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AOL Releases Search Data
By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 at 3:45 PM
AOL has released some search query data based on 20,000 million queries made by 650,000 searchers.

The following sites give you access to AOL’s search data:

www.frogspy.com
www.aolsearchdatabase.com
www.datablunder.com
www.seosleuth.com/site
www.aolpsycho.com


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FyberSearch CMCA Updates
By Nathan Enns on Thursday, August 24th, 2006 at 7:25 AM
Our Custom Monthly Cost Advertising system has had the following changes made:

1. The minimum bid for the Front Page has been changed to 150.00 and the minimum bid for the Add URL Page has been changed to 100.00.

2. The column that tells you the highest bid for the location you have chosen used to include bids from both active and inactive advertisements. It will now include bids from active advertisements only to help give you an accurate awareness of your competition for all ad locations.

If you haven’t tried advertising with FyberSearch yet you can sign up here.
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Judge Approves a $90 Million Settlement Google’s Click-Fraud Lawsuit
By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 5:35 PM
"SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- An Arkansas state judge has given his final OK to a settlement that Google Inc. reached in a closely watched click-fraud class-action lawsuit.

Under terms of the settlement, Google will provide up to $60 million in credit to affected advertisers dating back to 2002. "


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The New Yahoo! Search Crawler
By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 5:32 PM
"We launched a new Yahoo! Search Crawler, Yahoo! Slurp earlier this week. In addition to crawling the Internet faster, our new crawler is more efficient at visiting websites. As a result, site owners will notice as much as a 25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler."

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What is Your Page Strength?
By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 5:30 PM
Find out using this tool.
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New! - Windows Live Toolbar 3.0
By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 5:26 PM
Download it here and read about it here.
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