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Yahoo’s New Search IU – Universal Search Finally Getting Somewhere?

Friday, 08 October 2010 by Paul O'Brien

The promise of Universal Search or One Search has, for years, waffled between the promise of a better search experience and the reality of results diluted with local listings, videos, images, social network chatter, and other content often irrelevant to the needs of the user. Simply, the idea behind Universal Search is that one set

Published in Search

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10 Twitter Lists You Need to Set Up

Friday, 30 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

If you haven’t yet been introduced to Twitter Lists (they are in beta), you are in for a treat. As you use Twitter, and over time amass thousands of people that you follow, you’ll quickly find that paying any meaning full attention to the stream is impossible. Such an experience certainly explains the speculation that

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Published in Social Media

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Identifying Comment Spam with Google

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I was torn on how to title this post; this is either Further proof of the depths to which Google’s bot will go to crawl your content or An alternative to Akismet Have I lost you? Let me start from the beginning. I have an unhealthy interest in comment spam. It sits in a different

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Google, Natural Search / SEO

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Ping bing – The SEO Tongue Twister

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

One of the techniques used to attract search engine spiders to your blog or website is called pinging. Essentially, you alert the search engine of any changes to your site and it draws a crawler to reindex the content. This works on the same basic technology as the Trackback and Pingback with which you might

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Sign of the economic times? Google Lets Brands Run More Than One Search Campaign on a Keyword

Thursday, 10 September 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Did I fall asleep?Â I turn my attention from Search for a few weeks (okay, so it’s really been a bit longer) and I return to find major companies running more than one campaign in paid search! To many of you this may not be news; like I said, I’m playing catch up.Â Just the

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Published in Google, Paid Search

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eBay Sellers Automate Records with Free Selling Manager App

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 by Paul O'Brien

As an old eCommerce hack, I’m personally excited to share that Outright.com is automating bookkeeping for eBay sellers, free, through eBay’s Selling Manager Apps.Â With the click of a button, the new app automatically pulls in the existing eBay transaction history, including sales, fees and expenses, and PayPal transactions, and continues to import sales, retaining

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Published in Analytics, eCommerce

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Get pants like jonathan

Thursday, 06 August 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Its been lambasted and praised; I, for one, think Microsoft’s award winning jingle is brilliant. After all, the holy grail of search? Being able to find pants like Jonathan: Bing!

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Published in Search

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