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Google
Stock May Have A Date With $500
As shares of GOOG stay above $400, one analyst sees another
mark glittering on the horizon: $500 per share and a market
capitalization of around $150 billion.
Technorati Moves Into the Fast Lane
Like a hot car, speed and performance are a standard many
businesses shoot for, especially when the business is
competitive. Back in July, David Sifry...
AOL Launches AIM Triton Service
The full release client arrives with instant messaging,
email, SMS, voice, and video chat options, and includes
access to the company's VoIP service, TotalTalk.
Yahoo
Premieres Movie Shortcuts
More Yahoo Search Shortcut features, for finding information
about movies, can quickly retrieve a trailer or showtimes
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The long-rumored arrival of Dipsie's "deep web"
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Library Of Congress Googles $3 Million Dollars
The World Digital Library project has received an infusion
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Base Gets Local With Froogle
Google may have finally found a way to get more traffic
to its Froogle comparison shopping site, as the company
makes a new feature in Base...
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Online
Ad Revenues Charge Past $3 Billion
The Internet Advertising Bureau said third quarter 2005
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Yin and yang, man. If one were to accept the task of indexing the world's information, it would seem right and proper to index the good, the bad, the ugly and the pornographic-as long as it's not illegal. As par for the Internet course, Google Base has become an online porn store in record time-or maybe a bad neighborhood directory.
Editor's Note: Do you find weapons, gambling,
and pornography areas of commerce that shouldn't be available
for search? Or are you a purist at heart who thinks the Internet
should remain a free-wheeling Wild West of information? Discuss
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When Google
Base was launched in mid-November, it was intended as a
sort of online classified service with a wealth of options for
folks wanting to post just about any type of information.
"Google Base allows people to list anything they want. Want
to create an entry for a recipe item? An event listing? A job posting?
A book review? You name it, you can pretty much post it," informs Search Engine Watch's Danny Sullivan, who goes into painstaking detail about the program.
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But as Internet history has suggested, a good opportunity for
more socially respectable enterprises is a good opportunity for the
less desirable types-if you wish to label them that way.
The pornography industry was one of the earliest and most
prolific adopters of Internet marketing. The most popular of online
categories, commanding some 17.3 % of web traffic, porn has also made
its way to podcasts, and even PlayStationPortable.
So that means Google Base is no exception. As a site for
posting anything and everything for sale or view, the bad parts of town
are erecting their billboards.
There are guidelines,
though, for posting your product or service in Google Base. In brief,
it can't be illegal, fraudulent or gambling related. Your text must be spelled correctly with proper grammar, avoid unacceptable phrases with offensive or inappropriate language.
"Ass Parade" is okay, though.
*This was the 10 result for the search term [sex], but has
since been removed, as far as I can tell. A search for [porn] brings up
sufficiently offensive material, though. Guess I should have gotten a
screen shot. Giggity.
 Google
has been known in the past to deny AdWords ads for guns and
gambling. As mentioned earlier, the gambling thing is still
frowned upon. But if you want to buy a gun that ‘s up to you,
just be specific with your search.
A search for [gun] or [rifle] or even [9 mm] gets you nowhere. A search for [Smith and Wesson], however, takes you to where you want to be-if you can pull your perverted, gun-toting stoner self away from the bongs page, you can pick up the "ultimate backup and concealed carry handgun" .
Yin and yang, man.
Via Inside Google
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Technorati
Moves Into The Fast Lane
By John Stith
Like a hot car, speed and performance are a standard many businesses
shoot for, especially when the business is competitive. Back
in July, David Sifry, CEO at Technorati, had his folks start
working under the hood. The results are becoming apparent as
his crew begins to turn up the idle and rev the engine.
Sifry's been detailing
some of the work on his blog. He happily points out Technorati's uptime
has improved by 100% in the past month. Sifry said their overall
traffic has increased according to GrabPerf.
He also said Technorati's index is the most comprehensive
with the fastest updates. He said the index is three years old and
currently tracks over 21.5 million blogs, 280 million unique posts and
over 1.7 billion links indexed. This includes over 60,000 new blogs
each day and over 700,000 new posts per day. The median index time is
under three minutes.
This makes Technorati the fastest blog search engine, faster
than Yahoo or Google either one. It looks like Technorati is really
starting to tweak their engine and get it to cruising speeds.
About
the Author:
John Stith is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology
and business. Email him here.
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Implementing Google Analytics
With the launch of Google's web analytics service (formly Urchin),
many webmasters and site owners have rushed to install the necessary
components on their site. Normally, when such a mass-acceptance
occurs, there are some growing pains. Such is the case with
our spotlight post from joer80,
who's having a hard time getting Google Analytics to work. If
you have any clues or tips for joer to try out, please drop
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I cant figure out how to add the Google Analytics counter to
my secure and non-secure pages under one site. I can get the
non secure code but if i put it on my secure pages it gives
an error, and as far as i can see, to get secure code i have
to create a different site which would kill my conversion numbers??
Can anyone help? I emailed the help section it offers but have
not got a response.
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