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If you’re reading this post on Monday morning, boy did you miss a flare-up over the weekend. I don’t even know where…
As businesses go, establishments don’t get much bigger than Google. But even the Mountain View-based corporation needs a little help now and then, and in its war on censorship, Google is seeking assistance from the United States government.
Terry Semel has stepped down, but Semel wasn’t Yahoo’s one and only problem. It stands to reason, then, that more “corrective actions” may take place, and that some of those actions may affect people, not software.
Effort is difficult to measure; it’s not like companies exert it in pounds or cubic feet. Still, if I were to judge the effort Google has put into its South Korean operations, I’d guess the company has only tried harder in the US and China. Now those rankings may change, as word spreads that a Korean version of YouTube could launch.
The Single Grain blog suggests that with PageRank updates happening roughly every three months, there are five ways to put one's blog into position for a boost. Three of them could make your dancing feet all thumbs, though.
Everybody's looking for the typo, or a misplaced decimal. Could a domain really be worth $300-400 million? Could the Wall Street Journal have made three typographical errors in one article? Doubtful, the headline did use the word "jackpot."
