The Day the Web Goes Silent
Not a moment of silence, but a full day of silence is planned by US-based webcasters, lots of them, in protest of the Copyright Royalty Board’s increase in royalty rates. Internet radio stations argue the rate hikes are disproportionate and will shut down the entire Web radio industry.
Mahalo – Search Results Inside Search Results?
So I was just reading a post by Graywolf about the Mahalo blog giving out nice free links to sites they would never include in their own search results for being to ’spammy’ and started poking around the new human search engine.
Google – The Web’s Largest Social Network
Blogging, email, IM, and telephone make it easy to keep in touch with your real friends. Social networks are hyped, but tend to have low value traffic because they don’t effectively separate signal from noise. The only people who have time for them are people hawking crap, people looking to waste time, and spam bots.
Sure Google owns Orkut, but they don’t need it. Google already is a social network, and became one by targeting and partnering with the power users and influencers, but few people think of them as a social network.
Google Gets Dell To Manufacture Search Appliance
With its market capitalization of over $160 billion, Google can probably do just about anything. The search engine giant has chosen not to focus on manufacturing the Google Search Appliance, however – and instead handed over those duties to Dell.
YouTube Videos Reveal Anti-American Outsourcing
A law firm that thought it was demonstrating its cleverness in posting videos of its conference on business immigration instead showed how they cynically stack the deck against American job seekers for their clients.
Google Extending More PPA Invitations
AdWords clients may see an invitation to join the beta test of Google’s pay per action (PPA) advertising appear in their accounts.
Yahoo Puts The Squeeze On Data
The next improvements to search marketing could come from Yahoo Research, where scientists look for all the meanings to be found in data.
Newspapers Sniping Over CareerBuilder
McClatchy, Gannett, and Tribune own parts of the CareerBuilder job listings site, but McClatchy is starting to feel like it’s just heard the song stop during musical chairs, and all the seats are taken.
Pfffft! Teens Choose Mobiles Over Sex?
This is a British study, which may be why the Register’s headline "Teenagers prefer mobiles to sex" made me spit coffee all over my monitor. Either times have really REALLY changed, or that’s a somewhat geocentric result.
Xerox Takes A Stab At Semantic Search
Every day, we bring you news of the latest comings and goings in the search engine industry. The names Google and Yahoo come up a lot . . . Xerox, not so much. But it’s that last company that is preparing a semantics-based search engine.