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Don’t Cloak! NoContent

Wednesday, 16 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Cloaking is a frowned upon search engine optimization technique in which that which the search engine spider indexes is different from what the reader sees in their browser. Such a technique is often employed to fool an engine into interpreting your site as relevant to a subject of greater popularity than is the case; in

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Killer Startups and Web 2.0 Developments

Wednesday, 09 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I spent a few minutes at True Ventures last night, home to comparison shopping datafeed start-up SingleFeed (of which, from time to time, I’ve encouraged your consideration). That entrepreneurial environment holds tremendous appeal for me due to the passion, innovation, and risk taken by all who endeavor to create and I always enjoy translating offline

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Fun, Social Media, Web 2.0

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Trademark terms in Paid Search

Monday, 07 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

This point of view has been a few days coming as the implications of a U.S. District Court in NY ruling in April have yet to be realized. I hope you are paying attention. A couple weeks ago, Judge Thomas J. McAvoy ruled for John Hamzik, who holds a trademark on “The Dating Ring,” against

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Published in Brand Marketing, Insights / Research, Paid Search, Search

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Yahoo and Google and Microsoft oh my!

Friday, 04 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Can anyone keep up with recent news? Acquisition talk following what seems to be the month of mergers, with Hitwise going to Experian and, of course, Google’s pick up of DoubleClick, brings my old stomping grounds and once world’s strongest brand into the limelight. Yahoo! and Microsoft Microsoft is stepping up pursuit of Yahoo! to

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Published in Advertising, Search

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Digg Hostile Takeover

Wednesday, 02 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly

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Published in Social Media, Web 2.0

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The Definitive Search Engine Result Comparison – An Investigative Report

Tuesday, 01 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I’ve received enough praise and criticism of my perspective on Ask’s new campaign that I felt compelled to do investigate the quality of each engine in more detail. As you can imagine, these results are completely biased, being scored alone by my opinion; nonetheless, I felt the experience worth sharing. Within five groups of terms,