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Local is As Local Does
It looks like search engines have officially trumped the Yellow Pages when it comes to customers looking for local businesses. Data from…
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Search Engines Embrace the Halloween Spirit
Search engines celebrate Halloween with festive visuals, interactive elements, and themed search results to entice users.
More Fuel for the Social-Media-At-Work Debate
Not long after we discussed the stats, pros, cons, and variables for social media use in the workplace, here at Webproworld, UK firm Demos has been talking about a study that suggests that social media is in fact good for businesses. I'm still sticking with the "it depends on a number of variables" theory, but the Demos info is worth taking a look at either…
Google Helps Volunteers Recruit Voters
Recently Google launched a couple tools for helping people find out the information they need to vote on November 4th. They created a site based on Google Maps, and a Google Gadget supplying essentially the same info. To use these, you would search for your address, and then you would be provided with information like how to register to vote in your state, your state's…
Showing Respect With Your Anchor Text
Bloggers and other web-based writers do a lot of linking. It's great for the Blogosphere. In fact it's really the only reason we have a Blogosphere. How often are our links misleading though? I'm not talking about "paid" or sponsored links that are deceptive and just trying to go after a click. That's another issue entirely. I'm talking about just the everyday point-of-reference links.
Cogent and Sprint Break the Internet!
Tens of thousands of public internet addresses located on Cogent's backbone are no longer accessible from Sprint Customers. This disruption is affecting thousands of web properties including Webproworld.com. Drudgereport.com was also affected by this outage but has apparently managed to route around Sprint's network.
