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Excellent online marketing articles from Microsoft

by Patrick Altoft on March 31, 2008

…  nature of the content. Take a look at the articles in Microsofts Small Business Marketing section and see if your content is up to …

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What Microsoft can teach you about linkbait

by Patrick Altoft on October 18, 2007

Microsoft might not be as popular as Apple amongst bloggers but somebody at Redmond …  out the “Related Links” section on the right, this is so Microsoft can make the most of every visitor by getting them to look at other …  the article asks for feedback at the bottom so Microsoft can see which of their pages are most useful to people. How many …

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Microsoft launches new search engine but can’t find itself

by Patrick Altoft on February 23, 2008

…  Microsoft launched Big Snap Search where you can win prizes for searching. …  indexing the search results from BigSnapSearch.com because Microsoft forgot to add a robots.txt file.  …

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Microsoft to power Yahoo search

by Patrick Altoft on July 29, 2009

Microsoft and Yahoo are joining forces in an effort to compete with Google in the …  wars. Yahoo algorithmic results will be powered by the Microsoft / Bing algorithm and the paid results will be powered by …  or Facebook will probably have more search volume. Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10 year license to Yahoo!’s core search …

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Microsoft Gatineau screenshots from my first week

by Patrick Altoft on February 16, 2008

…  week I’ve been testing Microsoft Gatineau and it seems quite interesting. The interface is pretty slow …

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Windows 7 to be shipped without Internet Explorer

by Patrick Altoft on June 12, 2009

Microsoft is to ship Windows 7 without a web browser to appease the EU. Microsoft has announced that it will ship a special version of Vista’s …  to an antitrust investigation by the EU into whether Microsoft is abusing its dominant position with Windows and Internet Explorer, …

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Digg Switches to AdSense

by Patrick Altoft on February 6, 2009

…  this(?) but Digg seems to be using AdSense rather than Microsoft ads these days. Since Microsoft paid a lot of money for an advertising deal with Digg I wonder how …

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Live Search proves they don’t understand relevance

by Patrick Altoft on October 3, 2007

…  only problem is that they point to the search results for Microsoft taco truck as an example of a search they carry “good” results for. …  at number 6 when Google has it at number 1? C’mon Microsoft there must be a better example to use than …

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Bing needs a hand edit to find itself

by Patrick Altoft on May 29, 2009

…  year Microsoft launched a new search engine which couldn’t find itself and obviously …

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Should Google buy it’s way into Yahoo?

by Patrick Altoft on February 5, 2008

…  is clearly not happy about the Microsoft Yahoo situation and Eric Schmidt has called Yahoo’s chief executive …  Yang to offer his company’s help in any effort to thwart Microsoft’s bid. The main alternative (assuming the analysts are right in …  I fail to understand is how Google can get upset at Microsoft for wanting to take over Yahoo on one hand and then plan to show …

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