Microsoft launches battle with Google in News Corp pact
Following all the shenanigans of late about News Corp threatening to put their content behind paywalls and blocking Google from using its content, the last few days have seen them courting Microsoft in a deal where their content would only be found on Bing. According a story in weblogs.hitwise.com, the two companies are in negotiations for Bing to become the “exclusive indexer” of their news content. All well and good but do the figures add up? The article shows that: “As of last week, WSJ.com’s referred and non-referred traffic from Google and Google News amounted to 15.3% and 11.0% respectively…The potential loss of Google News traffic is potentiall

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How Google Reader and Google Alerts Can Help Your Internet Business
Many people spend hours each day researching the latest and greatest internet marketing tools and their competitors to get their internet business on the cutting edge. Google has two tools that can really help you stay on top of the most recent information without you spending any of your precious time doing the research yourself. Google does all the research for you and alerts you of new information on topics that are important to you. Two of these tools are Google Reader and Google Alerts. They can work hand-in-hand as your research assistant and give you more time to work on other projects or give you more free time with your family. Google Reader is a tool that constantly chec

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SEO Scams and Newbies Realm of Gullibility
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