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What is the matter with tailoring your site for google? I have a couple dozen small sites and one very large site tailored for google and I get nothing but compliments and increasing revenue.
(just want to be as enthousiastic as the rest of you)
That would be kind of a neat twist. Or show the Google version of revalent ODP categories first on the SERPS like many did back in the old days.
On the MSN question: if I were MSN I would be calling FAST right about now.
AOL needs to be a value add. Google is not going to get AOL-type users just off word of mouth. AOL fights MSN and Yahoo for the "regular" users.
Good search results help them. They also help Yahoo. In fact, Yahoo and AOL would love a world where everyone provides the "same" results (except maybe MSN who provides crap). In that world AOL keeps their users in their sphere, and Yahoo grabs the rest (plus people that like the Yahoo enhanced search results... their directory is pretty good for short queries, Google pretty good for deep queries).
AOL is trying to provide the best service they can for their users so that they keep them. The revenue, if any, that they made of Inktomi is negligable compared to keeping people in the AOL world.
Remember, if AOL users do AOL searches, they get AOL properties before anything else. Without "better" alternatives to AOL search, no need for them to get off the reservation.
Alex
If one SE, Google so dominates the marketplace with paid listings, what do SEOs do beyond tweaking adwords?
Should we expect other SE's to fold leaving AOL/Google and MSN to dominate? Is Yahoo doomed?
Will small businesses be forced to SPAM because they can't compete with the deep pockets of bigger competitors?
Hey everybody! I was up way too late coding and slept a little late. Did I miss anything good? :)
So a delivery boy was already at your door with flowers, or was it a fruit basket? ;)
So how is the deal with MSN?
"Jordan phases back, he shoots and that’s the game"
Absolutely! Google innovates and excelerates searching on the web.
Congrats Google.
Look at anytime there has been one of anything, eventually, they raise prices. Why, because they can.
Would I buy into an IPO, you bet.
..... Shane
I was up way too late coding and slept a little late. Did I miss anything good?
Naw.. nuthin' GG ;) Just a bunch of people doing the Happy Google Dance (sorta like the Snoopy dance but with two fists full of green.)
Just goes show that providing fast, quality search results really payoff.
Way to go Google, you guys ROCK!!!
Everybody start saving your PR ;)
But if everyones traffic is going to jump up, who is going to miss out?
Someone MUST loose traffic, but apparently no-one here.
I won't---- never had much of worth from AOL on any site.
Any ideas anyone?
George
Anybody else not showing their Adword stuff?
:)
As long as it's my crap . . . . :)
lawman
Merrill Lynch has downgraded Overture shares to a "buy".
Over the long run, this may be viewed as just a blip. Remember Overture stock price jumped 32% on Friday when it announced the Yahoo deal.
It still has its deals in place with AltaVista, Lycos, MSN and Yahoo but losing a deal this big has to shake up Overture.
The pay for performace SE model still seems to have some life left in it.
INKT - down 24.14%
LOOK - down 15.97%
OVER - down 35.68%
Google AOL is taken seriously .
If I were the managing director of Yahoo, I think I would have been more concerned about how Google reacted to the news that Yahoo was going with Overture's paid results several months back!
Personally, I couldn't care less what Yahoo thinks. They, (like L$) don't give a hoot about their customers and are losing market share every day to Google. In the words of the profit ... "What goes around, comes around".
GO GOOGLE!!! Put another notch on the "good guys" SE gun ...
