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Burned by HIT Web Design? Let us Help!

“Heritage Internet Technologies of Provo [also known as HIT Web Design], lauded as one of Utah’s fastest-growing companies in recent years, shut down suddenly Tuesday, leaving employees and customers reeling” (Salt Lake Tribune). Are you a former HIT Web Design…

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European Union Opens Anititrust Case Against Google

It is nearly impossible to be the world’s biggest search engine and not run the risk of getting into trouble with the competition at some point. The European Union (EU) is accusing Google of using its dominance in the search…

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What are Myspace and Facebook Up To

What is your guess, what are Myspace and Facebook up to? Today the social media giants of Facebook and Myspace are making joint announcement, but it can only be speculated what it could be about. Mashable.com, who received a personal…

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A Tribute to Ask.com

After about 14 years in the search engine market Ask.com is finally throwing in the towel. The company previously known as “Ask Jeeves” until February 27, 2006 was considered one of the search engine giants soon after its inception in…

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Social Media Predicting the Elections?

The power of Social media is showing its face in politics. Facebook says that page popularity was a good predictor of election night victory. On the U.S. Politics on Facebook Page, the company says: “The Facebook political team’s initial snapshot…

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The Facebook and Bing Team

Last week Facebook and Microsoft made an interesting announcement that integrates Facebook data with the Bing search engine. Their announcement could bring a significant change to how results can be found in a search engine. It will change how buyers…

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Socail Media Predicting the Stock Market?

Could real-time conversation through social media actually be used to predict ups and downs in stock market activity? As crazy as this seems, a researcher at Indiana University is proving that it could be possible. Through the use of algorithms,…

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Does Facebook affect SEO?

It has been a little unclear in the past as to what Facebook and other Social Media sites do for search engine optimization. Some businesses attempt to use social media to generate links to their site and boost their rankings….

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Search Engine Changes for Yahoo

For more than five years Yahoo has slowly been losing it’s search engine users. Yahoo has recently introduced a series of new features in hopes to better contend with the search-engine-giant Google. Attempting to make the Yahoo search engine more…

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Optimizing Your Website for Search Engines and People

It doesn’t matter how high your site can rank on Google if you can’t get anyone to stay. How many times have you clicked the first search result only to find an ugly, irrelevant site despite the fact that it…

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