Top Chinese search engine, Baidu, announced plans on Monday to enter the Japanese market in the near future.

To get one’s videos indexed correctly by the search engines dedicated to that content, it’s the spoken word rather than the pretty pictures that matter most. Mike McDonald listened in on the expert panel at SES Chicago discussing the process.

Fortunately one of the most common reasons cited for the high failure rate of CRM systems – poor data quality – is also one of the easiest to avoid.

It is irrelevant whether you have a small business or a global empire – information is an asset in any kind of business. And when it is business, everything comes down to profitability.

Firstly the “What” – Cleaning a database is done to:

Telespial Systems is providing government agencies from around the world the tools needed to help manage and deploy asset and geographical data during times of emergency.

Segment Reporting – Why your parents were right and you can’t always have everything you want!

Sometimes change is good, sometimes it’s bad, and sometimes it’s a mixed bag. Such was the case recently when a customer switched a remote office from a 56K line to using a Kerio VPN over Internet connections.

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Disciplined Search Engine Optimization
Establishing a Measurement and Process Discipline for SEO

WEB 2.0: Google CEO: Take your data and run – Network World One of the things that all internet companies need to do a better job on is in ensuring that our users have portability of data. So it was refreshing to read this morning that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, was talking up user portability today.

Mobile CRM is on the rise in the world of CRM and demand is growing as companies and employees are demanding access to crucial information in real time.

The “Conversation with Eric Schmidt” was interesting for a couple of reasons yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit.

Congratulations to Jeremiah Owyang who’s announced he’s departing Hitachi Data Systems and joining forces with Robert Scoble at Podtech. His role?

Two consumer advocacy groups have filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking the regulatory agency to investigate alleged abuses resulting from Microsoft’s adCenter services and the private user data the company collects.

Today I’ll be doing a presentation called, “The Truth About Search Engine Optimization” as part of the Visi Data Center 2.0 event.

This is mainly for my own reference – but as I always have trouble finding it – I thought I’d share.

Speaking of browsers, I’m working with a client site right now that gets substantial traffic, and gets 88% of its visits from Internet Explorer (only 10% Firefox)! 95% of the IE visits are v. 6 right now.

Recent reports of YouTube and Yahoo’s cooperation in providing private user data to third parties has drawn the attention and criticism of bloggers and information journalists alike. The question begins to arise: Just how private is your online life?

comScore released a list of the top fifteen Web properties earlier today, and there are some very familiar search-related names in the first three positions. Microsoft’s sites lead the way, with both Yahoo and Google trailing behind, according to these September rankings.

It’s been a brutal search market except for a few. Four of the top ten search engines had significant drops in the number of searches, and MSN gets the title of biggest loser.

This nifty search utility which I confess, I’m not terribly familiar with, is very sweet!