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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Because of the explosion of social media and mobile as the primary, go-to consumer device for local information, Google is increasingly losing search share to local directories, social media sites and maps apps. Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. Want to know where you stand now?

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million. Founding Date: 2004.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator.

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How to find a good programmer or web developer

www.peterdrew.net

Cheers Pete Trust SEO - Part 7 Seo Bank Automation By Steve Evans 17/10/2010 10:52 am I used Bruteforce (which preceded EVO) and initially I found that although I never saw the advertised “possession of a full page of Google natural search results&# , with care it was worth doing.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And even if your startup is unlikely to IPO someday, an aggregate increase in the number of public tech companies (coupled with large cash piles for big established ones) should make the M&A climate more favorable in coming years. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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