So Twitter caused a bit of controversy this week as they changed their @replies feature in a way that actually effected just 3% of their users
Google’s Cutts Apologizes For Paid Post Snafu
Jaws dropped last week upon the news Google penalized its own Japanese site in Google search results after discovering Google Japan participated in a pay-per-post blogging scheme. Murdok Video caught up with Google’s anti-spam-team captain, Matt Cutts, who offers his apologies.
Google Apologizes For Gmail Outage
A two-hour blip in Gmail’s availability spurred a rush of complaints both in and out of Google before the problem received a fix.
Danny Apologizes to Wired and SEO Community
Danny Sullivan (a.k.a. The Godfather to those of us in the SEO realm) messed up, kind of. In a post he OK’s for the Search Engine Land a couple days ago titled, "Get A Free Link From Wired" they basically outline how to get yourself a free link on the wired.com site. I especially love the "don’t be too evil" note which implies that some amount of evil is OK.
Yahoo Apologizes For Merchant Outage
The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform.
Yahoo Apologizes To U.S. Congress
Michael Callahan, an executive president and general council at Yahoo has apologized to lawmakers for offering faulty information about the company working with a Chinese government request for user information about a journalist who was later jailed.
CBS Apologizes To Blogger
A senior executive at CBS News Corporation has issued an apology to a viewer who complained via email about anchor Katie Couric’s reporting from Iraq and was insulted in CBS’s reply.
Google Apologizes For Video Shutdown
After being blistered by criticism over the abrupt termination of the Google Video program, Google has offered an apology and full credit to video purchasers.
Google Apologizes, Thailand Drops Lawsuit
Quite a line was forming up, but it appears there’s now one less organization in the world that wants to sue YouTube; since the video-sharing site decided to take down clips in which the king of Thailand was insulted, the Thai government has dropped its criminal lawsuit.
Google Apologizes, Thailand Drops Lawsuit
Yahoo India (Sort Of) Apologizes For Stolen Recipe
Almost two months ago, Yahoo India was accused of redistributing a woman’s recipes without her permission. Now the company is apologizing (in a corporate-speak kind of way). Yahoo is also blaming the incident on another business.