Google accounted for 67.90 percent of US searches in the four weeks ended April 26 — up 4 percent from the year-earlier period — according to Hitwise.

These figures mark an all-time high in market share for the search leader, MarketingCharts writes.

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Friend Connect, while much anticipated by myself and everybody else arrives today, a day late, you get an error when you sign up and all they have to show for this is a YouTube video. This is at 6:14 Arizona, USA time. Don’t hate on me if it works later in the day.

It looks a little better than the MyBlogLog clone I expected and they do not seem to be out to take traffic from existing social hubs.
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What?!! It’s true. Many of the biggest and most popular online retailers with fat SEO budgets are not showing up for their own names or valuable keywords in Google search results. Most don’t even know it. How can this be?

All the major search engines offer a .com search engine and a number of country-specific engines, like Google.ca, .co.uk, .com.au, .fr, .de and so on. These are local search engines, and often use geo-IP targeting to show the local search engine as the default when a searcher lives outside the United States.

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Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog (Wordpress users can modify their ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing).

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