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		<title>Bogus Bing Trademark Infringement Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/12/bogus-bing-trademark-infringement-lawsuit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A degree of scepticism is observed in public response to the trademark infringement lawsuit filed against Microsoft by a small St. Louis design company for using the Bing name on their heavily publicized new search engine. Is this just a rally for publicity on behalf of the plaintiff? The case appears questionable, but there may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is rel=nofollow, and Should I Use It?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/06/what-is-relnofollow-and-should-i-use-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The nofollow tag (as it&#8217;s commonly referred to), is an HTML attribute proposed by Matt Cutts of Google and Jason Shellen of Blogger.com in 2005. It is a recommendation on behalf of search engines to add a special identifier to links that shouldn&#8217;t be counted towards search results. For instance, unmoderated blog comments might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Best Logo Ever Celebrates Morse&#8217;s Life</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/googles-best-logo-ever-celebrates-morses-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has a history of commemorating holidays and historic events by showing a different logo for the day, and this is the best yet! Today is Samuel Morse&#8217;s birthday (you know, Morse code?), and they spelled out Google in the famous dash-dot character encoding. I thought they should add an option for the day that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PageRank Means Nothing (See For Yourself&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/pagerank-means-nothing-see-for-yourself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/pagerank-means-nothing-see-for-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just compared Google referrals to PageRank on 37 different Websites, and here are the results. The numbers are pretty amazing. If PageRank does mean anything, it certainly doesn&#8217;t mean good search performance&#8230; Since I&#8217;ve been working like crazy on new code for my SEO scripts and upcoming phpLinkBid release, it wasn&#8217;t that tough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing Google Toolbar, Ditching PageRank Tool, and Speeding up Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/removing-google-toolbar-ditching-pagerank-tool-and-speeding-up-firefox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/removing-google-toolbar-ditching-pagerank-tool-and-speeding-up-firefox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Toolbar has finally outgrown it&#8217;s usefulness. After years of using the Firefox add-on, I permanently removed it from all my computers.  The PageRank display was my only reason for using the toolbar. Now PageRank isn&#8217;t very useful, the toolbar slows down browsing, and I even saved a meager 4.7MB of memory. It will probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google PageRank Toolbar Down</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/03/google-pagerank-toolbar-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the PageRank toolbar blacks out and it appears to be one of those times. For the last 24 hours or so it&#8217;s been reporting &#8220;No PageRank information available&#8221; for most top-level domains. Many subpages are still showing PR on the toolbar, and a lot of sites seem unaffected. When the toolbar isn&#8217;t working I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google No Longer Suggests Relevant Links</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/10/google-no-longer-suggests-relevant-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Directories]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/blog/?p=71</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Webmaster Guidelines no longer suggests having relevant sites link to yours. They also removed their suggestion of submitting your site to relevant directories. This was brought up in Google Groups recently, and subsequently on the big Webmaster forums Digital-Point and Sitepoint. However based on the logic of these threads, which get pretty heated over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google Wrong to Hate Paid Links?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/10/is-google-wrong-to-hate-paid-links/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/10/is-google-wrong-to-hate-paid-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/blog/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is against paid links.  They have made this clear by asking Webmasters to report sites that sell links, repeateadly blogging about how paid links are bad, and by evidently selecting sites to torture in their search algorithm for participating in link sales. Obviously a lot of people are upset about this &#8211; publishers want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Google Prefer Keyword-Rich URLs?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/08/does-google-prefer-keyword-rich-urls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/08/does-google-prefer-keyword-rich-urls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/blog/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I didn&#8217;t know what a search engine friendly URL was. Now I practice human readable &#8220;search engine friendly URLs&#8221; whenever possible. When I stumbled upon the concept and started moving away from dynamic URLs to friendly, keyword rich URLs I noticed a direct and immediate positive impact on how much I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuil Stages Their Own Demise?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/07/cuil-stages-their-own-demise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2008/07/cuil-stages-their-own-demise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent launch of Cuil and the widespread press has caused more than an uproar this week. Bloggers around the Web are &#8220;calling out&#8221; Cuil on dubious press claiming to be a Google killer and show-stopper in search, when after 50 million searches on day one led many users to say&#8230; WTF? That&#8217;s not what [...]]]></description>
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