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Create Your Own Virtual Lobby

3:43 pm by in Brand Building, Conversions, Social Media

by Eric Brown
There are all sorts of ways today to connect with, participate and enjoy a conversation with your customer. There have been numerous posts about starting and maintaining a company blog, which is an excellent tool. Another favorable venue is to create a Ning site. It is a very easy application and can create a pretty cool place to have conversation and engage your customers. It is sort of like having your own My Space site, and very easy to update and foster community with your brand. Ning is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks. Launched in October 2005. Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. Ning is Andreessen’s third startup (after Netscape and Opsware), and gets much of its notability from Andreessen’s successes with those companies. Ning hopes to compete with large social sites like MySpace and Facebook, […]

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Google Launches Customizable Search Feature, SearchWiki

3:03 pm by in Google

Google has released a new feature to its search results. It’s called SearchWiki and it lets searchers, while signed into their Google account, customize their own results.
When you do a search, you can move results around. If a result is third, you can move it to first. (You SEOs are going to looooove that [detect my sarcasm]).
You can make notes about search results. If you return to the same results, you will find them the way you left them last time.
Your changes only affect YOUR searches. Check out this vid for more:

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These Fun Keyword Tools Will Answer All Your Questions

2:07 pm by in Search Engine Tools and Downloads, Search Engine Optimization

It’s exciting to discover more and more keyword tools and brainstorm how far you can go with your keyword research. Let’s look at my recent finds and see what we can do with them and what questions they can answer for us:
Question 1: What are the meanings of this word? How to use it?

I have once listed some great online reference sources where you can find definitions of any word (and also looked at Google define: operator) - while all those tools are useful for multiple purposes (they show synonyms, related words, idioms, etc), there’s one more free online dictionary which is best to use for definition research: ObjectGraph.com:

it’s dynamic and thus very fast;
it offers an exhaustive list of all possible word definitions;
it has a word suggestion feature (suggests search terms while you are typing).

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Original post by Ann Smarty

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MapQuest Launches Personalized Maps : My MapQuest

2:06 pm by in Search Engine News

Playing catchup with Google and the search giants, AOL’s MapQuest yesterday launched My MapQuest, a personalized mapping service which lets MapQuest.com users save maps then access them anytime from any browser or mobile device. Here’s some key information from the press release (more…)

Original post by Loren Baker, Editor

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Confirmed: Yahoo’s Sean Suchter Heads to Microsoft

1:25 pm by in Microsoft

Microsoft has confirmed that Yahoo’s VP of Search Technology, Sean Suchter, is headed to the Redmond, WA-based company.
Satya Nadella, SVP, Search, Portal and Advertising said, in a statement:
“We are very pleased to confirm that Sean Suchter will be joining Microsoft as the GM of our Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, working on Live Search. Sean will report into Harry Shum when he starts work on December 22. We look forward to welcoming him to Microsoft at that time.”
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