2010年1月31日 星期日

It's "courses for horses" at SES London 2010

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Last year, I posted an item to the Search Engine Watch blog entitled, "It's 'Horses for Courses' at SES London 2009." I said business professionals may want to bring a team to Search Engine Strategies London - because there will be three concurrent conference tracks and no business professional will be able to attend all of the sessions.

But, upon reflection, I should have said it's "courses for horses," because each of the three tracks of the leading search marketing conference in Europe is designed for a different member of your team.



There are tracks for those going to Search Engine Strategies for the first time. And there are other tracks for those going to SES London for the Nth time. There are even tracks for those in the public relations industry who should go to Search Engine Strategies to learn about social media, real-time SEO, Twitter and YouTube.



In other words, there are different courses for different horses in your company's stable.



And, yes, SES still offers special group discounts. In you want more information, check the rates and registation details.



You might also want to come early and stay late. There's Online Marketing Summit Day at SES London on Monday, 15 February. And there's SES Search Engine Marketing (SEM/SEO) Training of Friday, 19 February.



In between, there's an number of special events, including an SES London Meet and Greet, theatre presentations, sponsored sessions, "Black Hat/White Hat Unconferenced," and an SES London 2010 LondonSEO Party.



By the way, I'm not touting the event because the UK economy has just exited recession and you need to get ready for the recovery. No, you need to attend Search Engine Strategies in good times as well, because you need to keep up-to-date on trends and issues.



Oh, and I'm not touting the event because it needs more attendees. Christian Georgeou, Marketing Manager at Incisive Media, says, "I'm happy to report that currently registration is up over last year more than 10% for SES London now less than a month out form the show."



No, I'm urging you to get your horses on those courses because Google had a strong fourth quarter, with 17% year over year revenue growth. Given that the global economy is still in the early days of recovery, this was an extraordinary end to the year. And according to Business Week, Apple reportedly is in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone's Safari Web browser.



So, don't expect the pace of change in the search industry to slow down anytime soon. If fact, it's much more likely to speed up.



Ensuring that SES London 2010 reflects the latest changes is no small task. At SES Chicago 2009, I interviewed Mike Grehan, the VP and Global Content Director for Search Engine Watch, ClickZ, and Search Engine Strategies.



Grehan reflected on past SES shows, the evolution of SES, and the upcoming conferences in 2010, including SES London. He discussed the advent of real-time search and warned search marketers to be aware that the industry is constantly changing and evolving. He discussed the power panels and state of the industry panels that are being brought back for London.





SES London and New York 2010 preview with Mike Grehan, VP, Global Content Director, Incisive



I should disclose that Search Engine Strategies is a client of my agency. But trust me on the pace of change.



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Google Analytics Adds Six Languages

Google Analytics is now available in six additional languages. They are: Bulgarian, Catalan, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak and Vietnamese. The total number of languages available in Google Analytics is now 31.



If you wish to switch languages in Google Analytics, simply look for the language menu in the top right corner of the login page.



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Universal Search 101

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What if Flash were an open standard?

A picture named mascot.jpgInteresting collaborative post betw Gruber and Scoble. I'd like to get into the mix with a 90-degree turn -- in the form of a question.


1. Okay, Apple seems to be forcing a question. Can they force web site producers to kill Flash?


2. It's kind of hard to defend Flash because it's a company-owned thing, not an open standard.


3. Now the question. What if Apple were trying to erase something that's not company-owned? Either a formal or defacto standard?


4. Further, what if their alternative were something that was locked-down and owned by a company? Further, what if the company was Apple?


This may be kind of a toe-dip. Apple tries this. If it works, they try sticking their whole foot in. The end result may well be a networking environment owned by one company. Or two or more incompatible networking environments.


Users and website developers are practical people. We don't care about Adobe, says Gruber, and that's probably right (I don't have a single Flash document on scripting.com). But I very much care about an open Internet.


Yes, that opens me to ridicule from users with little experience with the other kind of networking, one that has huge Do Not Enter signs everywhere. Their naivete is no excuse for throwing out the engine that's been driving innovation. The question of where and how we draw the line should be part of the public discussion.


BTW, how lovely are open standards? I'm writing this post from an American Airlines flight from NY to SF. Do you have any idea how many open standards were necessary to make this work? Makes the mind spin. And it all works exactly the same if I fly Virgin America or Air Egypt. In an Apple-designed world how much of this would work? Imho, not very much.


PS: Adobe might want to consider, right now, very quickly, giving Flash to the public domain. Disclaim all patents, open source all code, etc etc. That would throw the ball squarely back into Apple's court and would frame the question right now in its most stark terms.


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Apple CEO: Google Wants To “Kill The iPhone”

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2010年1月30日 星期六

More iPad thoughts

A picture named tt.jpgOne recurring theme in defense of the closedness of the iPad is that it gives you access to the web and that's the most open thing around. Maybe, but if I want the web there are much better and less expensive ways to get it that don't compromise on flexibility and the ability to run other software. In other words, if you want the web and only the web, iPad would be a poor choice.


Yet I am concerned that it will get a flow of great apps from people who are willing to compromise on their freedom and users' freedom. They may say they're not doing it, but I don't see it that way. I wouldn't want to do anything to discourage them from developing cool apps for iPad, as long as they're not pumping their creativity into a platform that can't be competed with because of patents. If that's the case, it's a very unhealthy situation. Not one a developer should support unless they know for sure that other platforms can challenge Apple. I suspect there's a problem because Google is not releasing their multi-touch technology very widely.It could be that it's not ready, I hope that's the reason. But it may also be that Apple has a patent.


Another question that comes up frequently is why worry about limitations in a platform from Apple when we haven't expressed similar concerns re those from Nintendo, Sony, etc. The answer is obvious -- we depend on the Macintosh being one of two or three serious and open development platforms. At some point Steve is going to get up on stage and tell us it's the end of the road for the Mac, because the iPad/iPhone OS has sucked all the energy from the Mac. That's something he and Apple could seriously influence. Sony and Nintendo don't make the Mac, therefore there's nothing to worry about. One way Apple could alleviate these concerns and, at the same time, blast a big hole in the side of Microsoft would be to fully open source Mac OS. At that point, I'd be very happy to keep working on it, and wouldn't give a whit about the iPad, knowing as long as there's demand we'd be supplied with new versions running on the latest hardware, by someone, if not Apple.


A picture named slippers.jpgRe the need for simplification, I've watched a close relative struggle with the multiple layers of user interface on today's computers, I recognize the need for a fresh start. Current GUI technology is 40-plus years old. Mac and Windows are equally confusing messes. User interfaces can be vastly simplified. I thought Apple would have done much more in this area by now. It's already been three years since the iPhone's introduction. And I don't think Android has the same commitment to a fresh start, it's more of a hodgepodge. And while Google is a patent offender just like Apple, so has no moral advantage, at least there's no barrier to what developers can put on the Android platform, so Google doesn't have the ability to control what goes on Android as Apple does with the iPad. In the worst case, you can route around Google totally because Android is open source.


Another thought occurred to me -- iPad looks rushed. It seems possible that Apple pushed it out sooner because it got wind of a competitive product. Could it be that Google has a DroidPad in the pipe? One thing's for sure, Apple's competitors are not scared of iPad. Let's hope they make some decent offers to developers. If any of them want my help, I'm here and ready to roll up my sleeves. I want to be sure there are lots of choices, the sooner the better. I can help get developers to pay attention to what you're doing.


The stakes are much higher than with the iPhone. No one should underestimate the potential of iPad. That's why I said, ironically, there's no doubt I will buy one as soon as I can. For the same reason I bought an iPhone. You have to understand this product if you want to stay current. But we, as an industry, must have choice. Now is a crucial moment for that.


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Attn Joe: Should we trust iPad?

A picture named mysterioso.gifBrent Simmons, Joe Hewitt and Miguel de Icaza all write that they look forward to developing on the iPad. I found their essays surprising, especially Joe's -- given his decision to stop developing for the iPhone because of the review process that Apple imposes on developers. I totally supported him in that, and since his decision (though not because of it) I have switched from the iPhone to Google's Android platform, as a user.


I don't develop for any of the new platforms because they don't run my software, though Google could. Apple would never approve anything remotely like the OPML Editor, and that makes it very unlikely that I'd develop for them, but also for some really important reasons, makes it equally unlikely that I'd use it. I found Joe's piece thought provoking (it provoked this piece). I hope he gives mine similar consideration.


First, after reading Joe's piece, I understood why developers find the iPad interesting. It's because while they liked creating apps for the iPhone, the tiny screen made some very difficult design choices necessary. While they could see the potential of the multi-touch interface and a fresh start (they don't have to live with a UI design that's 40 years old), the iPhone screen is so small, that they couldn't nearly deliver on the promise. All the while they're thinking "If only Apple would make one of these things that isn't so small." And that of course is exactly what the iPad is. I'm sure they can understand that we, as users, weren't having the same thoughts. Until I read Joe's piece I had not heard this idea in any of the flood of discourse on the iPad, pro or con. Since I don't develop for the platform I never had the thought myself.


So, if Brent, Joe and Miguel like it, it stands to reason that they will create software that users will like. So the success of the iPad is assured, in ways perhaps that the Asus isn't. Or perhaps even Android, because it doesn't have multi-touch enabled, just guessing that might have something to do with a patent. Which is a shame, because while Joe has the option to put some or most of the functionality that Apple won't allow on a Facebook-owned server, the user doesn't have any say in this choice. So the user's data will live where Facebook, or some other funded company, wants it to live.


While Joe et al have been thinking about great new user interface, I was too when I was their age, now I'm thinking about something else, that I believe is even more important -- keeping big tech companies from controlling what has become our primary means of expression and communication, computer networks.


When I was young, some of us envisioned the world we live in today, only we tended to think only of the upside of networked thinking, never the dangers. I guess that's human nature and the nature of youth. Won't it be great if everyone can access everyone else's ideas anywhere, we thought -- on any kind of device, all inter-connected and fast. Some believed, me included, that computers without networking interfaces were totally uninteresting. Everything I created was designed to communicate. I ached because early Macintoshes had such awful networking APIs. Eventually all that got sorted out when we got HTTP -- it was so simple, the big companies couldn't control what we did with it.


But ever since that watershed moment the big tech companies have been trying to get the genie back in the bottle. It's the nature of bigness and corporateness to do that. Facebook didn't exist when I started my work, but now they're here and they're huge, and they view the world the way a big company does.


The problem is this -- if Facebook goes away -- and it could, so does everything everyone created with it. Facebook investors and developers like Joe (who I respect enormously) probably aren't worrying about this, because necessarily everything they do is tied up in the success of Facebook. Now if Joe can show me, in his architecture based on the iPad, where all my work is mirrored in a service I pay for, like Amazon S3, in a simple format I and others can write software against, then I can relax and look forward to the future he, Brent and Miguel want to create. But if my work is tied up in their success, then the price is too high. I'll take the lower fidelity but open playing field of the netbook, and keep my own data on my own hard drives, and back it up as I see fit. And continue to exercise my First Amendment rights.


I know that "most users" aren't thinking like this, it's easy to be lulled into a false sense of confidence. But I don't trust these companies, and I especially don't trust Apple or Google with my writing work. I can see a day when what I write has to be approved by someone who works for Steve Jobs before it can be read publicly. That's a day when freedom is completely crushed.


All three of these men know that freedom is important. So what's the answer. You're all willing to give up some of your freedom to play in Apple's new ballpark. How much of our freedom should we be willing to give up, and is this the only way to get it? Is it possible to create an iPad-like platform that has none of the drawbacks of Apple's offerings? If not, why not?


Update: A must-read piece by Alex Payne. "If I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I'd never be a programmer today." Well put, even if it's not a sure thing. (I didn't have any kind of computer growing up and I'm a programmer.)


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Irony: You Need A Map To Find Google Street View On The iPhone

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Thank You (2009 Edition)

Before January slips away from me, I want to get my annual Thank You post out! Thanks to TheDoc (our resident prolific forums guru) for reminding me.Milestones Snippets Launched The biggest addition to this site in 2009 was the snippets area. It has been a popular resource which makes me happy since that’s the reason this site [...] http://tinyurl.com/yjdyzaj

2010年1月29日 星期五

Wish you were here Bing

BingWatch team was busy this week attending Domain Fest Global 2010 in Santa Monica which was ended this morning, Friday, January 29. The event was organized by top-tier domain monetization company, DomainSponsor.com. This is one of the kinds that "cannot miss" domain conference. Close to 1,000 multi-millionaires, domain owners, and investors from around the world filled out seats and attended the event when it was started in 2006. This past event was the 5th year in a row. This year’s keynote speaker was Tony Hsieh, Zappos.com CEO. Other top speakers included Bruce Clay (Bruce Clay, Inc.) and Danny Sullivan (Search... http://tinyurl.com/ybhyaer

Google Publishes 5 Privacy Principles

In honor of yesterday's International Data Privacy Day, Google published its five privacy principles. They are:




  1. Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services. Search history informs personalized search, but users can opt-out.

  2. Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices. For example, you can chat on Google Talk "off the record" so the conversation isn't saved.

  3. Make the collection of personal information transparent. Last year, the Google Dashboard was launched to show you what info Google is collecting on you.

  4. Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy. You can report privacy issues related to Street View. Google often blurs faces, for example.

  5. Be a responsible steward of the information we hold. Google doesn't sell data to other companies.



You can view the published web document on Google's privacy principles here.



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Scour Launches Local Social Search

Social search engine Scour has launched a new local feature. Simply click on the new "Local" tab over the search box. Then, type in what you're looking for and the location you're interested in, and click "Search."



The results page features listings down the left side and a map on the right. As you scroll down, the map travels with you - very handy.



Here's a couple screenshots. Click on either image to enlarge or head to Scour to try it out for yourself.



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Delicious Updates Viewing Options; Adds StumbleUpon-Like Feature

Social bookmarking site Delicious has updated the ability to filter viewing options - plus added a new way to browse your bookmarks that is very StumbleUpon-like.



First up, there's a new display options menu tucked into the top right corner of your bookmarks display. This is for when you're viewing "My Bookmarks" - not on the main page. Here's what it looks like:



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Delicious also gave the option menu treatement to the tags section on the right sidebar in "My Bookmarks."



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Last but absolutely not least, there's a new option to "Browse these bookmarks." Again, this is for your own bookmarks. When you click it, you're taken to the most recent bookmark - but there's a toolbar frame across the top. Click arrows to browse through your bookmarks. This is very much like the new StumbleUpon - except your just browsing your own bookmarks. It will be interesting to see if Delicious expands this capability to truly compete with StumbleUpon in the future.



Look for the "Browse these boomarks" link in a blue box in the top right corner:



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Here's one of my bookmarks with the Delicious browsing frame at the top (click to enlarge):



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Connect with me on Delicious, screen name nlj.



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6 Google Updates to Read this Weekend

Whether you're snowed in or enjoying sunny weather this weekend, take some time to read up on these Google updates:



Google Custom Search has made some changes to the hosted home page.



Google Analytics has made annotations available for all accounts.



Google Maps now offers personalized suggestions.



Google Image search for mobile has added Popular Image browsing.



The Google Research team blogged about building cluster applications.



Google Books updated their Home Page and Library.



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The future of UI – interview on CBC

The folks at CBC’s Spark show interviewed me about the future of UI, and the boring post.
Good stuff on innovation, ui design, whether I’m a curmudgeon or not, the Ipad and more. ~10:00 long.
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Good Bye Winter, Hello Santa Clara. PPC Marketer’s Dream Agenda

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Yelp Ratings Appear In Google AdWords

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Microsoft Earnings Beat Estimates Online Services Post Loss, More On Bing And The iPhone

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Goojje, A Google China Knockoff

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Designers These Days…

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Google Mobile Image Search Gets Popular Images

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Click To Conversion Time (Part I): What This Metric Can Tell You About Your Clientele

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The Algorithm Chasers

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Google Brings Click to Call to Mobile Ads

If you have an AdWords campaign set up to reach searchers using Google's mobile search, you've got a new feature to enhance your efforts. Google is enabling click-to-call phone numbers in the ads that appear on mobile web browsers.



Smartphones allow users to click on phone numbers and a call is automatically generated. If a smartphone user is searching for a local pizza place on their mobile device, then they can now simply click on the phone number and order up their favorite pie.



Google's mobile click-to-call ads are generated based on location. So if your company is a chain, an ad will be served up with the closest location to a user - and will contain the appropriate phone number.



In order to add click-to-call in mobile AdWords ads, simply set up location extensions and add your business phone number. Then make sure your campaign is set up to appear on mobile devices with full Internet browsers. The video below shows you how it's done so you'll know what to do when you're in AdWords:





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Microsoft Online Division Revenues Improve, But Remain at a Loss

Microsoft has reported its Q2 2009 earnings (Q4 for many other companies) and the news is mixed for their online services division. Revenues improved over the previous quarter, but came in at a 5% loss year-over-year.



Specifically, online revenues for Q2 came in at $581 million, compared to $609 million the year prior. Q2 losses came in at $466 million compared with $320 million in Q2 2008.



The loss was blamed on a decrease in overall online advertising revenues. However, the silver lining was that Bing brought a growth in search revenues for Microsoft.



If Bing continues to grow, then Microsoft will do well to capitalize on its strengths to build a stronger online services division. Of course, the deal with Yahoo! should help as well.



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Attn Joe: Should we trust iPad?

A picture named mysterioso.gifBrent Simmons, Joe Hewitt and Miguel de Icaza all write that they look forward to developing on the iPad. I found their essays surprising, especially Joe's -- given his decision to stop developing for the iPhone because of the review process that Apple imposes on developers. I totally supported him in that, and since his decision (though not because of it) I have switched from the iPhone to Google's Android platform, as a user.


I don't develop for any of the new platforms because they don't run my software, though Google could. Apple would never approve anything remotely like the OPML Editor, and that makes it very unlikely that I'd develop for them, but also for some really important reasons, makes it equally unlikely that I'd use it. I found Joe's piece thought provoking (it provoked this piece). I hope he gives mine similar consideration.


First, after reading Joe's piece, I understood why developers find the iPad interesting. It's because while they liked creating apps for the iPhone, the tiny screen made some very difficult design choices necessary. While they could see the potential of the multi-touch interface and a fresh start (they don't have to live with a UI design that's 40 years old), the iPhone screen is so small, that they couldn't nearly deliver on the promise. All the while they're thinking "If only Apple would make one of these things that isn't so small." And that of course is exactly what the iPad is. I'm sure they can understand that we, as users, weren't having the same thoughts. Until I read Joe's piece I had not heard this idea in any of the flood of discourse on the iPad, pro or con. Since I don't develop for the platform I never had the thought myself.


So, if Brent, Joe and Miguel like it, it stands to reason that they will create software that users will like. So the success of the iPad is assured, in ways perhaps that the Asus isn't. Or perhaps even Android, because it doesn't have multi-touch enabled, just guessing that might have something to do with a patent. Which is a shame, because while Joe has the option to put some or most of the functionality that Apple won't allow on a Facebook-owned server, the user doesn't have any say in this choice. So the user's data will live where Facebook, or some other funded company, wants it to live.


While Joe et al have been thinking about great new user interface, I was too when I was their age, now I'm thinking about something else, that I believe is even more important -- keeping big tech companies from controlling what has become our primary means of expression and communication, computer networks.


When I was young, some of us envisioned the world we live in today, only we tended to think only of the upside of networked thinking, never the dangers. I guess that's human nature and the nature of youth. Won't it be great if everyone can access everyone else's ideas anywhere, we thought -- on any kind of device, all inter-connected and fast. Some believed, me included, that computers without networking interfaces were totally uninteresting. Everything I created was designed to communicate. I ached because early Macintoshes had such awful networking APIs. Eventually all that got sorted out when we got HTTP -- it was so simple, the big companies couldn't control what we did with it.


But ever since that watershed moment the big tech companies have been trying to get the genie back in the bottle. It's the nature of bigness and corporateness to do that. Facebook didn't exist when I started my work, but now they're here and they're huge, and they view the world the way a big company does.


The problem is this -- if Facebook goes away -- and it could, so does everything everyone created with it. Facebook investors and developers like Joe (who I respect enormously) probably aren't worrying about this, because necessarily everything they do is tied up in the success of Facebook. Now if Joe can show me, in his architecture based on the iPad, where all my work is mirrored in a service I pay for, like Amazon S3, in a simple format I and others can write software against, then I can relax and look forward to the future he, Brent and Miguel want to create. But if my work is tied up in their success, then the price is too high. I'll take the lower fidelity but open playing field of the netbook, and keep my own data on my own hard drives, and back it up as I see fit. And continue to exercise my First Amendment rights.


I know that "most users" aren't thinking like this, it's easy to be lulled into a false sense of confidence. But I don't trust these companies, and I especially don't trust Apple or Google with my writing work. I can see a day when what I write has to be approved by someone who works for Steve Jobs before it can be read publicly. That's a day when freedom is completely crushed.


All three of these men know that freedom is important. So what's the answer. You're all willing to give up some of your freedom to play in Apple's new ballpark. How much of our freedom should we be willing to give up, and is this the only way to get it? Is it possible to create an iPad-like platform that has none of the drawbacks of Apple's offerings? If not, why not?


Update: A must-read piece by Alex Payne. "If I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I'd never be a programmer today." Well put, even if it's not a sure thing. (I didn't have any kind of computer growing up and I'm a programmer.)


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2010年1月28日 星期四

Whiteboard Friday - Optimizing Topic Pages

Posted by great scott!

This week we're pleased to welcome Marshall Simmonds, CEO of Define Search Strategies and Chief Strategist for the New York Times, to Whiteboard Studios. Whether or not to use topic pages--and how to use them effectively--is a topic of some debate in the SEO world. Well, who better to ask about it than the guy in charge of SEO strategy for the NYT and About.com, two of the topic page-iest sites on the web?



If you're using a topic page strategy, or you've considered it, watch this week's Whiteboard Friday. Marshall breaks down how and when they can be effective, pros and cons, as well as expenses and advantages to the strategy.











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Why Settle for Best Practices?

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Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX May Be Live

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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Key Strategies for Your 2010 Online Acquisition Plan – Highlights from 2008 Search and Email Webinars

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Ballmer Blogs His Thoughts On Google, China

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Bing Debuts In-Depth Stock Pages

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Google Formally Introduces “Clickable Phone Numbers” In Mobile Search Ads

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Bing Launches New U.S. Stocks and Funds Feature

Bing is making it easier for you to keep up with your portfolio and the U.S. stock market. Their new stocks and funds pages offer in-depth data on most U.S. stocks. The pages include an Instant Answer snapshot of what's going on for a stock at the time you search.



Let's see how Apple's stock is doing a day after the iPad was unveiled. Type in the stock code AAPL and you'll get the Instant Answer in the main search results:



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Click on the main link and you get access to the new stocks and funds page for Apple on Bing. (Click on the image for a larger view.)



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