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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Web Presence To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 28 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting.

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Google Lets Users Block Sites

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Search engine giant Google , in what might be a preview of a way for users to help filter out low quality web results, said Thursday that it has begun allowing user to block results from sites they do not want to see. Those recent changes have been aimed at sites like Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com.

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Neo-Nazi Website Turned Away By Google

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Google has revoked the domain registration for the neo-Nazi web publication, The Daily Stormer, after the site attempted to move its domain registration and host‌ing to Google, according to reports. Both Google and GoDaddy have major operations in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

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Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. Google became an overnight industry standard for search strictly by word of mouth, never spending a dime on advertising in its early years. The post Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral. It doesn’t happen by accident.

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Shopzilla Partners With Google

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Los Angeles-based Shopzilla annoucned today that the firm has inked a strategic partnership with Google , to include its Bizrate ratings and review within Google's Product Search and Google AdWords ads. Tags: shopzilla comparison shopping google rating review ecommerce. Shopzilla is a unit of Scripps Networks Interactive.

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FindTheBest Snags Google, DoubleClick Vet As President

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Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the online comparison site headed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor , has turned to a Google and DoubleClick vet to serve as President. Yaghoubi was also an executive serving under O'Connor at DoubleClick, where he was Vice President of Global Media. READ MORE>>.

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Clicker.com Debuts Big Screen Site

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Los Angeles-based Clicker.com , the online video programming guide firm run by former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone, debuted a "big screen" version of its site today at the Google I/O conference. The firm said the new site is designed to support using the web on 50-inch displays. READ MORE>>.

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