Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake’s startup Pinwheel is forced to change its name after a lawsuit. One thing Fake could do is put the Pinwheel.com URL up for sale and let adversary Pinweel competitively bid on it against others. Take that!
Have you heard of Common Crawl? They are running a contest challenging developers to find creative ways to use their content. You can learn more about the project here.
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If Google wants to keep discounting an increasing number of links out there, that’s Google’s right. But publishers have better things to do than being dragged in as part of that ballot box policing, if they’ve done nothing wrong.
Danny Sullivan, clarifying Google’s link warnings to site publishers.
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Marissa Mayer shares her Yahoo! baby gifts last week on Instagram.
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Buried: Digg Bought By Betaworks For A Fraction Of Its Former Value
It’s kind of sad, really.
Want to see what you were tweeting about 5 years ago? Check out OldTweets, a search engine for the first year of Tweets that hit the internet.
Source: marketingland.com
After A Month, Silence From The FTC On Search Engine Disclosure
A month ago, I sent a letter to the US Federal Trade Commission asking it to review how search engines are complying with its guidelines on disclosing listings where payment is involved. The silence since then, as the saying goes, has been deafening. That’s a pity given how important that review is to the on-going antitrust investigation of Google on both sides of the Atlantic.
This week, I emailed the FTC on Monday as a follow-up, asking if after so much time, it had any response at all. I heard nothing back. Later that day, I went old school, picked up the phone and called the press office. I was told that yes, my letter had been received and that yes, I would hear back at some point.
I emailed one last time yesterday. Did the FTC have any comment at all that I could put into the “it’s been a month” story that I was writing. No response.
Source: searchengineland.com
The American Family Association doesn’t like Google’s new Legalize Love effort to promote gay rights worldwide. Doesn’t like it so much that it’s planning a Google boycott. Watch Buster Wilson, general manager of AFA’s radio network and host of the AFA Today show, suggest the boycott.
Now let’s see if the organization actually removes itself from Google’s index. And stop using YouTube. And Android phones.
Source: marketingland.com
I’d say that Bing is even more competitive with Google than ever before. It’s definitely worth another look by anyone, and the competition between the two benefits everyone.
Source: searchengineland.com
