Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

 [Search Engine Blog.com - Search Engine Marketing News, Views & Rants] Best Use of The Word "Dichotomy" In A Blog Post: I'm not sure sliders are the answer (as seen at MSN and in Yahoo's Mindset) because only power-users bother with them. Most people don't use advanced search, or even know it exists. This type of personalisation, in order to be most useful, needs to happen in the background, possibly based on demographic and other pattern data.

[News.stepforth.com] The SEO Blog: State of the Unification - Google, Yahoo, MSN and ...: The sustainability of Google's business depends on either finding or creating more spaces to display paid-ads. With the world's most used organic search tool already providing tens of millions of ad-impressions per day, Google spent the last twelve months developing new neighborhoods in cyberspace or redeveloping old ones. In the past year they introduced Gmail, Google-Groups, Google-Library, Google-Local and Google-Desktop, all of which come with contextually driven commercial advertising. Google also helped popularize the emergence of Blogs with their purchase and free-distribution of Blogger in September of 2003.

[Toprank.blogspot.com] Online Marketing Blog - Daily Search Marketing News: A recent article by Phoenix at Search Engine Roundtable points out issues with Big SEO and True SEO firms. There are several large SEO firms with a "churn and burn" mentality, signing up as many clients as they can with aggressive sales teams. The way these larger SEO firms treat clients on an ongoing basis by over promising on the sales side and under delivering on the implementation is certainly cause for dissatisfaction and churn.

 [Seroundtable.com] Search Engine Roundtable ::: The Pulse Of The Search Marketing ...: I believe we, at the Search Engine Roundtable, was the first information site (outside of a forum) to publicly acknowledge the existence of some form of issue with Google and new sites. The first post we had was named New Sites = Poor Results in Google, that was before it had a name. In a WebmasterWorld thread linked to from the "New Sites = Poor Results in Google" entry, the term "sandbox" came about.

[Searchenginegenie.com] SEO BLOG: An other possible reason is the site is banned from the search engines for any particular onpage factor, In that case search engines periodically checks to see whether the onpage spam tactics is removed and as soon as they see the spam being removed they might reinclude the site into the index, So for people who are complaining that their site was previously indexed and listed in google but suddenly it disappeared from the index and googlebot keeps visiting the site it is good to look at your onpage work and see if there is any spam tactics like hidden text, cloaking, keyword stuffing etc,

[Ebusiness-strategies.co.uk] Search Engine Optimisation News Blog ://XSEO ::: Day 2 is the Search Engine Summit, present will be Matt Cutts Software Engineer from Google, Kaushal Kurapati Product Manager for Ask Jeeves, Yahoo's Tim Mayer Director of Product Management and Eytan Seidman Program Manager for MSN Search. This combined with a room full of serious SEO's and a very intersting Indexing Summit is on the cards.

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