This consumer review thing may need to be rethought. Like just about everything else that came out of the Web 2.0 movement, customer reviews of businesses are huge targets for abuse.
Celebrity Special: Search Highlights And Oscar Clips
Considering what’s going on in the world – financial collapses, mine disasters, North Korean missile announcements – celebrity-related matters may be of less importance than ever. But they’re certainly holding people’s interest – perhaps we can all use the distraction – and Hitwise and YouTube recently acknowledged the issue.
eBay Highlights Trusted Sellers (and Other Tidbits)
eBay recently announced a change to product pages for books, music, movies, and video games last week – a change that will likely give sellers yet another reason to complain.
Live Search Highlights Malicious Sites in Results
About two years behind Google, Microsoft has finally decided to start marking malicious sites in the search results for Live Search. Better late than never though, I suppose.
Twitter Election Site Highlights New Media’s Relevancy
Last night Twitter launched an Election site that features Tweets involving the presidential and vice presidential candidates rolling in almost faster than you can read them. In Twitter’s words, "We’re filtering hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the presidential election and a new way for you to share your thoughts."
Yahoo Highlights Problems With Top Ad Placement
A search engine company might be expected to stress the importance of ad placement – "stay on top," it would urge, with the related message "pay us lots of money" remaining unsaid. But Yahoo’s taking a more honest route and pointing out that it isn’t always necessary to own the number one spot.
Knol Highlights
“Knol” stands for a unit of knowledge, according to the Official Google Blog.Here are some highlights on Google’s new project: The challenge posed to us was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.
Highlights from Blogging for Business Conference
The Blogging for Business Conference was held 22 October 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Search Marketing Standard Highlights for Autumn
The Autumn edition of Search Marketing Standard came out last week. I find this magazine great as it features many articles of a high quality, plus it’s nice to read about SEO offline for a change, so I’ve listed some of the things I found of particular interest from the latest edition:
Facebook Islam Row Highlights Free Speech Issues
Historically, in the brick-and-mortar world, we’ve had courts to settle disputes. Online, there are terms of service agreements and invisible judges determining, usually at the behest of the loudest and largest mob, who is guilty of crossing the line between conscious protest and hate speech.