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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. Sure, we can ask Google a question and they’ll respond. The post Throwback Thursday: Ask.com Search Engine appeared first on Bill Hartzer. Throwback Thursday: LookSmart Search Engine Circa 1999 Do you remember LookSmart?

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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? i think aol is sending a pretty clear message that their new ceo is saying that google still wants tons and tons of content for the foreseeable future. Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave?

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The Future Of Facebook

Small Business Mavericks

Google didn’t come along until 1998. 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.

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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. Google will find you. Google will find you.

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Why Hashtags are Spam #hashtags

Bill Hartzer

I recall a having a conversation a while back with a very prominent representative from Google. He told me Google’s stance on hashtags: “Hashtags are spam” Plain and simple. (I Do you remember the meta keywords tag that was so prominently used by the search engines back in the 1990s? You probably know the one.

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34 Speakers to See at SMX West 2015

Bill Hartzer

Whenever I attend great marketing conferences, and I have been doing so since 2001, I try to hand pick a list of speakers that you absolutely must see speak. Gary Illyes – Google. Search Engine Marketing Events' This is my personal best-of-the-best list. Marty Weintraub – aimClear. David Wallace – SearchRank.

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SEO is Dead. Content Marketing = Guaranteed SEO

Writtent Blog

image credit: Search Engine Watch. Consider the following factors that were recently highlighted in the Search Engine Journal: Keywords are Now “Not Provided”. Prior to September 23rd, marketers could draw rich insights from data on the keywords that were driving visitors to their sites from Google. Google PageRank May Be Dying.

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