Google Earth Adds Hiking Trails, GPS Data

The sun is setting, you’re surrounded by trees, and you just heard a noise that sounded like Jabba the Hut’s rancor monster.  Never fear - Google and Trimble will get you home.  Thanks to a new GPS content layer, they’ll also get you “a wide variety of multimedia data on fitness and outdoor adventures, including routes, points of interest, pictures, video and audio.”

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Women Have The Numbers Online

Women now comprise the majority of the U.S. Internet population. eMarketer estimates there will be 97.2 million female Internet users ages 3 and older in 2007 and will account for 51.7 percent of the total online population. By 2011, 109.7 million U.S. females will be online, accounting for 51.9 percent of the total online population.

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Wikipedia SEO: Don’t Spam – Contribute

Because Wikipedia entries routinely show up in the top 5 search engine results at Google, some black hat SEO's (and a few clueless beginners) realized the value of a link from the online encyclopedia and began link spamming blatantly. So recently Wikipedia posted the "nofollow" tag to all outbound links, purportedly to stop SEO Spam by reducing the value of those outbound links.

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U.S. Military To Put Router In Space

The U.S. Department of Defense, in conjunction with Intelsat, Cisco, and several other companies, intends to put an Internet router into space.  While impressive, it’s not quite “Star Wars” . . . .  Think “orbital communications,” instead.

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Google Pulls Imus Related Keywords?

It hasn’t been a good week for long-time shock jock Don Imus. After his controversial comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, his Imus in the Morning radio show was quickly dumped by both MSNBC and CBS. The events surrounding the scandal have had an interesting impact on the search world as well. Prior to CBS axing the Imus program, several major sponsors pulled their…

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