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Lijit Receives $3.3 Million In Funding
Blog search is getting better - or at least richer - as Lijit Networks just secured $3.3 million in funding.
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Google: Censorship Is A Trade Barrier
There's something about this topic that is unsettling – the deal seems nearly devilish, beneficial and somewhat horrifying at the same time. Google's latest plea to the US and EU governments to help fight censorship centers on the economics, not the political morality, of censorship.
Microsoft, Houghton Mifflin Help Kids
When you read about publishers on Webproworld, it tends to be because Google’s doing something with them. This time, however, Houghton Mifflin is in the news, and it’s Microsoft, not Google, with which the company has been associated.
comScore Examines Video-Sharing Sites
comScore Video Metrix has released a study that looks at six video sharing sites that did not make comScore's ranking of the top 10 U.S. video properties for the month of April.
User Reviews’ Effects On Sales And Search Results
To a business, user reviews can be a valuable asset. They can also be quite a risk - what if the reviewers don’t like your products or services? Yet, as usual, knowledge is power (unless you know that you’re screwed), and so here are four things to realize when it comes to user reviews.
Search News Flash: People Like Free
Close to four percent of all search queries last week contained the word "free." Is this an indicator of a plummeting economy? Hitwise's Bill Tancer says it's just how people work.
