Yahoo! 360 degree Launched

The Great News is that Yahoo have Launched their

Yahoo 360 degree


I am fortunate to be given one by

Steve Rubel


Otherwise, I would be still in the waiting list.

For the last 40 hours or so I have receive 16 confirmations from friends accepting the invitations. there are still 53 outstanding.

Anyway, my observations is that Yahoo need to improve on the following:

1. The photo posting/ It's feature is more like the

http://spaces.msn.com/members/charliebrown8989/ then the




Which is using:




From my experience, both Hello & Picasa2 is so user friendly that once it is installed, you can just select the pictures & then upload.

However, I believe that Yahoo! 360 degree the uploading of Photo, complication would be a non-issue once they complete the acquistion of:




The other observation, I have is that after signing up

Yahoo 360 degree


I always have to sign in again when I check my email or browse other pages. These also Yahoo shall improve.

After all Yahoo have grain the experience & Mistakes; from Blogger & Spaces.MSN.com that would make Yahoo a more wholesome as the Blogging services provider!!

Yahoo have given those invited to sign up with 99 invitations, these also have Yahoo to build a strong base of eCommunity. This is a very smart move.

These business strategy it reminded me about my late father saying..

Oh!! Don't worry.. if you don't have money now..You just have it 1st.. then later you repay me... I would appreciate that you introduce your friends & relatives to me!!

I am always indebts to my Dad.

How Yahoo Fight Back The Loosing Ground On Blogging

Sometime, September last year, When I set up my 1st Blog with


.

I am using the Pacific Bell internet services since 1997. Then in year 2000, I signed with Pacbell DSL.

Now it is know as SBC Yahoo DSL. When I called




Their customer services told me that they don't have the Blogging services. However, I can either signed up with their subsidiary:




Alternatively, I can sign up with their hosting services either.. the personal plane or business plan. I then requested that my converzation with them is recorded. I said, I am giving these competitive informations for free.

What are you talking about, nothing you can do.. I know as in Customer Service, there is nothing you can do.. but I appreciate you tape my converzation & let's your manager play it for your decision maker's at the top.

Now, almost 6 months gone, I am glad that Yahoo really listen!! My Buying the Photo Blogging:




And Also Yahoo now alliances with:

a flexible copyright for Creative Work.


Yahoo! 360 Degree


Which is suppose to be launching tommorrow a more wholesome offering to these Blogger's in the Cybersphere.

As the world moving into the Knowledge Base; e-Economies. Blogging is becomming a tools for living.

The competitions on Blogging services is just at the beginning. A healthy competitions is good for the open market. especially the Bloggers.

How Yahoo Got It's Mojo Back.

A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys and some libertarian friendly moves have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes. It is only a matter of time when mainstream media rediscovers Yahoo, and a stock market resurgence follows….

For Yahooligans, 2004 was a year of frustration. No one noticed the fact that company’s stock posted a hefty 72% gain, ending the year at about $38 a share. Overlooked was the fact that it had sales of $3.6 billion and net income of $834 million. That’s twice as much money it raked in 2003, and nearly three times the profit. It is no surprise that many Yahoo insiders felt like the Yankee fans - no matter what they did, they were going to be overshadowed by Google.

Google’s spectacular initial public offering (admittedly that lined Yahoo’s coffers nicely and helped with those profits in 2004) and ensuing hubbub where even political columnists were comparing the minimalist search engine to second coming of Jesus. Not a day went by when someone or the other theorized that Google was going to build a Web OS, a new kind of application framework or even a browser. In the other words Google will turn the web into a giant platform. Google was everywhere! Even in the pages of GQ.

That has tweaked the Yahoo insiders no end! Many had expressed their frustration, for rest of the world not seeing the true value of Yahoo, and how well the company was doing. It just seemed so boring, lacking the pizzaz of Google, its celebrity guests, and its wonderful chef. A few months ago, almost suddenly the tide turned.

Many starting to see that many of Google’s forays into anything but search have been like its search results lately - off target. Orkut is a bit of a blah! Blogger is because, blogger was! Google News and Froogle - well I think Jeff Jarvis has some choice words about that. AdWords/AdSense are great, but prone to click fraud. GMail is wonderful, but the ads on my content, no thank-you! An Autolinks brouhaha ensued.

This was precisely the opening Yahoo had been waiting for, to launch some sort of a media assault. Wired assigned Mike Malone, an Internet 1.0 guy to do a story on the company, and its comeback. The UnGoogle was a piece from the dot-com days, fancy wordsmith doing his thing, except it lacked the fire to get a “conversation” started.

The indignity is all the greater when you consider Yahoo!’s numbers: 165 million registered users, 345 million unique visitors a month, $49 billion market cap, and a 62 per­cent increase in revenue last quarter, bringing 2004 total revenue to $3.6 billion. Yahoo! makes more money and has more patents, services, and users than Google; it even has its own yodel.

And what it also has a couple of guys, I like to call them blog evangelists, who knowingly or not, have brought the right kind of attention to the company. Russell Beattie who recently joined Yahoo has been blogging furiously (much to my annoyance) about Yahoo and its wireless efforts. In normal course of events, Yahoo would have issued a press release, and many of us would have paid little or no attention. Jeremy Zawodny is the other and has helped the company focus on some of the newer social media trends. I have never met him, but if his blog is anything to go by, then perhaps he is spreading the open media religion at Yahoo. The blog-evangelists unlike press relations folks, only write when there is something important to say. That is if they want to maintain their credibility.

Russell and Jeremy are small part of the big equation. After sitting on its haunches for so long, and letting google walk away with the AdSense dollars, Yahoo’s Overture division is finally getting its act together and rolling out its small-publisher service. By buying Flickr earlier this month and OddPost last year, Yahoo has bought into the open-standards, web services business model, something which has gotten it much love from the bloggers who apparently care too much about this type of stuff. Adding RSS and blogs to My Yahoo, makes them cooler than the other two - MSN and Google. In an effort to best Google, the company has upped its free email storage to one gigabyte. Yahoo offered desktop search tool, just like Google. It is launching a blogging-meets-social networking tool, Yahoo 360. I have not seen it but count on blogsphere love for it. The company also announced today that it will search creative commons content. What that means is really nothing for many of the mom-and-pops don’t care about license information etc. But it will get boing-boinged and create the right karma for the company. If you look at all these features, it is not clear that if any one of these will bring any major dollars into the company. It will show to the chattering classes that Yahoo is on the right track. And is embracing new technologies etc. That’s until something new comes along.

MOZILLA FOUNDATION EXPANDS WITH LAUNCH OF MOZILLA CHINA

This is a significant step forward for 3 establishment to work together to made available the following:

Mozilla Suit


Firefox Browser


Thunderbird
email & News aggregator to the people of China, The populations stand at near to 1.5 Billions. Mandarine would become the No 1 Business Language in the World within the next 10 years.

One can envisage that a 10% of the populations is connected on the internet, you are talking about a customer base of 150millions. The potential is huge.

The services would bring the net communities in China to have the alternative Browser & email Client; News Aggregator other than IE 6.0, Netscape, Yahoo...

The Mozilla China project has been spearheaded by the Institute of Software,

Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and the

Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI).

ISCAS is a leading government funded research institute in China which focuses on the fundamental theories of computer science as well as software technologies and their applications. ERI is an integral part of Sun's international R&D program.

MOZILLA FOUNDATION EXPANDS WITH LAUNCH OF MOZILLA CHINA

Mozilla China marks third non-profit international affiliate and largest new market for the Mozilla Foundation

March 4, 2005, (Mountain View, CA). The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the launch of www.mozilla.org.cn and the creation of Mozilla China, a non-profit organization to help develop, promote, and deploy Mozilla products in China. The launch of Mozilla China follows similar international affiliate programs Mozilla Europe and Mozilla Japan.

The Mozilla China project has been spearheaded by the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and the Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI). ISCAS is a leading government funded research institute in China which focuses on the fundamental theories of computer science as well as software technologies and their applications. ERI is an integral part of Sun's international R&D program.

"We are extremely excited to announce the launch of Mozilla China," said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. "Mozilla China will be responsible for promoting our mission of software choice and innovation throughout China. We believe there is tremendous potential for success in this new market and that the people of China will embrace our award-winning open source products. Additionally, China is a great resource for the open source community and we look forward to building a strong developer community."

Mozilla China will be co-chaired by Dr. Li Gong of Sun ERI and Mr. Mingshu Li of ISCAS, both of whom will sit on the steering committee with Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla China will build a Chinese version of the Mozilla web site, provide technical and architectural direction for Mozilla development in China, organize and operate discussion forums, and develop Mozilla source code in China.

"We believe the market should not be dominated by one provider and that customers deserve choice and innovation," said Dr. Li Gong, Co-chairman of Mozilla China Foundation and General Manager of Sun ERI. "Sun supports open source software and is one of Mozilla's largest developers worldwide. We have an excellent Mozilla browser development team in Beijing and look forward to playing an active role in Mozilla China and sharing our knowledge with all China developers through mozilla.org.cn."
ABOUT THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION

Established in July 2003, the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization hosting a collection of leading innovators whose mission is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. The Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open source software project. The Foundation is based in Mountain View, California. Learn more about the Mozilla Foundation at www.mozilla.org.

Press Contact:
Nick Leahy
Sparkpr
nick@sparkpr.com
+1-415-321-1864

MOZILLA FOUNDATION EXPANDS WITH LAUNCH OF MOZILLA CHINA

Feedster Claims

No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster

Yahoo to Buy Photo-Sharing Site Flickr

For Yahoo to be successful in lunching their Blog




Yahoo

need to have a Photo Image Media Software like:




Which is now the Google subsidiary.

To compliment Yahoo! 360 degree Blog services.


I have not used the

, so I cannot comments more on these. I am awaiting the Yahoo! 360 degree Beta on Mar 29, 2005.

As I am on the waiting list for the Yahoo! 360 degree. I would certainly keep you all posted.

Yahoo to Buy Photo-Sharing Site Flickr
Mon Mar 21, 1:40 PM ET

NEW YORK - Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. President Stewart Butterfield on Monday confirmed Internet portal Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) will acquire the privately held company, which operates photo-sharing Web site Flickr.

Butterfield would not disclose terms of the deal, but said Yahoo will release an official statement during the afternoon. There was much speculation Yahoo was interested in acquiring Vancouver-based Ludicorp, whose Flickr service allows users to easily swap photos.

"Yes, we've reached a deal with Yahoo," Butterfield said. "We are being acquired."

The confirmation puts to rest rumors about a possible deal that had been bandied about by Flickr users on Web sites and blogs during recent weeks. The transaction picked up more credence on Sunday when a Ludicorp executive confirmed on the company's staff blog the acquisition had indeed gone through.

The deal received a favorable reaction from Wall Street. Standard & Poor's backed its "Buy" rating on Yahoo, saying the transaction makes "strategic sense." The acquisition was also seen helping Yahoo compete against Google Inc., which owns Picasa, a photo-sharing company.

Flickr allows users to upload digital photos from computers and camera phones, and assemble them into albums that can be posted on blogs and shared with other users. The photo-sharing service will likely become a cornerstone for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's new "Yahoo 360" concept — which blends blogging and social networking.

Last week, Yahoo said its 360 service will combine instant messaging, photo storage and sharing, and Internet radio together. It is currently being tested by employees, and will be made available to Yahoo users by March 29.

Rivals such as Microsoft Inc.'s MSN.com and Google have already become involved in offering blogging services to users. Search engine Ask Jeeves Inc., which announced Monday it agreed to be acquired by Barry Diller's IAC/InteractiveCorp. for $1.85 billion, also offers similar services.

A spokesman for Yahoo did not immediately return telephone calls. Shares of Yahoo rose 9 cents to $31.20 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq.


Yahoo! News - Yahoo to Buy Photo-Sharing Site Flickr

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Nigeria Scam 411 -Alert!!

This is the email. I got today. Which I would like you all to beware.

I have been a victim by these scammer's in Europe & Africa.. I nearly lost my life..

So, if you receive these kind of email. do not response.. Report to FBI or your local Authority.



FROM MR JOHN JOHNSON
TELL: +234-802-531-6006
EMAIL: j_johnson008@yahoo.com


Very Urgent Attention,

Please permit me to introduce my humble self to you, I m Mr. John Johnson, I am the Manager of International Relation with Access Bank of
Nigeria Limited, I 'm 38yrs old, I got your email address on the Internet, and my confidence reposed on you. I hope you read this message
carefully and reply me immediately. Although we have not met before, but I suggest that this transaction will bring us together.

My dear, we have a customer, a foreigner but base here in Nigeria, his Name is Mr. Hamilton Creek. He is from Atlanta Georgia United State of
America, but base here with his wife and his two children, Mr. Hamilton has being banking with our bank for the past 4yrs, some time August
2002, Mr. Hamilton was on his way to his house, and unfortunately, Mr. Hamilton ran into a Trailer load of Groundnut Oil, and died
immediately, their car got burnt, no single soul was saved, Mr. Hamilton Creek and his entire family was confirmed died.

My Board of Directors and Board of Management of Access Bank has mandated and instructed me to look for Mr. Hamilton Creek

relation/relatives and his next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund, Since August 2003 till date, I have been looking for Mr. Hamilton

Creek relation's and relatives/Next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund which he deposited with our bank, I have contacted his Embassy

and after 3days, his Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton Creek has no relation and no next of kin, their Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton

used his first son as his next of kin, but it is quite unfortunate that Mr. Hamilton Creek died with all his family members.

The reason why I contacted you is thus, Mr. Hamilton is dead, and his only son whom supposed to inherit his properties and money also died
with him. As at this moment, nobody or person[s] is coming to claim this money from our bank. The board directors and management of our bank

has Told me that if nobody or person[s] apply for the claim of Mr. Hamilton Fund, the bank will return Mr. Hamilton's Fund into our Federal
Reserve.

In the Light of the above, I want you to stand as the Relation/relative of Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, I want you to act as the Hamilton's Brother, so

that you will inherit Mr. Hamilton Creek Money which he deposited with our bank, it might interest you to know that Mr. Hamilton has a
Domiciliary Bank Account with our Bank and he has a total sum of US$9.2M Nine Million Two Hundred Dollars, this is the exact amount which

late Mr. Hamilton Creek has in his domiciliary Account, and this money is still in his account as unclaimed money.

This transaction is very easy and simple, and it is 100% risk free, I'm the Manager for International Relations with Access Bank of Nigeria
Limited, and the Management and Board Directors of the Bank are waiting for me to provide to them the Relation or next of Kin to late Mr.
Hamilton Creek, of which I told them that I am still searching the next of kin to the deceased.

Finally, if you are interested with this transaction, I will front you to the bank as the only next of kin to late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and I will let the

bank know that you are the only right person to inherit late Mr. Hamilton Funds and properties. If you agree with me, I will present you to my

bank as the rightful person/next of kin to Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and all Mr. Hamilton Creek Properties and his Money US$9.2M Nine Million

Two Hundred Thousand Dollars will be Transferred into your own Account as Mr. Hamilton Creek next of kin., if you are interested, just email me

or call me on my direct, private and secured #: +234-802-53106006 if you are interested, late Mr. Hamilton Funds will be Credited into your Account

and all his Properties will be Released to you either through Courier Services or the Bank will Cargo all his properties to you in any were you want

it. So reply me immediately and let me know what you say, feel free to ask any questions. We will share Late Mr. Hamilton Creek Funds 50-50; you

will take 50% of the US$9.2M. Which is US$4.600,000.00 Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars, while the Balance of the same amount will

be mine. I will be waiting for your immediate response,

Thanks and have a nice day.

Friendly Regards

Mr. John Johnson
NB: Please reply to my personal mailbox: j_johnson005@yahoo.com
This is my private mailbox, Thanks.


SBC Yahoo! Mail - tanch89@pacbell.net

Blog Equal SEO Power In Search

This article from Blog Business World, which I appended for your reading.

My finding is that Blog is really powerful. Especial if your Blog is Power by Blogger.

After returning from Utah meeting, I set up a new Blogs

g3 Juice & Antioxidants

Then on last 3 days, I did a search on g3 Juice on google search bar, the result return that my site is at the 1st position.

With the power of Search Engine Corporations like:

Yahoo

Google

Microsoft

Life & Earning a Living is Day in Day Out with the Search Engine!!

After all these are the 3 Top SEO in the Business today!!

They are truly search engine optimization powerhouses. Before your eyes glaze over, and you start to yawn, keep in mind that many of your brand new blog visitor traffic arrives from search engines.

Editor's Note: How effective are blogs when it comes to search engine placement? Do any of your blogs rank exceptionally high in the various engines? Discuss at WebProWorld.

These include Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, and A9.com.

[Blogs Equal SEO Power In Searches] Ranking well, and preferably on the first page, is key to gaining extra free visitor traffic. Being placed on the second page for a search isn't too bad either.

By way of an SEO blog example, here are some search results for Blog Business World for uber competitive keywords.

We'll examine the search for the two word phrase "business world" without the quotes.

On Google, this blog ranks #8 out of an incredibly mind boggling 158,000,000 returns. You read that correctly. 158 million search results.

Okay, I'm not number on on page one. Of course, ranking just behind the BBC and the World Bank isn't too shabby.

Blog Business World is slightly less well ranked on Yahoo at #19, and is located on page two.

Of course, Yahoo search returns total an even more incredible 270,000,000 linked sites.

Yes, that is 270 million returns for the search term "business world".

The Zytext contextual ad network combines the latest innovations in business and technology to help create an increase in ad awareness, brand recall, and higher response rates. This translates to more quality traffic visiting your site. Let Zytext show you how! Click Here to sign up!

In terms of SEO, those are very powerful returns indeed.

Note the power of a little old blog, in competition with those extremely wealthy and huge organizations.

If you ever doubted the search engine optimization power of a blog before, that might just change your mind.

A blog oozes SEO power.

Get a blog working in the search engines for your business today.
There is no cheaper or more effective SEO available.

Anywhere, at any price.

About the Author:
Wayne Hurlbert provides insigtful information about marketing, promotions, search engine optimization and public relations for websites and business blogs on the popular Blog Business World.

Check out Blog Business World for yourself.

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Yahoo! 360� - Home

Yahoo! 360 is the New Yahoo Blog Service.

It is schedule to be on beta March 29, 2005

If you are interested to have your own blog with Yahoo. Just goto

Yahoo! 360

You would discover more...


What is Yahoo! 360

Getting Started Is Simple

Already have a Yahoo! ID? That's all you need. Your page is out there waiting to be filled with whatever you like. If you don't have an ID, sign up for one. It's free, and takes a few seconds to get.
Start filling your page

Adding stuff is easy. All you need to know is point and click. If you already have stuff on Yahoo! that you want to share -- photo albums, groups, a LAUNCHcast station, Yahoo! Local reviews -- you can add them to your page in a few simple clicks.

* Sign in to Yahoo! 360°
* Create your own page. Post photos, start a blog, list your favorites.
* Invite your friends and family.

Share What Matters to You

Let people know what's interesting or important to you. Post photos. Start a blog. Share lists and recommendations, anything. Show who you are and what's in your life -- all your delights, dislikes, and playful passions.
example privacy setting
Control who sees what

You'll have complete control over who sees what. After all, your relationships with different people vary. So we've provided options for you to control access to any and all parts of your page.
One Place to Keep Connected

With Yahoo! 360°, you'll have one place to keep the important people in your life connected to you. And one place for you to stay connected to them.
Easily invite your friends and family

get connectedIt's very easy to plug all of your people in. With just a few clicks you can invite any -- or everyone from your Yahoo! Messenger friends list, your Yahoo! Address Book or (after beta) from Microsoft Outlook to connect to you.
Keep Up With Your Friends

It isn't always easy to stay in touch. Yahoo! 360° makes it a little easier. Every time you sign in, you'll automatically see the latest stuff your friends have shared.

Yahoo! 360� - Home

Founder watches Super Bowl star GoDaddy go -- No Longer The Cheapest!!

Goddady is no longest the Lowest price, Domain Registrar.

I have research into the Domain Registrar's for the last 6 months.

I found that Godaddy is no longer the Cheapest!! Also it is noted that their Customer Services Rep is not that friendly , as it suppose to be. Now Godaddy also offer web hosting.. Sp far their offering initially is competitive. But also lagging behind company like Dot 5 & Netfirms!!!!!

If company allow the Customer's Services to take over by Computers or Robotics trainined human services.. then their days would be numbered!!

When I spoken to their Rep on the phone... they just could not careless to take on my free suggestions. They even tell me that that is not my concern!!

Well protential customer's please beware!!

Founder watches Super Bowl star GoDaddy go
By Max Jarman, The Arizona Republic

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Decades after a combat wound in Vietnam cut short his military career, Bob Parsons still projects a Marine persona: big chest, tightly cropped hair, strong jaw, tough talk.

Over the years, though, the head of Internet domain-name registrar GoDaddy.com has updated his uniform.

The fatigues have been replaced by black Armani slacks and a black Nike mock turtleneck. He has a dozen of each and wears the outfit every day. "It's my work uniform; it's simple," he said.

Six years after becoming an Internet domain-name registrar, GoDaddy is the second-largest domain registry in the world.

And GoDaddy has achieved a not-so-simple something that most of the doomed-to-go-bust dot-coms of the '90s never did — revenue.

Parsons said the privately held company had sales of about $100 million in 2004, and he projects the figure would double in 2005.

Parsons founded the Scottsdale company in 1997, with proceeds from the $64 million sale of another company, Parsons Technology, to Intuit Inc. in 1996. The company has garnered a lot of attention since it aired a racy ad during the Super Bowl and then had the ad, slated to run again later in the game, yanked by Fox.

"We're on our way to becoming a billion-dollar company," he told employees in his quarterly address. "Who knows? We may be there now."

GoDaddy and related subsidiaries help clients obtain and protect Internet domain names that are used to access Web sites. Domain names also are needed to make Internet, or VoIP, phone calls. GoDaddy also designs and hosts Web sites for clients, provides e-mail services and sells software that blocks spam, computer viruses and pop-up ads.

With over 6 million domain names under management, GoDaddy is the world's second-largest registrar service for Internet addresses, slightly behind Network Solutions, which is owned by Phoenix-based Pivotal Private Equity.

The 2005 revenue picture got a big boost from the company's Super Bowl advertising bonanza, which produced 5 million Web site hits in one day and a substantial jump in business, Parsons said.

The ad poked fun at media censorship and showed a tank-top-clad GoDaddy girl (actress Candice Michelle) appearing before a mock congressional censorship hearing.

"It was the NFL (who asked that the ad be pulled)," Parsons said. "Fox approved the ad twice."

Fox's decision to pull the ad landed Parsons interviews in most of the nation's major newspapers and spots on television and radio news programs, including a session with shock jock Howard Stern.

As a result, GoDaddy's one ad garnered the company more exposure than any of the other advertisers.

From Dec. 1 to Feb. 1, media-exposure monitor Multivision Inc. found that GoDaddy's Super Bowl ad was mentioned in nearly 700 broadcasts on local, national and cable television. The broadcasts reached an audience of 262.9 million people, with an estimated publicity value of $11.7 million, according to Multivision.

"It was beyond our wildest dreams," Parsons said.

GoDaddy wasn't an immediate success. In fact, it wasn't even called GoDaddy. The original name was Jomax Technologies, and the business plan was Web site development.

Parsons said he changed the name to GoDaddy because it would be more memorable. "It was kind of fun and had a retro sort of sound to it.

"I came within a whisker of losing all the $64 million (from the sale of Parsons Technology) trying to get this company going," he said.

Finally, he hit on the idea of becoming a domain-name registrar. He'd discovered that 1990s-era domain-name registration was expensive, hard to do and had bad customer service.

"It was a no-brainer," he said. "Offer the best price and the best service and make it simple. ... It was the best hunch I've had — it was the decision that made the company."

USATODAY.com - Founder watches Super Bowl star GoDaddy go

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Search Engine Ranking - Content Management

The Search Engine page Rank is important as it would help to draw traffic to your site

Beside the Links strategies &

Search Engine Optimization.

One also must look at the Content management area of your site.

Now, the search engine tools from


Google

Yahoo

MSN


is realy help our job easier.

Just type in the Search words; phrase.. you would find the answer right away.

Rank And Page Position Still Rule

This report give a fair views on the daily life on the internet.

My research also found that most searcher atlease do a search on:

Google

Yahoo

MSN

These are the top 3 Search Engine I use it every time, whenever I conduct a search. Which I use:

FireFox Browser extensions do come with very many useful features for the search bar.

I fully agreed that page rank on the search still count. The eye scanning habbit is alway tends to scan from the left hand indent margin. Therefore the advs that on the rights is always have less frequency of clicking.

In the sphere of In the sphere of Information overload eBusinesss & eCommerce Era.. Search page Rank & positioning is very important!!

Rank And Page Position Still Rule

Andy Beal | Contributing Writer | 2005-03-01

Editors Note: The Search Engine Strategies conference kicked off in New York yesterday. As usual, there are a number of panels featuring some very useful and educational information.

How Does Search Behavior Affect You?
One such panel attended by Andy Beal detailed the many different types of search behavior. This section detailed how searchers respond to search results. Are they satisfied or do they have to conduct another search?

With this in mind, how does the behavior of visitors coming from search engines affect the design and optimization of your site? Discuss in WebProWorld.

I love looking at the various surveys and studies that float around in the search space. So you can imagine the drool running down my chin, at the thought of the "Search Behavior" session. Panelists shared details of various recent surveys. It was a cornucopia of search trivia.

Dr Bonny Brown Director of Research and Public Services, Keynote Systems, gave details of their study of 2000+ panelists who were invited to log on to the web using a browser companion that measures browsing habits and asks questions.

They revealed which of the search engines were the most popular. No surprises that Google was the top rated search engine. What was interesting is that out of all of the votes cast, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves all had double digit gains (compared to the same study 6 months ago), while Google maintained the lead, its growth was the lowest among the big four. A sign the Google juggernaut might be losing a little steam.

Other useful snippets from Brown:

1 in 2 searchers will use another search engine, if they cannot find what they are looking for.

1 in 3 searchers use search engine toolbars - the greatest retention tool the search engines ever created, in my opinion.

17% of searchers use different search engines for different types of searches.

Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro will probably never have to worry about losing his "search behavior monitoring" crown. As kids today say, "he rocked".

His new study - to be released later today, so you're getting a sneak peak - demonstrated that despite all of the things we think lead to click-thrus and sales, "rank" and "page position" are still the two most important factors to searchers.

Who gets the share of clicks? The number one organic position received 27.4% of all organic clicks, while 51% of all who click on paid results, pick the top paid search listing. This clearly shows that in paid search, you need your ad to be in the top position, while in organic, you can be in the top 3 to 5 results and still get a good share of the click-thrus.

Hotchkiss then went on to display a graph that demonstrated how confidence in search results reduces, the longer it takes a searcher to find what they are looking for. Changing their search request, gave the searcher a brief bump in confidence.


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It may be hard to top the next piece of data shared by Hotchkiss. He demonstrated his eye-tracking survey (50 participants) - where participant's eye movements were tracked to accurately record which search results received the most attention.

He showed a Google search results page with an "eye tracking map" that looked similar to a thermal imagery chart (with the "hotspots" showing the most eye contact). The study distinctly showed most eyes look at the top left corner of the search results, with a small coverage at the top of the paid search results.

Hotchkiss explained that a users' eye is drawn to a triangle pattern which he named "Search's Golden Triangle", with searchers scanning from the top left to the page's "fold" line and then left (in a triangle pattern). While the triangle did not really extend below the fold, 60% of participants scrolled down below the fold, with only 40% taking a look at the paid search results on the right (above fold).

Finally he shared some data on how page position impacted visibility and ultimately click-thrus.

For Organic Results on Google:

100% visibility for the top 3 organic results

85% for the No.4 position

60% for the No. 5 position

For Organic Click-Thrus on Google:

28% click on the No.1 position

Drops to 12% by position No. 3

Remainder share 3-12% of click-thrus

For Paid Search Results on Google:

90% visibility for the top 2 AdWords advertisers

50% visibility for the No.3 position.

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