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NoFollow Just Isn't Cool
I understand why Google wants us to nofollow tag all of the comments on our blogs. Comment spam is crappy -true. It’s…
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Google Gets Mentioned A Lot In Social Media
As “Brands in Social Media” go, Google, Yahoo, Apple, and Microsoft stand head and shoulders above the rest. Indeed, Google appears to receive more than ten times as much attention as Amazon. But even within these four leaders, there are some big differences.
Google Hardware To Go Through Ingram Micro
If you want to get the Google Mini or Google Search Appliance, talk to Ingram Micro - even as sales surpass 9,000 units, the company has been selected to distribute Google’s hardware.
Wikipedia’s Google Penetration
Via ThreadWatch, this study of where Wikipedia pages appear in Google results for a search for that phrase, and found that in about 580 out of 600 randomly chosen Wikipedia pages, the Wikipedia page appeared in Google’s top 10. That’s just incredible, a number we can pretty much point to and show how much power Wikipedia has in Google, with 96.66% of those pages surveyed…
Facebook Apps Market Develops
It’s interesting to see that a market for Facebook applications — or widgets — is developing, although the prices are still small. In one of the latest transactions, Inside Facebook notes that Slide.com (run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin) has bought the app Favorite Peeps for a reported $60,000. Another site, FaceWatch, has also written about the purchase.
The Rise, Fall & Rise Again of Threadwatch
You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. One way to know for sure you live on the Internet is to launch a site and then take it down. The moment you announce that you’re moving on is when you suddenly learn that what you had going was appreciated and even loved.
