Google News Publishers Get Their Questions Answered
Google has posted a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for publishers who either have their content picked up by Google News or are looking to do so. On the page Google answers questions regarding acceptance, content inclusion, sitemaps, and errors.
AP Has Some Ideas For Making Money Online
The Associated Press (AP) is saying it hopes to negotiate more lucrative licensing deals with major web sites. Reporting for the AP itself, Michale Liedtke says that AP CEO Tom Curley discussed possible revenue initiatives to protect online content.
Here are some key facts from the Liedtke’s piece:
New Google Apps Feature Breaks Microsoft Outlook
Suppose, for Father’s Day, you got dear old Dad some new power tools, and he then had trouble adjusting to them. One way of speeding up the acclimation process could involve trashing the old ones, right? Now, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook seems to have created a similar situation.
TweetDeck Desktop Quietly Relaunches
During the madness of last nights TweetDeck iPhone app release, TweetDeck quietly released a new version of their popular desktop app.
Oh, and the new release has loads of new features.
Manage multiple Twitter with TweetDeck.
Manage all your Twitter accounts from TweetDeck without switching between them.
North Carolina Following New York’s Lead With Affiliate Taxes
It appears that North Carolina is about to follow New York’s lead and implement a tax collection scheme that will see Amazon.com shut down its Associates affiliate program in the state. Today, all Amazon Associates in NC received this gloomy email from the online retailer:
Online Reputation Management in the Future
There is no question that people are putting a lot more of themselves out there online these days with the rise of social media. At this point, it seems that generations will be born into this lifestyle. Who knows what other tools/services will be popular in the future?
eCommerce Concerns Regarding Blended Search
The SEO industry has only seen one constant — change. The well known proverb, "change is the only constant" should be stenciled somewhere near all our desks. Sometimes the change is wanted, and sometimes not.
A specific aspect of SEO that has seen a lot of change is blended search. Jill Kocher of Practical-eCommerce wrote about her concern regarding blended search and e-commerce…
New Report Slashes YouTube Loss Estimate By $300M
A little less than three months ago, Credit Suisse predicted that YouTube’s 2009 losses would be in the neighborhood of $470 million. Which is, of course, quite bad. But a new report from RampRate – together with info out of Microsoft – makes it look like Google’s video-sharing site is doing somewhat better.
Facebook’s Twitter-Fication Continues
It looks like Facebook isn’t going to miss the real-time search boat. Instead, the social network has begun a little experiment, and it seems that it’s started with Twitter’s ideas on the subject and added some interesting features from there.
Ask Gets More Serious About Answers
Ask.com has released a database of 300 million Q&A pairs available to users in the US and the UK.
"Delivering the best answers though innovations in semantic search technology is the direction in which the search industry is headed, and Ask is best-placed to lead the industry in this regard given our database of hundreds of millions of questions, and our core search technologies," said Scott Kim, Ask.com’s EVP of Technology.