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BlackBerry internet systems go down

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Users of BlackBerry smartphones were unable to send or receive email for extended periods on Thursday, throwing enterprise IT systems into chaos and damaging mobile access to the internet. BlackBerry […]

Reports: Murdoch might split with Google after all

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The saga of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s continuing threats to pull all content from his News Corporation from Google’s search engines is a long one, but the latest chapter could be pivotal: Google ha

SEO experts divided over importance of rankings

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While it is generally agreed that metrics are a critical part of search engine optimization (SEO), experts disagree about their application, according to Search Engine Watch’s Eric Enge. Enge, in […]

Google will ease 301 redirect headaches with canonical tags for moving pages

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The long-rumored introduction of a simplified system for shifting web content from one domain to another via HTML tags has been confirmed by Google. The canonical tag will eliminate the […]

Analyst: Google may have shot itself in the foot with Nexus smartphone

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In an interview with Reuters, a William Blair and Company analyst, Anil Doradla, said that Google is on the verge of making a grandiose mistake with the upcoming launch of […]

SEO researchers report that search volumes dropped in November

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A study from search analysis firm Compete – posted at marketing website Seeking Alpha – says that there were 500 billion fewer searches performed in November of 2009 than in […]

Mozilla vs. Google privacy spat complicated by Firefox search options

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Remarks by Google CEO Eric Schmidt earlier this month on privacy concerns were condemned as cavalier and indicative of a poor understanding of the issue by Mozilla exec Asa Dotzler, who recommended in

Domain name anarchy must be curbed for effective SEO, experts say

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Search engine optimization (SEO) experts face one of the major headaches of their profession when trying to pad out a website’s domain names, according to experts. A relative lack of […]

Small-fry Midwestern design firm sues Microsoft over Bing name

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Bing! Information Design of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit in that city’s Circuit Court accusing Microsoft of trademark infringement and unfair practices in naming its search engine Bing. Ars […]