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Ask Jeeves launches new advertising campaign

Search engine Ask Jeeves is launching a new TV advertising campaign in the UK, highlighting its rebranded focus as a questions and answers website.

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Ask Jeeves launches new advertising campaign

Google to automatically populate titles in Snippets?

When Google initially started indexing websites, the webmaster had complete control over the snippet data that Google displayed within the search results. In those days snippet data included titles, descriptions and web address. However, as time has progressed, Google has made numerous alterations to the data displayed and this can have an effect that should be taken into account by webmasters .

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Wii Fit Plus: Recommended by The NHS

The NHS is said to be giving the Nintendo Wii Fit Plus the NHS’s Change4Life logo making the Wii the first gaming device to ever be recommended by the health department. While the government and various health agencies have often attacked video games as being a major factor in the health and obesity problems they are trying to tackle, it seems that the the Wii Fit Plus has elicited a change in opinion. They believe will encourage a healthier lifestyle among Britain’s armchair critics - video gamers.

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Wii Fit Plus: Recommended by The NHS

Secret service investigates Facebook Obama assassination poll

A Facebook poll asking users to vote whether US President Barack Obama should be killed was hastily removed from the social networking site after its existence was revealed to company officials. The poll was created by a user of the third-party application Polls, which has now been pulled from Facebook. Facebook’s director of policy communications Barry Schnitt told Raw Story on Monday: “The application that enabled a user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning and was disabled.

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Secret service investigates Facebook Obama assassination poll

Greenpeace’s Cool IT Challenge - pushing the boundaries of SEO rules?

Environmental organisation Greenpeace is using search engine rankings as the battleground in a form of direct action lobbying of the CEOs of major corporations. A search engine optimisation (SEO) competition has been organised to get certain Greenpeace pages as high as possible in the rankings for vanity searches of each of the CEOs

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Greenpeace’s Cool IT Challenge - pushing the boundaries of SEO rules?