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Top Search Queries for 2009 Top Search Queries for 2009

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The end of the year is drawing closer and here are some of the top search queries for 2009 across multiple search engines. Last year, names like Britney Spears, Barack Obama, and Miley Cyrus were hot (especially on Yahoo). What thoughts were on the minds of searchers this year?
Yahoo Top 10 Overall Searches
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Bing - Microsoft's Bing - Microsoft’s “Decision Engine”

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The full deployment of Microsoft’s new search… I mean, decision engine called “Bing” is to be completed today via Bing.com. While Microsoft’s Live Search never really caught on due to poor marketing and, more significantly, poor search results, the company hopes to gain market share with the rebranded and reworked Bing search engine. Live.com’s HTTP [...]

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Google SERPs Using JavaScript to Track Clicks Google SERPs Using JavaScript to Track Clicks

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It’s a well-known fact that Google tracks click-throughs from its search engine result pages (SERPs) to the webpages listed there, and it seems that they have recently changed the way they track these clicks. Until recently, listings in the SERPs would use the simple URL redirects of “google.com/url?q=referral” to determine where traffic is coming from, [...]

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Identifying High Conversion Search Traffic Identifying High Conversion Search Traffic

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Last week, the experts in click fraud at Click Forensics disclosed of their newest version of the Click Forensics traffic quality management platform. This system is intended to detect instances of click fraud such that advertisers and publishers alike can improve on converting quality traffic to sales.
How do they do it?
Well, CF monitors [...]

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Consumer Reports Asking for Links Consumer Reports Asking for Links

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I came across a noteworthy WebmasterWorld thread where WW member MichaelBluejay describes an incident in which a popular magazine, Consumer Reports, had contacted him in a quest for backlinks.

The thread opens:
Consumer Reports wrote to me, saying they’re “constantly seeking sites that complement our own,” how their ultimate goal is to help consumers get expert [...]

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