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By ArticleSnatch on December 3, 2007
Google continues to beat the drum about passing PageRank through paid links as Matt Cutts weighed in on the topic with another request that webmasters use the ‘nofollow’ attribute for them.Though plenty of places in the Northern Hemisphere shiver in chilly temperatures, webmasters will continue radiating heat after the latest double-barreled barrage from Google’s loquacious [...]
| Tagged google, internet users, Matt Cutts, Search Engine, search engines, search-results |
By ArticleSnatch on December 1, 2007
Google has taken steps to remove malware websites from its search results, according to a ComputerWorld article released Wednesday. Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc released the news Monday that Google had removed more than 40,000 malware sites from its search results. While Google refused to either confirm or deny this, spot checks [...]
| Tagged Adam, Adam Thomas, Alex Eckelberry, file sharing, file sharing applications, free software, google, internet users, operating system, search index, search-results, Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc, unwanted software, virus protection software |
By ArticleSnatch on November 30, 2007
Sources say Facebook is near to announcing changes to its Beacon marketing platform after pressure from privacy advocates over the last week. MoveOn launched its campaign the Monday before Thanksgiving and has since signed up 50,000 Facebook members incensed about having their online purchases and activities outside the social network published via News Feeds. Initially, [...]
| Tagged Cry Uncle Over Beacon, facebook, internet users, online purchases, social network, Thanksgiving |
By ArticleSnatch on November 16, 2007
The early birds are rising earlier this year as searches for Black Friday-related websites spike a bit earlier than last year. Searches for "black friday ads" are up 91 percent compared to last year, according to Hitwise, continuing a year-over-year trend since 2005. Since that year, similar searches have increased 954 percent, with 2006 seeing [...]
| Tagged Best Buy, Christmas, Circuit City, Dell USA, Heather Dougherty, Hitwise, Home Depot, internet users, Lowe's, online presence, retail category, Thanksgiving, United States, Wal-Mart, www.amazon.com, www.bestbuy.com, www.bizrate.com, www.circuitcity.com, www.dell.com, www.half.ebay.com, www.homedepot.com, www.jcpenney.com, www.kohls.com, www.lowes.com, www.overstock.com, www.qvc.com, www.sears.com, www.shopzilla.com, www.smarter.com, www.target.com, www.ticketmaster.com, www.toysrus.com, www.walmart.com, yahoo |
By ArticleSnatch on November 13, 2007
AOL Acquires Questions and Answer Service Yedda, Inc., announces the AOL press center, just one week after purchasing contextual ad company Quigo, AOL scoops up Yedda Inc, a people-powered, quester & answer service. Yedda’s semantic matching technology intelligently routes questions to relevant communities of Internet users who can "syndicate" their expertise and spark a community-wide [...]
| Tagged Answer Service Yedda Inc., aol, Avichay Nissenbaum, internet users, Q&A Service Yedda, Questions, Ron Grant, search resources, semantic matching technology, Yedda Inc |
By ArticleSnatch on November 10, 2007
Over 36 percent of Internet users "highly trust" the information they receive from friends in their online social networks, according to a new social Internet survey from Faves.com The survey found that 34 percent of respondents visit a social networking site at least weekly. That number climbs to 90 percent when you include those that [...]
| Tagged Faves .com, internet users, online product reviews, Online Resource, Online Social Networks, Rob Dickerson, social Internet survey, social networking site, social-networking |
By ArticleSnatch on November 5, 2007
Privacy considerations for Internet users suffer from a lack of a global standard, leaving it to companies to try and figure out what they should be doing.Google wants to handle the privacy question as well as it can, the company noted in the wake of a recent discussion held in Brussels. The answers to that [...]
| Tagged Alexander Alvaro, Brussels, Civil Liberties Committee, European Parliament, European Union, google, internet users, Peter Fleischer |
By ArticleSnatch on November 2, 2007
The $5 billion price tag to bring Xohm, Sprint’s WiMax offering, to fruition may be just a little too rich as the wireless carrier looks at options for the business.The best news about Sprint offering WiMax suggests that the project will launch. Recently a Sprint executive told a conference audience the service would come and [...]
| Tagged Clearwire, Craig McCaw, google, high speed wireless access, internet users, mobile software appearing, Sprint, USD, Wall Street Journal, wireless access, wireless carrier looks, wireless startup |
By ArticleSnatch on November 2, 2007
The two-day town hall meeting being held in Washington DC by the Federal Trade Commission had a common theme: avoiding government regulation.Nothing strikes more fear into the heart of a businessperson, in any industry, than the specter of bureaucratic paperwork generated by government mandates. It’s just as true for Google and the online ad industry [...]
| Tagged Federal Trade Commission, google, internet users, Jon Leibowitz, online ad industry, Online Ad Regulation Threat, Washington DC |
By ArticleSnatch on November 1, 2007
The two-day town hall meeting about behavioral targeting, announced amid privacy concerns about Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, begins today in Washington DC. In August, the Federal Trade Commission agreed to hear concerns about behavioral targeting in online advertising. This came in response to privacy complaints made by a trio of organizations, who believe Google’s [...]
| Tagged ad technologies, DoubleClick, European Competition Commission, Federal Trade Commission, FTC town hall, google, internet users, online advertising, online privacy, Pablo Chavez, search advertising dominance, United States, Washington DC |
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