April 2012
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Report: Microsoft Did Shop Bing To Facebook →
You know that rumor about Microsoft shopping Bing to Facebook? It sparked lots of speculation about whether that would be a good move for both companies. Turns out it did happen, according to a report in the New York Times citing executives who made overtures to Facebook on behalf of Microsoft — but without the effort being sanctioned by CEO Steve Ballmer.
Wow.
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Google Launches Update Targeting Webspam In Search... →
Google has announced that it is releasing a new search algorithm that it hopes will better catch people who spam its search results or purposely do things to rank better that are against Google’s publishers guidelines. Google says it will impact about 3% of search queries. The update was rolled out yesterday.
If you’re looking for a catchy name for this update as Google has sometimes given other...
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The “Storage Wars” Begin As Google Drive Finally...
marketingland:
Do you think Box, Dropbox and Evernote will suffer at the hands of Google Drive?
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Google Redirects Patent Search, Shuts Down Google... →
After only eight months, the Google Related toolbar is headed to the dead pool. That’s one of several Google products being phased out in the company’s latest “spring cleaning” announcement, along with the One Pass payment system for news publishers, Google Patent Search losing its own home page and Google Flu Vaccine Finder.
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“Today, the primary threat by far to internet freedom is government filtering of...”
– Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin - Google - I believe the internet has been one of the greatest forces…
(via fred-wilson)
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Time’s “Most Influential” List Snubs Zuckerberg,... →
marketingland:
Top 100 interesting people? Yes. Influential? Not really.
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AdWords To Automatically Match For Misspellings,... →
misspellings, plurals, and other variations on a keyword or phrase. Now, Google will do all this automatically — as it does with organic results — with exact and phrase matching, though advertisers will be able to opt out.
The new behavior will take into account five different variations in language:
Misspellings (“waterprof sunblock” instead of “waterproof sunblock”)
Singular/plural forms...
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The Official Tumblr of Wolfram|Alpha: Overcoming... →
wolframalpha:
Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha, just wrote a great blog post about how Wolfram|Alpha is “on average giving complete, successful responses to more than 90% of the queries entered on its website”. Along the way we saw some great examples of “artificial stupidity: places where…
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The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure... →
Genealogists and historians are jumping for joy. But you can’t search by name, yet.
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“Those people deserve to be counted, to know their population, not to be...”
– Danny Sullivan, If Google’s Really Proud Of Google+, It Should Share Some Real User Figures (via marketingland)
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Sometimes, I kind of miss when Google was a search engine.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) April 11, 2012
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Yahoo’s Re-Organization: Search Stays Alive, At... →
Despite concerns about the future of Yahoo search, it remains alive.
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“Pinterest is a community, not a tool.”
– Jordan Kasteler, Why Pinterest Is NOT Your SEO Miracle Worker
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“The idea that Facebook is developing a search engine that might attract some...”
– Greg Sterling, How “Facebook Search” Could Help Google Escape The Antitrust Noose
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“My view has been that Yahoo made a strategic mistake in doing the search deal...”
– Greg Sterling, Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life
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“If you don’t think that online dating and sex tourism sites are fronts for...”
– - Kathryn Griffin-Townsend, a former victim and anti-human-trafficking advocate
Lawmakers Question Whether Google Adequately Reviews Ads Potentially Related To Human Trafficking
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Google Loses Search PR Director Gabriel Stricker... →
Twitter’s communications team is now fully staffed with former Google people. Then again a big chunk of Facebook’s top-level executives are from Google.
