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		<title>Gaming Google</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2010/02/04/gaming-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was particularly intrigued that Business Week listed a company set up to game the search engines as one of their &#8220;Most promising startups&#8221;. If you have been developing domains for any length of time, you probably have come across techniques designed to game Google or other search engines. There is a constant war between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long URLs good for SEO?</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/20/seo-urls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how long URLs are appearing like a rash on a new born baby&#8217;s bottom? I mean the ones with loads of dashes and words in them. The ones that break in emails when you paste them in (something I found annoying today) and that you are never going to remember to tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google compounds their mistake by blaming their partner</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/04/google-compounds-their-mistake-by-blaming-their-partner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you probably already know from reading the blog, I am a fan of a number of the tools Google produces and watch closely to see what will be next in their lab. However the mess they made on Saturday, labeling every search results with &#8220;This site may be harm your computer&#8221; was really quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/01/13/revealed-the-environmental-impact-of-google-searches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the English Sunday Times suggests that &#8220;performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea&#8221;. Will cutting back on using Google for searches help us stop global warming? Today Google posted a response to the Times article on their blog: Powering a Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lipstick effect</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/01/07/the-lipstick-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The lipstick effect is the theory that when facing an economic crisis consumers will be more willing to buy less costly luxury goods. Instead of buying expensive fur coats, women will buy expensive lipstick. I set out to see if I could find any data to back this theory and to see if it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery domaining auction helps domaining world?</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/01/04/mystery-domaining-auction-helps-domaining-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, Jonathan Motson launched a Mystery Domain Auction aiming to &#8220;auction off a mystery domain name for an accumulated $1,000,000 in an &#8220;all pay&#8221; auction&#8221;. The winner gets a mystery domain name which Jonathan says is worth at least $10,000 and is willing to buy the domain name back for $10,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manly domaining</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2008/12/28/manly-domaining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bro-mance &#8211; 1 definition &#8211; the inseparable relationship between two or more heterosexual, often action-sports-participating, males. Bromance is also going to be a new series on MTV so I was interested to read a book review in the NY Times that commented on all this manliness. Lots of manly terms were defined and perhaps there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong surge in mobile use predicted</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2008/12/17/strong-surge-in-mobile-use-predicted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;According to IBM more than 50 per cent of consumers would substitute their PC based internet connection for their mobile.&#8221; &#8220;According to Nielsen Mobile, the 13-17 age group in the US sends around 1800 SMS per month, that is 60 SMS per day.&#8221; In a very upbeat prediction for 2009 UTalkMarketing.com is anticipating a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food recalls &#8211; a domaining opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2008/12/10/food-recalls-a-domaining-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food recalls have been increasing in the last few years with some very high profile cases. While I am not a fan of taking advantage of other people&#8217;s misery, in this case rapid communication to the public of any problems with the food supply is a good thing. So lets take a look at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promote, demote or delete search results in Google</title>
		<link>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2008/11/25/promote-demote-or-delete-search-results-in-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2008/11/25/promote-demote-or-delete-search-results-in-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that you have some strange icons if you search in Google when logged into your Google account? Now you can promote, demote or delete search results in Google and even add results to the search. This is called the Search Wiki. Perhaps a glimpse of the future at Google with personalized searching. [...]]]></description>
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