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Get ready for possibly the biggest IPO in history:
Audit Results Move Google a Step Closer to Offering: “If the registration is given the green light at a Google board meeting that could take place as early as this week, the public offering would most likely take place during the last week in April.”

I think I forgot to put a link to our newest article here. I was reminded of it because, what to my surprise, our article was listed in the Search Engine Watch Newsletter. That is very exciting for us. I’m pretty certain it has never happened before. I feel like we have finally arrived.
Enjoy:
What I learned at Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago

Now it’s official. Hold on to your hats…
Yahoo, Google primed for search war | CNET News.com: “Yahoo on Wednesday said it will drop search partner Google during the first quarter of 2004 in favor of its own technology, opening a new phase in the battle for Web search dominance. “

Here is an interesting article on how one person using dynamic .asp pages converted his urls to having no query strings:
How Movie Gazette Works

Here is an interesting article discussing the sales cycle and how it applies to key phrase bidding. Check it out:
The Keywords That Sell

Here’s some interesting collective information on the top searches at Google for 2003. It’s called the Zeitgeist - “the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.” Not only is the data interesting, but now you have a new word for your vocabulary.
2003 Year-End Zeitgeist

Forbes.com: Yahoo to drop Google as main search engine -WSJ: “Yahoo Inc. is expected to drop Google as the primary search technology on its site within a few months.”

Get ready for some search engine “fun”. There’s strong feeling that big changes are going to happen over at Yahoo.
Yahoo! News - Yahoo Gets Set to Give Google Run for Money