Live Search – aka MSN Search – has been showing some of the most aggressive duplicate content filtering I’ve ever seen across any search engine of late.
I first noticed it with a client who is performing well on Google, but has dropped down significantly on MSN.
The main problem is that he’s in a market that relies on affiliate content – and it’s the same content all of the affiliates are using.
Linking to Specific Content in Gmail
Google has made their web-based email client Gmail more accessible in their recent update.
Superpages Adds More User-Generated Content
About a week ago, Idearc announced that Superpages.com had introduced more user-content features.
Users Prefer Ad Supported Content
If they have a choice 72 percent of Internet users would favor viewing ads to pay for Web content instead of paying to access content according to a Direct Marketing Association study.
Best Web Publicity? Go the Content Route
Launching a new product? A new book? Or a new product? If it’s mass consumer-related, you might want to take a leaf out of FakeSteve (Jobs) book, Options.
Fake Steve Jobs (AKA Forbes senior editor Dan Lyons) has been penning the Fake Steve satirical blog of the Apple co-founder to the bemusement of folks in the Valley. With potrayals of Microsoft boss Bill Gates as “Beastmaster Bill” (both Bill and the real Steve are fans of the blog), it’s garnered nothing less than a rabid following.
MSN TV Streaming Hulu Content
The NBC/Fox cooperative site Hulu may be in private beta, but MSN TV is promising some Hulu content in advance of launch.
Over Half Want Web Content Regulated
The Federal Communications Commission spends part of its time deciding whether or not suggestive neologisms like "hamsterbating" are appropriate before 9 p.m. According to a recent poll, over half of Americans want similar precautions taken with Internet content.
Google Needs Content Copies To Catch Copies
The fingerprinting technology Google will deploy to stop copyrighted works from hitting YouTube works best when Google has a copy of the work in question first.
Microsoft, Viacom Posture On Content Sharing
The newly announced User Generated Content Principles, backed by several media companies, exhorts websites to filter content while paying lip service to fair use.
Content Commodities
Steven Hodson is so bored with blogging that he wrote a blog all about it. Heh. I feel Steven’s pain. Instead of blogging about it I just hung out all weekend with my sons and a raft of great bloggers. You’d know that already if you read Twitter (the other way to spend time when you’re bored with blogging).