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You can now log-in to your Google Analytics account to start enabling the new Site Search feature for a site of yours.

The data won’t show right away, but apparently it will after some time (I just enabled Site Search today so I don’t know exactly what happens). Here’s how:

1. (First you need to make sure you have some kind of search engine for your site; e.g. in this blog, there’s a search box to the right side in the navigation utilized by the Google AJAX Search API; also, you must have the Google Analytics tracker script available in your pages.)
2. Go to Google Analytics
3. Next to your site, click Edit
4. On your site’s profile, again click Edit (in the top right)
5. Scroll down on the settings page and check the “Do Track Site Search” box
6. In the Query Parameter input box, enter e.g. “q” (no quotes) when your query parameter is q, as in http://example.com/search.php?q=hello+world
7. Hit the Save Changes button
8. Repeat for all of your sites

[Via official Google Analytics blog.]

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Today,  ”Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product manager who helped launch one of the search giant’s most profitable ventures has left to start his own company.”
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Social security numbers, employee numbers, phone numbers, savings accounts, checking accounts - there are far too many digits we’re all supposed to remember. Still, if Yahoo fans in India can remember five more, they’ll be able to use the new oneSearch SMS service.

Aside from the five seemingly random numbers (58242), the service should be quite easy to use. Just send an SMS containing a city’s name to that short code, and oneSearch SMS will give you a weather report. Type out a company’s name, and you’ll get stock info. There should also be ways to obtain addresses, phone numbers, and news stories.

Furthermore, there is no shortage of communications companies that have embraced the service. “oneSearch SMS is available through all major operators including Airtel, Reliance Mobile, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, BPL Mobile, Aircel, Tata Indicom, and Spice Telecom,” according to Yahoo India.

It remains to be seen if this move will give Yahoo India all the attention and market share it thinks it deserves. Nonetheless, the existence of oneSearch SMS shouldn’t hurt the company, and in a market that’s as competitive as India, every advantage is an important one.

Tags: Yahoo, India, oneSearch, SMS

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Today,  There are a number of high-end quality Search Engine Optimising (SEO) and Marketing firms out there today. Ever wondered what is really involved when a website is put through its SEO maintenan…
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Several years of contentious litigation over Microsoft’s business practices in Europe have finally yielded a compromise between the two sides.

The European Union’s Competition Commission wanted Microsoft to make more of its server code available, to allow for third party interoperability with machines running Windows products. Microsoft delayed compliance with the anti-competition directive, resulting in the European Commission hitting the company with a massive $357 million fine in July 2006.

Microsoft battled that decision as well. The ongoing battle seems headed for a wrapup, with European Commissioner Neelie Kroes saying in a Bloomberg report the two sides have finally found an end to their fight:

“These changes in Microsoft’s practices will profoundly affect software industries,” European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes told reporters in Brussels today. “I sincerely hope that we can just close this dark chapter of our relationship.”

As recently as March 2007, Kroes threatened Microsoft with even more fines regarding their non-compliance with anti-competition rulings. Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith criticized the Commission for its interpretation of the standard under which software should be made available without royalties.

Microsoft, European Union, Neelie Kroes

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