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If you think it’s only large businesses that need to worry about their online reputation, the Wall Street Journal wants to remind…
Forecasters are widely maligned for their inability to predict the weather, but today, Pageflakes’s forecasts about its own “Blizzard” upgrade were proven wrong. There should be a lot of major changes, but at the moment, nothing works.
Australia’s all alone out there, thousands of miles from everything (except Papa New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Zealand), and most people don’t know too much about it. It seems that, even within the continent, Google’s Australian branch is also one big question mark. So the Australian Googlers have filled the public in on some of their accomplishments and quirks.
After extensive gaming, Google's algorithm (it is assumed) shifted from using the quantity of links as an indicator of source authority, to measuring the quality (reputation) of the linker in order to determine relevancy. Gamers are still there though, this time with bigger budgets, and things may be about to change again – most likely to a much more complicated game.
On the BAE Systems website, there are three “Top News” items. One involves the “world’s most advanced warship.” Another mentions the “first lightweight RPG protection kits” for a certain type of Army vehicle. The last “Top News” item refers to Google.
The mythological Theseus was a Greek hero who became a king; he presumably became filthy rich, as well. The modern Theseus - a German search engine project - has also gained quite a bit of money: the European Commission just authorized $165 million in aid.
