In September 2004, the US based meta search Engine Dogpile announced that is was changing its name to WebFetch in Europe and the UK. This change is a perfect example of the cross cultural issues language can pose for international businesses.
Outsourcing Supply Chain Management 3 Issues to Go Beyond Buyer-Seller Relationship
Companies outsource for many reasons. They look to reduce costs, shorten cycle time, improve shareholder value, decrease inventory, focus on core competencies, gain information technology, increase expertise and more.
Accessibility Issues Make a Difference
You often read advice from industry experts along the lines of “using tags as they were meant to be used” and limiting your use of advanced programming techniques in order to make your site accessible.
Googles Text Only Cached Pages Raises Issues With Alt Text
There have been many discussions in the SEO world over the usefulness of alt tags that accompany images. It is generally accepted that Google primarily indexes alt tags as long as the images have a link. If there is no link on the image, the alt text is ignored.
Overstock.com Issues PPC Guidelines For Affiliates
In what may be a response to Google allowing bidding on trademarked keywords, or merely for the purposes of preserving their trademark, Overstock.com has sent an email to their affiliates demanding that they stop bidding on Overstock’s trademarked keywords.
Top 10 Design Issues According To Web Marketing!
When it comes to designing your site, there are 2 ways you can ultimately go. a) Designing for yourself and no one else, b) Designing to fit web marketing and customer attracting methods.
Google Issues Cease And Desist To Orkut Geomapper
Google is very protective of its Orkut online community. Its terms of service page is replete with rules and regulations concerning member use. One of the rules, “using any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion or the orkut.com service,” has been violated, causing Google to issue a cease and desist decree.
UK Privacy Issues Cleared For Google
Google’s new email service Gmail, source of much criticism based on ad placement procedures, may be getting some good news. As long as UK users are not being deceived by this practice, Gmail should be clear of its legal issues.
Google Privacy Issues
Richard M. Smith, former CTO at the Privacy Foundation told GlobeTechnology.com, “I think Google is the biggest privacy invader on the planet, no doubt about it.”
3 Issues to Supply Chain Management Success – Process, People, Technology
Supply chain success just doesn’t happen. It takes focus and effort across the entire company organization and with outside suppliers and service providers. Logistics touches every part of a company. So supply chain management must be multidimensional in its approach and scope. And this takes process, people and technology. This is true whether you are a wholesaler, retailer or manufacturer. And it is true if you are lean and need to be agile, flexible and collaborative.