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Wikia Search lives up to expectations.

Posted on 7th January 2008 at 9:52 am by Manley

Wikia Search, the new search offering from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' for-profit company, Wikia inc., is now in alpha.

Will this project prove to be the competitor to Google which Wales predicts?
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Geo-targeting for organic local search

Posted on 1st January 2008 at 3:17 pm by Manley

As analytic packages allow for greater granularity to geo-targeting and the adoption of mobile devices increases, how local does local have to be?

I am going to argue that you should not give up on nationally targeted geographically specific keywords just yet.
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Death of an index

Posted on 21st December 2007 at 2:56 am by Manley

Now that its supplemental results will no longer be . . . well, supplemental, I suppose . . . where does that leave those pages which were languishing in Google purgatory?
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Google finally tackle Bloggers spam comment issues

Posted on 17th December 2007 at 11:13 am by Manley

Blogger has long been plagued by low-tech spam comments.

Given the recent firm stance on unearned links, it is refreshing to see that this is finally being addressed.
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Google goes green

Posted on 17th December 2007 at 11:11 am by Manley

Google has declared its goal to provide renewable energy which is cheaper than coal.

Is this philanthropy, marketing spin or just good business sense?
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Red Monday.

Posted on 11th December 2007 at 8:32 am by Manley

With 17% of Britons still paying for last Christmas, yesterday saw the largest on-line spend of all time, with around £370million of the £7billion that will be spent this Christmas changing hands.
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Paid links and Netrank

Posted on 10th December 2007 at 10:34 pm by Manley

As the whole industry is abound with talk about Matt and Maile's recent Google Webmaster Central post, the old adage that "Content Is King" once again rears it's magnificent head.
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No GPS? Mobile search pushes past the hardware bottleneck.

Posted on 28th November 2007 at 11:07 am by Manley

GPS for mobile devices is not new. Handsets with GPS capabilities have been around for a while now, but take-up has been slow, with only an estimated 15% of handsets being sold with an in-built capability and sales of GPS SIM cards still in their infancy.

Now Google Maps Locator offers users a feasible workaround for mobile search applications.
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Search engine sideshows; product placement or data mines?

Posted on 17th November 2007 at 2:42 pm by Manley

Acquisitions. Everyone is making them, often with no obvious ROI.

Just why are the search engines diversifying so much? Can it really just be market dominance that is driving them?
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Google play fair on Pay-Per-Click

Posted on 15th November 2007 at 3:58 pm by Manley

Google is changing the format of Pay-Per-Click AdWords appearing on AdSense sites to reduce the cost to advertisers from accidental clicks. This move looks like it will slash revenue for the search giant. Is Google playing fair at its own cost or is this a shrewd commercial move?
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