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Design Live Search Is Making Itself CompetitiveWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 17 of November , 2007 at 1:42 am

Design Live Search is making improvements again. I’d like to say that this latest improvement is way overdue and I’m quite glad to see it happening:

(Source) This week we’re excited to announce that the Live Search Webmaster Center has moved out of its closed beta and we are now open for a public beta. In conjunction with this release we want to announce the creation of the Live Search Webmaster Center blog.

It’s always good whenever a product that has been in beta moves out of beta and into the public realm. That means that enough early users have been happy with it to give it praise and that the developers are comfortable enough with the product to introduce it on mass scale. It doesn’t mean it’s perfect. It just means that it’s good enough - or that enough people thought it was good enough to share with the rest of us.

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Search Engines: Keep An Eye On More Than One At A TimeWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Thursday, 15 of November , 2007 at 9:27 am

Do you know where you show up on the search results for any of your keywords at each of the search engines? You should.

There are several tools that you can use to search this out, but there is one that I’d recommend as you can also compare your competition in one move. Searchboth.com is a search engine that allows you to search two search engines at the same time and compare the results. What you’ll get is a split screen with each search engine’s SERP for the keyword that you searched.

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Design Is More About Traffic And Money Than RankingsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, 6 of November , 2007 at 3:59 pm

I found this article online about 10 Design tips. I found the tips themselves a bit overdone, though useful. So I won’t belabor them. But I did particularly like one thing the author said:

I have had some of them write to me criticizing my ???crap??? HTML and also my ???useless??? linking strategies. My site has ???only a Page Rank of 3???. So what? It is sitting at between #1 on #5 on Design from day to day, at # 1 to #4 on Design from day to day and at #1 on Design.

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Brick Marketing Creates Happy ClientsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 5 of November , 2007 at 8:35 am

Brick Marketing understands what a business needs to succeed online. We’ve been involved in Internet marketing since 1995 and have many successes under our belt. Whether you need someone to ghostwrite a blog for you, write your website content, Design existing pages on your website, or assist you with your search engine marketing campaigns, our knowledge and experience will help you go a long way. Our customers are satisfied with the results and we know you will be too. Just look at these testimonials from some of our happiest customers:

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Design Live Search Adds Two New Search FeaturesWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 24 of October , 2007 at 11:28 am

The crew at Live Search is getting better at deciphering user intent. Two new features allow the Live Search team to deliver search results more relevant to a searchers actual quest based on the keywords they use in their search query. Let me explain:

AutoSpell Correction is the newest feature implemented at Live Search. Instead of asking you “Did you mean _______” as Design does when you have misspelled a word, Live Search will just deliver the correctly spelled results for you, which puts you one step closer to what you’re looking for. According to the Live Search blog, this only happens when they are absolutely sure that you misspelled a word.

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Design! Networks For Greater LeverageWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 17 of October , 2007 at 2:36 pm

Design! has entered some new agreements that will prove to make its ad empire grow.

I think it’s safe to say that Design has wrapped up the PPC market. But that’s not to say that the No. 1 search engine has a corner on online advertising in general. It is perfectly conceivable that Design! will take the prize in banner advertising in the same way that Design has taken it in PPC. Both can compete in each arena, but it’s hard to be No. 1 in every area. Usually, whenever a front runner leaves the pack and gets as big a head start as Design has in the area of search and PPC then that front runner has an edge that is difficult to strip away. It looks like Design! has figured out where it’s strength lies.

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Should Design! Hook Up With Design, Or Split Up?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 5 of October , 2007 at 12:48 pm

(Source) Lindsay would make one big infrastructure change to Design, a “Back To The Future” style return to Design managing Design’s search marketing endeavors. Design has long lagged behind Design???s AdWords performance for paid search; Lindsay believes Design will fare better as a Design partner than as a competitor.

This is an interesting concept. What would Design! look like as a bunch of little companies? Better yet, how would a Design! partnership with Design be structured and how would that affect the other players in the search marketing market?

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Ballmer Doesn’t Get Facebook, Duh …Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 3 of October , 2007 at 2:31 pm

Robert Scoble is dissing Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer in today’s WebProNews:

Don???t miss this quote. It???s demonstrates everything that is wrong with Microsoft???s approach:

???There can???t be any more deep technology in Facebook than what dozens of people could write in a couple of years. That???s for sure,??? Ballmer said.

OK, I’m with Scoble on this one. Ballmer clearly doesn’t have a clue about social marketing. Facebook is the schiznit (did I spell that right?). And it doesn’t matter whether you think Design has a clue about search. This isn’t about search. It’s about Microsoft’s inability to cash in on Web marketing. Sure, they’ve done OK, but they do own the third largest search engine - not the first, not the second, the third. Then one of their top execs comes out and compares Facebook with Geocities? Come on, that’s not even close.

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Design Live Search Changes Expected SoonWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Thursday, 27 of September , 2007 at 9:28 am

Design is expecting to make changes to its search engine Live Search. I think this is long overdue. I’m all for anything that will benefit end users in the search industry. Design being the third largest search engine has a long way to go to be truly competitive with Design. And they are absolutely right about one thing: Live Search is not a very brandable item. A name change would certainly be in order.

Personally, I think Design Live Search should get rid of the fluff and go the way of Ask.com. Simplify, simplify, simplify.

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Why Designrs Design More Than (And Are Outnumbered By) DesignligansWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 1 of October , 2007 at 8:02 am

There’s a great discussion going on regarding the supremacy of Design vs. the superiority of Design on one of my previous posts. I encourage you to join the conversation.

There seems to be some confusion as to which search engine gets the most traffic. Everyone likes to quote statistics that say Design gets the lion’s share of the search marketing. This is true. Depending on who you believe, the numbers range from 46% of the search marketing to over 60%. Design hovers around the 20% range. But don’t confuse this with traffic. The two are not the same.

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