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An Alternative Twitter Strategy for Local Businesses
You’ve had dozens (or possibly hundreds) of articles about how to use Twitter for your businesses hurled at you over the last year or so. There are a lot of good ideas, a lot of bad ones, and a lot of contradictions. What do you expect though? The marketing world is still trying to figure this whole social media thing out. Some are having great success, and some are just wasting a lot of time.
Microsoft’s Yahoo Alternative
Carl Icahn’s threat to takeover Yahoo’s board may have worked to get the two sides talking about a deal, though not the full-scale acquisition Microsoft first raised in January.
Healthy-Looking Baidu Pushes Wikipedia Alternative
Yahoo this, Microsoft that – it’s enough to make you move to China. Or at least look at China-centric news, in which Baidu is generating headlines for both succeeding financially and pushing its own version of Wikipedia.
Intute Expanding Into Academic Google Alternative
The Intute web service in the United Kingdom will receive an infusion of thousands of more documents at the end of the month as they construct a “more discriminating” search engine.
Expect Windows Mobile Alternative Instead of Gphone
The IHT is pretty convinced we won’t see mobile phone from Google–yeah, we know that already. However, they’ve shed some light on what exactly Google is working on.
Google Presents PowerPoint Alternative
The rumored arrival of a Google option for creating and viewing slide-based presentations became fact with the debut of its newest feature on Google Docs.
Guruji.com Offers Indian Alternative To Google
The term “Google killer” is bandied about every so often, but let’s face it: no one company is going to kill Google anytime soon. But a company could “stump” the search engine giant – particularly in a foreign market – and Guruji intends to do exactly that.
Engine Ready – An Alternative to Google Analytics
Last year I wrote a guide to web analytics that discussed various types of tracking solutions such as Google Analytics which has caused many people to ask me about solutions other than Google. I personally am a big fan of Google Analytics, but if you don’t want to use them for some reason or are looking for more advanced reporting, Engine Ready is a great solution at a cheap price. Here is why I like it:
GoodSearch.com A Good Search Alternative
In the spirit of the season, one search engine deserves some special consideration. For every query made through GoodSearch.com, a small donation will be made to (more or less) the charity of your choice.