Search Engine Submission Tip

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To begin with, do not do it.  There are only two or three search engines which matter for most sites.  Just go to these search engine(s) that matter to you and manually submit your site or sites.

http://www.google.com/addurl/

or

http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/index.html

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Change this around to suite your needs:
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=submit+site+site%3Ayahoo.com

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Google to shut China search engine

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Google to shut China search engine
By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing
Published: March 12 2010 20:11

Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking.

In a hardening of positions on both sides, the Chinese government also on Friday threw down a direct public challenge to the US search company, with a warning that it was not prepared to compromise on internet censorship to stop Google leaving.

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Google announces business app store for Google Apps

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Google announces business app store for Google Apps
by Tom Krazit
March 9, 2010 6:15 PM PST

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Google is bringing the app store concept to business cloud computing, giving software developers a storefront for Google Apps customers.

The Google Apps Marketplace will allow Google Apps users to purchase third-party applications to run atop the Google Apps suite, said Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google. Developers will have to pay a one-time $100 fee to list their applications in the store, and Google will get a 20 percent cut of all applications sold through the store, he said.

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Google Tests TV Search Service

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Google Tests TV Search Service
By JESSICA E. VASCELLAR
MARCH 8, 2010

Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving race to combine Internet content with conventional TV.

The service, which runs on TV set-top boxes containing Google software, allows users to find shows on the satellite-TV service as well as video from Web sites like Google’s YouTube, according to these people. It also lets users to personalize a lineup of shows, these people said.

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Google Targets Microsoft With DocVerse Deal

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Google Targets Microsoft With DocVerse Deal
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO
MARCH 5, 2010, 7:11 P.M. ET

Stepping up its fight against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. acquired DocVerse, a technology startup that allows people to edit Microsoft Office files online.

Google paid around $25 million for the San Francisco-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter.

In an interview, Jonathan Rochelle, group product manager for Google Apps, said Google acquired DocVerse to make it easier for people to transition from desktop software to online software. The latter is an area where Google is trying to get a leg up over Microsoft, with its Google Apps service, which includes online word-processing and spreadsheet software. He declined to comment on the deal’s price.

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Microsoft Will Continue Chinese Strategy In Search, Cloud

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Microsoft Will Continue Chinese Strategy In Search, Cloud
By: Nicholas Kolakowski
2010-03-06

Microsoft executives have indicated repeatedly throughout 2010 that the company intends to stay in China and compete aggressively for the search and cloud-computing markets, despite some controversy between the Chinese government and Google earlier in the year that saw the search-engine giant briefly threatening to pull its operations from the country. Both Microsoft and Google lag behind homegrown Chinese search engine Baidu in that market, considered one of the world’s fastest-growing. Both Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Google CEO Eric Schmidt have reaffirmed their commitment to human rights within the context of doing business in China.

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Even if Google Uncensors Its Chinese Search, Microsoft has no Plans to Follow

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Even if Google Uncensors Its Chinese Search, Microsoft has no Plans to Follow
Talks between Google and the Chinese government quietly continue

Censorship is the name of the game in China’s media market. If you aren’t willing to filter out content the government finds unacceptable, you aren’t allowed to do business with the nation’s over 1 billion people. For most companies, that’s too tempting a target to miss. Blind compliance has been a typical precedent in the past.

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Google Says Microsoft Waging Proxy War

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I am of course biased towards the comments made by, me, which state:

Sprinkle some Open Source Intelligence with a profit motive and it only makes sense that the evil empire is guilty of this charge. However, Google would be foolish to not be doing the exact same thing. I am curious to know if Google complaining about this will help them in any way or make their insane amount of various market control more visible … ie, make them a bigger target.

 

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Google Europe: A No Good, Very Bad Week

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Google Europe: A No Good, Very Bad Week
Ian Paul, PCWorld
Feb 24, 2010 8:13 am

This has not a good week so far for Google’s European operations. The search giant has been hit with official complaints of anti-competitive behavior from three companies based in the European Union, and three Google employees have been convicted of violating Italian privacy laws.

European Commission

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