Google Slams Paid Links? Good or Bad?
Another under-the-radar-of-the-real-world blog firestorm erupted yesterday over high profile page rank drops. Google dropped visible PR of many blogs and mainstream news sites presumably as a penalty for selling links.
Stars Of Poker Lobby Washington To Play Online
A group of about 100 people arrived in Washington this week to lobby for the legalization of online poker. And considering that many of the 100 people are among America’s top poker players, it wouldn’t be wise to bet against them.
Microsoft Needs Live Search On Facebook
Shelling out $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook may be Microsoft’s way of keeping Google away from the social networking site, but the deal may not be worth the money unless Microsft can get Live Search into the service.
Google Needs Content Copies To Catch Copies
The fingerprinting technology Google will deploy to stop copyrighted works from hitting YouTube works best when Google has a copy of the work in question first.
Google Page Rank’s Been Dead for Quite Some Time
I don’t get bloggers sometimes. They get all huffy about their Page Rank going down as if it’s something that they are entitled to.
Now, normally I’d be front and center on all these ego games but here the real truth is that Page Rank has been dead for years. That’s why I never even looked at it anymore.
Google News Creates Facebook App
Amidst rumors that Google has pulled ahead of Microsoft in the race to buy a portion of Facebook, Google News now has its own Facebook application.
Recent Page Rank Mayhem
The latest round of page rank scoring by Google has hit many good web sites very hard, in that the bigger list of A level blogs, and big blog companies like Weblogs.inc have seen a sharp decrease in their page ranks. This is leading to speculation that some of these sites will soon be joining the Web 2.0 dead pool, or have to reduce staff via layoffs.
MySpace Domination in the U.S.
Datamonitor predicts that social networking sites will level off around the world in the year 2012. They also predict that the plateau will hit even sooner in the US. In the meantime, global active memberships in social networking sites are growing.
Free Shipping To Drive Online Holiday Sales
Expect to see plenty of free shipping offers this holiday season, the most common shipping promotion will be free shipping with conditions, according to the 2007 eHoliday study conducted by BizRate Research for Shop.org and Shopzilla.