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Will Bing Change Search Habits?
Microsoft’s Bing has received a lot of buzz this week after coming out of the starting gate. But will that buzz hold on long term?
WebProNews reported this morning that Bing has moved up to No. 2 in search market share, surpassing Yahoo! who has had that spot for several years now. After playing around a little bit with Bing myself this week I’ve noticed several really useful features that give it a real edge over Yahoo! and in some cases over Google. But it remains to be seen whether the search engine will sustain that over the long term. I believe the initial spike in usage is due to mass curiosity in the marketplace. But will users continue to use Bing long term? I think it’s doubtful.
There are several reasons why I don’t think Bing will catch on long term. For starters, there is a huge Google fan base. Googlers will not abandon Google just because Bing is pretty and helpful. While Bing has managed to make a good point that Google’s keyword-based search is failing in some areas, which it is, where Google is strong it is really strong. None of Bing’s strengths have proven themselves over time whereas Google’s has.
Unless Yahoo! can fix its failings, it is likely that Bing will maneuver itself into the No. 2 spot permanently, but I don’t see it overtake Google any time soon. What about you?
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4 Ways To Make Money Online Without A Website
Did you know you can make money online without a website? Yes, without a blog too. And I can teach you how. Tune in today to BlogTalkRadio when Chris McElroy interviews Allen Taylor on 4 ways to make money online without a website. The show airs at 3 p.m. today.
While you don’t need to own a website or blog to do make money these four different ways, you can still use blogging to promote all four. You’ll have to use a free blog host like Blogger.com, which I usually don’t recommend. But you can do it.
Even without a blog, though, you can make money in these four ways that I’ll talk about today at 3 p.m. No website necessary. No blog necessary. Just use what you have right now and you can make money on the Internet. You don’t even need a computer. You can go to the local library and use free public computers to make money online. I’ll show you how today at 3 p.m. on BlogTalkRadio. Click the link below for the address, and if you can’t make it today at 3 p.m., listen to the archive.
Tiger TeleServices: Content Thieves Alert!
Hey Tiger TeleServices, Some things are just so wrong they shouldn’t need repeating – or saying the first time, for that matter. Content theft is one of those. Blatant content theft is just plain nuts and you’d think that the content thieves would know that they’re going to get caught.
Who Is Tiger TeleServices?
Tiger Teleservices is a new SEO and blog ghostwriting company. You know they’re new because they have a gray bar for PR on the Google Toolbar. But another way you know they’re new is because their first blog post was made on September 13, 2008.
One of their blogging methods is to take a blog post from another company and copy it verbatim. They probably use a scraper. In this particular case they linked back to the company whose blog post they took, but they used the entire blog post and didn’t add anything of value of their own. That’s a problem for two reasons:
- No. 1, it is stealing. They are trying to make a $$ off of someone else’s content by selling the same service as they writer of the original content.
- Secondly, it doesn’t build trust in their services. If I was looking for a blog ghostwriter I would likely use the company that posted the original information, not the company that stole the content.
Finally, at the end of the post, Tiger TeleServices links from the stolen content to their own website, hoping to gain some additional business this way.
Tiger TeleServices’ Real Content Problem
But the blog is the least of the worries of Tiger TeleServices. If you go to their website then you’ll see static web page content that the company copied verbatim from Blog Content Provider and used for their own purposes. Same content. No changes. Verbatim. No attribution. Bad form.
Here’s the stolen content page at Tiger TeleServices website.
Here’s the original page posted at Blog Content Provider.
Click the links. You’ll see the similarities. And if you copy and paste the content into Google then you’ll see that Blog Content Provider ranks for the content. Tiger TeleServices does not.
We also tried contacting Tiger TeleServices to notify them of their illegal activity and to ask them to remove the content and write their own, but the phone number they have posted on their website didn’t even ring. Bogus number?
If you are the owner of Tiger TeleServices or know the owner of this company then please ask them to remove the content they took from Blog Content Provider and to write their own original content. It would be better for their business and ours if they wrote original content – and I’m sure the Tiger TeleServices’ customers would appreciate that too. We at BCP don’t like content thieves.
