March 2012
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“Despite the long term value of investing in creating an in-house testing...”
– Kim Kraus Berg on The Value Of Testing Website Usability & Search Engine Performance
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Trond Lyngbø states that smart SEO strategies that exploit the “social-local-mobile” revolution is more about gaining better intelligence than focusing on cutting-edge technology. Do you agree?
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This Pinterest Scammer Is Making More Than $1,000... →
It’s nothing personal, just business.
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Google Ordered To Shut Down Google Instant’s... →
The Japan Times reports Google has been ordered to turn off the auto-complete feature in Japan after being sued by a man for the auto-complete suggestions.
Do you consider Google’s auto-completed suggestions harmful?
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“It isn’t that anymore, though. Searches are geospecific and social...”
– Alexis Madrigal: Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Google (via thisistheverge)
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How A Google Change May Mistakenly Turn Search... →
Google’s about to make a change to how it reports referrer information for those using its Chrome browser. As a result, some analytics programs may begin listing search visitors as if they instead came directly from Google without doing a search, though major packages will probably adjust OK.
The change was posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog yesterday, and it took some follow up to...
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“We can confirm that as the result of an investigation, Eric Hadley and Sean...”
– Statement by Microsoft.
Bing spends quite a bit on celebrity events and product placements, which may be the key to the news today.
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“I’m not biased in favor of Apple or Google or Amazon or Facebook or any...”
– Danny Sullivan, “No one likes a fanboy. How about more perspective about tech?”
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March Madness: Stats, stats, stats! →
A list of March Madness stats from around the web, including direct links to databases, record books, searchable archived video and other material direct from the official information source for the Final Four, the NCAA.
Now you have no excuse not to win that office pool.
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“I read a post by someone offering new top-level domain (TLDs). They made this...”
– Matt Cutts, Head of Google’s Web Spam Team, claiming that there is no SEO advantage for new TLDs.
parallaxdementia asked: By all means, you may certainly use my question! Thanks for providing a very insightful answer, too!
parallaxdementia asked: I recently found you here, but have been following you on Facebook and Twitter for some time now. Using what you're doing with this Tumblr (I've been here for over a year using it as a personal digital space), what are some of your opinions of this network? Looking at it analytically, what drove your attention to it and how are you going to use it? In short, what is your social strategy?
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Bijan Sabet: Some thoughts about Yahoo →
bijan:
Earlier this week, like everyone else I found out that Yahoo sued Facebook over patents.
I felt sick about it but when i read this story about a former yahoo engineers take on the their patent process, i had to let out this tweet.
Dear Yahoo board. You picked the wrong ceo. Again.
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WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality... →
Is Google pushing these technologies for some good PR after Search Your World? In turn is it being blown up out of proportion to what will really happen?
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“As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and dandy,...”
– Former Googler - now Microsoftie - James Whittaker on Google+
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“So today, the algorithm is flavored by people.”
– In an interview with Bing’s Principal Group Program Manager for Bing Social Search, Paul Yiu, about how people power Bing’s social search.
Bing currently ties in data from both Facebook and Twitter to improve the overall quality of the results. In contrast, Google only ties Google+ data...
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“A presumption of entitlement drives many legacy brands to complacency.”
– Marshall Simmonds, on Why So Many Companies Fail At Enterprise SEO
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