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		<title>Google is better than Bing for programming related searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing a lot about how great Bing is and made the switch to use Bing regularly but here I am in day 1 with using Bing full time and have run into problems. I am working on a Rails project doing some http requests and screen scraping. Basically, I&#8217;m extending the contacts gem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing is beating Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been anti-Microsoft migrating first to Linux and then to Mac OSX. I&#8217;ve been using OpenOffice since the days it was first released (remember Star Office?). I used Mozilla long before Firefox every came out and even stopped supporting some older versions of IE with Onomojo. Needless to say, Microsoft would have to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-site Blog versus Off-site Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/on-site-blog-versus-off-site-blog/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think its necessary to go into the benefits of adding a blog to help market your site. Its widely accepted as an easy way to add new keyword rich pages and help out rankings. There are some questions about whether an off-site blog or an on-site blog is better for rankings. When I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google algorithm update</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-algorithm-update/115</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you paying attention to the latest changes Google has been making you may be wondering what&#8217;s been going on. Some have speculated that they&#8217;ve been cracking down on paid link exchanges for high page rank sites. That may be part of the change but it certainly isn&#8217;t all of it. Besides updating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Keyword Tracker</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/open-source-keyword-tracker/113</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve reached my limit of frustration with current keyword trackers. The technology is simple enough that it baffles my mind why so many keyword rank trackers are for profit. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a single decent instance of an open source keyword tracker out there that I could find. I want something open and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>404 error checker and site crawler</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/404-error-checker-and-site-crawler/112</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianmcquay.com/404-error-checker-and-site-crawler/112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google punishes sites heavily for 404 errors. By the time you realize your site has an error its usually too late and you&#8217;re already being punished for them. I suggest you stay proactive on your 404 errors and use a link checker. I found this extremely useful tool. Xenu&#8217;s Link Sleuth. It basically crawls your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My beef with the Google god</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/my-beef-with-the-google-god/107</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google called me out of the blue the other day asking if I wanted a job. It sounded like a good idea at first so I followed through with my updated resume and such. At some point they said they had 3 separate positions for me and that I should try to get in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian&#039;s slick WordPress titles for pseudo-indented Google search results</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/brians-slick-wordpress-titles-for-pseudo-indented-google-search-results/92</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/brians-slick-wordpress-titles-for-pseudo-indented-google-search-results/92#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianmcquay.com/brians-slick-wordpress-titles-for-pseudo-indented-google-search-results/92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of people talking about how you can make your WordPress blog titles more SEO friendly. No one I&#8217;ve found however has mentioned what I&#8217;ve stumbled upon by accident. Pseudo-indented listings in Google search results. What I&#8217;ve started doing on my blogs is making my title like this: &#60;title&#62; &#60;?php if ( is_single() [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google update this weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-update-this-weekend/79</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-update-this-weekend/79#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some strange reason, I have this funny feeling that Google will be doing some updating this weekend. If you have an Adwords account, you may have noticed the message that some services may be unavailable on January 13. It&#8217;s been a while since the last PR update so we&#8217;re about due for something from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google SEO, Adsense, and the junk it creates</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-seo-adsense-and-the-junk-it-creates/78</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-seo-adsense-and-the-junk-it-creates/78#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brianmcquay.com/google-seo-adsense-and-the-junk-it-creates/78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is being filled with junk. Sure, there have always been a lot of useless pages and sites out there but there are new trends happening and we have only Google to blame. Google ranks sites based on how many links come into a site (a simplified explanation I admit). The result? The internet [...]]]></description>
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