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Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

For Web users and advertisers, this deal will accelerate the pace and breadth of innovation by combining both companies’ complementary strengths and search platforms into a market competitor with the scale to fuel sustained development in search and search advertising. Users will find what they care about faster and with more personal relevance. Microsoft’s competitive search platforms will lead to more value for advertisers, better results for web publishers, and increased innovation and efficiency across the Internet.

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IE has been the leading browser ever since I can remember, at least in the countries where I target my website on, some countries have always had another taste.

In 2008 Microsoft announced that standards compliant websites would be forced to opt into a standards rendering mode in IE8, otherwise your site would risk being blacklisted What a horrifying thought to be on such a list just because you disagree with Microsoft's definition of standards.

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If you ask me, a community website is one of the hardest to build.
You can get a broad variety of paid and free forum software, but to get people to post is never easy. You will need to interest them a lot.

There are a lot of great tips available on how to get your forum started, for insance:
The best tips to get your forum started - Admin Zone Forums

Basically, the most import things to do is to fill your forum with relevant content. This is very time consuming but really pays off. It sounds tempting to pay a small amount of money to 'boost' your forums with a few posts and threads. after all 'not having to spend all those hours yourself' will be worth the money.

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Submitting your brand new website to directories can be a real pain. especially because every directory has it's own system and conditions. Some even take up to 6 months or more to evaluate your entry. Besides this, your frustration with how repetitive this task is will constantly be poked by sites offering paid automatic submissions.

I found a few websites that offer a good, alternative and most importantly: FREE solutions:

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USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham interviews Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic, common sense SEO tips. Matt Cutts guests on the USA TODAY Talking Tech web video show.