Google Helps Find Missing Links

It’s been said links are the currency of the Web, and an honest-gotten inbound link is like a tip for good work. Locating broken inbound links, then—links attempted but because of an error don’t connect with a page on your site—is like an opportunity to locate missing money.

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Father of the Internet Backs Obama

Often called the Father of the Internet (though he calls himself a “cofounder”), Vint Cerf these days works for Google being, as Valleywag’s Own Thomas puts it, “vice president in charge of being the guy who created the Internet.” So that’s what “Internet Evangelist” means! Whatever his title, he’s using throwing some of the clout onto YouTube to endorse Senator Barack Obama as President. The…

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Google Up, Up and Away

For another straight month, Google has gained in search share. At this point you wonder why one bothers measuring by the month. How about for the 15th (at least) straight quarter Google has gained in search share? How about for the fourth straight year, Google has gained in search share? I’m not sure about that last statement. I’ve only been covering search for three and…

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Pandora Cuts Staff, But Still Growing

Layoffs at Internet companies continue to be announced, with the latest coming from Internet radio site Pandora. Pandora's fate itself was in question not too long ago, but has recently found new hope and expects to survive after all.

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Google Offers First Click Free

There are few things more frustrating, from a user’s perspective, than searching and finding what looks like the desired result only to click and meet a log-in page. Give us your money or all your information or go away! Personally, I usually go away, fairly confident I can find the same information elsewhere.

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