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Law Firm Purges DoubleClick References

The demand for the FTC chair to recuse herself from the Google and DoubleClick antitrust review yielded a surprising little twist.

Google's URL Spellchecker

Google started to sometimes show URL suggestions if you used the search box as “address box” but mistyped the address.

Make Your Query Smarter On Yahoo!

Talking about their successful Yahoo! Search Assist, Yahoo! now discusses 'The Other Half of the Search Equation'.

Google Adwords Expanded Broad Match

Be careful when using broad match keywords in a Google adWords campaign.

Powerset Makes Powerful Impressions

Powerset has yet to launch, but a few sneak previews have shown some promising results; true “natural language” search appears to be well on its way. Powerset Seems Powerful

Web Analytics News

Up here in British Columbia, Canada we are wrapping up a well deserved long weekend. To start this short work week I'd like to give a shout out to all the excellent web analytics related articles/posts from last week.

ASP.NET: Working with Query Strings

In many cases we write our ASP.NET logic around query strings in order to show the right product page or what not.

ASP.NET: HttpModule for Query String Encryption

URL parameters or query strings are often used to carry information that can be used by hackers to do identity theft or other unpleasant things.

MSN adCenter Showcases New SEM Offerings

In the face of recurrent search losses, this week Microsoft showed off what its much-touted adCenter Labs has been working on. At Demo Fest in Redmond, Mr. Softie showcased what the company called "breakthrough digital tools" focused on improving keyword and content technologies, ad selection and relevance, audience intelligence, social networking, video, platforms, and devices.

Parsing XML As Query Object In Coldfusion

I work in the financial industry as a developer and not that the financial industry has any greater implementation of XML than any other, but web applications that utilize back office processing for loan applications, or new account opening processes, or retail internet banking applications all to some extent make calls to a host. Many times it's a DB2 database, and many times some other process that returns account information or validation information in xml format.