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World Famous Recipes - Some suggestions for your holiday meals
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World Famous Recipes - Some suggestions for your holiday meals Whether you are still planning your Thanksgiving Dinner or are looking forward to the Christmas Dinner meal, World Famous Recipes provides an enormous variety of fabulous recipes for your eating and drinking pleasure. You can discuss recipes and trade recipes at the World Famous Recipes Message Forums: World Famous Recipes Recipes using Beef as a main ingredient: Beef Recipes Recipes for Bread, sweetbreads, muffins and similar items: Bread Recipes Recipes with a spicy element - cajun food. Cajun Recipes Recipes for candies Candy Recipes Recipes for Casseroles - the term casserole refers to the baking dish which is oven proof and covered and which is placed in the oven containing all of the ingredients of the casserole. Casserole Recipes The Power of Cheese will set you free? The Dairy Association would like you to visit this page and find lots of new uses for Cheese. Cheese Recipes More Chicken Recipes Chicken Recipes Recipes for Chili Chili Recipes Recipes for Chinese Food, Recipes from China Chinese Recipes Recipes for Chocolate - made from the seeds of the cocoa tree Chocolate Recipes Recipes of Christmas - This Christmas Recipes Page has become very busy lately. Christmas Recipes Recipes for cookies are very popular around the holidays. Many traditional cookie recipes. Cookie Recipes Recipes for the crockpot - one pot crock pot recipes. Crockpot Recipes Recipes for Desserts - After eating all you can, gorge yourself on some of these delightful dessert dishes. Dessert RecipesSearch Engine Optimization
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Monday, November 15, 2004
WebTrends Breaks Down Marketing Silos with ExactTarget Technology Partnership
WebTrends Breaks Down Marketing Silos with ExactTarget Technology Partnership
Industry's First Integrated Email-Web Analytics Solution to Provide Marketers Complete, Real-Time, Visual Insight
November 2004 (Newstream) -- WebTrends, the web analytics market share leader and a business unit of NetIQ Corporation (NASDAQ: NTIQ), and ExactTarget, an on-demand email software provider servicing more than 2,800 customers, on November the 15th announced a technology partnership that gives customers unprecedented insight into the performance of email campaigns. The ExactTarget-WebTrends integrated solution provides email marketers with one comprehensive, straightforward view of how respondents react to specific creative elements within the email and the web site.
Using the visual overlay solution in WebTrends® 7 called WebTrends® SmartView, complete campaign metrics such as clickthroughs, cart additions, conversions and revenue are superimposed directly on every email link. Marketers can easily understand what's working and what's not by simply clicking the WebTrends SmartView button within the ExactTarget interface to gain instant access to their complete results displayed on top of their email creative.
According to Joel Reimer, manager of Interactive Marketing at The Scotts Company, the world's leading supplier of consumer products for lawn and garden care, the ExactTarget-WebTrends technology partnership creates the potential for a new level of understanding with respect to integrated consumer touch points. "The objectives we've outlined for our web site and our e-mail marketing programs are the same: to develop relationships with consumers, reinforce loyalty to our brands, and ultimately drive sales; and it's an integrated effort," said Reimer. "For the first time, we'll be able to measure the effectiveness of these touch points and analyze consumer behavior in an integrated manner."
"Integrating WebTrends web analytics solutions with ExactTarget email solutions is a vivid example of our relentless focus to accelerate the time to business value for our customers by providing them with the most complete, easy to use analytics for their most important marketing efforts," said Greg Drew, general manager of the WebTrends business unit. "The ExactTarget team matched our dedication to make this the easiest and most actionable solution on the market today, so that customers can focus on optimizing their campaigns, rather than spending precious time integrating email metrics and web analytics-we've done it for them."
Beyond Clickthrough to Conversion
The ExactTarget-WebTrends technology partnership also provides email marketers the industry's most sophisticated scenario analysis, allowing them to pinpoint both email and on-site conversion issues and identify appropriate actions needed to improve results. WebTrends Scenario Analysis lets marketers create their own scenarios to visually analyze the conversion behavior of email respondents, from email open to completed checkout and resulting revenue. By examining how email respondents move through web site conversion scenario steps, including the abandonment paths taken, marketers can optimize email creative, landing page effectiveness and calls to action in order to increase conversion rates.
From Revenue to ROI
Email marketers can now for the first time easily integrate email metrics, web metrics and cost data in order to thoroughly understand campaign effectiveness, using WebTrends® SmartReports for Microsoft® Excel®. Marketers are now able to access more mature, useful metrics such as Revenue per Opened Email or Cost per Sale, leveraging seamless email and web metrics updates through SmartReports. Metrics from other marketing campaigns-both online efforts such as search engines, as well as traditional efforts such as direct mail-can be integrated into a single SmartReport or viewed in a standard WebTrends campaign report for side-by-side comparisons of campaign effectiveness and ROI.
More Precise Segmentation and Targeting
In addition, the ExactTarget-WebTrends technology partnership makes it easier for marketers to target their subsequent email marketing campaigns based on past visitor behavior, rather than just demographics. For example, a person who browses a site but does not make a purchase can be sent a different email offer than a person who abandons an online shopping cart, to encourage desired behaviors and increase conversion.
"The goal of all organizations is a closer relationship with their customers, and together ExactTarget and WebTrends make it easier to achieve this," said Chris Baggott, chief marketing officer of ExactTarget. "Our relationship with WebTrends brings even more value to our customers by giving them the insight to instantly see how their emails are performing with their subscribers. This instant feedback and detailed insight allows our customers to make necessary changes to their campaigns to achieve the best ROI possible."
Availability
The ExactTarget-WebTrends integrated solution will be available in December, and sold by both WebTrends and ExactTarget's sales teams and select partners. For more information, visit www.netiq.com/webtrends/products/webtrends/exacttarget.asp.
About ExactTarget
ExactTarget delivers on-demand email software solutions for permission-based email marketing. The Home Depot, General Mills, Scotts, Churchill Downs, Encyclopedia Britannica, and nearly 2,800 organizations worldwide rely on ExactTarget email solutions to strengthen their customer relationships and to control email throughout the enterprise. JupiterResearch ranks ExactTarget highest in business suitability in 2004 based on the solution's usability, strong feature set and dynamic content tool. ExactTarget was ranked a Strong Performer in the 2004 Forrester WaveTM report based on the software's extreme ease of use and standout capabilities for managing brand consistency and legislative compliance. ExactTarget offers solutions that meet the needs of all industry verticals and all size organizations, including SMB, corporate divisions, not-for-profits, large retail/direct marketers, agencies and enterprises. Privately owned and headquartered in Indianapolis, the company has more than 30 U.S. sales offices. To learn more, go to www.exacttarget.com.
About WebTrends
As the worldwide leader and trusted standard for web analytics, WebTrends delivers award-winning solutions that help marketing executives improve their return on investment. From campaign performance and search engine marketing to web site conversion and customer retention, WebTrends provides marketers a complete solution to accelerate their web results. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune and Global 500 companies, rely on WebTrends everyday to measure and optimize their results. Offering both an On Demand service and software solutions, WebTrends uniquely provides customers with complete choice and control to ensure the solution can adapt with their dynamic business needs. WebTrends is a business unit of NetIQ Corporation. For more information, visit www.webtrends.com.
About NetIQ
NetIQ Corp. (NASDAQ: NTIQ) is a leading provider of Systems & Security Management and Web Analytics solutions. In addition to managing Windows-based applications, NetIQ delivers cross-platform solutions that enhance business performance resulting in higher returns on infrastructure and Web investments. NetIQ products are sold worldwide, directly and through a network of authorized NetIQ distributors and resellers. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with development and operational personnel in Houston, Texas; Portland, Ore; Raleigh, N.C.; Bellevue, Wash.; and Galway, Ireland. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.netiq.com or call (888) 323-6768.
NetIQ and WebTrends are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetIQ Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
The information in this press release does not constitute, and should not be construed as, a promise or commitment by NetIQ to develop, market or deliver any particular product, feature or function. Promises or commitments to deliver any specific product, feature or function are only valid if made in a legally binding contract. The timing and content of NetIQ's future product releases could differ materially from the expectations discussed herein. NetIQ reserves the right to change its product plans or roadmap at any time, without obligation to notify any person of such changes.
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Friday, November 12, 2004
more evil than satan - MSN Search says google.com is more evil than satan
more evil than satan - MSN Search says google.com is more evil than satan
MSN Search: more evil than satan
According to MSN Search's new beta search engine from Microsoft the google.com search engine is "more evil than satan" - a search on MSN Beta brings up google.com as the first search result out of of 2,971,727 containing the term more evil than satan.
Thursday, November 11, 2004
PCWorld.com - Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Search Beta
PCWorld.com - Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Search Beta
Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Search Beta
Software giant says the final version will be available next year.
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
Thursday, November 11, 2004
A beta version of the search engine Microsoft is developing went live Thursday, offering users an interface and a set of features that make the product begin to resemble established search engines from competitors Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and America Online.
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Microsoft had released a less-developed version of the MSN Service for public tryouts in July. That was simply a search box without special features or functionality, and it returned results grabbed from an index of about 1 billion documents, a Microsoft official says.
But the beta version released Thursday has an index of over 5 billion documents and lets users narrow and customize their queries in a variety of ways, says Justin Osmer, an MSN Search product manager.
The beta of MSN Search is available at beta.search.msn.com.
The MSN Search service is expected to be ready in final release in 2005 and will eventually replace the search engine technology that Microsoft currently licenses from Yahoo to power the MSN portal's search feature, he says. "Our overall goal with this beta and eventually with the final product is to help users find whatever information they want faster," Osmer says.
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Monday, November 08, 2004
Alternative Search Engines Receiving Much Hype, but the Giants Still Dominate; Hitwise Featured at AD:TECH NYC Conference and Exposition
Alternative Search Engines Receiving Much Hype, but the Giants Still Dominate; Hitwise Featured at AD:TECH NYC Conference and Exposition
AD:TECH New York 2004
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2004--Despite recent publicity of several alternative search engines, as well as general excitement for the broader search industry, search traffic and its growth still resides largely with the major engines. According to Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence service, one in every fourteen visits to the Internet by U.S. Web users goes to the top 10 search engines, a seven percent increase when compared to the same period a year ago (week ending Nov. 1, 2003).
"This increasing concentration of traffic among the top search engines, particularly Google and Yahoo! Search, is indicative of the brand equity they've built over the years," said Bill Tancer, Vice President of Research, Hitwise. "This phenomenon is underscored by the ubiquity of the larger engines in nearly every demographic and psychographic group in the Hitwise reports."
Newcomers Garner Hype, But Have Yet to Claim Mass Audiences
Five relatively new search sites (www.vivisimo.com, www.clusty.com, www.alltheweb.com, www.a9.com and www.snap.com) have received significant publicity recently, but they collectively claim only one-tenth of a percent of total visits to the Search Engines and Directories category, and each ranked below 75 according to market share.
"The market share of these search sites may be small, but it's important to note that Google itself was in such a position not too many years ago," said Tancer. "The challenge for the smaller players that want to become mainstream search portals is to gain mindshare and ultimately deliver the most relevant search results."
Visitor market share has remained relatively flat for these five sites during 2004, with the exception of Amazon.com's www.a9.com. It entered the Hitwise reports the week ending April 17, 2004 and its market share has since skyrocketed by 1,150 percent, driven largely by Amazon-related promotions. Amazon.com delivered 43 percent of www.a9.com's traffic the week ending Oct. 30, 2004.
Newcomer Search Sites Deliver Less Shopping Traffic
Compared to mainstream search sites like Google and Yahoo! Search, the five newcomers above tend to deliver a slightly lower percentage of traffic to shopping and classifieds sites - indicating lower levels of paid search listings. While four newcomers delivered between seven and eight percent of visits to shopping and classifieds the week ending Oct. 30, 2004, Google, Yahoo! Search and MSN Search each delivered approximately 10 percent of their traffic to the category. The exception was www.a9.com, which delivered 18 percent of its traffic to shopping and classifieds sites, largely influenced by the affiliation with Amazon.com.
Hitwise Featured at AD-TECH Conference & Exposition in New York
Please visit Hitwise executives at AD:TECH:
-- Bill Tancer, vice president of research for Hitwise, will be a featured panelist at 11:15 AM on Wednesday November 10, 2004 at the session titled "Reaching Consumers Across Media Channels."
-- Hitwise executives will also be present during the entire conference in the exhibitor hall (tabletop #17) to provide more information on the company's e-commerce intelligence services.
Contact:
For media inquiries or to schedule an analyst interview, please contact Lizzie Babarczy: press@hitwise.com; (212) 331-1283.
About Hitwise:
Hitwise is the world's leading online competitive intelligence service. Each day, Hitwise monitors how more than 25 million Internet users interact with over 500,000 websites across 160 industry categories.
By monitoring more people, more websites, more often, Hitwise provides marketers with timely and actionable marketing insights on how their online presence compares to competitive websites. Companies use this information to maximize the return on their online investment, in efforts such as affiliate programs, search marketing, online advertising, content development and lead generation.
Hitwise collects Internet usage information via a combination of ISP data partnerships and opt-in mega panels, and complies with local and international privacy legislation as audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Founded in 1997, Hitwise is a privately held company, headquartered in New York City and operates in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
More information about Hitwise is available at www.hitwise.com.
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Monday, November 01, 2004
Missing Iraqi Weapons - Fastest Riser in Hot Buzzword List; bin-Laden al-Jazeera Tape Makes Little Headway
Missing Iraqi Weapons - Fastest Riser in Hot Buzzword List; bin-Laden al-Jazeera Tape Makes Little Headway
‘Missing Iraqi Weapons’ is the fastest riser according to The Global Language Monitor’s special pre-Election PQ Index (Political-sensitivity Quotient) of Hot Political Buzzwords released earlier today. Kerry ‘flip flop/flopping’ is the second biggest mover, rising 3 places to No. 5. Even with accelerators built into the PQ Index to weight events of the two weeks preceding the election more heavily, the ‘bin-Laden al-Jazeera’ tape remains outside the Top Twenty.
Danville, CA (PRWEB) November 1, 2004 -- ‘Missing Iraqi Weapons’ is the fastest riser according to The Global Language Monitor’s special pre-Election PQ Index (Political-sensitivity Quotient) of Hot Political Buzzwords released earlier today. Kerry ‘flip flop/flopping’ is the second biggest mover, rising 3 places to No. 5. References to ‘Mary Cheney’ take the top spot, up some 1400% for the month, while ‘Bush as a Conservative’ comes in at No. 2 and the Dan Rather 'Bias" reference, though still strong, falls two spots to No. 3.
The PQ Index is a proprietary algorithm that tracks politically sensitive words and phrases in the print, electronic media and on the Internet (www.LanguageMonitor.com).
The recent Osama bin-Laden tape that aired on Qatar’s al-Jazeera network has, thus far, made little impact on the PQ Index — though its repercussions in events to unfold over the next seventy-two hours remain to be seen. Even with accelerators built into the PQ Index to weight events of the two weeks preceding the election more heavily, the ‘bin-Laden al-Jazeera’ tape remains outside the Top Twenty.
“The combination of the rise of ‘Missing Iraqi Weapons’ and the appearance of the bin-Laden video seems to indicate that the missing explosives issue actually works in Bush's favor since it appears to underscore the President's war rationale: the USA is at war, and under attack, and that explosives that can be used for WMDs and pre-cursers for those very same WMDs were widespread in pre-War Iraq,” said Paul JJ Payack, President of the Global Language Monitor.
“In the final hours of the campaign, we are witnessing the impact and staying power that the internet – and blogosphere -- have had upon the campaign’s dialogue, discourse and direction,” said Payack, “greatly extending the life of specific stories, such as that concerning the Swift Boat controversy or Fahrenheit 911, thereby greatly diminishing the impact of the 24-hour news cycle.” (For more information on the Demise of the 24-Hour News Cycle, go to http://www.LanguageMonitor.com.)
‘Kerry Flip Flop/Flopping’ moved to its highest position yet at No. 5, and the 'Mary Cheney' issue has shown surprising staying power in the final weeks of the campaign. ‘Colossal Error’ (No. 9), ‘Global Test‘ (No. 16), and ‘Mary Cheney,’ were the top three political buzzwords to emerge from the Presidential Debates, though all three trailed ‘Dan Rather Bias’ (as well as the Bush Conservative, No. 2, and Kerry Liberal, No. 4, labels). Kerry as a Liberal (usually used in the pejorative sense) outpaces Bush as a Conservative (usually used in a complimentary manner) in growth -- though it falls behind in the actual ranking.
’Colossal error’ was Senator Kerry’s description of President Bush’s decision to ‘rush-to-war’ (No. 31), and ‘global test’ was his description of the bar he would set before committing the US to ‘pre-emptive strikes’. Both Kerry and Edwards cited the sexuality of the vice president’s daughter in their debates, a move widely viewed in the subsequent polls as ’politically motivated’ and 'gratuitous'.
The biggest losers were ‘Global test’, falling seven places to No. 16, ‘rush to war’ falling nine spots to No. 31 and Clinton’s ‘My Life’ from Nos. 15 to 21. Also falling out of the Top Twenty, was ‘economic recovery’ evidently losing steam as an issue, falling from No. 18 to No. 22.
The November PQ Index with comments and key factors follows.
1. Mary Cheney
Comment: An unnecessary diversion for the Kerry camp
Factor: Up 1400% for the month
Last month: No. 13
2. Bush Conservative
Comment: Seen as a badge of honor
Factor: Up 40% for the month
Last Month: No 2
3. Dan Rather “Bias”
Comment: The tipping point for the entire ‘liberal bias’ issue
Factor: Up over 30% for the month
Last Month: No. 1
4. Kerry Liberal
Comment: Seen as a pejorative
Factor: Up over 75% for the month
Last Month: No. 3
5. Kerry as Flip-flopper
Comment: Highest ranking of the campaign
Factor: Up over 50% for the month
Last month: No. 8
6. Likeability Kerry
Comment: Falls one spot from last Index
Factor: Though up some 50% for the month
Last Month: No. 5
7. Missing Weapons
Comment: Seems to strengthen Hussein peril claim
Factor: Up 200% for the month
Last Month: Not Listed
8. Michael Moore Fahrenheit
Comment: Continues slow descent
Factor: Down 25% since July
Last Month: No. 6
9. Colossal Error
Comment: Kerry’s judgment on Iraq
Factor: Up 45% for the month;losing ground in the Index
Last Month: No. 4
10. Bush or Kerry as Liar!
Comment: Back in Top Ten
Factor: Kerry surprisingly at 40% since it began with attack on Bush
Last Month: No. 11
11. President Reagan
Comment: Continues unabated in the background
Factor: Down 10% for the month
Last Month: No. 9
12. Political Incivility
Comment: Cheney, Heinz-Kerry, et al. combined here
Factor: Up 10% though Mary Cheney remark is tallied separately
Last Month: No. 12
13. Likeability Bush
Comment: Bush is back as a ‘regular guy’
Factor: Up 100% for the month
Last Month: No. 14
14. Swift Boats
Comment: An ‘August Surprise’ reminiscent Willie Horton
Factor: Still strong but out of the Top Ten
Last month: No. 10
15. Behead/Beheading
Comment: Reverberating as awful background
Factor: Tragically, up 40% for the month
Last month: No. 16
16. Global Test
Comment: Captures Republican faithful’s worst fears
Factor: Up 30% in 30 days
Last Month: No. 7
17. NY Times editorial on Bush’s ‘Freudian Slip’
Comment: Interesting comment from ‘The Paper of Record’
Factor: Still resonating in the Blogosphere; up two spots
Last Month: No. 19
18. Red States/Blue States
Comment: Voters finally crack the pundit’s code
Factor: Up 1000% for the year
Last Month: No. 20
19. Iraq Sovereignty
Comment: Fading as an issue as Iraqis fall in combat
Factor: Down over 40% since peak in July
Last Month: No. 17
20. Bush the Misleader
Comment: The Kerry/Edwards mantra: mislead, misled, misleading
Factor: Up five spots in month
Last Month: No. 25
About The Global Language Monitor
The Global Language Monitor documents, analyzes, and tracks the latest trends in word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture, with a particular emphasis upon Global English.
Worldwide print and electronic media have come to rely on The Global Language Monitor for its expert analysis on language trends and their subsequent impact on politics, culture and business, including the PQ (Political-sensitivity quotient) Index, analysis of media coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics, the Republican National Convention, Workplace lingo, HollyWordsä, Telewordsä, the English Language Wordclockä, among many others.
The GLM has been cited by CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, United Press International, Knight-Ridder, USAToday, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Charlotte Observer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Jose Mercury, New York Post, NPR, FoxNews, ABC, NBC, CBS, The National Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The BBC, the Australian Braodcasting Company, The Canadian Broadcasting Company, The Cape Town Argus, El Pais (Madrid), The Daily Mail (Scotland), The Hindustan Times, The Gulf News (Qatar), and various electronic and print media on six continents.
The GLM is supported by a worldwide assemblage of linguists, professional wordsmiths, and bibliophiles to help monitor the latest trends in the evolution (and demise) of language, word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture.
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