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Wikia’s ArmchairGM
I was watching the interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on Om Malik’s show on Revision3, because I’m always interested in what…
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Internet Use Up By 24.3 Percent
According to Compete’s month-to-month statistics, there have been two dips in the amount of time people spent online in the past year, and one of those occurred between August and September. On a year-to-year basis, though, the total amount of time is up by nearly 25 percent.
Newspapers Propose New Indexing Standards
This should come as no surprise from the people who’d sue you to stop you from linking to them: at a publishers’ consortium today, after complaining about the limited nature of robots.txt, the newspaper industry has proposed new standards to prevent search engines (and other sites) from indexing their sites willy-nilly.
Official: Google Penalizing Paid Links
Google has officially said that buying and selling links that pass PageRank is a violation of the company's Webmaster Guidelines, and can result in a drop in search rankings.
GoogleNet may get its wireless side yet
Eric Schmidt will put Google’s money where the company’s mouth is in January when the bidding begins for the highly valued 700MHz spectrum.
Analytics and Gut-Feelings
Neil sent me an interesting link yesterday - Less (Information) Is More in which the work of Gerd Gigerenzer, of the Max Planck Institute in Germany is discussed. Gerd has a new book “Gut Feelings” that sounds like it has a lot in common with Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (reviewed here).
