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How Mergers And Acquisitions May Change The Search Engine Playing Field

Until recently, there were five major players in the search engine world: Google, MSN, AOL, Ask.com, and the Yahoo! search engine. These top Internet search engines quickly could be narrowed down to four, however; AOL uses the Google algorithm and will yield nearly identical results. Further narrowing is rapidly occurring — Ask.com seems to be […]

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Programming Groovy

Programming Groovy will help you learn the necessary fundamentals of programming in Groovy. You’ll see how to use Groovy to do advanced programming techniques including metaprogramming, Bbilders, unit testing with mock objects, processing XML, working with databases, and creating your own domain-specific languages (DSLs).
Groovy brings you the best of both worlds: a flexible, highly productive, […]

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How To Avoid Project Failure Through Project Planning And Effective Project Recovery

There you are, project manager of a brand new project, you have done your project planning and have started implementation. Now you are thinking about what you can tell your PMI colleagues at the next chapter meeting, creating a wondrous spreadsheet to avoid project failure and revolutionize project control, and learning how to use a […]

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Using An SEO Company Vs. Hiring An In-House Expert: The True Dollar Cost

It’s a common question that companies who are considering hiring a search engine optimization company often face — is this something that we can do in-house? More importantly, can we do this in-house and get the same results that an expert search engine optimization company would provide?

As this article will demonstrate, clearly the answer […]

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Using Differentiators In Keyphrases

As any good search engine optimization company knows, in search, more so than any other medium, you have a very short window of opportunity in which to engage your prospect. The only way to get a solid competitive advantage in this arena is to utilize various techniques in order to make sure that you […]

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The Ultimate CSS Reference

Stop wasting time doing Internet searches only to find inaccurate, out-of-date, or incomplete information. CSS: The Ultimate Reference includes all the ins-and-outs you need to know including compatability information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs in CSS, and much more — all presented in a beautiful, full color layout that will […]

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Website Magazine

Website Magazine is a free magazine offering practical advice and helpful tools from industry experts to help any Web site achieve Internet success.
Until now, there has not been a magazine that caters exclusively to the business of running a Web site. Website Magazine has tapped premier talent in the Internet industry for our content and […]

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Sam’s Club Wants To Be Your SEO Company - Should You Let It?

If the buzz is to be believed, Sam’s Club is now a search engine optimization company that is targeting the local search market aggressively. The fact is, this isn’t something new; it’s just recently come to the forefront. Sam’s Club has partnered with a company called Innuity to offer a program that is primarily targeted […]

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Internet Retailer

Internet Retailer is the first magazine devoted to reporting on the Internet revolution in retailing and, today, remains the only magazine on the market with this exclusive focus.
Subscribers rely on the magazine’s practical and comprehensive information on the Internet’s many applications in retailing, including Web merchandising, multi-channel integration, marketing, and supply chain management.
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All Search Engines Love Spiders: How Meta Commands Can Help You Love Them, Too

Nearly all search engines utilize spiders (which are also known by their original name, robots) to go out and scour the Web looking for Web pages. These search engine spiders then bring the data back to be indexed by the engine.

Since roughly 1996, individual meta commands have existed that can be used on individual […]

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Rich Internet Applications: Has Microsoft Finally Seen The (Silver) Light?

In response to the proliferation of other frameworks used to create rich Internet applications such as Flex from Adobe (formerly from Macromedia) and AJAX-based frameworks, Microsoft Silverlight was recently introduced. All three of these applications, as well as the others on the market, enable a Web developer to create an interface on a Web page […]

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Adobe CS3: What’s New?

Adobe CS3 (Creative Suite 3) is a suite of products that combines traditional Adobe programs with programs that Adobe acquired and has since rebranded from Macromedia. The suite includes Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks, as well as Illustrator and Photoshop. All of the programs in Adobe CS3 that were formerly Macromedia have been streamlined and given […]

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Prototype And script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!

Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries, that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is write one […]

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What Every SEO Company Should Know About Keyphrase Choice

There are many keyphrase tools out there, but any quality search engine optimization company should know that they are in no way replacements for true market research. When one is embarking on a campaign of marketing on the Internet, it is important to select keyphrases that represent an understanding of one’s audience. In this article, […]

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Google’s Paid Search Vs. Organic Results - A Rickety Wall Of Separation

“Chinese Wall - The ethical (not physical) barrier between different divisions of a financial (or other) institution to avoid conflict of interest…”
Investopedia.com
“While Google never sells better ranking in our search results, several other search engines combine pay-per-click or pay-for-inclusion results with their regular web search results.”
Google’s Webmaster Help Center FAQ
“NO pay for inclusion, and a […]

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Fonts & Encodings

It’s common knowledge that yin and yang symbolize opposition between certain objects. However, yin and yang are also inseparable, forever combined as a cornerstone in all universal processes. Similarly, fonts and encodings are also two opposing sides of a spectrum which, when working together, form an inseparable duo essential to digital writing.
In the exciting new […]

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Brand New Web Sites: A Search Engine Optimization Company Perspective

It’s an unfortunate fact — no matter how good your search engine optimization company or in-house talent is, brand new Web sites have a more difficult time achieving search engine success for competitive phrases than their older counterparts, particularly on Google. However, the worst thing that a new site owner can possibly do is presume […]

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Learning ASP.NET 2.0 With AJAX

Learning ASP.NET isn’t difficult. Not only are the concepts straightforward, but also the Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer environments radically simplify the process of building powerful Web applications. Yet learning how to weave the many pieces together to assemble a robust, flexible, and efficient application can be challenging.
Fortunately O’Reilly’s newest title — Learning ASP.NET […]

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Ruby On Rails Proves It Deserves The Hype

With the multitude of programming languages out there such as Fortran, Java, C++ and C#, you may wonder why Ruby on Rails has suddenly become such a hot topic in the development world. Created in the late 1990s by an individual in Japan, the Ruby programming language had a cult following but never reached top-tier […]

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Web Site Creation And The Eye Of The Spider

Picture, if you will, a Rocky-style montage. A team is involved in Web site creation from the ground up. A driving, inspirational song begins. The first scene is a highly contentious meeting, with a sweating and nervous marketing executive frantically drawing away at a whiteboard in front of a hostile audience. Flash to copywriters, fingers […]