Matt Cutts, a senior software engineer for Google, says that piling links onto a competitor's site to reduce its search rank isn't impossible, but it's extremely difficult."
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After taking a random sample of 600 Wikipedia articles, 96.67% are in Google's top 10 for their title.
I don't even know where to start. MarketingExperiments recent article, "Harnessing Social Media - Web 2.0 Grows Up - Free Internet Traffic," has so many holes and is so off the mark, it makes me wonder if they've been sipping too much of grandpa's cough syrup over there.
rumours are a foot : [internet.seekingalpha.com] that Yahoo and Ebay are to merge.
The big thing here for Yahoo is that
a) they get a massive user base
b) Paypal
A few weeks ago it was Vanessa Fox who left Google, this morning Barry reports over on SEL that two more high profile engineers are leaving
There's been a lot of controversy over WordPress theme sponsorhip lately.
In response, I've just done an extensive and detailed write up on how to evaluate Wordpress theme sponsorship. Pick the right theme and you could get up to 500,000 almost free backlinks with anchor text.
So after the recent spat between Google and Ebay, things do not seem to be getting anymore friendly.
With major brands finding more and more sub domains to spam Google Yahoo has gone a step further.
They are selling entire high ranking sub domains to sites that fill them with affiliate links.
Pretty much the ultimate in pre-sell pages.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google said Tuesday it is getting in on the development of electric vehicles, awarding $1 million in grants and inviting applicants to bid for another $10 million in funding to develop plug-in hybrid electric vehicles capable of getting 70 to 100 miles per gallon.
Organizing the world's transportation...err.
In their second annual ranking, "Business 2.0 has compiled an unabashedly subjective list of people, produc
A few years ago, SEO Inc was #1 for the keyword.. then some Google imposed hard times hit the company SERPS.. meaning they dropped like a rock. now they are back on page 1 Google Results
In the current culture of user generated content in a web 2.0 world, many people look to review based websites to generate income, as Google's current algorithm demonstrates a clear informational over product bias.
In a case that's clearly destined for the courts, Lawyers are suing a Lawyer review site Avvo, claiming that the ranking system can be gamed. However Duncan Riley writing for TechCrunch has a deeper insight how this could unravel like a big ball of yarn Lawyers Sue Lawyer Ratings Site
NYT: INTERNET SALES IN 'DRAMATIC SLOWDOWN'
Sat Jun 16 2007 12:46:20 ET
Since the inception of the Web, online commerce has enjoyed hypergrowth, with annual sales increasing more than 25 percent overall, and far more rapidly in many categories. But in the last year, growth has slowed sharply in major sectors like books, tickets and office supplies, the NEW YORK TIMES will report on Sunday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
In Page One leads, the paper claims: "Growth in online sales has dropped dramatically in such diverse categories as health and beauty products, computer peripherals and pet supplies. Analysts say it is a turning point and growth will continue to slow through the decade."
Developer Chad Upton came across some really colorful debug statements from Google developers in YouTube.
Google announced they were holding a let freedom ring party to promote Google Checkout during the eBay live conference. In (un)related news, eBay announced they were pulling their US AdWords ad budget. Google responded by canceling their freedom party.
TechCrunch points to a Google Groups thread where some members are reporting that Google Reader Lost their feeds
While this isn't a surprise to any of the regular TW audience it is nice to see that main stream press is starting to get it via Yahoo News