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Television With Google
Google is working on delivering personalized Internet content on the basis of your tastes in television. And Microsoft, one of the search engine giant's main adversaries, was granted a patent about one month ago on technology that is intended to accomplish roughly the same thing.
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There
Is No Google Sandbox
No less an authority on search engine optimization than Shari Thurow has claimed
the fabled Google Sandbox, a holding pen for sites new to the index, does not
exist.
AT&T
Building 40Gb Net Backbone
The telecom giant plans to spend between $8 billion and $8.5 billion to upgrade
its Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) backbone.
Angry
Moms Stage "Nurse-In" At SixApart
Popular blogging site LiveJournal.com and parent company Six Apart have attracted
the ire of breastfeeding bloggers after images of breastfeeding were banned from
the site. After a letter campaign, "lactivist" mothers staged a "nurse-in"...
Google
CEO Expresses Support For Net Neutrality
The CEO of Google has a few words to say (or type, anyway) about Net Neutrality.
Speaking not just for himself, but on behalf of the company, Eric Schmidt asks
"you to take action to protect Internet freedom."
New
Gizmo Aids Blind With Net
According to SearchViews, entrepreneur Chris Mairs is developing a device, called
SpeakOn, that would enable blind and "partially-sighted" people with
few technical skills to easily surf the web's ever-growing supply of audio offerings
over a broadband connection.
Microsoft
‘Fesses Up to Spying More Often
Microsoft admitted yesterday that it spies on people more often than it had previously
acknowledged. That statement's a little harsh and what they do may not technically
meet the definition of "spying"...
Do
You Need Eye Goggles for Your iPod?
Apple's video-capable iPod was released last year with a 2.5" screen. A lot
of potential buyers wondered who would (or could) watch the lengthy videos it
was capable of playing on that size screen.
Authentium
Responds To Craigslist Flap
John Sharp, CEO of the security software company at the center of the Craigslist/Cox
Interactive flap, has responded to address questions...
Are
Desktop PCs on Life Support?
Whether you call it evolution or intelligent design, the desktop PC, as we currently
know it, may be headed to join T.Rex, the dodo and rotary dial phones.
Craigslist
Blocked By Cox Interactive
In case anyone may be wondering what a world without network neutrality may look
like, it could resemble the "Server Not Found" pages seen by Cox Interactive
customers trying to access the Craigslist classifieds site.
Search
Marketing Grabs More Customers
Many businesses are missing out on a great opportunity to use an innovative method
of 21st century advertising. Search marketing is out there and it's being underused
for promotion.
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Despite the flurry of phone calls, emails, videos and pleas from a wide base of
passionate pro-Net Neutrality constituents, representing hundreds of thousands
of people from all political persuasions and hundreds of consumer groups, the
House of Representatives crushed an amendment to safeguard an equal opportunity
Internet.
Editor's Note: The Net Neutrality amendment was voted down, much to the delight of senators and congressmen everywhere, I'm sure. Share your thoughts with us about this unfortunate decision at WebProWorld.
After just 20 minutes of debate on the House floor, Rep. Ed Markey's proposed
amendment to the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (COPE),
which subsequently passed without Net
Neutrality provisions, was rejected by a vote of 269-152. While the voting
appears to be largely partisan, with only 11 Republicans voting in favor of the
amendment and a surprising 58 Democrats voting against, Net Neutrality, in its
short time in the public eye, is an apolitical issue.
But Congressional leadership was largely unconvinced by an idea embraced by a
diverse list
of organizations that would typically be swinging the political pendulum at each
others' faces. Think MoveOn and the Christian Coalition. Think the American Civil
Liberties Union and the Gun Owners of America. Think Parents Television Council
and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Add their support to the very founders
of the medium as Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee stand beside unlikely cohorts
Moby and
Alyssa Milano.
Even with a constituency like that, whose sudden unity should sound with
exponential resonance within the ears of those who represent them, the US House
of Representatives ignored it by siding with telecommunications and cable
duopolistic entities. The ears of a dinosaur are difficult to reach, but his carrion
is easy enough to see - it leaves droplets of green behind it.
"Passage of major telecom legislation without enforceable Net Neutrality is a
low point in the history of US policymaking," said Robert W. McChesney, founder
of Free Press, which spearheaded the SaveTheInternet.org
coalition.
"The telephone-cable Internet duopoly providers deluged Congress with an army
of lobbyists, countless millions spent on misleading PR spin and outright lies,
and a single-minded determination to put their bottom line ahead of the democratic
principles of an open, neutral Internet."
TechDirt's Michael Masnick, disagrees
that the Network Neutrality concept is a utopian or democratic concept, but rather
an issue surrounding true competition:
The point of network neutrality isn't some Utopian "everyone must be equal" concept -- but a real concern for a lack of competition in the broadband space. The telcos were given a ton of money in subsidies and incentives to build out a wired, natural monopoly network. The government gave them rights of way which no one else can get. In exchange, they had to open their networks up to others to provide services. In other countries, this has resulted in robust competition and better services -- which was the point.
 Whether
the issue is antitrust, freedom of speech, democracy, or the influence of PAC
money in Congress, many feel that the House has no true understanding of Net Neutrality
- which is gentler, a salve for audacious wounds, than thinking it does understand
and ignored it anyway.
The COPE Act will pass to the Senate, where the issue faces the same hurdles it did in the House. A few senators, most notably Hillary Clinton, have spoken in favor of Net Neutrality, but when telecommunications reform was recently written up by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), there was no mention of it.
The mainstream media, especially television and talk radio, which will discuss something as benign as Brangelina's baby or something as polarizing as immigration reform, have been conspicuously silent on the matter, which may account for why the public seems largely unaware of it, as well as the apparent deafness of our representatives.
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Being
a Bigdaddy Jagger Meister
 By
Jim Hedger
It took a little while to start to figure it out. Such things almost always do.
After months of observation, research, discussion and debate, Search Engine Optimization
experts appear to be getting a better handle on the effects of Google's Bigdaddy
infrastructure upgrades.
From mid-winter until this week, StepForth has strongly advised our clients to be conservative with any changes to their sites until enough time has passed for us, along with many others in the SEO community to observe, analyze and articulate our impressions of the upgrade. About ten days ago, the light at the end of the intellectual tunnel became eminently visible and SEO discussion forums are abuzz with productive and proactive conversations regarding how to deal with a post-Bigdaddy Google environment.
To make the long back-story short, in September 2005, Google began implementation of a three-part algorithm update that became known as the Jagger Update. Shortly after completing the algo update in late November, Google began an upgrading of their server and data storage network that was dubbed the Bigdaddy Infrastructure Upgrade. The Bigdaddy upgrade took several months to completely roll out across all of Google's data centers, which are rumoured to number in the hundreds.
In other words, the world's most popular search engine has, in one way or another, been in a constant state of flux since September. The only solid information SEOs had to pass on to curious clients amounted to time tested truisms about good content, links and site structure. Being the responsible sort we are, no good SEO wanted to say anything definite for fear of being downright wrong and misdirecting others.
Starting in the middle of May and increasing towards the end of the month, ideas and theories that had been thrown around SEO related forums and discussion groups started to solidify into the functional knowledge that makes up the intellectual inventory of good SEO firms.
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Some Still Don't Like BigDaddy
Since Google has implemented the BigDaddy
update, there have been many discussion about whether or not change like that
was for the better. In fact, WebProWorld had quite a few threads devoted to this
subject. However, now that Google has acknowledged the fact that BigDaddy has
taken hold of their index, conversations have begun again, asking people to opine
about the state of Google search.
For today's spotlight post, I'm featuring
one such conversation where the first responding poster unloads a salvo or two at the quality of the Google index. Take a look at what's being said and see if you agree.
|| Chris||
Did
"BigBadDaddy" Really Break Google?
I do not think I understood Big Daddy, I never grasped what went on during this
process. But If the question is asked 'did Google get broken'? Then Yes, google
no longer works as an effective search engine as it did once.
Google as far as I am concerned is now a PPC site. Google is to me no longer a
basket I care to place even one egg, google disrupts, it temps, teases, misdirects,
encourages things that are bad for the net, it discriminates, and it entices rougues
and thieves to create crap for it to search - and rewards them with adsense profits.
Google does not care for informative sites it does not care for fresh original
content. It is so convaluted it no longer understand the simple concept of 'find
the site the users wants'
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I manage. Can you show me why I shouldn't?
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