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Accounting for Non-Attributable Business Results

Trying to assess the impacts of marketing on business performance is a daunting task, celebrated long ago by John Wanamaker’s famous quote regarding not knowing which half of his advertising was wasted. The root of this problem is that, for most companies, as much as 40% to 80% of their business results cannot be attributed to any specific marketing activity.

Microsoft Crawling Google Results For New Search Engine?

I was questioned today by a developer who was watching a particular IP address scan his site. The IP was 65.54.188.86 and is registered to Microsoft Corp. located at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052. This visitor was not sending the normal header information associated with a crawler to the web server such as an http robot name or identifying info or even a browser name.

Google Results Vs Yahoo Results

According to a Nielsen//Netratings study, Google holds the top spot for search engine destinations. However, if you take a closer look at N//N’s findings, you see that Yahoo and MSN share the second and third positions, respectively. Because MSN search is still using Overture to serve their search results more people are vicariously using the Yahoo method of search than they do Google.

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