Yahoo and Microsoft Look Ready to Final Sign Search Deal

More info about the Microsoft/Yahoo news here. Looks like it won’t impact paid search ads, and there’s still some question if it will raise antitrust flags with the Department of Justice. Would certainly make life easier if you only need to pay attention to 2 search engines instead of three.

Social Media and Local Search Training for Leadership Alexandria

I had a great time this morning leading a training session for Leadership Alexandria’s alumnus related to online marketing, local search and social media for non-profits and businesses.
Here’s the online marketing presentation from today’s training.

Online Marketing 101 Training at Environmental Working Group

Online Marketing 101 Training presentation for Environmental Working Group.

How Search Engines Work Video

Just in case you haven’t been able to attend one of my training sessions, you can hear from SEOmoz’s Randy Fiskin about how search engines work in this video.

Finally! Live.com Provides Webmaster Tools

Live.com has now launched a webmaster blog to keep all of us up to date about how to adjust our sites to rank well with their search engine.
They provide all these easy tools in one place:

Add your website link
Add your business to their local search
and many other tools.

Check it out!
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Microsoft using Neural Networking Ranking in Search Results

I’ve been curious to see when search engines were going to start exploring using neural networks for their search engine rankings. Microsoft at Searchification Day just announced that their new algorithm is able to understand the meaning between the words used in a keyword phrase:
The improved ranking algorithms use neural networking ranking that are loosely [...]