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You Better Get Comfortable with eBay’s New Search
eBay is 86ing its old search engine in favor of its newer one. Up until this point, users have been able to…
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Taxing Online Gambling Could Bring The U.S. Billions
Online gambling could generate $52 billion in revenue in the U.S. over the next ten years if the three-year-old-ban on Internet gambling was repealed and the government taxed the industry, according to a new study. The study by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers could influence Congress to lift the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
Future Proof Your SEO
When you’re working on your optimization programs, are you thinking ahead? Do you watch industry trends to see what may be on the horizon? If not, then it’s time you did. Business planning is all about not only today, but tomorrow as well. Search engine optimization programs are no different – they need to be future-proofed.
Author’s Guild Goes After Kindle
Not everybody’s thrilled with Kindle 2, namely Roy Blount, Jr., author and president of the Author’s Guild. The last time we heard from the Author’s Guild, they were mighty upset about Google scanning and indexing library books. This time the objection is over the text-to-speech function Amazon included, which reads the downloaded book aloud.
Google’s Matt Cutts on Canonical Again
Matt Cutts is getting in the habit of posting helpful videos along with accompanying slideshows. He has continued this tradition today with one of each on the recently announced Canonical Link element introduced jointly among Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (Cutts notes that Ask has gotten on board as well).
Google Shared Stuff Given Death Sentence
What do Newbold Harris, DeWitt Wallace, and Google Shared Stuff have in common? Well, to put it politely, all three have rather low recognition factors, and unless someone in Mountain View has a change of heart, it looks like all three will share a death date of March 30th.
