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Search Out of Beta Feb 1
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I was told by a high level Microsoft employee that the beta search will go live on Feb 1 He also informed me that advertising on will continue to be the two featured listings at the top and the Overture results through the end of the year
How To Get Inbound Links For An Ecommerce Site
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Ask your suppliers to link to you Place a link request in all confirmation47thank you47shipping notification etc emails These notifications are going to businesses47people who have purchased a product from you so they already like what youre offering...
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap
But Yahoo and both made significant gains in several key areas largely closing the perception gap with Google Ask Jeeves also received improved ratings though not to the same degree as Yahoo and The study looked at more than 250 metrics including indicators for brand impact future usage customer satisfaction and customer loyalty
Keynote attributes the gains in positive perceptions to changes made by Yahoo and during the course of last year Yahoo introduced local search in mid and the study results suggest that this may have helped Yahoos overall scores Yahoo...
Yahoo, Microsoft Gain On Google
Google Inc remains the search leader but its fierce competitors Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc are narrowing the gap through improvements in customer loyalty and perception in the quality of search results a research firm said Thursday
In a study of web users Keynote Systems Inc found significant improvements in consumers experience with the search engines on Microsofts and Yahoos web portals while the rankings of Googles site remained statistically flat The San Mateo Calif company compared its finding with a similar study it conducted in June of last year...
Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Cringely's Predictions for 2005
Cringelys Predictions for
Posted by Deren Smith on 11 Jan 24 comments
This is my first column of the new year which means I have to give my predictions for Weve been doing this for many years now and unlike every other predictor Ive read I begin with a look back at the predictions I made a year ago How accurate was I Or more properly how vague was I that I can claim accuracy
A year ago this time my claimed accuracy was more than 80 percent and would have been almost 90 percent had Intel not waited one more week before embracing s 64bit processor instructions as I predicted...
Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - DRM in Windows Media Player Helps Spyware
in Windows Media Player Helps Spyware
Posted by Tom Warren on 11 Jan 29 comments
According to a report by Panda Software two new trojans have appeared on the internet recently which take advantage of Microsofts Windows Media Player using Digital Rights Management
Trj47WmvDownloaderA and Trj47WmvDownloaderB are both spreading through P2P networks and in video files The trojans take advantage of by attempting to obtain a licence for the video file The video files infected by these Trojans have a...