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Almost within 24 hours of going on record stating that we will (should) not see anyone referring to PR 3.0 anytime soon,…
When you buy site targeted AdSense ads (or other CPM priced ads), there are easy ways publishers can inflate their pageviews and ad inventory. I listed a number of them here, but a few other common techniques are
Social news sites come to prominence largely over the controversies associated with people gaming them, and without people gaming them few would ever garner a critical mass. Marketers spamming a social news site is part of the growth cycle. Andy Hagans highlighted 17 social sites that send traffic.
Remember the good old days, back in 2006, when an online article had a freshness date of roughly 36 hours? A couple of scientists have found that's about 35 hours too long these days.
Scott Karp mentioned that RSS has no value without a filter. RSS already has filters, but most people probably do not use them to their full potential. Your top trusted editors in each category already are human editors / filters. As you go deeper into any category you find more duplication. Many blog platforms allow you to subscribe to an individual category.
Some of Google applications use the MySQL database, and internal performance enhancements made by Google engineers have been publicly released.
