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Infoseek Trademark and Domain Name to Be Auctioned December 8th

Bill Hartzer

Do you want to own the trademark and domain name of a former search engine? The trademark and domain name of Infoseek , a search engine originally founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch and the first search engine to sell advertising on a CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) basis, will be put up for auction on December 8, 2010.

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check the Whois on Your Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

Technically speaking, Whois is is a query/response protocol which is widely used for querying an official database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. There are several things that you need to take a look at on the domain name’s whois record.

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United Domains Launches NameCheck.com Search Engine for Online Names

Bill Hartzer

The domain name registrar United Domains has officially launched Namecheck.com , new search engine for discovering and registering online names. You can use Namecheck to do a simultaneous search of domain names, trademarks and usernames for the most popular social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

If there’s an issue like this, if you’ve set up a tracking tool properly, you will be notified if your brand, your company name, your domain name, or even your email address shows up. Update: June 4, 2010 – Apparently Facebook has taken care of this issue. Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings If You Don't Want Your.

Saying It Social

Just click “Remove Admin&# next to your name to remove your personal profile’s connection to the page. Pingback by Tweets that mention How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings If You Dont Want Your Personal Profile Searchable -- Topsy.com | June 4, 2010 | Reply [.] Auto seals | June 5, 2010 | Reply [.]

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How Not to Increase Online Credibility: MediaPost Fail

Bill Hartzer

Is that MediaPost graphic claiming that the home page of Aldi’s is a Parked Domain Name? Rather than doing some simple research by Googling Aldi to get the facts right, the image used in the story is a graphic/screen capture/thumbnail image of Aldis.com , a domain name that is not owned by Aldi Foods.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing > 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Frank Lee. Reply dcromwell July 15, 2010 at 1:36 pm Large pictures and big graphics are a turn off.

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