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Filtering Search Spider
"Clicks"
When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) lacked the
fortitude to withstand the flurry of protestations against the proposed .xxx domain
for pornographic websites, two U.S. Senators took up the cause proposing not just
the domain’s creation but also a .com eviction notice.
Very
Interesting Article and Experiment
HTML
Validation and Search Results. Now, the point of the articles describes how
invalid HTML actually did better than valid HTML.I've always thought that Google
is not in the business of source code validation, and they never will be. They
are in the RESULTS business. Many Valid HTML proponents always smack me upside
the head when I tell them that Valid HTML...
What
do you Optimize?
I had a great discussion about the actual pages you optimize when a client hires
you for work. For our example, pretend the client has a 50 page site, and 40 pages
are unique product pages. You are getting paid to rank for 10 keyphrases, of that,
5 of those phrases are for unique products (not categories).
New
PageRank Algo?
I know that Google Page Rank does not mean a lot, and what you see in the greenbar
is not what google has internally, and so forth. But I had 3 of my sites go from
PR4 to PR5 and a bunch of 3's go to 4's. The PR5's I am obviously thrilled about,
but did I earn them, or did google change it's algo for PR...
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I've had several folks ask me what I think of Google Finance. There's already
a fair amount of good commentary out there on the topic (Bambi,
TBAiT,
Charlene,
Matt,
Publishing
2.0, Blodget,
and others), so I'm
going to answer this in a different way.
Editor's Note: Google Finance launched the other day with
the normal amount of fanfare reserved for a Google product launch. However, Jeremy
Zawodny feels a slight twing of sadness because of what he perceives as an opportunity
lost for his company, Yahoo. Take at look at what he has to say and share you
comments at Jeremy's
blog.
Warning: This is long
and not terribly flattering stuff.
You see, I started at Yahoo! back in 1999 as an engineer working on Yahoo! Finance.
It was one of the sites I used most often back then, so it was a privilege to
get my hands on it and really contribute in a meaningful way. I spent roughly
the next three years working with the good folks in our group, including Katie
Stanton, who announced
Google Finance a few days ago.
Katie was one of the best people we had in Yahoo! Finance. I was disappointed
when she left Yahoo a few years back. I remember chatting with her a few times
when she decided to go back to work. Trying to choose between Yahoo and Google,
she asked for opinions.
How time flies...
Last year I teased her a few times about Google Finance. Of course, she denied
that any such thing was in the works. Since I knew it was in the works, I wasn't
surprised when it finally came out. Nor was I surprised to see her affiliated
with the product.
It clearly has a Yahoo! Finance feel in several areas but with a distinctly Google
flavor to it. I have minor complaints about it, but I think it's a good start
aside from the fixed width home page.
Sadness
So why does this make Jeremy sad?
It makes me sad because I end up thinking about how Yahoo! Finance has stagnated
for a long time. It never really recovered from the pain of the dotcom crash.
So many of my old Finance coworkers have either left the company or moved on to
other groups (several moved into Search last year). Heck, I encouraged many of
them to get out!
There was a lack of leadership and, even more importantly, a serious LACK OF
VISION. It really disappointed me.
It makes me sad because virtually all of the new/innovative/cool features in Google
Finance are things we talked about YEARS ago. Many of them I'd lobbied
for repeatedly. Some were even prototyped.
* A ticker search that doesn't suck.
* Charts with overlays for news events.
* Blog integration.
* Featuring discussions more prominently.
* RSS support.
Who's gonna get "credit" for all that now?
I'm not gonna name names (virtually none of them are around anymore anyway), but
there was a real lack of leadership in Finance for long time and it really sucked
the life out of the group. Users noticed. Finance employees noticed. Other Yahoos
noticed. We all knew it. And, frankly, I was glad to be out when
I moved on (and the
next time and the
time after that).
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With a PayPal account, users can send and receive payments from their using text
messaging from their mobile phones.
Making a payment instantly from a PayPal
account and a mobile phone can be accomplished with a simple text message. MobileCrunch
and several other outlets reported on the latest development with eBay's payment
unit.
While making payments by phone has been a feature offered by banks and credit
unions for years, the payee does not receive payment immediately. Usually the
bank's payment service cuts a check and mails it out, unless the payee can receive
electronic payments. Even those are not instantaneous.
PayPal for Mobile is that fast, though. Users can send money by texting 729725
(PAYPAL) with the amount and recipient's phone number. Also, users can call PayPal's
automated voice system to make a payment.
There are several options users can add to the basic "send cash to recipient"
text message. PayPal defaults to the primary currency on a user's account, but
by adding CAD for Canadian dollars, GBP for British pounds, AUD for Australian
dollars, EUR for Euros, or JPY for Yen to the request, the payment can be made
in that currency.
One can add a note to the recipient, or share the registered phone number or address
with the payee if PayPal for mobile is being used for purchasing an item.
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the Author:
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You Don't Tug On Superman's Cape...
By now, I'm sure many of our readers have heard about the Google/Kinderstart issue
that's been making the Internet news rounds. While it's true I still have areas
of ignorance concerning this subject, but yet, an
article by Jennifer Laycock about the growing sense of entitlement from companies
in regards to search engine traffic sums up my feelings, as well as quite a few
others, from what I've read.
The question is this: Is Google or Yahoo or MSN or Ask at fault if a site isn't
doing as well in the rankings has they might have been before? Or should the site
owner and webmaster take some responsibility for the failings or shortcomings
of their site? Share your thoughts with us at WebProWorld.
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KinderStart - The Real Issues
Kinderstart.com is a junk web site. They should have never gotten any traffic
from any search engine any way except when some searched for "education resource
directory" or something like that and when people searched for them by name ie;
"KinderStart".
While Kinderstart is a poor vehicle to bring the lawsuit, it was bound to happen
and many more (i believe) will follow. It also brings to light many valid issues.
I do believe their needs to be some kind of regulation in the Search Engine world.
Shocking! But this is one fact that doing almost any search on google proves:
They make more profit by providing non-relevant results for some keywords and
phrases. Take restaurants and hotels for example.
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WebPro Question: |
Anybody using Ruby on Rails? This sounds *very* promising, so I'd like to get
some opinions of people who are using it (or tried it).
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