Niche Retailers Win In Online Poll

According to a recent poll from Yahoo! Small Business, consumers will be turning to the Internet for their holiday shopping needs to offset gas prices, for increased convenience, and for hard to find items. Nearly two-thirds of holiday shoppers said niche stores were their best bets for finding unique gifts.

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Google Updates Sitemaps

The webmaster-friendly project started by Google over the summer has its own blog and some new features available for its users. Google Sitemaps makes a tool available that lets site publishers create a map Google's spiders can use to more effectively index its content. On the official Google Blog, Grace Kwak posted about some new features in the Sitemaps service.

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Analytics Firms Respond To Google

Once Google discarded the Urchin label, renamed the service Google Analytics, and ended the fees it charges, several firms felt the ripples of the search engine company cannonballing into their swimming pool.

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Programmer Overkill (MySQL)

I have a peeve about MySQL. Oh, not about MySQL directly: it's great. I love it, it's wonderful, no complaints. It's the people who use it when they don't need to that get me shaking my head and talking to myself.

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