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Throwback Thursday: iWon Search Engine, Circa 2001

Bill Hartzer

Each Thursday I’m starting a new tradition here on my blog: to feature an old search engine. Today’s Throwback Thursday search engine is iWon.com, circa 2001. Back in 2001, did you make iWon.com your default home page in your web browser? Search Engines'

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Throwback Thursday: Ask.com Search Engine

Bill Hartzer

At that time, Ask thought the future of search was people who went to search engines to ask a question. The post Throwback Thursday: Ask.com Search Engine appeared first on Bill Hartzer. Related posts: Throwback Thursday: Search Engine Watch Circa 1999 Today is Thursday, and every Thursday I try to feature. Search Engines'

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AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Vacilando

Ari Herzog

I initially read it after my own cross-country road trip in 2001. Because I learned to drive in New England, I knew about the drive-reverse-drive method of rocking my car’s engine if I got stuck. He wrote about his travels in a 1962 book, entitled, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America.” I braked and got stuck!

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The Future Of Facebook

Small Business Mavericks

In 2001, no one knew that blogging would be as popular as it has become. No one knew that a service like YouTube would grow to become the second largest search engine. In 1995, for instance, no one knew that search would become the most important method for finding information online. Google didn’t come along until 1998.

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Why Hashtags are Spam #hashtags

Bill Hartzer

Do you remember the meta keywords tag that was so prominently used by the search engines back in the 1990s? Well, I do, since I was actively practicing search engine optimization back then. And the search engines would take those keywords into account when crawling and ranking your web site. But, that is a rare case.

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Basic SEO for Bloggers

Kikolani

For more than a decade, we have relied on websites like Google and Yahoo to sift through the billions of web pages and present a list of contenders that, according to the search engines, most accurately relate to our search query. Search Engines for President. Without these search engines, your readers/customers/etc.

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