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Archive | June, 2005

vertical leap - search engine conference on tap

8. June 2005

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Ready or not, the vertical search engines are coming - enough so to warrant their own conference: Checkout information on the Vertical Leap conference now. The session on job search includes: Moderator: John Zappe, Classified Intelligence Report Craig Donato, Oodle.com Gautam Godhwani, Simply Hired Konstantin Guericke, LinkedIn Garrett Price, Kijiji (eBay company) Google, Yahoo! and MSN will all be on hand and hopefully [...]

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bloglines and the power of rss

8. June 2005

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If you’re not familiar with RSS, do yourself a favor and get on the bandwagon. The technology is changing the way people receive information, and quickly. Bloglines announced today that is has reached 500 million blog and news feed articles are now stored in the service’s comprehensive, searchable database. Additionally from their press release: Between January and [...]

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tribune publication drops google adsense for quigo

8. June 2005

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As Google and other search engines become more and more of a threat to newspapers - both in advertising revenues and news content - it’s no surprise that they’d start opting for a non-competitive service for their Web-based pay-per-click (PPC) solutions. According to an article from Editor & Publisher, Tribune Co.’s Newsday has abandoned Google’s AdSense in [...]

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yahoo elimates fees, takes aim at ebay

7. June 2005

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As if eBay needed another reason to generate more revenue and motivation to evolve its online classifieds / job posting offering (see Craigslist ownership and Kijiji): Yahoo! Auctions has changed its pricing to create a model that is free for all consumers listing items on our Auctions platform. We have eliminated all fees associated with Auctions listings, including listing [...]

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bow down to google

7. June 2005

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Unconvinced that Google is all that and a bag o’ microchips? From the Hollywood Reporter: Google tops Time Warner as Street’s No. 1 media stockWall Street has determined that Google Inc. is the most valuable media company on the planet. Shares of the company that went public in August at $75 rose $10.68 on Monday to [...]

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blogging for career enhancement

7. June 2005

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Smart recruiters are starting to scour the Net for top talent via personal blogs. It’s a wise decision. I love such out-of-the-box techniques. Likewise,  job seekers are starting to take notice of the benefits of blogging to improve their career outlook. Here’s a Top Ten list from a Sun Microsystems employee on how to improve your job [...]

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the infrastructure for a google vertical search engine for jobs

7. June 2005

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I apologize in advance if this gets too geeky …  Google recently launched a service that allows site owners to upload, via XML, new pages / content from their site. It’s called Google Sitemaps. It’s another way to get Web pages into Google by direct feed. One of the major challenges Google and any search engine [...]

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