Facebook recently changed its terms of service and sparked a bit of controversy.
Gmail Makes Changes to Contacts
Google has announced four changes to Gmail’s contact manager. Each change is a feature to enhance the service’s usability.
eBay Sellers Getting More Changes
eBay’s users aren’t the only ones down on the company. A Collins Stewart analyst has lowered it’s stock rating to "Sell," claiming that eBay will continue to lose market share to Amazon this year, and weaken in the advertising department.
Martin Changes Tune On Broadband Smut-Filter
In his final days as chairman of the FCC, Kevin Martin appears to have done an about face on a proposed content filter for free wireless broadband. After opposition killed the original plan, Martin has placed a new proposal, sans smut-filter, on the table for review at the next and final FCC meeting on January 15. Perhaps it’s an attempt to end his tenure on a high note by doing something very positive for the nation—auctioning off spectrum to a wireless provider that can serve up wireless broadband to 95 percent of the country.
What Will Google SERP Changes Mean for Reputation Management?
Some say ranking is dead. Google’s going though changes that may turn SEO on its ear. Google’s Matt Cutts talked about some of these changes with Murdok not too long ago. "I’m not sure I would say ranking is dead but it’s not as important as it used to be," he said.
LinkedIn’s Exec Lineup Changes
Recession-triggered personnel shuffles are causing all sorts of people to turn to LinkedIn. Somewhat ironically, big changes are now taking place inside that company, too, with the current CEO leaving, the old one regaining his title, and a former Yahoo joining the picture.
How Google Changes Its Ranks From Day To Day
Rankings are in everflux more than ever…hey that sounds weird. Meaning the ranking constantly seem to be moving around for many 2-3 keyword phrases. So when some SEO’s run these ranking reports it really just takes a “picture” of where the website currently ranks. I would like to explain how Google can easily Photoshop that picture (ranking) into something else:
Developers Beware: AdWords Report Changes Coming
Updates to the AdWords API arriving on August 19 mean developers will want to make sure they don’t impact the data in their reports.
Yahoo Makes Minor Changes To Advertisement Layout
According to Search Engine Roundtable Yahoo! has incorporated some minor changes in the advertisement layout of its SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) and has also reduced the number of advertisements shown in the SERPs. They have now relocated the position of the display URL under the description. The advertisement layout now also contains only three advertisements, instead of four as in the previous layout.
eBay Changes Feedback Policy For Sellers
Online auction site eBay has begun to introduce changes in the feedback that sellers can leave about buyers. The changes were first announced in January.Sellers on eBay are no longer allowed to leave neutral or negative comments about buyers on the site. eBay has also changed the way it calculates a member’s positive feedback percentage score.