Thursday, July 9th, 2009
I’ve always believed that ‘type-in traffic’ for undeveloped keyword domains was vastly over-exagerated. Now I have the figures to prove it. For the unitiated, Wikipedia explains ‘type-in traffic’ as …visitors landing at a web site by entering a keyword or phrase … in the web browser’s address bar (and adding .com or in a mobile browser address bar … rather than following a hyperlink from another web page, using a browser bookmark, or a search-box search. Given some success stories
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Company files patent for allowing searches to be conducted in the address bar. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has filed for a patent to allow users to enter either search terms and domain names into a search box (such as an address bar), and having the computer figure out if the search term was meant to be a specific domain name or web site. Patent application 20090006389 was filed last year and just published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month. The abstract reads: Methods and syste
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