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Daily Focus: 
Google
News Yields Spam
Google News, while extremely useful, doesn't seem to have all the kinks worked
out just yet; obvious spam still turns up among the search results, sometimes
even at the very top of the list. Jeremy Wagstaff found an example of this recently.
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Turner
Snaps At Microsoft Rivals
With its Worldwide Partner Conference coming to a close in Boston, Microsoft COO
Kevin Turner declared war on companies and technologies...
Google:
You Can Say No To ODP
Some website owners would prefer the snippet accompanying their organic listing
in Google search to not come from the Open Directory Project.
MySpace
Media Safety Campaign Launches
News Corp. launched a major media campaign today hoping that young people on MySpace
will stop doing stupid things that gets the company sued. Well, that's not how
they put it.
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Employers Digging Up Digital Dirt
According job search and recruiting network ExecuNet, only a third of on-the-market
executives surveyed have bothered to conduct a vanity search for their name on
the major search engines. The ones who haven't should reconsider...
Net
Neutrality, Meet Jon Stewart
What does it take to for Net Neutrality to get national television coverage? It
takes an asinine explanation of the Internet by the chairman of the Senate Commerce
Committee. Was this picked up on NBC, Fox, CNN or another major news network?
Nope. Comedy Central.
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Friday July 14, 2006 |
KinderStart will amend its complaint against Google for effectively dropping the
KinderStart website from its index when Google assigned the company a zero PageRank.
Editor's Note: Can KinderStart make a defamation suit
stick to Google? Will Google see a complete dismissal of charges after the next
court date in September? Give us your verdict at WebProWorld.
 The
lawsuit against Google by KinderStart may have been dismissed, but it has not
ended. Attorneys for the plaintiff noted in a statement made after the judge's
decision that they "have the full opportunity to amend all Nine Counts in the
class action complaint."
However, the attorneys may wish to attend to their website first. At press time, the GlawInfo.com website returns a message that the page has been suspended. That's not a good impression to make on visitors looking for more information.
In their statement, KinderStart's legal team appear to have chosen a new tack as they amend the complaint ahead of a September 29th court date:
A most serious concern for Google now is defamation. The decision suggests that, if properly alleged, Google may be defaming a whole class of Websites sacked with a '0' PageRank. If Plaintiffs show that Google manually tampered with even a single Website's PageRank, Google's entire claim to the world of "objectivity" of its search results and rankings could collapse.
The defamation claim is not as far-fetched as one may think at first glance. Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University assistant professor and director of the High Technology Law Institute, reviewed the KinderStart opinion, and said "there are very few novel or surprising aspects of this ruling."
He also examined the defamation issue in the case:
Despite the relatively unremarkable nature of Google's win, one area of the opinion definitely caught my attention. The judge's reactions to the defamation claim were not wholly favorable to Google and could signal some risk to Google.
Goldman excerpted the judge's opinion as it pertained to defamation, and dissected its potential for causing Google some headaches:
Reading between the lines, I think the judge may be saying it he doesn't like Google's apparent duplicity on its PageRank descriptions. Google claims PageRank is objective in its public statements, yet in court Google claims that PageRank is its subjective opinion. This duplicity just doesn't look good for Google.
Despite this, Goldman sees Google as ultimately winning the case, due to the "skill of Google's counsel." But it's mostly a sure thing now, instead of definitely.
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Around 60 percent of purchases that begin with online research end at a local
store offline. That's mainly because the Internet has yet to let you to try something
on or really see the TV picture quality.
Add that to lack of local businesses fully utilizing the power of local search
and directories, and you have the basis for a whole new business model.
"Our research indicates that Internet marketing by local businesses has not kept pace with the changing shopping behavior of consumers, who increasingly turn to the Internet to research products and services before buying locally," said Matt Booth, vice president and program director for Interactive Local Media, The Kelsey Group, in a statement.
San Francisco-based StepUp Commerce came on the scene in early 2006 and has since signed up about 4,000 individual retailers who have no interest in the click-and-ship ecommerce scene. What they want is to offer the local community a way to find items on the Web that are in their inventory and where those items can be picked up.
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PageRank Changes Coming?
Is Google in the process of making changes to the way PageRank is factored in
order to return a more accurate score? I should preface that statement by saying
I don't expect Google to change the original methods used to factor PageRank,
rather they may be implementing changes in order to show scores more accurately.
If you've followed the numerous PageRank discussions around the Internet, one
of the bigger complaints has to do with the accuracy of the green bar appearing
on Google's toolbar. Take a look at what's being said below and keep an eye out
for PageRank updates (evidently, Google is in the process of doing this right
now) and let us know what you think.
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Prediction
- Significant PageRank Changes Coming
Some of the threads here have prompted me to spend a bit of time in the Google Directory which many feel is more indicative of current PR than the Toolbar's Public PR green bar.
In the last few days I have checked many Sites listed there against their Google toolbar PR ratings and am seeing quite a bit of disparity.
This leads me to believe that if a "Public PageRank" (toolbar) update happens anytime soon, there will be significant changes.
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