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got my hands on search monkey preview for developers, thanks to an old acquaintance from verity days. looking at the ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots, the results are quite stunning.
The ‘Before’ Shot: here’s how my post titled Laloo School of Business is shown in google and yahoo search result pages.

The ‘After’ Shot: here’s how the same […]

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the media rumor-mill aside, the message from yahoo management aside, the decision tree leading to yahoo!’s test of google’s adsense for search product for it’s sponsored search ads is perplexing. look at the two possible outcomes of the test -
(a) a success - i.e., google’s adsense for search performs better than yahoo’s own sponsored search […]

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google started to include site-searching from within the google search results. so instead of handing the users off to a site from the search results page, they want you to search more on the site itself. quite understandably, not everyone is pleased, the online retailers to say the least. check out how you can search […]

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may be rock bands do it on myspace.com, by spotting this blog by aamir khan (one of the finest film actor/directors in india) shows a perfect example of a film personality effectively harnessing the concept of ‘connectors’ explained in the book tipping point.
the blog is quite rudimentary, but he writes his own posts, responds to […]

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the value proposition for the websites owners from search engines is quite simple : search engines sends you traffic, and you let search engines index your site. search companies makes money due to it’s search, you make money with traffic. right?
lets look at some back-envelope numbers to see how fair the deal is, taking google […]

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