SEO Files > Calconis: Why AOL Search Sucks

[ - rogerd’s notebook] People use Google because it’s clean and simple, while AOL is cluttered. He provides illustrative screenshots showing how Google starts the organic results a mere 238 pixels from the top of the screen and beginning from the left page margin.

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http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog [Niall Kennedy's Weblog] Mark Fletcher presentation at Startup SIG: So, I kind of have, this kind of really applies to web startups -- I can't generalize to a lot of other things -- but, if you can't get something out the door in three months, then I posit that you're not working fast enough, and that maybe you're focusing on perfection, and perfection is the enemy of "good enough." If you look at the first versions of ONElist, it was horrible compared to, well, Yahoo Groups now. If you look at Bloglines, the first generations look horrible compared to what they are now.

[MindComet :: Internet Marketing Voodoo Transcripts] IMV3 : Online Communities: I know that that’s actually something that we talked about in our last Podcast with blogs in particular, with the legal ramifications as well as - what if somebody’s getting on there and posting pornographic things on my online message board? Or if they’re even going on there and saying that my product or service sucks.

Search Trends - Search Engine Marketing search engine marketing blog[Search Trends - Search Engine Marketing search engine marketing blog] Loyal to None: It seems like everybody loves Google these days, but I just read an article on InternetRetailer.com that refers to a report from Forrester about cunsumers' lack of loyalty to any one search engine.

[VoIPWiki Blog] 01.04.06: Google has promised consumers that they would vigorously pursue protocol interoperability in order to facilitate communication between users of different IM systems. The IM portion of GTalk is based on Jabber, and Jabber already has the capability to interoperate with AOL, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo! The fact that Google chose NOT to include interoperability when they could have done so very easily sends a clear message to me that they are working on something very, very big that will cause a paradigm shift in the IM industry.

Battellemedia.comhttp://battellemedia.com [Battellemedia.com] John Battelle's Searchblog: Together with Realtor.com, Move is the exclusive real estate feeder for AOL and MSN, and the preferred referral for Yahoo. Citing research with thousands of users, the press release says, "Consumers said they wanted everything related to their move in one place, including more photos, virtual tours, maps, and information about neighborhoods." Move hopes to accomplish that by gathering real estate information from sites all over the web.

[Agotoguy.com] AGoToGuy’s Marketing Blog » 2005 » December: I'm curently consulting for search engines and online ad companies. Soon I'll be launching a new web portal and search engine services company to compete head on with Google, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo.

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