Live Search QnA Gets Updates
Autor admin | 02.05.2008 | Category SEO
Live Search QnA Gets Updates
Microsoft’s Live Search team has announced updates to its answer feature, QnA. The updates to the service, still in Beta, are being dubbed the “Renaissance release” and include the following, according to their blog:
- Focus on the QnA experience for new users.
- Encourage users to discover content and functionality in new ways.
- Highlight and award higher quality content by featuring members who are Top Contributors in given areas of expertise.
When it comes to search, answers are where it’s at for an increasing number of searchers. Recent data showed answer sites growing 118% in 2007, while social media is a medium for answer-finding as well.
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IBM Refreshes Lotus Quickr
Autor admin | 02.05.2008 | Category SEO
IBM today is expected to announce a new version of its Lotus Quickr product, along with a new tool expressly designed to break down the walls that separate data housed in different file systems.
And Big Blue isn’t pulling any punches about who it’s targeting with the introduction of the Lotus Quickr Content Integrator, a middleware application that can import content from Microsoft’s SharePoint sites, Exchange folders and its own Lotus Domino environments into Lotus Quickr.
“While Microsoft preaches interoperability, IBM (NYSE: IBM) is delivering alternatives to SharePoint that work with a variety of file types and IT infrastructures,” the company said in a statement.
First Annual SES Awards for Best Search Engine Strategies
Autor admin | 02.05.2008 | Category SEO
First Annual SES Awards for Best Search Engine Strategies In celebration of Search Engine Strategies’ 10-year anniversary, SES San Jose 2008 will host the first annual SES Awards ceremony. The SES Awards will be held Wednesday, August 20, 2008, hosted by Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies. Winners will be selected in each of the following categories: * Technology Platform Search Marketers Can’t Live Without * Best Business-to-Business Search Marketing Campaign * Most Innovative Use of Search Engine Optimization * Search Engine with Most Relevant Search Results * Best Multi-National Search Marketing Campaign * Best Integration of Search with Other Media * Best SEM Technology Platform for SMBs * Best Social Media Marketing Campaign * Most Advertiser-Friendly Search Engine * Most Innovative Paid Search Campaign * Most Effective Use of Web Analytics * Most Innovative New Search Engine * Best Search Engine Ad Platform * Best Web Analytics Platform * Best Use of Local Search * Editor’s Choice The mission of the SES Awards: to inspire innovation and encourage new ideas. (Read the full post about ‘First Annual SES Awards for Best Search Engine Strategies’…)
Yahoo-Google Deal is Imminent, So is Microsoft Decision
Autor admin | 02.05.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo-Google Deal is Imminent, So is Microsoft Decision
The Wall Street Journal is yet again providing Microhoogle scoops this morning. First up, Yahoo may announce a deal with Google to run its search ads. A few weeks ago, we learned that the tests of those ads were successful. And though the Justice Department is concerned about the partnership, the agreement will likely be nonexclusive, which should alleviate regulators’ fears.
But regulators are not the only ones with fears that Yahoo needs to alleviate. Wall Street and shareholders have been waiting with baited breath to see if Microsoft and Yahoo could reach an agreement on price for the proposed acquisition.
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Peer Network Tests ‘Real World’ Site Performance
Autor admin | 02.05.2008 | Category SEO
The new e-commerce site you launched looks great and you got great comments from beta testers. So why isn’t it getting the traffic you expected?
One issue might be the site, or certain pages, are not as easily accessible to as many customers as you assumed. There are many Web site performance measurement tools, but they don’t all measure the so-called “last mile” or performance at specific endpoints, i.e. user’s desktops.
Enter Gomez, which has quietly grown its peer network measurement solution to over 40,000 users worldwide. Like other Web performance companies, Gomez has a distributed set of test nodes that measure Internet backbone performance, but the company said its additional Gomez Peer Community is the only global Web site monitoring network made up of real online users.
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Music Services to Surrender $100M to Songwriters?
Autor admin | 02.05.2008 | Category SEO
Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) AOL unit, RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) could stand to pay up to $100 million in royalties owed to thousands of songwriters and publishers, after a federal judge established a formula for determining the payments.
The move could force the three online services to pay royalties to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) worth 2.5 percent of their music revenue dating back to 2002, ASCAP said.
The decision by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York sets a formula for potential license fees on songs played by the three online services from July 1, 2002, through December 31, 2009, the trade group said.
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Intel’s New ‘Business Exchange’ Targets SMBs
Autor admin | 02.05.2008 | Category SEO
Intel today launched a program for the SMB market designed to sell not just bare metal but the software on top of it. Dubbed the Intel Business Exchange (BX), it brings a number of software and services vendors together to offer complete solutions, not just hardware.
As part of the program, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has launched a support Web site with more information for customers, and listing its software partners. These partners include Microsoft, AMI, Doculex, Everest, Fonality, Open-E, salesforce.com, Symantec and Tripwire.
Intel claims the program is no threat to Value-added resellers (VARs).
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