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<title>ANA Opposes Google-Yahoo Search Deal</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10694</link>
<description>Google and Yahoo's&#160; search deal &#160;which will commenced sometime in October has received yet again, another opposition. This time it's from the Association of National Advertisers who sent a letter to the head of the antitrust division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice.&#160;Part of the letter was published by&#160; News.com &#160;and it says: The letter, authorized by the ANA board,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:20:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>German Security Office Warning: Chrome is Bad for Surfing the Internet</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10693</link>
<description>This could perhaps be the most stern warning ever made against Google Chrome since it was released for public use last Sept. 4. The&#160; warning &#160;delivered through a nationwide news program in Germany,&#160; Tagesschau &#160;saying that: The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the&#160; Berliner Zeitung .</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:05:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Chrome Information Round-Up</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10652</link>
<description>What a week it has been especially in Google land. As early as Tuesday, a comic book introducing Google's Chrome browser was accidentally leaked out. Immediately after that, Google admitted that it is actually releasing its own browser, despite being a constant supporter of Firefox.What follows soon after is a frenzy over how Google's Chrome browser would look like, how it would change the internet landscape,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:25:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Salient and not so Salient Features of Google Chrome</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10650</link>
<description>What a week it has been especially in Google land. As early as Tuesday, a comic book introducing Google's Chrome browser was accidentally leaked out. Immediately after that Google admits that it is actually releasing its own browser, despite being a constant supporter of Firefox.What follows soon after is a frenzy over how Google's Chrome browser would like, how it would change the internet landscape,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:37:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Silently Rolls Out Picasa 3.0 and New Features of Picasa Web Album</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10527</link>
<description>While everybody is recovering from the massive assault of its Chrome browser, Google silently launched&#160; Picasa 3.0 , a new interface of its two-year old Picasa Web Album, or to put it simply, Google's answer to Flickr.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:32:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Makes the Google Chrome Browser Official</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10477</link>
<description>It didn't take Google that long to make the rumored Google Chrome browser ,&#160; official . After admitting about the comic strip introducing Google Chrome, Google says that indeed they are prepping up their Chrome browser and is in fact set for international launched 100 countries tomorrow (Sept 3.) According to Google, said Chrome Browser would be streamlined and simple and very much like the clean and fast Google home page.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:54:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Eyes Greenfield Online and its Ciao site</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10401</link>
<description>If there's any indication that all seems to be well in the Microsoft camp after the failed Yahoo acquisition deal, it's when the company continues with its usual habit of buying online companies and amassing a wealth of properties. As Microsoft resumes its old habit, the company is reported to be eyeing Greenfield Online, which also ows price comparison&#160; shopping and consumer reviews site- Ciao.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:48:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Is Google Moving Towards Becoming a Social Search Engine</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10302</link>
<description>If the series of tests that Google engineers are doing on their search portal is any indication of what may soon become of the Google Search, then we might be looking at Social-powered Google search engine in the near future. According to Ben Gomes in a post at the Official Google Blog , they are conducting &quot;little experiments&quot; and testing of everything from the barely visible to the glaringly obvious.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:10:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Ad Manager Now Available to all Adsense Publisher</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10296</link>
<description>For several months now, some selected Adsense publishers have been beta testing Google's hosted ad serving manager which as we said before is a good tool for letting Adsense in to your site's unsold ad spots . Today Google AdSsense has just opened up the Ad Manager to everyone who have existing AdSense account. Creating an Ad Manager account automatically links your AdSense account and later on you can optionally integrate the two account.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:22:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Search Suggest Now Out of Beta</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10283</link>
<description>Google is officially rolling its Search Suggest feature which has been in Google labs for quite some time now. Google Search Suggest works similarly with the &quot;Did you mean&quot; feature that we often get when we enter a seemingly odd/misspelled search term which the Google engine finds incorrect. Only this time, the suggestion is done real-time.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:31:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Takes Search Suggest Out of Beta</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10251</link>
<description>Google is officially rolling its Search Suggest feature which has been in Google labs for quite some time now. Google Search Suggest works similarly with the &quot;Did you mean&quot; feature that we often get when we enter a seemingly odd/misspelled search term which the Google engine finds incorrect. Only this time, the suggestion is done real-time.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:47:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Adwords Quality Score Gets a Revamp</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10160</link>
<description>Google is introducing some improvements on the way it gives Ad units a corresponding Quality Score. This improvements are follow-ups to the most recent changes that Adwords has introduced such as the guidelines on slow loading Ad Landing Pages . These improvements specifically relates to calculation of Quality Score at the time of each search query, phasing out marking keywords with &quot;inactive for search&quot; and the replacement of &quot;minimum bid&quot; with &quot;first page bid.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:52:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Gains Search Share in July on Yahoo's Expense</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10142</link>
<description>As expected Google once again is dominating the July search share data from comScore . Google got 61.9% of the total core search rankings for July followed by Yahoo with 20.5%, Microsoft with 8.9%, Ask Network with 4.5% and AOL 4.2%. Comparing it with June data, Both Yahoo and Microsoft are at the lost side with - .4 and -.3 point changes. While Google gained 4 notches comparing its July achivement with June's data.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a New Interface</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10141</link>
<description>Among the webmaster tools available for us to tweak our sites settings for SEO purposes, Yahoo's Site Explorer is the most underated. It is not as popular as Google's Webmaster Tools and as not as noisy as Live Search Webmaster Center lately. Until now, as Yahoo is rolling out a new interface for its Site Explorer tool. Apparently this new look is in preparation for bigger things to come for this Yahoo webmasters' tool.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:01:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Tops Nielsen's July Search Share Rankings</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10053</link>
<description>There's a couple of interesting things to note in the July search share ranking released by Nielsen-Online . But first, yes as expected Google once again leads the pack garnering around 4.8 billion searches of the total 8 billion searches conducted for July in the U.S. What so interesting about this figure is the fact that Google has registered a 16% year-to-year growth.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:13:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Webmaster Central Makes 404 More Useful</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10026</link>
<description>Google Webmaster Central has added a new feature that aims to make website visitors'&#160; encounter with the perennial problem and most dreaded 404 &quot;Not found&quot; page a more pleasant if not useful experience. Although there has been manual work-around to solve this problem, mostly by editing the 404 php pages and customizing it to direct users to other parts of a site, it has been a tedious process, until now.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:59:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Tops Customer Satisfaction on Search and Portal Category</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9988</link>
<description>Latest report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index published by the University of Michigan shows Google topping the list of search and portal companies customer satisfaction survey. Based on interviews conducted on 3,000 customers, Google got 87% customer satisfaction rating for 2008. This score registered a 10.3% change from last year. Interestingly, Yahoo which occupied the top spot in 2007's survey now trails Google at the number 2 spot.Microsoft, Ask.com,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:26:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo! Buzz Opens Up to Everyone</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9984</link>
<description>Finally six months after its launch, Yahoo! Buzz is now open to the public. The announcement follows several months of beta testing the service to selected sites, including the SE Journal. Yahoo claims that Buzz now has around 5 million users and sites which were selected to implement the content voting system has indicated increase in traffic since they embed the Buzz button on their site.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Launches FreeTheAirwaves Initiative</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9940</link>
<description>We've seen and heard Google advocates for the freeing up of the white spectrum. And today it has officially launched its campaign to unite the public in lobbying for the opening up of this unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels to according to Google to provide affordable, high-speed wireless Internet connectivity nationwide. Google is calling for uncharged use of this spectrum not only for their benefit for the whole public as well.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:41:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Gets a New Lawsuit, This Time on Patent Infringement</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9935</link>
<description>The list of companies suing up Google just got a new member in GraphOn Corp., a&#160; developer of server-based application publishing and web-enabling software solutions. GraphOn has charged Google with infringement of four its owned patents. Filing their complaint in US District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, GraphOn complains that Google has infringed on their U.S. Patent Nos.&#160; 6,324,538 (the '538 patent), 6,850,940 (the '940 patent), 7,028,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:17:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Rolls Out Adsense for Feeds</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9873</link>
<description>Some blog sites are reporting that Google has added the Adsense for feeds option in their Adsense accounts' Setup menu. Checking out my Adsense account validated these reports. Right after the Adsense for Content and Adsense for Search options in the Adsense Setup menu is a new option labeled &quot;Adsense for Feeds&quot;. Google says it allows users to place relevant ads in feeds Google manages for them.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:52:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Live Search Webmaster Center Revvs Up Its Backlinks Checker</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9822</link>
<description>It looks like Microsoft is revving up its Live Search Webmaster Center to put it back in shape after releasing the tool out of beta. Aside from the new features that we covered a couple of days ago, the Webmaster Center tool is reviving its Backlink checker to give more information on referring links. Of course, we all know how important these information are for webmasters trying to work their way to the top of the Live Search SERPs for their sites targeted keyword.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:23:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo Releases its Fire Eagle Geo-Location Service</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9776</link>
<description>Yahoo has released its Fire Eagle service out-of-beta which means that anyone who has an existing Yahoo account can now take their locations to various web services with full control on how and where their location data is shared.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:16:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Gets 70.77% Share of July US Searches</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9757</link>
<description>New data from Hitwise showed that Google is still leading the major search engine pack gaining 2% increase in July's share of US searches from previous month. Comparing the current data with that of last year, Google has posted a 10% in share of US searches in the same month last year. Overall Google has accounted for 70.77% share of all the searches conducted by Americans in July.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:23:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google-Yahoo Releases Some Details of Their Search Ad Deal</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9677</link>
<description>Those who have been watching closely while Google and Yahoo iron out some kinks in their search ad deal would be glad to know that the two search engines have partially disclosed some information about it. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Google and Yahoo have made publicly available the contract governing their advertising agreement,</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:26:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Live Search Also Covers the Olympics</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9628</link>
<description>With both Google and Yahoo offering Olympics-related search services, it's but natural that Microsoft will come with its own offering. For their part, Microsoft is featuring some ways by which sports fan can find the most up-to-date 2008 Summer Olympics coverage, using of course the Live Search .</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:57:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Webmaster Tools Get Out of Beta with New Features</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9585</link>
<description>It maybe a bit late for Microsoft, but still for those who have been trying to master a work around into getting their sites to the top of the Live Search results pages will be glad to know that Microsoft's Webmaster Tools is finally out of beta. And with it comes several new features that would surely be of big help to SEO workers optimizing their sites on Live Search.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:48:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Rolls Out Insights for Search Tool</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9548</link>
<description>Fans of Google Trends who are also Adwords advertisers and marketers would be glad to know about Google's new tool which is very similar to Google Trends - the Google Insights for Search . This new tool provides more flexibility and functionality in understanding search behavior and the facility to create world heat map that graphically display search volume and regional interest. Just by typing in a search term,</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:48:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Search Appliance Can Now Search 10 Million Docs</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9538</link>
<description>Google has enhanced its enterprise search solution, Google Search Appliance by increasing its search capacity to up to 10 million from its previous 3 million limit for enterprise wide document searching.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google's DoubleClick to Serve Video Ads on Microsoft's Silverlight 2</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9515</link>
<description>Google owns DoubleClick, a digital marketing technology and services provider while Silverlight 2 is a Microsoft product. What would you call an agreement sealed by both entities which happens to be the properties of competing major internet players? Nothing really, it's just your plain business agreement which is aimed to be both beneficial for both parties.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:45:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stockholders Re-elects All of Yahoo!'s Nominees to the Board of Directors</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9403</link>
<description>So, there you go, amidst some tongue-lashing and verbal beating more particulary thrown at Roy Bostock, Yahoo's nominees to the Board of Directors, all of them were re-elected by the stockholders. The stockholders also approve the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Yahoo's independent registered public accounting firm but rejected the proposed pay-for-superior performance principle for executive compensation,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:33:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Explains Search Customization Feature</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9301</link>
<description>So while Microsoft is redefining its Live Search portal with interactive background images, and a search engine startup is hitting on Google's user privacy policy, Google is the meantime is introducing a new search feature which is aimed at helping users understand how it customized search results.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:50:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Windows Live Search Gets an Interactive Interface, Sort of</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9300</link>
<description>If you think the Live Search Cashback was a silly program to promote its search engine, Microsoft might be doing unusual again with the redesign of the Live Search portal. Guess what the redesign is all about?- Background images , which according to the Live Search Team was made to &quot;to find the best way to enhance users' sense of discovery, surprise, and delight while balancing engineering realities for a great user experience.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:58:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>YouTube Gets a $799 Million Lawsuit</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9289</link>
<description>It's been awhile since we last heard of a media company banging on YouTube's doors for some copyright infringement violations. For the past couple of months, YouTube's seems to be operating silently with most of its publicity hype centered on its quest to generate ample revenue visa-vis its huge daily page views. Now, here comes an Italian media company, Mediaset,</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:22:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Another Shareholder Picks on Yahoo over Failed Microsoft Deal</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9239</link>
<description>Adding to the list of Yahoo shareholders who are &quot; furious &quot; about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens who has to sell his Yahoo shares at a loss&#160; because he was tired of waiting for the deal to materialize. Interestingly, Mr. Pickens bought his share last May with the hopes that he would gain from the stock purchase once Microsoft acquires Yahoo at the original price of as much as $41.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:00:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo's 2nd Largest Shareholder is Furious about the Failed Microsoft Deal</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9158</link>
<description>Just a few days before the Yahoo Annual Shareholders' Meeting where the fate of the current Yahoo Board is no longer at stake, here comes its second biggest investor planning on withdrawing their support for the Board. Gordon Crawford of Capital Research and Management was said to be not happy with how both Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock have failed to come to agreement with Microsoft. Unfortunately for Crawford, who owns a 6.5% stake in Yahoo,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cuil Takes on Google and 5 Simple Reasons Why it Will Fail</title>
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<description>Here comes another challenger who wants to take on Google search and the way it indexes and organizes the web. From some ex-Googlers come, Cuil - being touted as an innovative search engine that brags of indexing 120 billion pages. That's three times the number of pages indexed and crawled by Google folks. What else? Cuil is also going against the traditional way of presenting web search results page through its magazine style SERPs.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Buries Digg Buy-Out Deal</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9138</link>
<description>A few days ago rumors abound that Google is close to acquiring Digg for a whooping sum of $200 million. This even prompted Loren to ask why Google would buy Digg for such an amount. Well, Loren can rest easy now as TechCrunch reported that the rumored buy-out deal has been buried - cancelled!</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:31:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo Highlights Breaking News on SERPs</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9127</link>
<description>Yahoo has introduced a minor change in the way it treats its search engine results page. This change has something to do with queries relating to breaking news. To give users the most fresh and recent search result, Yahoo Search is now displaying News Direct Display on the more relevant position on the SERPs of the keywords search related to the news articles. Likewise,</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:11:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Research Hits on Google's Page Rank</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9119</link>
<description>&quot;The more visits of the page made by the users and the longer time periods spent by the users on the page, the more likely the page is important. We can leverage hundreds of millions of users' implicit voting on page importance.&quot; And so claims the findings of some Microsoft researchers in partnership with some Asian academic fellows in a research report on&#160; BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:23:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Moves On, Signs New Search and Ad Deal with Facebook</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9069</link>
<description>For now, Microsoft may have gave up on acquiring Yahoo and lost its only hope of catching up with Google in the search and online ad department. But it wouldn't just rest that easy and so it has to turn to a new ally in its quest to boost its search and online ad business - Facebook. Although Microsoft and Facebook already has an existing agreement with Microsoft serving graphic display ads on Facebook pages,</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:53:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft's Kevin Johnson - Casualty of the Failed Yahoo Deal?</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9040</link>
<description>As Microsoft announced a major reorganization , more particularly the splitting up of its Platforms and Services Division (PSD) into the Windows/Windows Live and Online Services, it also announced the departure of Kevin Johnson as the Division's President. This might mean just your usual senior management shake-up but for those who have been following the Microsoft-Yahoo merger saga, Mr. Johnson's exit is a direct casualty of the said failed deal.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:05:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Decides to Make its Knol Site a Moderated Wikipedia</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9018</link>
<description>After seven months since it was announced, Google finally opens its Wikipedia-like web product KNOL to the public. I could understand why it took Google that long to launch Knol, for one it needs to populate the site first with relevant, enticing and interesting articles from its beta authors to make Knol appealing to the public. And so it did. Knol, currently has a slew of &quot;authoritative&quot; articles and the site certainly looks more a live site now.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:32:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Icahn, Yahoo Settle Dispute, Carl Joins the Board</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8895</link>
<description>Finally, Yahoo's woes regarding the proxy battle that Carl Icahn has waged against the Yahoo Board has ended. Both parties have agreed to settle the dispute , with Mr. Icahn getting a seat on the current Yahoo Board, in exchange for, yes shutting up and possibly help out in leading the company to prosperity? We could only hope so. Of course the agreement doesn't come without some conditions. In this case,</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:53:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo Shareholder To Propose an Alternative Board</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8884</link>
<description>The Yahoo Plan B group, composed of 150 Yahoo stockholders with their 3.2 million Yahoo shares, are set to ask the current Yahoo leadership to accept a compromise board which will be composed of 5 current Yahoo Board members and four nominees from the Icahn slate.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:36:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>As Yahoo Attacks Icahn, Legg Mason Vows to Support the Current Board</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8861</link>
<description>As Yahoo continues to urge its shareholders to support them in the coming annual meeting and to prevent Icahn from influencing their decision, here comes Legg Mason Capital Management , one of Yahoo's biggest investor pledging their support for the current board. Legg Mason Capital Management, on behalf of its clients, is the beneficial owner of approximately 60.7 million shares of Yahoo!, representing 4.4% of the outstanding shares of the company.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:29:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Buys ZAO Begun, It's a Contextual Ad Company Folks</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8841</link>
<description>Whatever Google's intention and purpose were for buying Russian contextual ad company called ZAO Begun is, only them knows. But we're free to speculate, it's a free web after all. So for those who are not in the loop prior to reading about this news (that includes me), ZAO Begun is part of the internet portal called Rambler. More specifically Rambler owns 50.1 percent of the Begun, so it needs to buy the 49.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:18:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google's Share of Search Ads and Earnings for Q2 Both Up</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8816</link>
<description>A lot of numbers relating to earnings, revenues and search advertising have just went out for all of us to consume. First we have this report from Efficient Frontier saying Google's share of the search ads for the Q2 has reached 77.4%. Comparing Q2 2007 data with that of Q2 2008, showed a 2% increase, while both Yahoo and Microsoft falling at 2%-17.8% and 4.8% respectively.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:22:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo Urges Shareholders to Support the Current Board</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8770</link>
<description>Less than half a month to go before the dreaded Yahoo Shareholders' meeting, Yahoo's Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock sent a joint letter to the shareholders urging them to support the current Board. Nothing fancy or new things has been said in the letter though. The letter updates the shareholders of what the current Yahoo Board has been doing the past couple of days to maximize Yahoo's value. More particularly on search and display, the Google deal,</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:39:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft and Yahoo Eye Time Warner's AOL</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8761</link>
<description>We interrupt our regular coverage of the ongoing Yahoo-Microsoft tussle to focus on what could possibly be both companies' fall back options. It seems like the focus of attention now is the acquisition of&#160; Time Warner's AOL property. Reports say that both Microsoft and Yahoo are eyeing a deal with Time Warner on two different merger options and both are rushing to get a good deal before the Yahoo shareholders' meeting.</description>
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<dc:creator>Arnold Zafra</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:20:23 GMT</pubDate>
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