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Taiwanese
Expats Visit Googleplex
Taiwanese expatriates living in the Silicon Valley area
demonstrated outside the Googleplex on Tuesday for a demonstration
of solidarity..
Google’s Blogger Going To China
Google finally got the Blogger through and now the Chinese will have access to Google's Blogger. Chinese Googlites will also have access to the cached web pages from Google's search engine.
Parsons Blasts AOL Rumors
During a visit to Hong Kong, Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons dismissed rampant speculation about selling a piece of AOL.
ABC Affiliates Complain About 'iPod' Videos
Apple launched the video iPod, and Disney CEO Bob Iger has agreed to sell episodes of some ABC and Disney programming through iTunes.
Japan Preps Fast, Cheap Mobile VoIP Network
The Japanese government will roll out mobile Voice over Internet Protocol and blazing 15Mbps connections by 2007.
Fear
Strikes Google
Comcast and Google will offer Time Warner $5 billion for a minority stake in AOL, which currently provides Google with 11 percent of its revenues.
US
Scuttles Piracy Gang
Three California men created over 325,000 illegal copies of software and music CDs, and had enough "stampers," or molds, to create up to 160,000,000 illicit CDs.
GOOG
Worth $217/Share: Analyst
AnalystMorningstar has an interview with an analyst who sees Google primarily as an advertising company that should be valued on that basis.
International
Sellers Search For US Buyers
Forward-thinking US firms have made an effort to appeal
to overseas buyers; now foreign sites have begun to focus
similar attention to US consumers.
Carving
Up AOL?
Reports surfaced of Google and Comcast looking to buy
a minority share in AOL. Both companies have been in negotiations
separately...
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As a facet of the Internet economy, search engine optimization is a specialized service that shares several characteristics with other web-based businesses. While the objects of our labours might be seen and used by millions of unique people in millions of unique places, our workspace consists of a 17" - 24" monitor, a miniature window on an exponentially expanding world.
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A site designed in Bangor Maine is just as accessible in Mexico
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be worked on by anyone in the world. For example, a small online
search marketing office in Victoria BC can work on the website
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For those of us working on the production side of the monitor,
the Internet is more than a marketplace; it is the primary space
in which we do business. Discussion forums are meeting halls
and a corporate boardroom can take the form of a multi-user
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virtually anyone with skills, talent and connectivity to start
their own business. Social and professional networks that have
developed over time between complimentary service providers
have spurred much of that growth. Like the world of traditional
businesses, word-of-mouth recommendation continues to be the
best way for online businesses to attract new clients.
After a decade of development, the Internet has become a far
more complicated working environment in which micro-specialization
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Google’s
Blogger Going To China
By John Stith
Google finally got the Blogger through and now the Chinese will have access to Google's Blogger. Chinese Googlites will also have access to the cached web pages from Google's search engine.
This is a major move for Google efforts in China but how far searchers and bloggers will be allowed to go remains to be seen. The Chinese government made a concerted effort block a lot of external traffic, including Blogger back in 2002. Considering the variety of content conceivable on Blogger, one can only assume they will be watching Blogger very closely in the coming months.
The reasoning behind the three-year ban on Blogger remains a little unclear as InfoWorld points out Six Apart's Typepad service and several Chinese blog services have done well. One thing is certain, the efforts of Dr. Kai Fu Lee are being realized fairly quickly.
Google's China initiative has been growing mainly because of Lee's efforts, particularly in hiring for the new R&D division. While the Lee issue with Microsoft waits to be settled, Lee was allowed to work in some capacities for Google. How big a part Lee played in the Blogger case remains unclear but it's fairly certain he played some part.
Google's also had some other recent Chinese problems regarding Google Maps and Taiwan. The Chinese government continues Taiwan a rogue state and part of the People's Republic of China and Google labeled them as part of the mainland Chinese political state. The Taiwanese gave Google and earful and Google changed how Taiwan was listed in their Maps tool.
Regardless, the Blogger move is good news for the blogosphere. The big question becomes how much of the content will the Chinese government require to be censored to maintain Blogger in China.
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the Author:
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Hidden Comment Spam?
What do you get when you combine one of the newer methods being
used to spam search engines (comment spam) with one of the older
methods (hidden text)? If you follow WPW poster faglork's example,
you may get some hidden text within the page's source code looking
supiciously like blog comment spam. Take a look at Thursday's
spotlight
post and see what you think.
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Spam?
I just came across a strange markup which looks a lot like an
attempt at "comment spamming". Have a look at the source code
of www.richter-kafitz.de (I did not make it a link so that this
forum will not show in the logs). Near the end of the page you
will see a huge link list with keywords as link texts, encased
in a pair of invalid HTML tags: <!--br> and </a-- >
I have never seen it done like this ... my theory is, that those guys believe that the spiders will not recognize these invalid tags as a comment and therefore index the link texts/follow these links.
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