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UK Doesn’t Like Your Homepage
It was last year when I first heard about Google UK having a preference for .co.uk sites in their index. The thinking is if you want good rankings in Google UK (or MSN UK for that matter) your site needed to have a .co.uk domain extension. However, there were .com sites in the UK indexes and while they may not have outranked their .co.uk counterparts, they were there.
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Jeffrey Hermes, a litigation partner at Boston law firm Brown Rudnick, whom I’ve sourced for a previous article on libel as it applies to podcasting, was a little late responding for an article on how the midterm elections would affect the Network Neutrality debate. Jeff sent a brief essay on the issue as a whole, which brings up some interesting points. To follow is the text of that response.
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Friday, November 10, 2006 |
Candidates for political office often run advertisements that portray opponents
in a damaging light. Likewise, bloggers are beginning to take an increasing amount
of liberty in their negative portrayal of certain individuals who are viewed as
influential throughout the blogosphere.
Editor's Note: It seems the mudslinging is beginning to really pick up in the blogosphere, especially in video blogs.
First you have Ze Frank ripping Andrew Baron, now you have Loren Feldman of 1938 Media taking out a personal campaign against Jason Calacanis, also taking potshots at Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington. What do you think of all this blog infighting? Let us know at WebProWorld.
Most would think that since Election Day has passed, the practice of mudslinging would begin to die down.
… don't tell that to Loren Feldman.
The outspoken head of production for 1938 Media has made some waves in recent weeks with his sometimes heated, often satirical criticisms of what many consider to be some of the blogosphere's most influential players.
First, let's consider the much maligned PayPerPost
and the subsequent debate surrounding the company's payment-for-blogging model.
Jason Calacanis goes on the record repeatedly
as an opponent of PayPerPost, even labeling the company as "stupid and evil".
Feldman, however, had some choice words for Calacanis in an October 23rd video blog entry. He responded to Calacanis' criticism of PayPerPost by retorting, "What people want to do with their blog is their own (expletive) business."
Offering guidance to PayPerPost, Feldman advises the company to "…tell [Calacanis] to (expletive) and get out of your office!"
Clearly, Loren Feldman isn't afraid to say what's on his mind.
A week later, Feldman introduced a new show, entitled Jason's Place, in which he pokes even more fun at Calacanis. This time however, Feldman didn't limit his ribbing to the Weblogs, Inc. founder, but also drew blogosphere darling Robert Scoble in to the fray.
When I asked Robert for his taken on it, he told me, "I thought it was funny."
Calacanis, however, would seem to be less jovial in his attitude toward Feldman's criticisms, as multiple attempts to contact him for a response have went unanswered.
Feldman's venomous volleys, however, haven't been limited to just Calacnis. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has felt the sting of his video antics as well.
So what is point of all this mockery? Well, other than my personal amusement, I believe it all hinges around the concept of blogosphere politics.
Bloggers, like politicians, serve a constituency. For most politicians, it takes years of careful planning and perfectly executed strategy in order to build a solid constituency of voters.
In the same respect, bloggers are always looking to add to their viewership; and election results are tallied in terms of page clicks and community feedback rather than raw voting numbers.
So while Feldman's tactics could be perceived as underhanded, he is accomplishing his goal. More people are taking note of 1938 Media and his video blog.
Is it moral? That's debatable.
Is it effective? Most definitely.
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Drill
Down, Then Out; Vertical's Where It's At
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Jason Lee Miller
Staff Writer | WebProNews
It's always been relevancy that drives the efficacy of search - that's a no-brainer,
and the reason Google is king of general search. But because that search is general,
riffraff makes its way into the results, sometimes old riffraff, which is the
very foundation for the rise of vertical, or niche, search engines.
Take, for example, a Google search for [brittle bone disease]. Google does a nice job of bringing up alternative and supplemental results, and the first few results are quite relevant.
But note also a BBC article link from 2004, a badge of slightly dated information, which isn't exactly what a medical researcher wants.
It's a minor issue, but it demonstrates that there is room to improve both in timeliness and category. We've also learned recently that three-quarters of American Internet users (100 million adults) inherently trust the source they've found online, without taking the time to vet the information.
When I was in college, the Internet had just become a grand public experiment - Website directories were still in phonebook format then. Echoing what are now mainly the chief criticisms of Wikipedia, professors shunned any information that could only be found online. You didn't really know where it came from.
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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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