?
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Targeting individual search engines; a technique from the past?

Posted on 14th February 2008 at 3:22 pm by Manley

There was a time when SEOs were recommending different landing pages for different engines.

Thankfully this has gone the way of meta keyword stuffing, but is there an argument for still focusing campaigns on individual engines or should companies be adopting a more holistic search offering?
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