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Microsoft - Google war continued…

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Fire your SEO, hire a lawyer instead!

Lawsuits are flying in the search world, and there is no better way to get some press coverage (free link included ) ), hence loads of traffic you wouldn’t have received otherwise. Who had ever heard of KinderStart.com before they sued Google over rankings?

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Microsoft - Google war: who’s winning?

My best guess…

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Revenge of the nerds: Microsoft vs Google

Microsoft and Google appear to be arming up for a whole new cold war of their own à la Coca Cola vs Pepsi. The outcome of their current hyper-competition may well determine the way we use information technology in the future.

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Marissa Mayer interviewed

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Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, was interviewed by John Donvan for ABC News “Ahead of the Curve“.

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What are people searching for?

Wondering what people are searching for on Google?

Google Current airs on Current TV daily. It provides a look at what the world is searching for on Google and has some background information in a 3-minute video.

The Google Zeitgeist Monthly shows that in February people in Brazil searched for “carnaval”, Germans were trying to push up their general knowledge by looking for “Wikipedia”, Italians wanted to know more about “San Valentino” while Singapore was looking to buy “viagra”. Talk about stereotypes…

To see what people are looking for on other search engines: Yahoo Buzz Overall Searches and AOL Hot Searches

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Google to notify webmasters of penalties

Apparently, Google’s Webspam and Sitemaps teams are joining forces to notify webmasters of possible penalties for their web site if they believe the site in itself is legitimate and they are not dealing with a die-hard cheating spammer, in which case they won’t notify and just penalize and / or remove the site from their index.

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