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Ask removes search box from default mobile search From the post:What Ask found in their user testing is that users would immediately go to the search box and start trying to use it. While this sounds like it offers what the user wants, the fact is that accomplishing simple things like finding our the weather …

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Google Intros Search Ads on Google Mobile Search

Just received this email from Google: Search Ads on Google Mobile Search Hello Michael Blumenthal, We are happy to announce a new feature that will allow you to easily reach additional qualified customers who are searching Google from their mobile phones. In the next few days, your search ads will be eligible to run on …

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Yahoo Local and the New York florist

You’ve heard about User Generated Content? Now you can read about my brief stint as an omnipotent guardian of local data integrity in a new article:Yahoo Local Now Features “User Denigrated Content” at Search Engine Land.

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