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As the New York Times detailed yesterday the Chinese government is activating legislation that may give problems to the possible Microsoft Yahoo purchase. The new Chinese law would "give Chinese regulators authority to examine foreign mergers when they involve acquisitions of Chinese companies or foreign businesses investing in Chinese companies’ operations. Beijing could also consider […]

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OK look I am not an "I told you so kind of guy" in most instances but I feel vindicated here and I just have to say it this time.  I reported back BEFORE ANYONE that some sort of deal was being brokered between Yahoo and Microsoft with MS being the buyer and the big […]

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There were plenty of people who trashed the Microsoft Zune back when it was released, which I mistakenly called a Homerun for Microsoft back in September of 2006.  I was planning on buying one but have since realized that the first generation player from Microsoft is lacking in many areas and choose to stick to […]

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I was just reviewing a video about a new service called Socialstream which is a joint project between Google and Carnegie Mellon University and it is designed to take social networking to a new level.  Based on the ease of use and integrated viral network components I also think the real goal is to reach […]

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In case you haven't heard yet, Ian Thomas, who works for Microsoft's adLabs team, has confirmed that Microsoft is working on its own analytics software - a modified version of the analytics software created by DeepMetrix (who was purchased by Microsoft last year).
I attended a presentation with Jack Spirko last year and we first reported […]

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Way back in August of 2006 SEO Black Hat got a hold of the leaked AOL Search data, which was one of the biggest F-ups in internet history.  That was no story as anyone who wanted it could get it, and still can if you search for a mirror download site.  No the story was […]

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BuildDirect who is the world's leading online wholesaler of building materials just announced that Ellen Siminoff has been appointed to their Board of Directors.  Strait from the press release
"Siminoff, who is currently President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, the leading provider of paid search engine marketing (SEM) solutions, has an extremely impressive educational and work […]

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Just when you think that everyone has surrendered to Google and assumed that Yahoo and Microsoft are lucky to have the smaller shares of search they do and just as you were sure no one would jump into the search engine business, here comes a new player called Megaglobe.
So just what is it that makes […]

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OK, so live.com (aka MSN Search, aka Microsoft Search, etc) is not a great search engine.  It is probably not as bad as its' reputation among Search Marketers.  I mean a good search engine specialist can kinda slap live.com around with some decent content, tags and a link you can almost make it do what […]

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Acording to Search Engine Watch Yahoo just acquired MyblogLog which is all big news if you did not hear the rumors about it for the past few weeks.  The service MyBlogLog, is pretty cool, you can be part of a blog's community and post your profile, etc if you are a fellow blogger or even […]

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OK, so this is not new, not at all, Google Documents and Spreadsheets has been around for quite a while. My guess is though that it is not yet being used by many people who could benefit from it highly. We here at Comtech News are no exception!
Recently Ben Fitts, Mark Barrera and I […]

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Well Microsoft just did something really cool for search engine marketers and web masters. They just introduced a new command that you can use to research a website’s link structure. The command LinkFromDomain:domain.com (of course replace domain.com with the domain you want to research).
Doing so will produce a list of all the outbound […]

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Could it be? Is MSN.com really first in search? Well, yep you bet they are at least according to Google that is!
Let me explain becaue this is a cute little occurance but it doesn’t mean in any way that Microsoft is winning the search engine war. However, it is kind of funny […]

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Note: The below article was my orginal view of the Zune before many problems came to light.  I no longer have the positive view of the product as in the following review.  Read, The Music Industry is Stupid, to learn more.  I have left the original review to show how I was very much wanting […]

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I have already written at length about the Net Neutrality debate in two prior articles
1. What is the Net Neutrality Debate Really All About
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2. The Future of Net Neutrality
This one will be a bit less technical in nature and simply calls upon the reader to use some very basic knowledge of business history […]

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