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		<title>Cuil&#8217;s biggest hurdle = their horrible name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Speculation about Cuil.com is rampant.  Is it a true Google Killer?  Is their format superior?  My only burning question is why they picked such a shitty name.  If you haven&#8217;t heard, it&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;cool&#8221;.  That made me dislike it from the start for some reason.  &#8220;Cool&#8221; can never become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/130</link>
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		<title>Google Shares Dip, Possible Buying Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	GOOG&#8217;s sell-off today seems unwarranted.  The stock&#8217;s currently under $527 after hours.  If anything, their position has been strengthened by the MicroHOO debacle.  Growth is still strong like bull, especially internationally.  Youtube and G&#8217;s Enterprise Apps are still in their infancy, tons of potential.  Yet the stock is down 4% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/125</link>
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		<title>Should Google Buy Ask.com?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	IACI (Interactive Corp), Ask&#8217;s parent company, is currently valued at around $5.5 billion.  IAC owns bunch of solid companies - Ticketmaster, HSN, Lending Tree, the list goes on.  They&#8217;re going to spin off all those companies in the near future, leaving Ask.com as the &#8220;core&#8221; of IAC, along with some other web properties [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/122</link>
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		<title>Great PPC and Analytics Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	90% of my time lately has been spent on PPC and Google Analytics.  So I&#8217;ve discovered some useful blogs and thought I should spread the word:
	Top PPC Blogs
Jeff Hudson&#8217;s PPC Book - Funny writing, good insight
Gordon Choi&#8217;s PPC Blog - Solid advice
Clix marketing blog - another good&#8217;un
PPC Hero - More basic, but good
	Analytics Blogs:
ROI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/120</link>
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		<title>More keywords isn&#8217;t always better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	For the Adwords content network, too many keywords can be a very bad thing.  My early and unsuccessful content groups had as many relevant keywords as I could cram in there.  Why not?  It&#8217;s not always worth it to set up a separate ad group for closely-related kws.  And it seemed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/119</link>
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		<title>Microsoft + Yahoo = Good for Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The benefits of Microsoft buying Yahoo sound good in theory - reduced costs, bigger advertiser base, etc.  But this deal isn&#8217;t likely to be good for Microsoft&#8217;s shareholders (stock dropped 6% today).  It&#8217;s more likely to benefit Google.
	I&#8217;m still confident that Google&#8217;s going to wipe the floor with Microsoft/Yahoo.  And the beatdown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/117</link>
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		<title>Why Google&#8217;s Gonna Stomp Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Everybody knows Google and Microsoft are at war.  Microsoft wants to be a big player in search, and Google is making progress with their productivity-software offering.  They&#8217;re both investing billions.  Seems like a good match-up at first glance.
	But the odds are heavily stacked in Google&#8217;s favor.  The only reason Microsoft has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/116</link>
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		<title>Google Looking Cheap, Wireless Potential is Huge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	GOOG is looking cheap at these levels, closed at $574 today.  That&#8217;s down from a high of $747  last year.  No big earnings disappointments, no revenue shortfalls, nada.  Just a crazy market.  Forward P/E is only 27!  WTF?  Yahoo&#8217;s forward P/E is like 40, and their growth sucks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/115</link>
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		<title>Google.org worth $2 Billion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Google&#8217;s rising stock price is seriously beefing up the holdings of Google.org.  During Google&#8217;s IPO, one percent (3 million shares) were set aside for the organization&#8217;s charitable arm.  That&#8217;s  worth over $2 billion based on Google stock price today.  They also donated $90 million in cash to kick things off.
	On top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/111</link>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Valuation is NOT $15 Billion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Claiming that Facebook is valued at $15 billion makes a great headline, and further feeds the incessant chatter about the Web 2.0 Bubble.  But, like many intriguing headlines, it&#8217;s largely bullshit.  MSFT didn&#8217;t pay $240 million for JUST a 1.6% stake of Facebook.  They paid $240 million for the exclusive advertising opportunities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sharpseo.com/blog/index.php/archives/110</link>
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