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Honeymoon Over for Social Networks?
MediaPost reports on an In-Stat report that says the honeymoon is over for social networks. It’s time to root, hog, or die:…
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Canadian Sues The Messenger
Wayne Crookes, a former campaign manager of the Green Party of Canada, is suing Google, Wikipedia and openpolitics.ca for libel. He is suing the sites for posting made by anonymous users on Google's Blogspot, for an entry under his name on Wikipedia, and on openpolitics.ca, a political forum run by Michael Pilling a Green Party activist.
YouTube Stops John McCain’s Singing
A political video featuring John McCain has been removed from YouTube, and MoveOn.org is not happy about it. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the group is trying to preserve free speech or let an opponent embarrass himself, but the matter speaks to larger issues in either case.
Yahoo Named In Chinese Torture Suit
Search engine companies get sued all the time, but it’s usually about a patent dispute, a site’s ranking, or something else relatively mundane and white-collar. Not so in this case: Yahoo is being sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act.
Google Categories (Changes to Competitive SEO)
Lee Odden blogged about Google Categories yesterday. I wasn’t able to duplicate the categories look, but it did get me thinking about the ramifications to online competition if categories in search become commonplace. As well as how categories might influence our SEO strategies as business owners.
Food for Thought on Google’s Web History
Yesterday's announcement from Google about including Web history in search personalization marks a fairly significant development in disambiguating intent on Google. Consider the implications. One of the issues I had with the initial implementation of search personalization was that it really only worked when there was existing search history.
