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Rel=nofollow fixed says Matt Cutts
The first time the major engines collaborated, it was to introduce the rel=nofollow tag to combat comment spam on blogs. Comment spam where anyone can add a link in the comment section of blogs was getting to the point, where it was almost impossible o administer a blog without spending hours deleting unrelated comments […]
Microsoft to acquire TellMe
Microsoft has announced that it will be buying the voice recognition company TellMe. A leading player in the field of voice operated phone services, TellMe announced the launch of the first Voice search service earlier this year. So not very surprising that Microsoft wants to acquire their technology. This acquisition makes perfect sense for both […]
Bush Google bomb fixed?
Finally Google has changed their algorithm to prevent Google bombing from working. All the old favourites like a search for ‘miserable failure’ which returned the George Bush page on the White house site, and ‘liar’ which returned the Blair page on the number 10 site have been cleaned up.
According to Google, they have made […]
TellMe launches mobile voice search
TellMe a company started in 1999 by Mike McCue of former Netscape fame, has created the first voice activated local search application for mobile phones. The search functionality may be currently limited to providing local business information on a selected range of handsets, but this may be the start of the mobile voice search revolution […]
Web metrics for Web 2.0 - What are you measuring?
John Battelle predicts, this is the year to re-define our web metrics. The traditional methods of looking at hits and page views are just not good enough when it comes to video, Ajax, blogs, RSS and the numerous applications that have surpassed the humble static web page.
With the majority of Bandwidth taken […]
On-page optimisation in an age of links
An interesting post by Brian over at SEOMoz got me thinking about the importance of on-page optimisation. Couple of years ago as Google’s trust in what other people had to say about you increased, traditional on-page factors seemed less relevant. A lot could be achieved by a an anchor text focussed link campaign with content […]
Wikiasari - Social Search Engine
According to a report on Information Week, Wikipedia founders plan to build a commercial search engine (Wikiasari) combining algorithmic technology with human power. Combining the Open source search engine Nutch with human input they plan improve relevancy and compete against Google and Yahoo!. The detail of how this would work is still unclear
Wales doesn’t know […]
YouTube rival proposed by Media giants – Just don’t get it
According to The Wall Street Journal last Saturday, some of the biggest organisations in the media including News Corp, Fox, Viacom Incm, CBS Corp and NBC Universal are planning a video rival to YouTube.
They plan to develop an online video platform for publishing ‘their’ network content, and cash in on the popularity of their material […]
Public to contribute eyewitness photos to Yahoo! news
Yahoo! partner with Reuters inviting the general public to contribute pictures and videos of important news events taken on their mobile phones and digital cameras. The news distribution system called ‘You Witness‘ will enable citizen journalist to contribute news media to feature alongside Yahoo! news articles. Reuters will edit and distribute the photos for use […]
Webmaster World Las Vagas 2006
If like me you didn’t make it to Vagas for the 14th WMW conference, there’s some great coverage at Webpronews including interviews with Matt Cutts from Google, and Brett Tabke who started WMW. I haven’t had the time to go through all the video, but there’s even more talk of social media than ever before. And […]
