Facebook has announced plans to give users more control over their information and make them better informed about privacy settings. This includes notifications and information about privacy settings and practices, additions to the Facebook Privacy Policy, and technical changes that give users more transparency and control over the info they provide to third-party apps.
Digg Gets Ready For Search Improvement
Digg announced the unveiling of its new DiggBar yesterday to much enthusiasm. The toolbar makes Digg a direct competitor with StumbleUpon and TinyURL. You can check that out here:
Yahoo Mail Talks Anti-Spam Improvement
Yahoo is taking new measures to increase it’s ability to prevent spam from reaching your Yahoo Mail inbox, and from legitimate messages from reaching your spam folder.
LinkedIn Looks to the Community for Improvement
LinkedIn has been making efforts to improve its users’ search experience. Recently, Senior Product Manager Esteban Kozak walked us through a number of new changes they made in this post as well as the following video.
Publishers Push ACAP As Robots.txt Improvement
The Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) debuted today as a set of improvements to deficiencies seen in the robots.txt protocol currently observed by search crawlers.
Yahoo, Still Second In UK, Showing Improvement
“Good game, good game.” That’s what we used to say to each other after sporting events, even if one side had walloped the other by an almost unimaginable amount. And that’s what somebody might say to the Yahoo search team in Britain – it isn’t winning, but it sure is trying hard.
Conversion Improvement Resources
While looking for information on PPC management, I’ve found an interesting number of resources about improving conversions.
While many of these are focused on the PPC market, the organic SEO’s like myself ignore these at our peril.
Banner Ad Success and Contextual Improvement
Seth Godin gives us an anecdote from Usama Fayyad of Yahoo about a study that showed that contextual text ads saw a 249% increase click-through rate increase after a corresponding banner campaign was run.
B2B portal: A Business Platform to Ultimate Productivity Improvement
If somebody tells you that your present corporate website can be converted to a B2B portal which will help you significantly improve your company’s productivity in both of the two primary factors: Revenue Growth and Cost Saving, and that the portal can be launched in a matter of months with a very reasonable investment, what will be your reaction?
Avastin Plus Chemotherapy Shows Improvement
Genentech and Roche announced that an interim analysis of a Phase III study of Avastin (bevacizumab) plus paclitaxel chemotherapy…